That was a comment to the massive problems with the Type 45 😉 For sure, these problems will be not be necessarily also occur in the Type 26, which was a different propulsion, at least different diesel and different gas turbines. But it could have the same design error.

ITV of the UK released this photo of RFS Jaroslav Mudryy shadowing USS Harry S Truman in the Mediterranean.

This is not Jaroslav Mudryy (Project 1154), but a ship of the Admiral Grigorovich class (Project 11356).

There are some errors in the article about the German F125 frigates. E.g. these frigates are NOT multi-purpose frigates (i.e. not “master of all trades”) and the first NH90-NTH Sea Lion to replace the Sea King are in production.

And such statements are strange: “It was to be a wonder ship”. Why? There is nothing extraordinary in the design.

This is for sure true: “Like the LCS ships and the Zumwalt, the Baden-Württemberg ships were conceived in the mid-aughts—the product of lessons allegedly learned from the “asymmetric warfare” of the Gulf and Iraq Wars.”

And like the LCS, they can be already outdated before they are commission, because this kind of mission is very specialised and will be perhaps never relevant.

At the end it describes typical problems of many new classes: system integration is not yet achieved and overweight. For sure not good…

The DF-21D were tested – but not under realistic conditions. But the Iranian test was also not realistic.

Most modern weapon systems were never used in warfare, especially anti-ship missiles.

It will be interesting how similar Shenzhen will be to Type 051C destroyers. And I had thought to convert a Type 051C kit back to the Type 051B, but know that could be much easier…

? Do you want to refer, to which navies former USN frigates of the Oliver Hazard Perry class were transferred? Or which navies could receive former USN frigates?

So far this is the list of transfers:
1 Bahrain
4 Egypt
1 Pakistan (plus some additional?)
2 Poland
8 Turkey (plus 1 for spare parts)

Perhaps Tailand and Taiwan will receive 2 ships each. So fare the biggest operator of former USN OHPs is Turkey followed by Egypt.

There were also 6 ships built for Australia, 6 for Spain and 8 for Taiwan – but these were never in service with the USN.

Did they remove the camouflage pattern or is this an old photo?