STM TURKEY IN TALKS TO DESIGN CORVETTE FOR PAKISTAN

[GumNaam]

Someone in the past explained it in hilarious way that I still remember that....

Aircraft Carrier --- Great Grandfather

Cruiser --- Great Grandmother

Destroyer --- Grandfather

Frigate --- Father

Corvette --- Son



Hope you got it, now...

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Cruiser - Great Grandmother

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By the way, I didn't know that Cruiser is also one of vessels, being made for navies

 

[Blue Marlin]

Please indulge me on my ignorance of naval matters, but what's is difference between a corvette and, say, a frigate? Is it a matter of tonnage? Thanks.

well kind of but this is neither a corvette nor frigate but more in the category of a littoral combat ship which is like a mixture of both frigate and corvette if you do some research its quiet similar to the American freedom class lcs but not as fast. i suspect they are going for the vls variant which would serve as a cheap frigate to replace the type 21 and would have Chinese or Pakistani asm's

 

[Tank131]

The issue PN needs to solve is credible air defense. Have vls alone is not enough. Having med-long range missiles alone is not enough. You MUST have quantity to survive a saturation attack. This is most evident when you look at UK considering exchanging some Aster 15s on Type 45 destroyers with camm for increased numbers (will try to find the source... Read it few months back).

PN needs to push for a quad packed medium range missile with good anti-missile characteristics. I think CAMM is politically feasible given UK and Italian in design but question will be financial. If not push for a chinese solution. 16 vls cells is not enough for PN to make a suitable air defense. Addition of a 24 cell FL3000N (while keeping at least 1 ciws) would go a long way to making up the difference though.