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Is aluminium hull good for fire fight? Imagine an aluminum boat comes contact with a steel boat, both showering one another with bullets. Who will be the likely winner?

According to this site, steel is better.
http://www.g2mil.com/aluminum.htm

But this sentence caught my attention:

It all to do with the ballistic threat levels, aluminum works best against small arms threats, once you start moving up to HMG's steel begins to gain an advantage.

Perhaps the FlexFighter is designed to go up against only poorly armed pirates with only small arms, and not regular militaries, and the reasoning is that aluminum is good enough.

Anyway it seems that aluminum is used in other military vehicles:
http://www.keytometals.com/Article102.htm