At first glance, yet another one small gun, missiles only boat. Most any WWII destroyer would make sushi out of them in minutes with their 5” batteries.
This is an air-defense frigate, so its weapons suite is focused on that mission.
If they could get close enough and get a good range, maybe. I suspect they’d be burning at the waterline long before that.
Only if they could survive long enough to get in range.
Even the popguns on this thing effectively outrange 5”/38’s.
I see two guns on the forward deck.
The 76mm/62 OTO Compact has a much higher rate of fire (120 rpm) versus the WWII era 127mm/38 Mk 12 and Mk 22 mounts (maybe 20 rpm). Throw in a much better fire control radar.
On the contrary, the Danish navy seems to focus the most on anti-surface warfare compared to other NATO navies. This ship has space reserved for 16 Harpoon missiles, twice the number seen on your average USN/Brit/French warship. And system of swappable weapons modules that the Danes use allows them to use different weapons for different missions.
http://www.mc.nato.int/org/smg/Documents/Naval%20Units/IVER-kl%20%20-%20engelsk.pdf
However, as the article says, the only thing holding them back is funds. Hence, the 76 mm gun hasn’t been replaced by a 5 inch.
seriously most ww2 stuff would be dead as soon as they had a missile lock.
No...their radar, particular with their helo, would find a WW II Destroyer long before it came into range, and the anti-shipping missiles this vessel carries would sink the WW II destroyer before it ever fired a shot.