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I think Brother @Munir meant a flanker variant for the maritime role.

It seems a bunch of US Navy officers have been advocating small missile corvettes in the USN publication "Proceedings" and the main argument against them is lack of range in big theatres like the pacific. Yet it seems PN is focused on the big prestige boats. Sadly, ego seems to be taking front...

Well brother, the Chinese developing doesn't mean its were things are headed. The Phalanx CIWS has severe limitations against supersonic missiles and even the RN has looked to goalkeeper, and the US in quite a few ships has sought out SeaRAM. In short, the reason is as follows: "They have...

For a long time in the postwar years, the smallest valuable unit in medium to large navies were Frigates, they were like small destroyers, being able to do much of the task of destroyers at a smaller scale. Essentially, they were the MBTs of the seas. The reason they could do this, was that as...

A SAM in the class of the SPADA 2000 / Aspide derivates / DK-10 / FM-90 derivatives / Umkhonto can give this ship a 20-30 km range air defence system. However, the forward deck would need to be cleared, and that means no big main gun, maybe a small gun like the Azmat class. In essence, this ship...