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Cordan
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2025
Great present HOWEVER DOES NOT come with the battery. Now I have to order it. Bummer
Will Ludwigsen
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2025
This thing is amazing! I'm not sure if that other reviewer thought he was buying a real Swift Boat or something, but the one I received was made of quality plastic and plenty of wonderful details. Runs great, looks amazing, feels very solid. May not hold up to actual warfare, but for the price, this is an incredible value.
Justin kase Taylor
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2024
the boat work's great and it can handle some pretty big waves. The only thing I was upset about is the batteries and the charger have to be bought separately from the boat and the product description said nothing about that. also, the navigation lights on the bridge have a wireless connection to the battery which is pretty neat but when my boat got really wet, they stopped working which was kind of annoying, but it wasn't too big a loss since I only use the boat during the day anyway.
V. Logan
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
Looks like a toy - an all gray colored thin plastic deepchinafactory production. Costs $350.00 with tax.Proboat/Horizon Hobbies is on the way out with scale boats. Besides this boat, they now sell only a rescue tug and a military/police type airboat. I have the latter two.Everything else that looked real they've discontinued. Now they sell mostly small and large (inexpensive v. costly) two-man racers...a few look-a-like water intake impeller weed and leaf part-sucking boats as "scale." They look like teenage stuff, barely hobby grade in appearance, but the newest one is bigger and FATTER with a Hulk Hogan inspired figure behind the wheel, and basically square-shaped!. And it's *FIVE-HUNDRED DOLLARS.*After dropping the surprisingly stellar Vietnam War PBR, they introduced this inferior partner boat to it. What!? If that Patrol Boat River ("Alpha") didn't sell well enough against the juvenile one look speed boats that chinaplasticinc. spits out by the dozens, then why would a scale Patrol Craft Fast *this cheap-looking* sell better INSTEAD? Why discontinue the PBR and introduce a Swift boat??Don't get their version of the Vietnam War Swift boat while it's hot. It's not long for this world. Take a pass.$350.00 is alot of money. It's tiny...the detail will not be seen on a pond. It's ALL gray and 1/24 scale. This is exciting only because it can skitter-about quickly.The recessed battery *tray* is undersized. None of my standard softpack LIPO batteries will fit in it (softpacks are smaller than plastic case). They had to have done this on purpose to direct you to Horizon Hobbies' online store (Proboat's only seller) to sell you a sufficiently narrow and short "Smart" brand LIPO.So RTR scale boating is dead. So learn how to build kits if you aren't already.You have to use decor methods - paints, marine accessories, figures, etc., to effectively model the historic RTRs, so why throw good money after bad in hard-to-find accessory products for something like this 1/24 scale?It's 24" long by 7" wide. What figures can be found that are realistic soldiers to put on this except generic modern soldiers, unarticulated crudely formed injection molded, and entirely unpainted...and they run about $50 for a crew of three. I found that 2.2 inch figures fit this boat, which are 1/35th scale, not 1/24th that are three inches tall.Get a better paying job to support your RTR scale ship hobby because the only decent models, now that Aquacraft is gone, are the not at all! ready to run DIY kits.I won't bother looking to Proboat any more. They've discontinued two military patrol boats already. They are bailing on scale reproduction of real watercraft models.
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