Are the future Finnish Pohjanmaa-class vessels frigates or corvettes? They're supposed to lay mines, shoot missiles, do everything
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Are the future Finnish Pohjanmaa-class vessels frigates or corvettes?
Are the future Finnish Pohjanmaa-class vessels frigates or corvettes? They're supposed to lay mines, shoot missiles, do everything
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Light frigate I say.
are light frigates heavy corvettes?
If they have VLS-based SAMs instead of just point-defense shit they're frigates.
Supposedly carries 32 RIM-162 anti-air missiles (range 50+ km) and a bunch of Israeli Gabriel V's (range maybe 400 km, who knows).
If any politician asks, it's totally an eco-friendly rowboat for littoral humanitarian purposes :DDDD
Uhmm akshually it's a destroyer escort gunboat littoral combat ship picket craft sub hunter corvette auxiliary cruiser minelayer frigate brig galleon you fucking landlubber
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It's whatever the fuck they decide to call it. There's no hard rules for it, and the powers that be here seem more keen on intentionally muddying things up instead of striving towards clarity and consensus.
This
Look at how the German navy designates their ships and then compare it to Irans navy designations. It's a hilarious day and night comparison.
>German navy
> Irans navy
Up next, anon uses Belgium and Senegal as model navies.
>only operates in coastal waters
No matter how fat, it's not a frigate.
It's designed to operate anywhere on the Baltic sea. If that counts as coastal, then sure.
Frigates are blue-water boats, capable of operating on the high seas.
But honestly the Finns can just call it whatever. Seems to be a quite unique boat. Minelaying missile icebreaker the size of a small frigate, intended for use in Baltic Sea archipelagos. If Russians were building a ship class like this, I'd call it retarded but I suppose Finns know what they are doing.
>Seems to be a quite unique boat. Minelaying missile icebreaker the size of a small frigate, intended for use in Baltic Sea archipelagos
It has cherry-picked features, mostly due to lack of greater funding and the effective usage of what is in the budget.
Finland has plenty of ship-building industry AND connections to the rest of the western world, that basically means the boats have new tech from all around the world.
Just like you said, it's supposed to mostly hide among islands, scout the sea, lay mines for russian ships and BTFO targets of opportunity with missiles.
>54 meter average depth
Yeah that's littoral.
HLÖÖÖÄÄÄÄ :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Its short for "henkilöä" = personnel. Though "henki" means a ghost or spirit, so you can fit 73 spiritualists in there.
Finns call them Multi-functional corvettes.
I guess that's about as close you could get, for a ship that is highly specialized for certain kind of environment.
I would personally designate her as a CVN, it's time america got some competition in the carrier race
They're whatever the Finns say they are. That's how naval classification works.