Originally Posted by
Sunk at Narvik
That coast guard "cutter" is surely an Arleigh Burke derivative?
As an aside, and as a very rough rule of thumb, I've always reckoned on £1000 per displacement ton for the cost of a basic warship hull, less all the weapons and sensors?
Nope - she's only 4000te and just reflects the current fad of putting signature reduction sloping on everything (shame about the highly reflective masts....).
As far as costs go, I'd put another 0 and possibly a factor of three on your rule of thumb. Course, if shipco ever gets going, that'll be a couple of 0's!