royal navy warships waiting to be sold or scrapped

looks like perfectly good warships probly (minesweepers) to be sold off for a fraction of the build valve wat a waiste of money

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• navy
• submerine

[d131458k]

not Royal Navy ships, the numbers are in a font not used by the RN

[ROOSTER1067]

@d131458k we now know thanks ,if you read down they were built for a foreign navy who refused them.

[gnark1ll1us]

They are coastal patrol frigates in fact.

I worked with BAE surface ships while they fitted them out. (Im at VT).

Turns out they were too fast, nearly twice as fast as the other ships they were planned to operate with (35kts + vs 20kts for their existing fleet). They were also equipped with complex anti air and over the horizon radar which it turned out the semi-literate sailors of their Navy could barely understand the CONCEPT of, let alone operate.

[ROOSTER1067]

@gnark1ll1us they sound good to me ,shame the royal navy cant make use of them

[gnark1ll1us]

@ROOSTER1067 Check out Nakhoda Ragam class corvette for their specs. (They were classed as Frigates when I worked on them and they certainly have the firepower to be classed as such)

I think the reason they are not accepted by RN is because their armament of Exocet and Seawolf is being phased out as the older RN ships that carried them are scrapped.

Its probably cheaper to buy new ships rather than refit these for the newer vertical launch types that are all the rage at the moment.

[ROOSTER1067]

@gnark1ll1us i just have and they sound impressive

[d131458k]

@stocklax26 Correct, not RN the numbers are in a font not used by the RN

[d131458k]

These are american ships

[mg10186]

sub at start was a porpoise class i think