Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170516200020/@comment-26574811-20170519060253

Hyper Shinchan wrote: TTK TiongHwi wrote: @Hyper that makes the Frigate a larger ship than the current Escorts implemented in the game, huh Are you referring to the DL? Who cares about those, they didn't even use the PF code that we're trying to get adopted here, the Americans called them "frigates" for lack of better words, they weren't much of a DL (Destroyer Leader) in practice as they were not supposed to lead anything, they were just larger than regular destroyers and smaller than cruisers, it was this decision that led to the "cruiser gap" of the 1970s and the successive re-aligement of US classification.

If you're referring to the "Patrol Escorts", the only ships that received PF codes during the Cold War were some corvettes/frigates built for MDAP export in Texas in the 1960s-1970s: PF-103 class, four ships in two batches for Iran, and PF-107/PF-108 of the same design built for Thailand; they were actually closer to the kaibokan in terms of displacement than the WWII-era Rivers/Tacoma, 900 tons standard displacement and 1135 tons full displacement. Not unlike the Tacoma they were based on a foreign design, the Albatros class corvette built in Italy during the 1950s under MDAP for the navies of Italy, Netherlands and Denmark.

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On a second thought, I guess you're referring to the WWII-era PF and DE, uh? Yeah, kaibokan are generally smaller than both contemporary frigates and destroyer escorts, but they're larger than corvettes (I would look at lenght rather than displacement, corvettes and frigates were built to civilian-derived standards in yards with no naval warships experience, by design they have both heavier scantlings and heavier machinery). If we hypothetically classified them as PG, the code used for the Flower class corvettes in the USN, they'd end up being part of the same group of ships that included PG-50 Erie (2,000 tons standard, 2,800 tons full load, four 152mm guns). Uh, I think he wasn't thinking that much, he's just surprised that a frigate can be bigger than a DD, let alone a PF.