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VT have sold 3 enlarged River class as OPVs to Oman for £400 mil including some support costs. It features Smart-S radar, VL Mica, helo, 76 mil gun, Exocet MM40 B3 and sounds a really decent light frigate. If the RN could acquire a cut-down version of these (in terms of embarked equipment) (say £80-100 a pop) then you have really effective presence vessel that could fulfill counter-narc ops etc and leave the expensive fleet escorts to do their real job, escorting the fleet. It seems a far better use of scant resources than using AAW destroyers or RFA's for the same purpose...
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