Boat

NOTE: This article is about Soviet military patrol Boats in ArmA: CWA. For Vietnamese civilian/Viet Cong Boats featured in ArmA 3's S.O.G. Prairie Fire Creator DLC, see Boat (S.O.G.).

Boat
Faction	Soviet Union
Type	Light Patrol Craft
Seats	12 seats: 1× Driver 1× Gunner 10× Passengers
Item capacity	Max: 20× Weapons 100× Magazines
Top speed	Normal: ~ 60 km/h Turbo: ~ 84 km/h Reverse: ~ 53 km/h
Fuel capacity	700 fuel units
Primary armament	Main: 1× M2 .50 HMG
Secondary armament	None
Variants	None
Games

The Boat is a light patrol vessel used exclusively by Soviet military forces in ArmA: Cold War Assault.

Overview

• Roles:
  • Coastguard
  • Troop transport

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Armed boat used by Soviet army. It has machinegun mounted onto turret in the back and transports soldiers into battle from the shore. Vehicle Description

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Design

The Boat is a Soviet-made small patrol ship that is used to guard waterways and shorelines.

Armament
It has a .50 cal heavy machine gun attached onto a rotatable turret mount located in the stern of the ship. The HMG feeds from a single 500-round belt box and has no spare boxes to reload from.

Features
The Soviet counterpart to the U.S. Mark II PBR, the Boat is completely identical in almost every aspect. From handling to top speed, armour plating, and even right down to armament, the two vessels essentially share the same capabilities and roles.

The only two differences with the Boat are the positioning of its armament and transportation capacity. Unlike the PBR, the Boat's machine gun is mounted onto the boat's stern as opposed to a bow cupola. When it comes to troop capacity, it can carry four more passengers than the PBR. However, aside from these two differences, the Boat remains otherwise identical to its American counterpart.

Crew Capacity
The Boat supports a crew of two that consists of the driver and the rear gunner. It is able to carry up to ten passengers at a time.

Protection

The Boat has 100 points worth of armour plating.

Armament

The rear gunner controls the Boat's M2 .50 heavy machine gun turret.

For rotation, the turret can be freely swivelled up to a maximum of 270 degrees horizontally, but is vertically restricted to an elevation of just 20 degrees and a depression of 5 degrees:

M2 .50

Base damage value	Initial velocity (m/s)
13	1,000

.50 cal heavy machine gun.

It can attain a fire rate of up to 600 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 1,000 m/s. Accuracy-wise, it has a dispersion of 0.0007 rad at ranges of 1,000 metres away.

Trivia

• Despite being clearly modelled with a 7.62 mm-chambered PKT machine gun, the Boat strangely uses the same M2 .50 cal HMG as the American Mark II PBR.
• Prior to Patch 1.10 for Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (the former name of Cold War Assault before its re-release), Boats that ran out of ammunition could cause the game to suddenly crash once the HMG's ammo pool was depleted.
• Patch 1.30 corrected two major issues that remained from release. The first issue caused the gunner to be almost invincible and impervious to gunfire (they could only be killed by explosions or the boat itself being destroyed). The second issue caused the Boat to not emit a wake effect while it was in motion.
• Other than those featured in unofficial third party-developed Creator DLCs, Cold War Assault's Boat remains to date as the only armed vessel that is exclusive to an REDFOR faction in the entire series.
  • The only other watercraft that is armed and available to a REDFOR faction; the Speedboat in ArmA 3, is a shared design that is utilised by all three main factions.

Gallery

Gunner position. Note how the "M2" heavy machine gun is actually a 7.62 mm PKT.

See also

Boats of comparable role and configuration

• Mark II PBR (U.S. counterpart)

Soviet Union - Vehicles (ArmA: Cold War Assault)
Wheeled	BRDM • SCUD* • UAZ • Ural
Tracked	BMP-1 • BMP-2 • Shilka • T-72 • T-80
Rotor-wing	Ka-50 • Mi-17 • Mi-24
Fixed-wing	Sopwith F.1 Camel v2 • Su-25
Aquatic	Boat
* not actually usable outside of cutscenes.