Castle class OPV's

[DarrenP]

maybe a future for thease retired ships.

but a class that was ripe for devlopment

Original drawing from shipbucket site artist listed as unknown

[Captain Canada]

Not familiar with them...I'll have to give it a google. Your pic looks pretty mean, tho !

[Weaver]

In D.K.Brown's Rebuilding the Royal Navy there's a photo of a promotional model they made for an export version of the Castles, with a complete kit of interchangeable weapons. Included are:

Exocet
OTOMAT
Harpoon
RBS-15 (I think)
Penguin
Gabriel
Some other SSM I can't place
OTO-Melara 76mm Super Rapid guns
Breda-Bofors Fast Forty guns
Bofors SAK-57 Mk.1 gun
Autonomous Patrol Gun (I think: navalised Centurion's 20-pdr)
BMARC twin 30mm guns
Sea Sparrow/Aspide octuple launcher
Twin Mistral
Triple ASW TTs
Various FC radars
Towed array sonar drum

Bofors twin 375mm ASW rocket launcher

[Just call me Ray]

DarrenP, are you rifleman? I need to repeat Gollevanian's words and remind you to add proper credits and citation in according to Shipbucket standards.