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	La Fayette class frigate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The La Fayette class units are light multi-mission frigates built by DCN and operated by France (Marine Nationale), Saudi Arabia, Singapore (Republic of Singapore Navy) and Taiwan (Republic of China Navy).
		As with the La Fayette class the primary offensive weapon is the anti-surface MBDA Exocet.
		The Republic of Singapore Navy's six Formidable class frigates are of comparable size to the La Fayette class but differs from that class and the Saudi Al Riyadh class in the armament carried.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Fayette_class_frigate (770 words)

	Republic of Singapore Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is believed that the Challenger class were purchased to develop the required submarine operations expertise before selecting a modern class of submarines to replace them, since all four boats are over 25 years old [3].
		The design of the frigates are based on the French Navy’s La Fayette class frigate.
		The first six vessels of the class are armed for anti-submarine warfare missions, and were placed under the command of the Fleet as 189 Squadron upon commission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republic_of_Singapore_Navy (1929 words)

	Naval Technology - Formidable Class Multi-Mission Frigate
		The first of class, RSS Formidable, was launched on 7 January 2004 at the Lorient dockyard in Brittany, France.
		As well as RSS Formidable (68), the class consists of: RSS Intrepid (69), constructed by STM and launched in July 2004; RSS Steadfast (70), launched in January 2005; RSS Tenacious (71), launched in July 2005; RSS Stalwart (72), launched in December 2005; and RSS Supreme (73).
		The frigate is armed with the Boeing Harpoon surface-to-surface anti-ship missile.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/formidable (1037 words)

	Equipment Matchups: Destroyer/Frigate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In this matchup, the smaller Jiangwei class simply outguns the Knox class frigates, which is a dedicated ASW platform.
		A number of the frigates were leased from the US, while others were purchased outright, to augment the deep-water ASW capabilities of the ROCN, which is critical to the maintenance the life-sustaining shipping lines around the island.
		The Jianghu class frigate is the older generation of frigates currently serving in large numbers with the PLAN.
	www.emeraldesigns.com /matchup/destroyer.htm (1179 words)

	____B R E A K - C I T Y - R A D I O
		The largest deficiency in Frigates - with their small size, they are incapable of supporting FTL drives and must rely exclusively on shipping lanes with their 'jump points' to reach any location with speed.
		The power output at peak performance is enough to power four Lancer class Frigates with heavy modifications, guaranteeing the owner of a Lancer class Frigate availability of power in case of trouble.
		The Odin class is military technology available to the general public, for the first time the equal of the craft used by Navies across the galaxy.
	www.geocities.com /BreakCityRadio/travel.html (1344 words)

	Naval Institute Proceedings Magazine: World Navies in Review, A. D. Baker III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After protracted negotiations, a formidable suite of weapons was selected for the frigates, including eight MM 40 Exocet antiship missiles, a vertical-launch Sea Wolf surface-to-air missile system, a 76-mm gun, and torpedo tubes, the latter to provide the small fleet with its first antisubmarine capability.
		The 4,300-ton Project 16A frigate Bramaputra, launched in January 1994, was scheduled to be completed at the end of 1997, with her sisters Beas and Betwa following at two-year intervals; aside from carrying Kh-35 missiles in place of the obsolescent P-20 Styx, the new ships are virtual repeats of the preceding Godavari class.
		A new NGPV class of 1,000-ton, 262-foot corvettes is to commence construction soon at Jurong; the ships are to be armed with eight Harpoon antiship missiles, 32 Israeli Barak vertical-launch surface-to-air missiles, and four wire-guided torpedoes and are to employ trimaran-form, glass-reinforced plastic signature-reduction hulls with Kevlar armor.
	www.usni.org /Proceedings/Articles98/PRObakerasia98.htm (4068 words)

