jhungary
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What's wrong with its 127mm and 2x4 Harpoon?
I think Harpoon was not loaded on ANZAC Class, it's an optional option for the ship. And 5 inch gun is Self Defence Weapon in the RAN Case.
This just goes to show ship type designation is determined more by role and associated capability than tonnage!
See Dutch LCF Zeven Provincien: a 6k ton fld FRIGATE.
I would have think the tonnage rules is meaningless long ago. JMSDF destroyer classes run from 5900 tons to 11,000 tons (not counting the 2 Helicopter Destroyer class) and ROKN have been making 11,000 tons + Destroyer. US Zumwalt Class is a 14,000 tons mammoth. Given these ship should have been light cruiser to cruiser or even battle cruiser if we have gone back to the tradition convention used during WW2.