Navy
- 1 Vigilant patrol ship - 1,650 tons full load - commissioned 1996
- 1 SDB MK 3 patrol boat - 210 tons full load - commissioned 1984
- 2 Zhuk patrol craft - 39 tons full load
- 1 P-2000 patrol craft - 40 tons full load
- 22 other boats - 2-6 tons full load
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“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
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“I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)