	James Dixon Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Formidable opponents against all but the largest enemy vessels, "Wellingtons" typical operate in special task groups of three vessels, and are assigned to the command of local starbase commanders [FASA].
		Jack Crusher dies attempting to sever a starboard nacelle of the "Stargazer" with a phaser rifle to escape the effects of a Nensi phenomenon [TNG 232, GN 9].
		The "Santa Maria," "Erehwon" class personnel transport, bound for Gemulon V lands on a planet in the Orellius Minor system (Sector 401) for repairs and ends up colonizing the world through the help of the colonists' leader, Alixus and her duonetic field generator [DSN 435].
	stng.36el.com /st-tng/trivia/timeline/trek7-18.html (7628 words)

	Unsheathing The Talwar
		The second Talwar was a Whitby Class frigate which was a crucial component of the Indian Navy for more than two decades, from 1960-1985.
		Formidably equipped for her time with a 4.5 inch medium-range anti-surface and anti-air gun, two 40mm Bofors close range anti-aircraft guns and three barrel depth charge motors, she was transformed into the Navy's first missile frigate in 1975.
		One of her earlier COs and later Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Oscar Stanley Dawson (Retd.), known to Indian Navy watchers as the originator of Project Seabird was present for the ceremony of the new Talwar.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /NAVY/Articles/Article13.html (2103 words)

	Defence Talk Forum - New aircraft and frigates will strengthen defence
		USN Oliver Perry Class Frigates are ~4100 tons and 445 ft. OAL, the Amazon (Tariq) class frigates that Pakistan has are ~3700 tons and 384 ft. OAL.
		I would think that Pakistan would be better served with more modern frigates and coastal patrol craft, and submarines- this gives her the ability to defend her coastline and shipping interests without spending large amounts of money on vessels that she doesn't really need, i.e no carriers or phibs to protect anyway.
		Frigates are perfect escorts, that's what they were designed for, and Fast Patrol Boats armed with AshM's and torps, AC with AshM's, and Subs are more effective at coastal defense than destroyers.
	www.defencetalk.com /forums/printthread.php?t=3646 (2110 words)

	Navy
		The missile boats are the Osa-I and II and Komar class, with a range of 800 nautical miles at 25 knots and 400 nautical miles at 30 knots respectively.
		Two recently acquired Foxtrot class submarines were well manned and capably handled, and Castro was expected to receive more of them in the near future.
		Cuba’s single Koni class frigate could operate effectively throughout the Caribbean Basin; it was the nucleus of a blue-water capability.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/cuba/navy.htm (611 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Merlin tests frigate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		THE LATEST Duke-class frigate to become acquainted with Merlin is HMS Northumberland, which is in the middle of a series of post-refit trials.
		During her year-long refit, Northumberland has had extensive work carried out, replacing corroded areas of the flight deck, improving her lighting system to help with night-flying, and had a new helicopter handling system installed to move the 13-tonne Merlin safely in and out of the hangar.
		The Merlin trials were to prove equipment and procedures – and the sight of such a large aircraft approaching the modest flight deck of a Type 23 frigate is always worth seeing for the first time.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2005/0510/0005101701.asp (181 words)

	Final Frontier - Core Level 2 units (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Able to shut down just about any structures, starfighters or starships for several seconds, groups of these are incredibly useful as a first strike weapon before the main fleet arrives.
		A destroyer in all but name, the Heretic is heavily armoured and has a formidable array of weapons, easily outclassing it's ARM counterpart.
		As good against starfighers as it is against corvettes and frigates, it is an excellent all round defence.
	www.tadesigners.com /~savant/corlist2.htm (301 words)

	The Security Situation in the Taiwan Strait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The TAF's current strategy is to employ the IDF for low altitude interception and ground attack; the F-16 for mid altitude offshore interception and ground attack; and, the Mirage 2000-5 for high altitude offshore interception.
		Both the Perry-class and Lafayette-class frigates are armed with indigenously- produced Hsiung Feng II ASCMs, while the Knox-class frigates are equipped with the U.S.-made Harpoon ASCM.
		The primary mission of these newer frigates is sea control, particularly the capability to protect the sea lanes beyond the range of coastal aircraft.
	www.defenselink.mil /pubs/twstrait_02261999.html (11445 words)

