Agile-class minesweeper

	USS Inflict (MSO-456)
Class overview
Operators	United States Navy; French Navy; Italian Navy; Belgian Navy; Royal Norwegian Navy; Philippine Navy; Portuguese Navy; Republic of China Navy; Spanish Navy;
Succeeded by	Acme class
Subclasses	ships built for FMS
Cost	US$9 million (1955) per unit
Built	1951-1957
In service	1953 - present
Completed	93
Cancelled	1
Active	4
Preserved	2
General characteristics
Displacement	853 tons (full load)
Length	172 ft (52 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draft	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion	4 × Four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, 2,280 bhp (1,800 kW); 2 × shafts; 2 × controllable pitch propellers;
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	7 officers, 70 enlisted
Sensors and ; processing systems	AN/UQS-1 mine hunting sonar
Armament	1 Bofors 40 mm gun; 2 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) twin machine guns;

The Agile-class minesweepers are a class of US-built ocean-going minesweepers. 58 ships were built for the United States Navy, 35 ships were built for the allied NATO navies of Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. 13 ships were later transferred to Belgium, Spain, Taiwan, the Philippines and Uruguay.

There is some confusion on how to name this class. The class is often described as the Aggressive-class, as USS Aggressive (MSO-422) was the first ship to be commissioned. Sometimes four ships are a Dash-class subclass, although all ships are of the same design.

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