ASPB (VUSBX15)

ASPB (Assault Support Patrol Boat) (VUSBX15) includes one ASPB boat. The Assault Support Patrol Boats (ASPB) were known as Alpha boats, owing to the A-designation on their hull numbers. They were the only boat in the MRF purpose built for the riverine mission. Check out the ASPB in the online store here...

Brown Water Navy The waterways of the Mekong Delta are busy with sampans, merchants, villages, and farming communities. They are the life blood of South Vietnam, through which over half of the entire country’s rice flows. It is remote with few roads accessing the interior’s rice fields and jungles. The Việt Cộng have launched their liberation movement from within this formidable fortress. However, the US Army and Navy have come together to create the Mobile Riverine Force, a joint operation of infantry and assault boats. They are reinforced with helicopter gunships, devastating Skyraider aircraft and more. This new force is ready to take the fight upriver. Learn more about Brown Water Navy here...

The Alpha boat entered service in September 1967 and became known as the Brown Water Navy’s “destroyer”. It was lighter and faster than the Monitor, the MRF's “river battleship”, but it still packed quite a punch, with two .50-calibre heavy machine guns, 20mm cannon and multipurpose 81mm mortar for indirect fire. Each river division could rely on eight ASPBs to lead patrols upriver. Designed by Evan Allen Painted by Aaron Mathie

	The ASPB
	Length: 50’ 1” (15m) Beam: 15’ 2” (4.6m) Draft: 3’ 6” (1m) Displacement: 58,500lb (26.5 tonnes) Speed: 16 knots (30km/h) Crew: 6

The ASPB in Brown Water Navy
Armour      Name  Mobility  Front  Side  Top  Equipment and Notes  Weapon  Range  ROF  Anti-tank  Firepower    ASPB Standard Tank 1 1 2 Assult Boat, Minesweeper, Self-defence MG. Twin M2 .50cal MG 16" / 40cm 5 4 5+ Deck turret. Mk 16 20mm gun  16" / 40cm 4 5 5+ 360-degree turret. Mk 2.81mm mortar 16" / 40cm 2 2 3+ Deck turret, Smoke.

Minesweeper The ASPB’s position was at the head of the force, minesweeping and defusing booby traps. Booby Traps cannot be placed under other friendly boats within 12”/30cm of the stern (rear) an ASPB. However, they may be placed under an ASPB instead. An ASPB may gap a Minefield (see page 225 of the rulebook) placed in river terrain as though it were a Pioneer team.

Assembling the ASPB Follow this guide to correctly assemble your ASPB. For metal and resin models like this one, we recommend you use cyanoacrylate 'Super Glue'. GF9 Super Glue is available in the online store...

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The contents for the ASPB Box Set

Step 1. Begin assembly by glueing the guns to the turrets. Make sure they are facing the correct way.		Step 2. Glue the gunner to the 81mm mortar.

Below. Gunner glued correctly.	Step 3. Glue the radar dome into the hole in front of the boat's pilot house.

Step 4. Add all the pieces you've just assembled into their respective places as seen below.

And you're done! Happy modelling.