During the first Westpac I made on the Long Beach in 1974-75 the Kynda Admiral Fokin and the Sverdlov Admiral Senyavin were our "shadows" most of the time in the Indian Ocean. I remember the Senyavin was a pretty ship even with the command modifications and that the Fokin was as ugly as boiled sin. ...
Ramming can be dangerous. The Royal Navy and Iceland mixed it up in the "Cod War" a number of years ago over fishing rights where small Icelandic gunboats with 19th century 57mms got into ramming fights with RN frigates. The RN even had to fit wooden sheathing to the bows of the frigates to avoid da...
Someone posted a drawing of the Turkish Berk class FF here for a new member and search as I may I can't find it. It would be useful for my planned AU on the rebuilding of the Romanoi (aka Byzantine) Navy after the 12-21-81 UN embargo. TIA