Hi guys! Here`s some notes on your comments.

Actually I`ve been aboard the south African Meko 200SANs and got mixed feelings from their powerplant arrangement… 1st of all the single GT, in Brazil we have a popular saying tha says “he who has just one unit of something, in reality has none”… (there is no back-up!) Second, the Waterjet, when activated creates a WALL of water behind the frigate, acfcording to some Brazilian Navy sources, when this happens the radar echo of the ship spikes severely undermining the stealth design principle behind it… On the positive side I do really apreciate the funnels being totaly removed and substituted by wet exaust neat the ships water line.

I`m certainly aware about the Mistral`s pods, but in my earlier question I was considering mostly frigates, corvettes, destroiers and cruisers, and not large amphibious and logistics types……

Regards!

Hammer