Cruisers Cruisers, corvettes are each of them

A cruiser is a large surface combat ship that mainly cruises in the ocean, has strong firepower and is versatile. Cruisers often form the core of the formation of ships at sea with battleships, and are responsible for the tasks of battleship cruisers and escorts. It is a type of ship that developed with the development of battleships and faded with the decline of battleships.

Naval guns are the main combat weapons of cruisers, and cruisers are divided into three types: heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and auxiliary cruisers according to the tasks undertaken by the cruisers in battle and their own performance.

After the Second World War, cruisers were withdrawn from the arsenal of the Navy almost like battleships. But with the advent of missiles, nuclear power, electronic equipment, cruisers were revived. The cruiser that has been modernly modified has changed the appearance of the former naval guns, and takes missiles as the main weapon, so the modern cruiser with missiles as the main weapon is often called a missile cruiser or a strategic missile cruiser.

Its power plant has also been modified to nuclear power, with greater endurance and speed. The main task of a modern cruiser is to escort aircraft carriers or other ships, form a maritime formation with it as the core, defend sea lines of communication, attack enemy surface ships, submarines and shore targets, conduct air defense and anti-missile operations, and provide fire support during landing operations.

Among the modern sea vessels, the most widely used and most numerous ships are destroyers, which are medium-sized surface ships equipped with a variety of combat capabilities, such as anti-air, anti-sea, and anti-submarine. It has a displacement of between 2000 and 8500 tons and a speed of about 30 to 38 knots. Destroyers can perform combat missions such as air defense, anti-submarine, anti-ship, ground attack, escort, reconnaissance, patrol, vigilance, mine-laying, fire support, and attacking shore targets, and have the title of "all-rounder at sea."

Destroyers are a type of ship that developed with the advent of torpedo boats. In the 60s of the 19th century, a torpedo boat with torpedoes as the first ** appeared, which was small and fast, and could pose a huge threat to the enemy's large ships. To deal with torpedo boats, anti-torpedo boats were built - torpedo gunboats, which were the predecessors of destroyers.

Subsequently, the torpedo gunboats, which were constantly updated and equipped to increase their speed, were renamed torpedo boat destroyers, or destroyers for short. It has not only artillery installations, but also torpedoes**, which can be used against enemy torpedo boats and other ships. By the time of the First World War, destroyers were able to sail with fleets.

Therefore, the destroyer at that time was also called the "fleet destroyer". Over time, the displacement of destroyers has increased from 400 tons to more than 8,000 tons now; The speed was increased to 38 knots. A variety of new types of naval equipment are also mostly equipped with destroyers, and some countries have even built anti-submarine destroyers.

Currently, about 30 countries around the world have 400 destroyers. The first nuclear-powered destroyer was the USS Bainbridge, built by the United States in 1962.

Modern cruisers mainly carry out operations in ocean-going operations and aircraft carrier formations, and cruisers have strong air-to-ship, submarine-to-ground attack capabilities, and are capital ships. At present, destroyers have gradually become larger, and they have become the main types of ships except cruisers, and they have the ability to attack air, sea, and road, and are the main ships of aircraft carrier battle groups. In recent years, frigates have also become larger, and they are the main types of ships of the navies of small and medium-sized countries, mainly responsible for coastal operations and patrols.

The difference between cruisers, destroyers and frigates is that they differ in tonnage and in combat missions.

1. The tonnage is different.

Cruisers have the largest tonnage and can carry the most missiles, followed by destroyers, which are slightly inferior to cruisers, and the worst are frigates, which are often used only to defend unimportant targets.

2. The combat missions are different.

The main task of the battleship is to rely on powerful firepower to attack all ships at sea, because the battleship has the largest displacement, it can carry a number of large-caliber heavy guns, the caliber is usually more than 200 millimeters, you can imagine how powerful it is, two guns can directly scrap a ship.

The cruiser, as we can tell from its name, belongs to the ships that fight in the ocean, escort the aircraft carriers in the ocean, and are equipped with a powerful fire system as well as a defense system.

The combat function of the destroyer is relatively comprehensive; it can not only undertake the air defense and antisubmarine escort tasks of the fleet, but also undertake the tasks of patrol and vigilance and naval blockade, and is the main equipment of the modern navies of the major countries in the world.

Origin of the ship class of the frigate

The frigate is an ancient type of ship, as early as the 16th century, people called a three-masted armed sailing ship a frigate. The initial frigate had a displacement of 240 tons - 400 tons.

After the collapse of the first industrial revolution, Western countries have obtained a large number of colonies in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, and in order to protect the security of their colonies, Western countries have built a number of small and medium-sized ships with small displacement, suitable for activities in the coastal waters of the colonies, and used for guarding, patrolling and protecting their own merchant ships, which is also one of the predecessors of frigates.

During the First World War, due to the German submarines ravaging the seas, the threat to the ships and merchant ships of the Allied countries was great, in order to protect the safety of the sea lines of communication, the Allied side began to build a large number of frigates for anti-submarine and escort.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Frigates.

Differences in the tonnage of ships.

In terms of which of the above three types of warships has the largest displacement and is not a cruiser, the Soviet Union once commissioned the world's largest tonnage missile cruiser "Kirov" in the 80s of the last century, with a full load displacement of about 28,000 tons, and it is this tonnage that also exceeds Italy's current aircraft carriers Cavour, Garibaldi, and Thailand's Chakri Nalubet.

Among the cruisers in service, the tonnage is usually only 10,000 tons and below, for example, the Russian Varyag cruiser has a displacement of only 11,280 tons, like some cruisers in the United States have not reached the level of 10,000 tons, and the US Philippine Sea missile cruiser has a full load displacement of only 9,516 tons, which is even inferior to China's active 055 large displacement displacement.

The tonnage of conventional destroyers is about 6,000 to 8,000 tons, and destroyers with strong combat effectiveness can reach more than 10,000 tons.

The smallest tonnage is the frigate, the tonnage of the frigate can be as small as less than 1000 tons of displacement, the most typical is the 21630-class frigate in service with the Russian Pis-Caspian Sea Fleet, such as the Astrakhan and Makhachkala frigates with a full load displacement of only about 600 tons, which is really small in front of the battleship.

Destroyer Profile:

Destroyer (English: destroyer) is a multi-purpose destroyer, one of the most important types of ships in the Navy from the 90s of the 19th century to the 21st century, and one of the medium-sized ships with strong assault force in the navy.

Modern destroyers are equipped with air defense, anti-submarine, sea and other types of weapons, which can not only serve as offensive assault missions in sea boat formations, but also undertake air defense and anti-submarine escort tasks in combat formations, and can also serve as support forces in landing and anti-landing operations, as well as patrol, vigilance, reconnaissance, maritime blockade and sea rescue tasks, as well as providing take-off and landing of unmanned carrier-based aircraft.

The main responsibilities of modern destroyers are to escort as the core, and at the same time have reconnaissance patrols, mines, attacks on shore targets, etc., a wide range of combat functions make the destroyer the most widely used ship in the modern sea ** boat, representative: Zumwalt-class destroyer, Type 055 destroyer.