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Designed to bring on board the best features of OPV's then in service Hall Russels came up with a vessel to provide guardships in the Falklands, Carribean, Cyprus and Gibraltar. The class also replaced the Peacok class in Hong Kong when that class were assigned to the Northern ireland Patrol Squadron.

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"There was nothing wrong with Titanic when she left the Shipyard" Tim McGarry Belfast Comedian

Very nice Rifleman,needs a hull.

A very nice one. Is it a real Hall Russels design, or just your personnal interpertation of a design by them?
AFIK there was talk about an OPV which combined features from the Peacock class and Castle class OPV's

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its a combination of Peacock & Castle haven't seen any pictures or heard of that concept novice but as you can see it makes a very nice OPV. Credited Hall Russels as the to donors were both their designs and I'm sure someone though about it as there was talk of the Castles being originally designed for the oto malara.

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"There was nothing wrong with Titanic when she left the Shipyard" Tim McGarry Belfast Comedian

Nice little ship. It's nice to see a patrol boat design that's actually suited for the task.
Anyway, the scuppers doesn't appear to have been coloured in.

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Cheers Theil will sort the scuppers out.
There is some nice OPV's or potential OPV's in the library and might have a play with some of them

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"There was nothing wrong with Titanic when she left the Shipyard" Tim McGarry Belfast Comedian

A nice little design, might have proved adapatable and more effective than what we had. Of course the Treasury looks at that 76mm "do you really need that against Icelandic fishermen" and your back to the Castle. Looks pretty seaworthy too and a nice sized helipad too.

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any chance of this going on the Next upload?

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"There was nothing wrong with Titanic when she left the Shipyard" Tim McGarry Belfast Comedian

Actually, the RDN experience quite a few cases where 40mm shots weren't enough to make the fishingboats stop. And we're not talking about warning shots here.

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that's an oto melara 76 on the bow, right? use the new one from the new gun sheet please....

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