These things are being built for the Israeli navy and seem to have a crazy high weapons load
>~2,000 tons
>x1 76mm Gun
>x2 25mm Autocannons for small boat defense
>x4 12.7mm machine guns
>x38 VLS cells for Barak-8 SAMs or Popeye cruise missiles
>x16 Harpoon or Gabriel Anti-Ship Missiles
>x10 Iron Dome rocket/missile defense launchers
>x6 324mm Torpedo Tubes
>x1 Harpy kamikaze UAV launcher/control station
>x1 SH-60 Seahawk Helicopter
Fuck that is heavily armed. Not a very survivable ship though given the size if they faced a peer adversary. I wonder what threat they intend it to respond to?
they're being designed to protect offshore drilling sites from lebanon mainly
That makes sense. It’s a pure gunboat in spirit then. Limited range and meant for shitting on small craft.
and shore bombardment
Im sure a 100 ton patrol boat outdoes it
So basically what the LCS should have been
The damned thing was always an undergunned frigate, now they're admitting that after the fact.
Yep that sure is a lot of armament pr. ton
All that on 2k tonnage; where is the crew, stores, and fuel kept?
Finnish Hamina class FAC’s called.
~250 tons
1 × Bofors 57 mm/70 SAK Mk3
2 × 12.7 mm machine guns (NSV)
8 × Umkhonto-IR SAM (Denel)
4 × RBS-15 Mk2 SSM (Saab)
1 × rail for depth charges or mines (Sea Mine 2000)
Torped 45 torpedoes (Saab)
The ship is equipped with TRS-3D multimode acquisition radar, Raytheon ARPA navigation radar and Signal Scout I-band surface search radar. The sonar suite includes a Simrad Subsea Toadfish active high-frequency search and attack sonar, and a Sonac/PTA towed array sonar.
Jews don't like water (c.f. Moses, Noah) so they try to jew on building the smallest ship with the most weapons. This means that they won't need to build many ships.
>4 asms
why carry any at all? They'll just get shot down.
>shot down
>by the Baltic fleet
>the part of the Baltic fleet that would operate in the Gulf of Finland
>crew, stores, and fuel kept
I imagine they can cut down heavily on space for all that becuase Israel just neeeds to defend its coastline. I dont think those things will ever be more than a few hours hours away from the coast.
>Israeli
Is Israel using some Tesseract magic to fit all that?
Less time on sea compared to other corvettes, Israels coast is like only 50 km long.
No, not really.
273 actually.
Probably has very low endurance.
This. It's clearly set up to go to sea for no more than a few days at a time; the "galley" is probably no more than a space to set down their MREs while the ration heater does it's thing.
A more sensible explanation is Israel lacks man power and their navy isn't that high on their priority list. They would rather have more small ships.
Israeli weapons tend to lack strategic mobility because they don't actually need to, being a small country. Anything that large scale and long distance will be performed by their Amerimutt goyim anyway.
It only seems like a lot because the US Navy, which does not intend to ever fight a war, doesn't put enough weapons on THEIR boats.
Don't listen to the other people. Israel's endless uncanny victories are obviously due to kaballaic magick. That people buy all these other stupid excuses is clearly evidence of more Jewish magic.
To be fair, the USN is essentially broken into 4 parts: token lane patrol designed to whackamole Somali pirates, subs which do their own thing, naval aviation, and ships designed to support naval aviation.
Just because. The more relevant role however is to queue shore based missiles with the sensors it has.
Silly how much weaponry they have packed into those. Pound for pound that Israeli boat would need to have 64 SAMs and 32 SSM's to be "equal".
Also, don't forget the torpedos that Haminas will be getting soon