Tanelorn's Fleet

[Tanelorn]

Indonesian navy so far:

You can find Fairline;s type 21 Amazon frigate in the Falklands scenario.

 

[Tanelorn]

Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy so far:

 

[Tanelorn]

Rothsay and River class frigates:

Rothsay RN, New Zealand and South Africa. Australian River class Destroyer Escort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothesay-class_frigate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River-class_destroyer_escort

 

[Tanelorn]

Modern French La Fayette class frigate:

Used by France (5), Saudi Arabia (3), Taiwan (6) and Singapore (6)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fayette-class_frigate

 

[Tanelorn]

The joint French/Spanish Scorpene design is in service with the navies of Chile, Malaysia, India and has been ordered by Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpène-class_submarine
The new Spanish S80 Isaac Peral class under construction is not dissimilar.

 

[Tanelorn]

I swear she looked better last night! (oops...)
No, really. That's ugly. I will have to remake it.

Soft fix.

 

[Tanelorn]

FREMM Aquitaine (6+3) and Carlo Bergamini (8+2) modern classes of frigates. Also in use by Egypt and Morocco, one each.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FREMM_multipurpose_frigate

 

[Tanelorn]

Horizon/ Orizonte class AA destroyers, two each for France and Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon-class_frigate

 

[Tanelorn]

HMS Type 45 Daring class destroyer, 6 made:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_45_destroyer

 

[Patine]

HMS Type 45 Daring class destroyer, 6 made:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_45_destroyer

Was it sent on the most bold, brave, and "daring" missions for the Royal Navy?

 

[Tanelorn]

No, all ships in the class just have names that start with "D".

Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate (X5):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen-class_frigate

 

[Tanelorn]

Spanish Alvaro de Bazan and Australian Hobart class frigates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Álvaro_de_Bazán-class_frigate

 

[Tanelorn]

Dutch De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Zeven_Provinciën-class_frigate
Either this, the Alvaro de Bazan or the new Type 26 will replace the Canadian Halifax class.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Cassard class frigate, a specialised AAW version of the more prolific Georges Leygues ASW design. The front half is identical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassard-class_frigate
Durrand de la Penne next, whenever I find the time.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Italian Durand de la Penne AAW destroyer pair from the early 90s, an enlarged version of the cold war Audace pair of destroyers I did previously. More were planned but they were cancelled when Italy joined the Horizon project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durand_de_la_Penne-class_destroyer

 

[Tanelorn]

Just made different units for the Lupo and Soldati (or Artigliere) class frigates. The differences between them in Italian service are really minor. However, as the Hittin class ordered by Saddam Hussein, they would have been more ASW oriented. They were held back during the Iran-Iraq war, then Saddam's regime tried to renegotiate the price due to the dealy and then they were seized by the Italian navy in 1993. They tried to sell them off to the Philippines in 2012 but the deal fell through.
Only one Soldati is still in service with Italy, two more were placed in reserve a couple of months ago.
All four of the Lupos were transferred to Peru between 2004-2006, that also operates four sister ships (Carvajal class) with US missles and radars.
Venezuella also used six Lupos as the Mariscal Sucre class, fitted with Israeli electronics. Two are still active.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupo-class_frigate#Soldati-class_patrol_frigate
Certainly one of the best frigate designs of the cold war, primarily very fast and very well armed.

 

[Tanelorn]

The six ship French Floreal class light frigate, that has largely replaced the D'Estienne d'Orves class in the Marine Nationale, after the cold war. Its commercial modular construction standard was the basis for the later La Fayette class. Two more ships are in use by the Moroccan navy. The French ships are named after months in the French revolutionary republican calendar, and are almost exclusively based in French overseas territories. They trade their very slow speed (only 20 knots) for impressive range (10 to 13 thousand nm). They are well armed for their size.

 

[Patine]

@Tanelorn I still have yet to see a Louisiana swamp boat or the SS Minnow...

 

[techumseh]

Give one of them a try, Patine.

 

[Patine]

Give one of them a try, Patine.

I could TRY, but they'd likely more closely resemble units out of old '80's Apple II Series and DOS games if I did them (just with a lot more than 4 or 16 colours available).