Water lane insertion: for marine and riverine operations, special operations forces typically have several types of insertion craft at their disposal to get commandoes and their equipment from a mother ship, or from over-the-horizon, to their objective. Principally, they make use of surface craft such as rigid or non-rigid inflatable boats, assault craft, canoes and sub-surface vessels such as swimmer delivery vehicles.

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Water lane insertion: for marine and riverine operations, special operations forces typically have several types of insertion craft at their disposal to get commandoes and their equipment from a mother ship, or from over-the-horizon, to their objective. Principally, they make use of surface craft such as rigid or non-rigid inflatable boats, assault craft, canoes and sub-surface vessels such as swimmer delivery vehicles.

Rigid inflatable boats, assault boats and canoes have obvious attractions to commandoes. The first two are fast and can carry a number of troops and their equipment. The craft also maintain a relatively low profile, making them hard to spot from land or from a distance, even more so when the craft are operating at night. The small size of these vessels also makes them easy and unobtrusive to carry in a cargo aircraft, below a helicopter or on a ship. Canoes cannot carry quite the volume of the assault craft or boat, but as they are powered by the commandoes themselves paddling with oars, they are extremely qui...

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