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• LCS Alternative Weekly

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  Visby to the Gulf? From Jane’s via Springboarder, comes news on a much loved stealth warship of the Swedish Navy: From Janes’ Navy International (no link, but do subscribe) comes a small snippet that suggest the Visby Class Corvettes Harnosand and Helsingborg are preparing for an out-of-the-region deployment, getting improvements that include: “…additional [...]

  Posted: December 23, 2009, 6:00am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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  Exporting Russia’s Littoral Ships Here is a thought. After recent news that Russia’s Navy is on the downslide, headed for what some have called a fleet with only corvettes and French designed amphibious ships, perhaps there is room for concern. What if Moscow does start constructing numerous new corvettes, which unlike [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:15am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Flower Class Corvette

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  The first modern corvette, the Flower’s were built for navies in crisis. With so many threats today and so few Western ships which are adequate for anti-piracy to anti-smuggling missions, a modern corvette might just be the antidote to our stretched thin forces. Thanks to Swurching The Latest Happenings which wrote [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:05am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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• Russia’s All Corvette Navy

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  Eric L Palmer points to this link concerning the Russian Navy’s dramatically declining fortunes: “If the current situation [with shipbuilding] remains unchanged, we will face a grand-scale removal of ocean-going warships from service with the Russian Navy by 2015 and, as a result, a sharp decrease in its combat capabilities,” Adm. [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:17pm EST
  by Mike Burleson

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  Considering our sailors A lot of the arguments I get against the deployment of corvettes as a force multiplier for the US Navy concerns the small warships’ perceived lack of endurance or seakeeping abilities. This is amazing to me since such small craft of 1000+ tons were considered high end units in [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:06am EST
  by Mike Burleson

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