I remember something about the material used in the construction was causeing problems in the magnetic fields thus setting off magnetic mines. Also engine mounts never had dampners instaled and created a lot of vibration in the hull and water. Also the engines were under rated, thus top speed was a slow crawl. I know there were more but these are the ones that I remember off hand.

Nice pics Steve, they certainly are beasts, Oh what i’d give to see one up close and personal. This one looks like it’s a Ukrainian one, the Greek ones have the Greek flag painted on them.

Hmmm thanks for that mate, Can’t understand why Egypt would buy those old ships but hey I’m not the one doing the buying.

I’d like to see the Turkish Mine hunters, they sound interesting. Same as the Indian ones.

Hmmm maybe, anyway I got an I.D. on both those ships, they are:
F 16 Al Qadisiya
F 17 Al Yarmouk

The other two boats next to them are also Iraqi ships:
F 210 Mussa Ben Hussair
F 212 Tariq Ibn Zyiad
These two ships also never made it to Iraq due to non payment of the purchace price and differ to the other four ships of this class that were in Iraqi Naval in that they had a Helo capability. These two only had two Otomat SSM’s instaed of the six that the others had.

Now if only I could see which type the other two were way over behind that playboy toy! They look like the same type but differ slightly, perhaps these are the Lybian units just before they were sent off (the red flag is a good give away there).

Wow what a find, wonder if they’ll bring her up and make a memorial out of her like they did with the Type VIIC on the Themes.

Until such time the USN is threatened by a major power launching a saturation attack, then………….

Aka Tom Clancey’s Red Storm Rising (my favourite book).