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ORIGINAL: mikmyk

Thanks Triode.
They are great looking ships.
Mike

ORIGINAL: mikmyk

These ships or so blocky and bumpy I don't think anything would really help.

Ship stealth is always kind of a funny subject IMHO. Beyond small combatants on rocky coasts I've never really bought into it.

Mike

ORIGINAL: FoxZz

About this topic, a very interesting article on the La Fayette frigates, first stealth frigates in the world, they're explaining the reason behind the stealth and the "results". Sadly, it's in French, but google trad should work.
If you cannot read it, open it in private navigation.

http://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/l ... te-furtive

Duterte Seeks Arms From China, Ends Joint Patrols With U.S.

Duterte Seeks Arms From China, Ends Joint Patrols With U.S.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he’s considering buying weapons from Russia and China while also ending joint patrols with U.S. forces in the South China Sea.
In a televised speech Tuesday before military officers in Manila, Duterte said that two countries -- which he didn’t identify -- had agreed to give the Philippines a 25-year soft loan to buy military equipment. Later, he said that Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and “technical people” in the armed forces would visit China and Russia “and see what’s best.”

While Duterte said he didn’t want to cut the “umbilical cord” with his allies, the remarks were the latest to signal a shift away from the Philippine-U.S. defense treaty in place since 1951. Since engaging in a public spat with U.S. President Barack Obama last week, Duterte has denounced American military killings during the early days of colonial rule and called for U.S. forces to leave the southern island of Mindanao.

“I don’t need jets, F-16 -- that’s of no use to us,” Duterte said. “We don’t intend to fight any country.”

Duterte also said the Philippines won’t participate in expeditions patrolling South China Sea to avoid being involved in a “hostile act.” “I just want to patrol our territorial waters,” he said.

ORIGINAL: Hongjian

Looks like a major diplomatic reversal of fortunes for the US, and benefitting China in the SCS.

MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte's statement against the presence of US forces in Mindanao does not signal a Philippine shift in policy on the United States, said Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr on Tuesday, September 13.

Yasay gave the assurance a day after Duterte said at a public address that he does not want the presence of US special forces in Mindanao, again citing the US pacification campaign in the island group in the early 1900s, that led to the death of hundreds of Moro rebels.

"There is no shift in so far as our policy is concerned with respect to our close friendship with the Americans," Yasay said in an interview on ANC.