Tanelorn's Fleet

[Broken_Erika]

Take-off and landing could be a bit of a problem.

 

[Tanelorn]

@Patine They have large numbers of small 18 men assault boats for the "longboat" role. During the cold war & massively outclassed by the Soviets the Swedish navy turned into a purely coastal defensive force of numerous small craft, as area denial hide & seek made more sense in the Baltic. By the end of the cold war though, the shortcomings of neglecting ASW meant that Soviet subs went under their noses all the time, pretty much. That is why they have moved to fewer stealth multirole corvettes since.

My heart goes out to the people of Sweden in their time of trouble, these last few days...

@Civinator Thanx, man.

The Hugin class (1978 to 2005) of patrol /basic ASW boats was larger but had RBS12 Penguin missles instead of the RBS15's of the Norkopping class.

 

[Tanelorn]

The ten Willemoes class FAC's, comissioned between 1977-2000 were the Danish version of the Swedish Spica II Norkopping design, modified to carry Harpoon missles instead of RBS15.
I have to make a Niels Juel corvette at some point, now...

 

[Patine]

The ten Willemoes class FAC's, comissioned between 1977-2000 were the Danish version of the Swedish Spica II Norkopping design, modified to carry Harpoon missles instead of RBS15.
I have to make a Niels Juel corvette at some point, now...

Ah, they've upgraded their longboats, too...

 

[Tanelorn]

The other Baltic fleet, Finland's Helsinki class RBS15 missle boats. Four were comissioned between 1981/85 and 2002/08. Two were sold off to Croatia as part of the Patria APC deal.

 

[Patine]

The other Baltic fleet, Finland's Helsinki class RBS15 missle boats. Four were comissioned between 1981/85 and 2002/08. Two were sold off to Croatia as part of the Patria APC deal.

Do any of the three former Baltic Republics of the USSR have much of a fleet kicking around? I've heard at least one of them (I can't remember which) has no actual armed combat aircraft, relying on a NATO air base and it's attached forces for airspace defense...

 

[Tanelorn]

There was once a thing called raphus cucullatus. And then it wasn't.
Just sayin'.
@Patine None of them have even a single fighter. Lithuania had a single unarmed basic trainer at some point. All three baltic states rely on a rotation of exactly four fighters at any time, from various other Nato members. This is less of a deterrent, more of a bait situation -imho.

Moving on to Norwegian Hauk class boats. And I have to do those Yugo-Swede ones too...

 

[Tanelorn]

Norwegian Hauk class patrol boat, armed with home grown Penguin missiles. 14 served between 1977 and 2008, including Nato and UN deployments.

 

[Patine]

And I have to do those Yugo-Swede ones too...

Ah, yes, the once great Yugo-Swede Kingdom - a nation of legend and greatness! But a succession war forced the House of Vasa and the House of Karađorđević to part ways, but the awesome naval assets were a sticky issue indeed to divide...

 

[Tanelorn]

lol, P. The land of Zlatan.
Anyway, the 6 Rade Koncar boats were based on the Swedish SpIKEA design and had Swedish bofors guns but their main armament was a pair of Soviet Styx SSM's instead of the French Exocets originally planned for.
The class was indeed divided between Croatia (1 boat) and Yugoslavia (the rest), eventually. The Croatian Sibenic (upgaded with Swedish RBS 15 SSM's) and two of the (now) Montenegrin boats are stil in service. One (possibly two) were sold off to Kenya.
Shanghai and Huchuan classes in the works.

PS: The pakistani jalalat class (I&II) looks suspiciously similar, if you discount the mast.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Chinese hydrofoil Type 025 Huchuan torpedo boats were produced by the hundreds from 1966 to 1994. Peak PLN service numbes were 120 in 1985, almost all have been withdrawn from service since the turn of the century. 32 were exported to Albania, 10 to 24 are probably still "active" after their exodus to Italy in 1997 and subsequent return. 26 were licence built in Romania during the 1980s. Flotilas of four each were operated by Pakistan, Bangladesh and Tanzania. Pakistan has retired them. They excell at speed, the 50 knots they can achive is phenomenal (that's 92 km/h at sea). Their armament and equipment though is woefully obsolete.

 

[Patine]

The Chinese hydrofoil Type 025 Huchuan torpedo boats were produced by the hundreds from 1966 to 1994. Peak PLN service numbes were 120 in 1985, almost all have been withdrawn from service since the turn of the century. 32 were exported to Albania, 10 are probably still "active" after their exodus to Italy in 1997 and subsequent return. 26 were licence built in Romania during the 1980s. Flotilas of four each were operated by Pakistan, Bangladesh and Tanzania. Pakistan has retired them. They excell at speed, the 50 knots they can achive is phenomenal (that's 92 km/h at sea). Their armament and equipment though is woefully obsolete.

