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Old 10-02-11, 02:50 PM   #54
kraznyi_oktjabr
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@Mapuc:
My critic was mostly directed to Royal Swedish Navy's ships self defence capability which in my opinion is not sufficient to current conditions. This largely applies to Finnish Navy as well.

Warship which only exists to see first salvo incoming is rather useless in my opinion. What if attacker is aircraft? Without credible means to shoot aircraft and possibly incoming missile down, your navy's nice corvette is not much more than high price practice target. Same applies to many of our ships too and none of them have any serious capability to sustain even minor scale saturation attack without going down.

In Finnish Navy only vessels with even somewhat credible air defence capability are Hamina class missile boats (guns + Umkhonto) and Hämeenmaa class minelayers/escorts (guns + Umkhonto). If real shooting starts in Baltic Sea I don't believe Finnish Navy to be much more than a bad joke.
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