It's turning into a nice, if underarmed, light frigate.
I think it's a prime example of mission creep in action.
Actually it's the quite the opposite. The first ship couldn't have carried out its intended mission, this one can.
Mission creep means that you take a design that is already capable of performing the intended mission and make it capable of doing more. On a design like this that could be adding Surface to Air missiles or ASW torpedoes.
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