Excuse me, but since when is a "destroyer" considered a "big ship". I thought they were the SMALLEST class of oceanic war vessels, with cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers being larger.
Noöne has completed a battleship since the French Jean Bart in 1949. No battleships are operational
Russia built 4 large cruisers in the 80/90s. Only the Petr Velikiy is operational
Everything else that is not an aircraft carrier comes from destroyer designs (whatever they happen to be called)
It looks like the Brits are borrowing a page from the USN book, which is to call a Cruiser a Destroyer. Congress will not fund Cruisers, since they are so costly, but will fund the "cheaper" (1 billion +) "Destroyers".
The USN Frigate is more in line with a DD. Our DDGs are equivalent to a WWII Light Cruiser in size (displacement differs because of armor plate, non-existent on the new DDGs).
I thought the frigate was the smallest. The line between the cruiser and the destroyer was erased long ago.
A 7,300 ton warship would have been considered a cruiser in WWII.
> Excuse me, but since when is a “destroyer” considered a “big ship”. I thought they were the SMALLEST class of oceanic war vessels, with cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers being larger.
This Destroyer looks to be quite a bit bigger than our NZ Frigates. That said, our Frigates “Te Mana” and “Te Kaha” cruise the Pacific Ocean no worries.