Fast Attack Flotilla

The flotilla's mission is to provide heavily armed and fast patrol boat (called fast attack craft or FACs) capability to counter sea tiger movements along the coast and to protect naval and civilian shipping from sea tiger suicide crafts.

In 1985, the first Dvora-class fast patrol boats were introduced into the Sri Lanka Navy to counter LTTE gun running in the Palk Strait from India.

Between 1993 and 2009, twenty FAC have been sunk, becoming naval unit to suffer the highest number of casualties during the war.

All FACs have Typhoon 25-30 mm stabilized cannon installed as their primary armament, which can be slaved to state-of the art mast-mounted, day and night all weather long range electro-optic systems.

This enables FACs to locate and target sea tiger boats at a greater distance, in all weather at high speeds.