	Kuang Hua Fast Attack Missile Craft- Republic of China [Taiwan] Navy
		The Hsiung Feng-II missiles on board the Cheng Kung-class frigates will be moved to the domestically-built Ching Chiang-class patrol boats, as well as the next-generation Kuang Hua VI missile boats in a pre-production.
		The Hsiung Feng-II missile had been chosen for the Cheng Kung-class frigate because the US was not willing to sell the Harpoons to Taiwan when the frigates were built.
		The first in the class of Kwang Hua VI missile boats, FACG-60, was commissioned on Oct. 1, 2003.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/taiwan/kuang-hua-fac.htm (725 words)

	Transforming the Navy's Surface Combatant Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The second class of the Cold War family of surface combatants was the Oliver Hazard Perry guided-missile frigate.
		The age of the oldest Perrys still in commission is 23, and the average age of the class is 19.
		Much like the role that the Spruance class destroyer played in the current generation of surface combatants, the DD(X) is intended to be the "pathfinder" for technologies that would be used in all subsequent ships of the next generation.
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=4130&sequence=2 (11965 words)

	Stratics Central - EVE - Gallente Ships
		Often nicknamed ‘the Fat Man’ this nimble little frigate is mainly used by the Federation in escort duties or on short-range patrolling.
		The Vexor is especially useful for surveying or mining operations in potentially hostile sectors as it can stay on duty for a very long time before having to return to base.
		Its formidable hulk and powerful weapon batteries can make anybody but the largest and latest battleships regretting that they locked into combat with it.
	www.stratics.com /content/portals/eve/content/gameplay/races/gallente/ships.php?nocookies=1 (430 words)

	USS Buffalo (SSN 715) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among the first in Buffalo’s heritage are the windshield wiper, the grain elevator, parachutes, the cardiac pacemaker, soft contact lenses, the motorcycle, and, of course, "Buffalo wings." The City of Buffalo has grown from a frontier town to a mature metropolis rich with history and culture.
		Her keel was laid on 25 January 1980 and she began her waterborne career on 8 May 1982, when she was launched by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia.
		The world’s most highly trained and dedicated officers and crew are the backbone of the ship’s ability to employ her state of the art combat systems and electronic suites as the multi-capable platform that gives USS BUFFALO her formidable hunter-killer capability.
	www.csp.navy.mil /css1/715.htm (706 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - RSS Formidable at home in Singapore
		The lead ship of the Republic of Singapore Navy's (RSN) Formidable-class stealth frigates returned to Singapore on 8 Jul 05 from France where she was built by Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN).
		The frigates will significantly bolster the RSN's fleet of warships and be at the forefront of maintaining maritime security in the waters around Singapore.
		The frigates are an important asset of the 3G SAF.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=244387 (328 words)

	Final Frontier - Arm level 2 units (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Able to shut down just about any structures, starfighters or starships for several seconds, groups of these advanced corvettes are incredibly useful as a first strike weapon before the main fleet arrives.
		A general purpose escort frigate, it is reasonably effective against fighters and medium ships, such as other frigates.
		Almost as good against starfighers as it is against corvettes and frigates, it is an excellent all round defence.
	www.tadesigners.com /~savant/armlist2.htm (315 words)

	Brightwarrior 1
		The horizontal position of the lobes means that in large parte of the superior and inferior hemisphere of the ship, a target will be under the fire of six WM 203 ion cannons and four SUPEROMEGA Antimatter/ion projectors (and eventually even the interceptors fire), and even the broadsides have totally free firearcs.
		The armor (Carbonat IV or V) is upgraded with an outer nanotechnologychal layer, the pulse/particle Omega cannons are substituted wiht the Ion pulse/antimatter beam streamer Raytheon SUPEROMEGA cannons, installed on the same mounts and turrets of the original Omega particle/pulse weapons.
		Luckily, the upgrades needed are minimal: essentially, the adoption of the WM203 Ion cannons in substitution of the WRK1005 pulse/particle weapons, and the addiction of the I.O.W.T. Tracker on the few units of the class that weren't yet equipped with this system.
	efni.org /brightwarrior1.htm#OMEGAE (2473 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Hercules-class frigate is the most formidable weapon that Starfleet has to offer.
		While the Hercules-class frigate has a formidable arsenal of weaponry it does not have a very high speed.
		The frigate's 2 warp nacelles can propel the ship at a cruising speed of only Warp 4.6 and a maximum speed of only Warp 9.
	youth.net /frpg/engineering/inactive/hercules-class.htm (190 words)

