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From: waugh@rtpnet05.rtp.dg.com (Matthew Waugh)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Definitions of naval vessel types?
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Date: 17 May 91 20:47:03 GMT
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From: waugh@rtpnet05.rtp.dg.com (Matthew Waugh)


>From: swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams)
>There is some confusion about the difference between a frigate
>and a destroyer as the frigate is taking over operations that were

Isn't this primarily a political issue. A frigate is smaller than
a destroyer so when you ask for frigates people don't tend to look
as hard, despite the fact that you're building BIG frigates that do
things destroyers used to do.

The classic example of this is the British Navy's purchase of a vessel
for launching aircraft from as a "through-deck" cruiser, because as
we all know a cruiser is much smaller than an aircraft carrier, and so
it must be much cheaper. I think people made them give that designation
up, but they certainly tried it.

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