Originally posted by DeV
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This is the idea of providing a spoke in a large wheel, rather that providing a tiny wheel with poor quality tyres that doesn't fit on anyone elses axle.
A ship like this could happily spend six months supporting the OP in the Med or OP Atlanta, do three months refit, and then spend three months pooling around the carribean catching drug runners and providing much needed humanitarian aid - and huge quantities to politically attractive TV coverage - every year for the rest of it's life.
This compares somewhat favourably to a 3,000 ton Happy Shopper Corvette with no helicopter, a limited self defense capability, little offensive capability, no great shakes on the ISR front, no ASW, which needs to be refuelled and protected by other assets.
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