Corvette/Light frigate thread (056A, sub-4000t FFLs)
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With such developments in mind - Here's hopeful that a 3000-4000-ton platform (at full-load) that is minimally/optionally-manned or unmanned and powered by CODAD/CODOG/CODAG would be developed and inducted into service with the PLAN in the coming years.
Such platforms could be configured for any of the following roles:
1. SAM carriers (with 32-48x UVLS cells); or
2. Anti-air/anti-surface pickets (with radar and sensor arrays); or
3. Anti-submarine pickets (with sonar arrays)
- All of which would be based on the same hull.
The key here should be affordability and scalability for fleetwide induction as "wingman-type" warships for the proper surface combatants.
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Isn't this thing technically the largest USV in the world right now?
Technically (as in, designed and built as USVs from the get-go), yes.