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Can anyone please explain to me in simple words, the difference between frigate, destroyer and cruiser?
 
Can anyone please explain to me in simple words, the difference between frigate, destroyer and cruiser?


Frigate is a name which has been used for several distinct types of warships at different times. It has referred to a variety of ship roles and sizes. From the 18th century, it referred to a ship smaller and faster than a ship-of-the-line, used for patrolling and escort work rather than fighting fleet actions. In modern military terminology, the definition of a frigate is a warship intended to protect other warships and merchant marine ships and as anti-submarine warfare (ASW) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups, and merchant convoys.

A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, smaller than a frigate but larger than a coastal patrol craft.

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft).

A cruiser (From Dutch Kruiser, "something that crosses") is a classification of large warship. Historically they were generally considered the smallest ships capable of independent operations — destroyers usually requiring outside support such as tenders — but in modern parlance this difference has disappeared. In modern warfare the cruiser has virtually disappeared, supplanted in all roles by the destroyer.

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft).
 
Can anyone please explain to me in simple words, the difference between frigate, destroyer and cruiser?
Size that matters. Small mutirol warship is frigate like Shiwalik class . Larger multi-role warship is destroyer Like INS Kochi . And extra large with massive weaponries are cruisers Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy.. Corvettes are war ships with more Anti Submarine warfare weaponry. Like Kamorta-class corvettes are theIndian Navy's next-generation anti submarine.
 

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