Seriously i would like to know more about navy ship classification
What makes a ship a cruiser, a destroyer, a frigate, a corvette?
For now, I only realise the differences is the displacement of the ship
eg >9500t for cruiser, >6000t for destroyer, >3000t for frigate and >1000t for corvette.
But the Lekius of Malaysia was only 2200t. is it the armanent that made it a frigate?
Furthermore, is corvette = OPV?
How about normal patrol vessel?
If i take US as an example,
I see their cruiser is slowly phasing out and there is no replacement programme for it, is it possible we won't see anymore cruiser in 2decades time? So that means destroyer are slowly replacing cruiser.
And there is also no more future frigate programme to replace oliver hazrd perry frigate. is LCS now take the role of frigate?
For some, maybe they just think it is a ship, but there is so many things about it bothers me much.
hope yinchet and atreyu can answer this.
Sorry for my english.
Well it largely down to displacement size, weapons systems and role.
For example freedom class have a 3000 tonnage with light armed as they design it for lcs role.
Or our sgpv for example ~3000 tonnage with heavily weaponize for lcs role and there is nothing wrong for tldm to designate it as lcs as sgpv will have to take over lcs role as well.
As for battlecruiser class is no longer financially and tactical vaible to build.
Look at zumwalt class it cost them billion of dollar to build1.
The current destroyer class are very well armed sufficient to takeover cruiser role.