- Source: List of active ships of the Colombian Navy
In addition to the usual tasks of a green water navy, the Colombian Navy (Spanish: Armada de la República de Colombia - "ARC") also performs coast guard duties, has shared responsibility for patrolling the extensive Colombian network of rivers, and includes the Marine Infantry (IM). Furthermore, its littoral/riverine component is relatively large when compared with the more traditional navies of other countries.
Due to this aggregation of duties, some vessels perform routinely and indistinctly as coast guard/combat patrol, particularly those mid-size, lightly armed vessels, and can occasionally be found classified as either Surface combat or Coast Guard or even Logistics/General transport across different sources, even in official documents from the ARC itself. Also, many of the lighter patrol/harbor patrol boats may be assigned or reassigned duties across the different branches with little or no notice depending on service needs.
As the ARC has embarked in a program of modernization since 2000, a better separation and categorization of the different vessels has ensued, with many vessels being re-numbered or reclassified, which makes for occasionally conflicting references. This article tries to use the latest denominations whenever possible, but there may still be overlaps.
Key
The tables below use the following key:
Oceanic combat
Littoral / Riverine service
Coast Guard
Training, Auxiliary and Logistics
Notes
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of active ships of the Colombian Navy
- Lists of currently active military equipment by country
- List of decommissioned ships of the Colombian Navy
- Colombian Navy
- Intrepid
- List of naval ship classes in service
- List of museum ships
- List of ships of the Republic of Korea Navy
- List of corvette classes in service
- Replenishment oiler