These Ships should have never left the drawing board, but politicians were convinced to fund these little crappy ships and then ordered the NAVY to find a mission for them! They are completely useless in a Carrier Strike Group, they are very limited range and payload and can’t operate independently for more than 2 weeks.
The NAVY convinced itself these little crappy ships could replace the Perrys, even rushed their decommissioning after they lost their single-arm missile launcher to give additional funds to this failure.
I say “Strip them of all useful components and sink them all as targets or reefs.”
Not everything needs to be in a carrier group.
What the USN needs now (in part) is a lot of new upgraded Perry class ships - a not too fast, fairly long ranged, fairly well armed patrol and escort vessel with excellent communications and sensors. The old Perry’s wont do as they are too old by now.
The Perry’s were quite popular abroad.