Re: DDEs vs. DDs

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> Ryan M Gill wrote:

> Which means that the main DD designs of the other navies - the NSL
> Waldburg, the FSE San Miguel and the ESU Warsaw/Volga - do so as well,
> since they all have virtually identical armaments...

Its hard to make any real distiction given the simplified weapons. 

Were there 6 types of missiles, then there'd be more variance. 

> You mean "The FSE escorts are...". 

Doh, Confusing the Froggies with the Russkies...

> The ESU escorts are almost exclusively beam-armed (except for some
> Lenov refits), while most of the FSE ones have expendable munitions -
> but the FSE DD shown (the San Miguel class) has a pure beam armament
> and no missiles... It has an SMR variant described in the text,
though.

This is the crux of it. The "escorts" only fill this one role is really 
pretty moot as the different navies have different design concepts. 

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