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Naval: corvettes
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Corvettes can play jaws.
Until recently the corvette was perceived as little more than a pint-sized frigate, a platform smaller and bearing fewer weapons than its larger destroyer, frigate and cruiser cousins. Today the situation is different. The corvette is changing and so are its roles. Modern communication and sensor systems equip these exceedingly versatile ships along with, as this article shows, a formidable array of weaponry; including guns, missiles and torpedoes which can be brought to bear against other naval ships, aircraft, shore targets and pirate and drug smuggler craft.
The corvette's greatest asset is that, despite its small size and all of the benefits that this brings in terms of stealth, these ships are still big enough to accommodate a missile system for antiship or anti-airc...See the full content of this document
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