DEG/FF-1 to 7: Brooke, Ramsey, Schofield, Talbot, Richard L. Page, Julius A. Furer The Brooke-class were near sisters of the Garcia class, except for their second 5-inch/38 gun was replaced with a Mk.22 launcher for the Mk.74 Tartar SAM for air defence. The single arm missile launcher had afire control assisted by the AN/SPS-52 3D … Read more
Garcia, Bradley, Ed. Mc Donnell, Brumby, Davidson, Voge, Sample, Koelsch, Albert David, O’Callahan, and Glover (AGDE-1). With the new generation of Soviet submarines, started with the November class SSN, there was an urge to design faster escorts. The idea of the admiralty was therefore to keep the fundamentals of the previous semi-experimental Bronsteins in terms … Read more
USS Bronstein, Mc Cloy 1963-90 DE/FF-1037, 1038 The Bronstein class were a pair of experimental destroyer escort and later frigates (This applied to all DEs in 1975) to align with NATO, both from Avondale Shipyards, built 1961-1963. They were a stlightly beefier and better equipped versions of the previous Claud Jones class, that were themselves … Read more
