New Fleet ! – The Kuwaiti Navy

The Kuwait Naval Force (Al-Quwwat Al-Bahriyah Al-Kuwaitiyah) was created in 1961 as part of the Armed Forces. Its headquarters and naval base today is Mohammed Al-Ahmad Kuwait and is 2,200 personal strong, excluding 500 coast guard personnel. The latter is a Border Security Directorate under the Ministry of Interior. Kuwait as a country (the name means fortress on the sea) is bordering the persian gulf, the capital. The Kuwaiti navy was primarily a coast guard force, controlled by the Ministry of the Interior and consisting of lightly armed patrol craft (delivered from 1966 onwards) and a number of small landing craft, Naval personnel totalled about 2100 in 1989, almost double the total in 1982. It was virtually gutted after the Iraqi invasion of 1990.
Today it sports still ten Fast Attack Crafts (missiles), 98 Patrol vessels, 14 amphibious vessels, and three supply ships.

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