The upgraded RSN missile corvette RSS Victory conducting the live-firing of Barak anti-missile missile during Exercise CARAT 2012. Mindef.
From Defense Industry Daily: The 656-ton Singaporean mini-corvette RSS Victory successfully fires a Barak-1 anti-aircraft missile during joint exercises with the USN in the South China Sea. It’s hardly the 1st time, and the inconvenient truth its that these ships are far better armed than the $550+ million, 3,000 ton “Littoral Combat Ships” the USA wants to deploy to Singapore.
My Comment: I know that my title for this post is loaded .... but this post from Defense Industry Daily is making a point that should make one ponder.
2 comments:
Those are glorified fast attack craft. The ASW equipment is a fig leaf and the MCM potential is basically "hull-mounted sonar + divers".
The Barak missile + SSMs + 76 mm setup is quite exactly what Lürssen developers dreamed of more than 30 years ago for their FAC designs. The German SAM project for this never materialised, though - we switched to RAM.
The Singaporean Formidable class is much more of a worthy OHP successor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formidable_class_frigate
The USN could equip ESSM with the AMRAAM seeker to emulate the Aster 15.
Great thoughts you got there, believe I may possibly try just some of it throughout my daily life.
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