Tor 251-class Special Operations Craft (speed boat) of Special Operations Craft Flotilla, Naval Special Warfare Command, Royal Thai Fleet (photos : 3rd NAC)
The official Facebook page of the 3rd Naval Area Command (3rd NAC: Third Naval Area Command), Royal Thai Navy (RTN: Royal Thai Navy) has released pictures of surveillance operations to prevent illegal activities along the Thai-Myanmar border at Kraburi River, Ranong Province by the special operations team from the Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC, RTN SEAL), the Royal Thai Fleet and the Thai-Myanmar Maritime Border Fisheries Coordination Center NDSC (MBFCC: Maritime Border Fisheries Coordination Center Thai-Myanmar) has supported the operation National Marine Interest Center, Region 3 SorChol. Region 3 (MECC: Maritime Enforcement Coordinating Center 3 area) is also responsible for the western Andaman Sea area of Thailand.
The interesting thing in this series is This is probably the first in a series of explicitly exposed images posted on social media online to Boat Tor 253 on one of the three ships in the Special Operations Platoon's T.251 series of Naval Special Warfare Command.
The boat set Tor 251 is an Inshore Patrol Craft in a Speed Boat type consisting of Tor 251, Tor 252 and Tor 253 boats, The hull is white, there are small blue letters (Hull No.) looks like a private boat with a special operation kit that uses a small pistol H&K G36KV as a personal weapon.
No information has been released about the Tor 251 series, but ship maintenance documentation is published from time to time by the Navy Procurement Information Center. The ship is believed to have been used in secret special operations support missions.
Like the PT.51 boat set, equipped with only two M2 .50cal heavy machine guns for self-defense, the Tor 253 boat in the Tor 251 boat set that was found operating in the Kraburi River, armed only with a 5.56mm FN Minimi light machine gun for self-defense and deterring illegal acts only.
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