Gowind-Class Surface Ships: French Innovation Tackles the Export Market

By Eric Wertheim
November 2023 Proceedings Vol. 149/11/1,449

[@paulsteaven]

French Navy will also buy some Gowind corvettes as replacements for their old Floreal class frigates.

[@brunol-p_g8800]

No, the floreal class is to be replaced by the European corvette in a special high seas version.

[@halimtalafuka9946]

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[@RoroBar-k8e]

in french it's "Ladroïte" (like droïd, but with a T, do not prononce the "e").

[@LOLOVAL-os3pq]

c'est L'ADROIT sans " e " !!!

[@marka6651]

Steel is cheap and air is free. For the price of these ships you could have a proper frigate.

[@hanifgul5664]

Is this a corvette??

[@ms-lazuli7435]

Yes, but I think it's a patrol boat for NATO classification.

[@gonularman3961]

Hayır traktör 😅😅😅izlediğin videoyu anlamıyormusun?

[@mark_dauz]

Depend on customer want.. Egypt n UAE version is corvette and Malaysian version is frigate

[@joniantipolisi4039]

6 malaysian gowind are the most stealthy warship on earth till this day No navy radar can detect it LOL

[@ms-lazuli7435]

RADAR will detect it, not for what it is but it will be RADAR all the same.

[@kingdedede1066]

What lol

[@k.whiking4372]

@@ms-lazuli7435 LOL they're not commissioned yet!

[@paulsteaven]

​@@ms-lazuli7435you missed the joke.

[@ms-lazuli7435]

@@paulsteaven No joke, stealth does not erase the ship from RADAR but sends back waves that change the size of the ship and make it look like a small boat but certainly not a warship.

[@michaeldelaney7271]

Literal Combat Ships? Could the robot have meant to say Littoral Combat Ships? Why can't the USNI, of all entities, not find one human sailor to narrate these videos?

[@ariffadam8540]

Malaysia should have 76mm gun, not smaller. China Coastal Guard uses 76mm main gun and that is not even their Navy.

[@rebelwind6474]

Tbf, we do have 76mm gun on our ships such as 76mm Oto Melara on both Laksamana-class corvettes and Kedah-class offshore patrol vessels

[@ipfreely679]

Think they'll be using nsw for anti ship, the 57mm is more for air defence and against small craft

[@halimtalafuka9946]

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[@halimtalafuka9946]

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[@halimtalafuka9946]

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