Soft-kill? Good, why not equip it on a light frigate, if it is critical? Of course you need to take off other equipments in place (anyway it is small). But, if it is critical, worth doing it. No one is saying a light frigate can work as much as T26 (at least I do not). I am also not saying a LFF can do better than a SSK in pier-2-pier war. They are just different.Spinflight wrote:Don't assume the underarmed t26 would be hit, theres more to this than merely missiles and guns.
You are saying LFF is pimped up OPV (it is not) and cannot fight (they are fighting), zero. I do not agree. See T21, a typical light frigate we talk about as a bad example. Yes 2 were lost in Falkland war. It was too lightly armed, as the same as many of other frigates in 1982. They were just the most hard worked ships, placed at the highest threat, and has many battle honer, as well. A typical light frigate, one of the ANZACs, did their job on 2nd Gulf war. An easy job it was, but ANZAC did it. And it cannot be covered with a SSK. Of course this is not because LFF is better. Just because they differ.
So, first define a task, and then let's talk about which ship to get. I hope you understand I never said SSK is not good. I just said SSK is not good for many of the standing tasks. If RN is happy to abandon it, SSK will be the right answer.
By the way, what kind of SSK are you thinking about? 4000t FLD ocean going one, or German Type-212 like 1800t one?