Re: Military FAQ
Can someone please explain to me how the warships are ordered according to size?
Eg. Battleship - Cruiser - Destroyer - Frigate - Corvettes/minesweepers
What about the other types? Also, can you explain how one type is distinguished from another. Thanks.
in ordered you mean ranked or like rated, not ordered by somebody from someone??
Well Battle ships were heavily armoured big gun ships which sailed in the battleline and shoot full boards...thats why In Russia and Finland they are called line ships (linjalaiva, liney koralb)
cruisers were typically smaller, faster and bit down gunned ships which were mented to distance, independent operations such as scouting and raiding...this worked well before some invented the battlecruisers and nazis came up with the pocket battle ships...In modern world cruisers as such have totally pahassed away, only Soviet Union called its heacy missile ships as RKR Raketnyi krezer....in 1970s when international naval charts showed USSR leading in cruiser ammounts so US re-rated its big ocean escorts as cruisers, thougth escort task was completely against cruisers orginal mission and task. No other nation has build cruisers since WWII but some have operated WWII era cruisers modernised with missiles and stuff...
Destroyers were orginally fast torpedo and gun armed ships to hunt down torpedo boats and untill WWII the difference between those two was merely a size factor. After WWII all destroyers eventually ended up as ASW escorts or as the SAMs came into the picture, AAW ships, most notably in non-us NATO navyes. Not only when Soviet Union fielded Sovromenyy class missile ships called traditionally as Eskardnyy minotsets or destroyers in Russian, were the old idea of destroyers retreived. In modern world the difference between frigate and destroyer mainly a cost related political guestion.
Frigates and corvettes were names given to the ASW escort ships during the WWII by UK, (US retained the Destroyer-escort name) and that is how they evolped into modern ASW ships in NATOs navyes. However some of the older smaller detroyers and torbedo boats were also rerated as frigates after the WWII. But in USSR the term SKR, a guard ship was born even before WWII as refering to Uragan class slow torpedo boats. This class of warships were evolped into project 50 'RIGA' class ships and ultimately to project 61 'KASHIN' class warships though those were later renamed as large ASW ships. The SRK name was later dropped in USSR service as the next generation of small ships were rated as small asw ships. The name reappeared when the Krivak class was renamed as SKRs in 1978 and now the new 20380 class ships are descriped as such in Russian writings.
and minesweepers offcourse are ships wich sweeps mines (mine hunters hunt them with sonars) and when they are not used in this task they are referred as patrol boats.
so basicly its all up to your self how to call differnt type of ships, but rough scale could be cruisers: <8,000 tons, Destroyers; 7,000-4,000 tons Frigates; 4,000-1,500 tons and below that they are either corvettes or Missile boats according their concept and equipment. But generally dont missthink that warship could be some how rated acording to some standards, maybe inside one navy, but not in general scale...
, but in generally, All the parade of finnish soldiers i have seen and compared to those done in 'east'...let say it takes propaply year of extence training to make it look like in those propaganda filmes. and you asked how they prevent stabbing each others in the back, well its simple, you each row marches in same rythm and so on...it takes practice and i bet chinese military consentrate to it lot more...their marching style is more difficoult one than we had...
