054B/new generation frigate
- Thread starter Blitzo
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None thus far.
lcloo
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Technically it is possible but then the cost of the more heavier armed ship with midship VLS would be more expensive, and traditional navy procurement of having more cheaper frigates is breached. Compare with army armoured vehicle procurement, Frigates are like IFV, they may act alone or provide protection for the heavier main battle tanks (using MBT as analogy to destroyers, type 052D/type 055).
Destroyers are mainly for offensive while frigates are for defensive, disregard of the size of the frigates. Some frigates have displacement larger than destroyers but their weapon configuration can still be at the level of tradtional size frigates, simply due to the role/mission requirement, but sized up for endurance, range, crew comfort and having room for future upgrades.
There are exceptions in some frigates armed as heavily as a destroyers in navies with limited budget. These navies cannot afford to buy the expensive destroyers, and they are using their frigates as the top tier surface combat ship thus they armed the ships as heavily as possible. This is not how frigates are used in large navies with different tiers that include destroyers and large cruiser size destroyers.
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Well said, and doubly so considering we have a very recent high-profile case study of what happens when you let a modest frigate design get hijacked by demands for more and more changes. But idiots would rather jump straight to Constellation instead of accepting a conservative, iterative, successor which will be followed in due course by its own successor.