Thanks for the info, so the navy is following their army and air force in turning to lower cost suppliers from China and the former Soviet bloc, probably a good decision as they can get high quality equipment at a lower cost and they really don’t need the more esoteric capabilities of US equipment. The main role of their Navy is to assist with domestic security/counter insurgency warfare, provide a amphibious capability for their archipelago and coastguard duties so they really don’t need modern air warfare frigates and destroyers, although I’d imagine a small group of higher capability surface combatants for sea denial would be sensible. Which leads me to question why they keep so many warships on their active list which are in no way capable of performing a combat role against modern naval opposition, yet have operating costs and crewing requirements that make their retention for Coastguard and counter insurgency duties a waste of money and resources.