China Coast Guard and Patrol vessels
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asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Four sounds like but of a strange number maybe 3 one for each fleet
Either way at 12,000 ton they are the weight of a cruiser!
Biggest cruisers equipped in 40 mm guns and water cannons. It's hard for me to understand why they're going to build such large vessels if not for escorting purposes on the high seas to build up more seaworthiness and operate for long periods of time. But it's China. Big country so they build big 
joshuatree
Captain
Biggest cruisers equipped in 40 mm guns and water cannons. It's hard for me to understand why they're going to build such large vessels if not for escorting purposes on the high seas to build up more seaworthiness and operate for long periods of time. But it's China. Big country so they build big
A larger vessel also means the ability to be stationed for a longer period if a situation requires it.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Even then 12,000 tons is huge wonder if the trade off would be better with 12 x 1,000 ton vessels
You are more likely to soil your pants when confronted with a 12,000 tons ship then 12 1000 ton ships.
Confronted with a 1000 tons ship, it's a skirmesh. Confronted with a 12,000 ton ship, it's a face saving retreat.
It was already odd when two centuries ago a predecessor of the US Coast Guard, the customs service, called its schooners cutters.
Using 200 year old naval parlance, a vessel rigged as schooner would properly be called a "cutter" if it was commanded by a junior lieutenant.
If we use such archaic parlances, then what to call the 12,000 ton coast guard vessels would depend on the rank of its commanding officer. Some how I suspect so large and impressive a ship would be given either to a full captain as an independent command, or even to a commadore as a flagship of a squadron. In which case this 12,000 ton vessel would properly be called a "ship", not a "sloop" or a "cutter".
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