• WayeeCool [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    It’s basically the same class of ship the US, China, and Russia use as coast guard cutters. I often find it more than a little entertaining how most Navies outside the great powers label as warships what amount to coastal patrol vessels meant for civilian police actions in litoral water. Is something really a blue water Navy when you don’t even have the ships to assemble a Navy strike group (1 cruiser for command & control, 3 to 6 destroyers, and 1 attack submarine)?

    • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      German corvettes are very chunky though. They’re quite a lot larger than Russian and Chinese ones.

      Their Baden-Württemberg class frigate is a destroyer in all but name. It’s fairly close to the size of a few missile cruisers.