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The Offshore Raiding Craft (ORC) is a small, fast boat used by the
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Royal Marines - Landing Craft
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Video - HMS ''Bulwark'' - Offshore Raiding Craft
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The Offshore Raiding Craft (ORC) is a small, fast boat used by the Royal Marines
The Corps of Royal Marines (RM), also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, are the UK's special operations capable commando force, amphibious warfare, amphibious light infantry and also one of the :Fighting Arms of the Royal Navy, five fighti ...
for troop insertion, and patrols. The ORC is primarily used when undertaking strategic raiding missions, where speed and covertness is desired. However, it is equally capable when conducting larger scale amphibious operations
Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach. Through history the operations were conducte ...
alongside the larger and more traditional LCACs, LCUs and LCVPs. Royal Marines - Landing Craftroyalnavy.mod.uk, Retrieved 15 June 2014
See also
*List of active Royal Marines military watercraft
List of active Royal Marines military watercraft is a list of landing craft and other watercraft in service with the Royal Marines. It consist of a varied fleet of transport vessels, patrol vessels and special forces watercraft (I.e mini submarine ...
* Combat Rubber Raiding Craft
References
External links
Royal Marines - Landing Craft
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Video - HMS ''Bulwark'' - Offshore Raiding Craft
(youtube.com) Amphibious warfare vessels of the United Kingdom Landing craft Royal Marines Military boats {{boat-stub