Missile boats
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WASHINGTON. April 9
The North Vietnamese Navy has moved a small number of high-speed, missilefiring boats to a base near South Vietnam, United States .intelligence sources said. The sources said that the presence of even a small number of the Komar-class boats represented a potential threat to United States naval vessels in the area off South Vietnam.
There are more than 25 United States Navy ships, and some 4000 marines, within a few days sailing time from South Vietnam and Cambodia. Although intelligence specialists said that a North Vietnamese attack on American ships would be illogical,; they warned that the possibility could not be dismissed. The Russian-built Komarclass boats are armed with Styx missiles, the type used by the Egyptian Navy to sink an Israeli destroyer in the 1967 six-day war.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33814, 10 April 1975, Page 13
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