MV C Champion
The MV C Champion of the US Military Sealift Command.
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| Name: | MV C Champion |
| Owner: | United States Military Sealift Command |
| Launched: | 1998 |
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| Status: | in active service |
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| Class and type: | Submarine and Special Warfare Support |
| Displacement: | 1,934 tons |
| Length: | 67 m (220 ft) |
| Beam: | 17 m (56 ft) |
| Draft: | 5 m (16 ft) |
| Speed: | 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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| Armament: | 2 × 0.5 in (13 mm) machine guns |
The MV C Champion is a submarine and special warfare support vessel in the United States Military Sealift Command. The vessel has been proposed to serve as an anti-piracy escort, where it would be armed with two fifty-caliber machine guns, and four high-speed pursuit craft.Special forces carried by the vessel would use the high speed pursuit craft to intercept or chase pirates. In 2011, it rescued a family of five in the Philippine Sea.
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