The Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat is a high-speed, high-buoyancy, extreme-weather craft with the primary mission of SEAL insertion/extraction and a secondary mission of marine interdiction operations.

Research in the 1960s produced the RNLI’s first rigid inflatable lifeboat, the B class Atlantic 21, allowing more agile rescues closer to shore. Around the mid-1960s, a growing need for fast, durable ...

Fabrum, a New Zealand company, has collaborated on the design and build of a zero-emission hydrogen-powered boat H2Ocean with King Watercraft, a developer of sophisticated New Zealand made rigid ...

Hydrogen as a marine fuel continues to make inroads into new sectors. Now, two Christchurch, New Zealand-based companies have collaborated to design a hydrogen fueled rigid inflatable boat (RIB), the ...

Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a haphardly-driven rigid inflatable boat (RIB) of the Indian Navy crashed into a ferry carrying 80 tourists from the Gateway of India to Elephanta Caves on ...

Mumbai: Senior naval officers and mariners have expressed shock at the Indian Navy rigid inflatable boat (RIB) on sea trial crashing into passenger ferry off Butcher island on Wednesday afternoon ...