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Lovac Class Frigate Displacement: 1,186t (Light) 1,228t (Standard) 1,619t (Normal) 1,933t (Full Load) Dimensions: Length: 305' (Overall) Beam: 37' Draught: 11' (Normal) Machinery: Oil-Fired Boilers with Steam Turbines driving two shafts for 14,410 shaft horsepower at 26 knots, or 3,363 shaft horsepower at 18 knots (cruise) with 6,000 nautical mile range Armament: 4xII 4"/40 M37 Dual-Purpose Guns 2xII 40mm/56 M39 Anti-Aircraft Guns 4xI 20mm/70 Anti-Aircraft Guns 4xI .50 Caliber Water-Cooled Machine Guns 1xIII 21" Torpedo Tubes in rotating deck mount 6xI Depth Charge Throwers 2xI Depth Charge Racks (Stern) Armor: Splinter protection over vitals 2" Hardened Steel Plate on superstructure/bridge for protection from small-arms fire and strafing. Complement: 13 Officers 152 Enlisted 15 Naval Infantry (Wartime)

In the latter half of the 1930s, it became increasingly obvious that another war with Cygua was not only inevitable, but looming. A paper published by Kapetan na Moru Edvard Pribanić in 1936 concluded that submarines would be a major part of any Cyguan Worker’s Navy strategy, both for commerce raiding and for sneak attacks on shore facilities. The Tathan Naval Command put out an immediate tender for a small, light frigate to provide protection for merchant convoys. The specifications issued were as follows: - Tonnage not exceeding 2,000 t at Full Load - Range of at least 5,500 Nautical Miles at a cruising speed of 17-20 knots - Heavy anti-submarine armament, including at least a single depth charge rack and four throwers - The latest “SONAR” technology must be incorporated

A team from Kovač and Sons Shipbuilding, led by Benjamin Petrović, submitted the design that would end up being chosen for construction, at that time known only as “Frigate Project of 1939”, with 1939 being the proposed lay-down date of the first vessels. Kovač and Sons themselves would receive an initial order for 25 such vessels, with a second order of 75 to follow after the completion of the first three. Government-controlled yards would also begin constructing somewhat simplified versions beginning in 1940, after the beginning of the Second Cyguan-Tathan War. All totalled, 127 vessels of the Lovac Class (as it would come to be known, based on the name of the first vessel of the class) would be constructed from 1939 to 1946, with 23 going on to serve with allied navies during and after the conflict. All would be withdrawn from service by 1952.