A list of classes of

missile boat A missile boat or missile cutter is a small, fast warship armed with anti-ship missiles. Being smaller than other warships such as destroyers and frigates, missile boats are popular with nations interested in forming a navy at lower cost. They ...

s used by naval forces around the world.

China

* Houbei class (Type 022), the first combat vessel with a

catamaran A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hull (watercraft), hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability through resistance to rolling and overturning; no ballast is requi ...

hull. * *

Croatia

Egypt

* Ambassador MK III class * *

Finland

* - modified version of the Osa class * * *

France

La Combattante II type fast attack craft The ''La Combattante II'' patrol boat was a type of fast attack craft built in France for export during the 1970s. Some 37 were built in various classes for several navies around the world. Development The La Combattante II type fast attack craft ...

- built for export * - built for export

Germany

* - exported to Greece, Chile and Egypt * *

Greece

* ''Roussen'' class (Super-Vita) - Used by the

Hellenic Navy The Hellenic Navy (HN; , abbreviated ΠΝ) is the Navy, naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy historically hails from the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independ ...

* - Modified and upgraded version of the La Combattante IIIa class. * - version of the French La Combattante III class. * - ex-German ''Tiger'' class

India

* Next Generation Fast Attack Crafts (NGFACs)

Indonesia

* * * *

Iran

* Thondar class * Kaman class

Israel

Sa'ar 3-class missile boat The Sa'ar 3 class ("Cherbourg") is a series of missile boats built in Cherbourg, France at the Amiot Shipyard based on an Israeli Navy modification of the German Navy's . They are also known as the stars of Cherbourg. Design and development ...

Sa'ar 4-class missile boat The Sa'ar 4 or ''Reshef'' class were a series of fast attack craft built based on Israeli Navy designs grounded in accumulated experience derived in the operation of "Cherbourg" (Sa'ar 1, Sa'ar 2, and ) classes. Thirteen were built at ...

used by Israel, with variants also in service in South Africa,

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

and a small number of other countries. *

Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat The Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boats () is a class of Israeli Sea Corps missile boats designed and built by Israel Shipyards Ltd. for Shayetet 3 flotilla as an improved and stretched . There are two different subclasses that are both named Sa'ar 4. ...

used by Israel, with variants also in service in Mexico and Greece.

Italy

* Sparviero class patrol boat class seven now decommissioned Hydrofoils

Japan

* - based on *

Korea, North

Korea, South

Malaysia

* Handalan class * Perdana class

Norway

* Skjold - used by Norway, a stealthy surface effect catamaran

Pakistan

* Azmat class - based on Type 037II Houjian-class missile boat * Jalalat II class * Jurrat class(improved Jalalat II class)

Philippines

* Multi-purpose Attack Craft Mk. 3 * Nestor Acero-class Fast Attack Interdiction Craft

Russia/USSR

Komar-class missile boat The Soviet Project 183R class, more commonly known as the Komar class, its NATO reporting name, meaning "mosquito", is a class of missile boats, the first of its kind, built in the 1950s and 1960s. Notably, they were the first to sink another sh ...

- The world's first missile boat, widely exported *

Osa-class missile boat The Project 205 Moskit (''mosquito'') more commonly known by their NATO reporting name Osa, are a class of missile boats developed for the Soviet Navy in the late 1950s. Until 1962 this was classified as a large torpedo boat. The Osa class is p ...

- probably the worlds numerous missile boat, widely exported *

Matka-class missile boat The Matka class is the NATO reporting name for a group of hydrofoil missile boats built for the Soviet Navy (Baltic Fleet and Black Sea Fleet). The Soviet designation was Project 206MR Vikhr. Following the 1997 Black Sea Fleet partition treaty ...

- hydrofoil missile boat * Sarancha-class missile boat - hydrofoil missile boat * Project 1239 hydrofoil missile boat

Sweden

* Stockholm class * Göteborg class * Visby class

Taiwan

* Kuang Hua VI-class missile boat - Indigenously developed for Taiwan's navy * Hai Ou-class missile boat - based on Dvora-class *

Dvora-class fast patrol boat The Dvora-class fast patrol boat is a fast class of patrol boats built by Israel Aerospace Industries for the Israeli Sea Corps based on the Israeli . Operational history Sri Lanka The Dvora class has become the work horse of the Sri Lanka ...

- Israeli design, armed with missiles by Taiwan

Thailand

* Ratcharit - used by Thailand, a fast attack missile boat

Turkey

* Kılıç - used by Turkey, a fast attack missile boat * Rüzgar class fast attack craft *

Doğan class fast attack craft Doğan is both a masculine Turkish given name and a Turkish surname meaning ''Falcon''. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Doğan Abukay, Turkish experimental physicist and academic * Doğan Akhanlı (1957–2021) Turkish-German wri ...

* Kartal class

United States

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class, hydrofoils, all six now decommissioned

Vietnam

BPS-500 class missile boat BPS-500 is a missile boat in service with the Vietnam People's Navy. It was the only missile boat built under the project KBO 2000 where Vietnam started to domestically build this class in the late 1990s. KBO 2000 is a joint project between the Ru ...

Yugoslavia

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Missile A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor. Historically, 'missile' referred to any projectile that is thrown, shot or propelled towards a target; this ...