	Where East Meets West [Part 2]
		She was a Grimsby Class sloop later followed by the Jumna and Sutlej in 1941.
		In 1953 three Hunt Class frigates were transferred to the IN as part of a three-year lend-lease deal, with the cruiser Nigeria following in 1957 and becoming the INS Mysore.
		Four Ham Class inshore minesweepers were ordered from the U.K. for India, two of which were built in the U.K. and two in India.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /NAVY/History/1970s/East.html (3141 words)

	Ship Statistics
		Hyperdrives are rated by "classes"; the lower the class, the faster is the hyperdrive.
		Class Three and higher hyperdrives are common on civilian ships.
		Militarized version of the Lambda Class Shuttle built under subcontract to Sienar.Much more heavily armed and shielded,it is the preferred vehicle of VIPs.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/thehanger/stats.html (2415 words)

	Hell Fighter - Warship descriptions
		The Vigilant class frigate is a small warship with the point defenses of a cruiser and then some.
		Tactics: Unlike their wet navy counterparts, space frigates should not be placed on a picket line away from the core of the fleet.
		The Frigate captain is therefore cautioned to hold position relative to the fleet as much as possible.
	www.dracova.com /hellfighter/warship.html (999 words)

	[No title]
		Where it is known that two or more ships share the same class but that their formal designation is unknown, the list classifies them as being the type of whichever ship appears first alphabetically.
		That Drayman never arrived..." Dreadnought class Battlewagon FA, p.177: “It was not so much a super carrier along the lines of suspected Kilrathi design, but more a Stealth, heavily armored battlewagon with upgraded shielding that was proof against medium-yield antimatter warheads.
		Note that the actual class is probably not Coventry, as the TCS Coventry is said to be more modern than the TCS Sheffield.
	www.wcnews.com /loaf/newshipslist.doc (2547 words)

	[No title]
		The Essex class had hours of firefighting, extensive casualties, and could be essentially destroyed above the flight deck, requiring a trip to a repair yard, as you say.
		The tradeoff is that the Essex class ships had three times the aircraft complement, allowing them to operate in an serious offensive capacity, whereas the Illustrious class ships could not, even taking into account that they could go light on combat air patrol.
		Four of the class were hit by kamikaze but all were able to operate aircraft after a few hours.
	smmlonline.com /archives/VOL0791.txt (3581 words)

	Tyler
		One of the captured ships, Eastport, proved to be one of the best contemporary river steamers and had been earmarked for conversion to an ironclad.
		Her capture robbed the South of what would have been a formidable addition to her riverine forces and gave the Northerners a valuable addition to theirs.
		After participating in the two-day action which culminated in the surrender of Fort Donelson—the Cumberland River fort, Tyler resumed operations on the Tennessee River in support of Grant's advance southward along the river's banks through western Tennessee.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t10/tyler.htm (1485 words)

	Virtual Sailor - Virtual Sailing Simulator
		The HMAS Hobart was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile destroyer in the Royal Australia Navy (DDG 39), built in the United States of America and commissioned in 1965 in Boston.
		HMAS Westralia was built as a Stat 32 class petroleum tanker, and modified for underway replenishment in 1979 for service with the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary as HMS Appleleaf.
		The last of class, the Yarra, was launched in January 2002 and handed over in December 2002.
	www.hangsim.com /vs/boats.php?dzone=nav (1971 words)

	WHAT
		The RSS Tenacious is the third frigate to be built in Singapore, the first was in DCN France and Indian Navy watches this project closely.
		The Sino–Pakistan programme to build 4 F22P frigates for some $600m was formally launched in Beijing on July 4.
		Negotiations for the sale of the Koni class frigates Beograd and Podgorica to Sri Lanka were well advanced at the beginning of July.
	www.indiadefence.com /navynews.htm (1835 words)

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