So, basically equivalent to those hydrofoils the Louisiana State Troopers/Police use with the big fan behind them...

 

[Tanelorn]

Pretty much yes. With two pairs of heavy machinguns and a pair of museum exhibit torpedos. Type 062 Shanghai next.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Chinese Type 062 family of patrol boats includes the Shanghai I, II and the larger Shanghai III gunboat classes, the Fushun class minesweeperr and Haizui class submarine chaser. The gunboats have been also exported to Albania (at most 6 in current service), Bangladesh (4 Is and 4 IIs all transferred to the coast guard, Haizui as well?) , Congo (6 IIs only one operational), Egypt (4 IIs in service), North Korea (at least 13 Shanghai II currenty in service), Pakistan (retired), Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka (incl. Haizui boats), Tanzania, East Timor (two plus two of the derivative Jaco class) and one for the Seychelles coast guard.
Danish Flyve Fisken next

 

[Patine]

The Chinese Type 062 family of patrol boats includes the Shanghai I, II and the larger Shanghai III gunboat classes, the Fushun class minesweeperr and Haizui class submarine chaser. The gunboats have been also exported to Albania (at most 6 in current service), Bangladesh (4 Is and 4 IIs all transferred to the coast guard, Haizui as well?) , Congo (6 IIs only one operational), Egypt (4 IIs in service), North Korea (at least 13 Shanghai II currenty in service), Pakistan (retired), Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka (incl. Haizui boats), Tanzania, East Timor (two plus two of the derivative Jaco class) and one for the Seychelles coast guard.

Congo as in the DRC (Kinshasa) or RC (formerly PRC - Brazzaville)?

 

[Tanelorn]

The 14 Flyvefisken boats started entering Danish navy service in 1989, where they replaced three classes of ships (torpedo boats, minesweepers and ocean patrol boats). They are well armed with Harpoon SSMs, Sea Sparrow SAMs, a 76mm gun and ASW torpedoes. Four were sold to Lithuania in 2007 and five to Portugal in 2014. And at 30 knots, they are decently fast.
@Patine DRC

 

[Tanelorn]

The three Niels Juel class corvettes were built in the late 70s, served through to 2009 and were scrapped in 2013. For most of their lives they were the most powerful ships of the Danish navy. In reality at 1300 tons they fall well within light frigate displacement stats. They progressively got very well armed for their size -OTO Melara 76mm, 8 xHapoon, 4x ASW torpedoes (and 8 Sea Sparow VLS-after 2000). They were mission-flexible with very respectable range but they had lackluster speed at 28 knots.

 

[Tanelorn]

Turkish Kılıç class missle boat. Three of the Kilic-I (max speed 38kts) entered service in 98-2000, six Kilic-II (max speed 40 kts) entered service between 2005-2010. Displacement is at 550 tons, about 100-150 tons more than the Dogan/Yildiz.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Asheville class gunboat included:
17 boats comissioned between 1966 and 1970 for the US navy most stricken by the 70s/80s
1 transferred to South Korea in 1973, scrapped in 1993
2 transferred to Turkey in 1973, one sunk and the other deleted in 2000
2 transferred to Greece in 1989
2 transfered to Colombia in 1995

The Patrol Ship Multi Mission derivative design included/ includes:
8 Paek Ku, half of them built in South Korea since 1975
2 Lung Chiang for Taiwan since 1978
4 Mandau missle boats for Indonesia with the Combattante weapons package (MM38s) built in South Korea
6 Sattahip class patol boats built in Thailand since 1983

 

[Tanelorn]

The Assad-class corvette were originally built for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War, by Fincantieri in Italy. Six ships were ordered in 1981and were completed just before Operation Desert Storm, and were never delivered because of the UN arms embargo. Four of the six ships were sold to the Malaysian Navy as Laksamana-class corvettes in 1995. The two remaining ships were laid up in La Spezia from 1990, but in 2005 it was announced they would be delivered to the New Iraqi Navy. The deal was cancelled due to the condition of the ships upon inspection.

The Libyan Navy operated four highly effective Wadi 'M Ragh class craft that entered service between 1977 and 1979; one is believed to have been destroyed by US Navy aircraft. All the remaining ships were scrapped in 1993.

The Equadorians have six of these ships in service since 1982/84 (Esmeraldas class)

The Malaysians also took 4 MM38 armed Combattante II and 4 Swedish Spica-M into service