올리버 해저드 페리 필리핀 해군의 프리깃

Описание: A what seemed to be badly translated to English article and a Youtube video of a China Central Television (CCTV, the propaganda mouthpiece of the Chinese government) news item recently featured that the Philippine Navy (PhN) was going to buy 7 used Oliver Hazard Perry (OHP) Class Frigates from the United States.Despite the fact that the sources are dubious since they are from China, there are other indications that this could be possible, due to a number of other reasons:

First is that the US Navy (USN) are slowly retiring these ships in favor of their new, more advanced and much more terrifyingly-capable Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), and have been providing these to various allies like Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey. The US has even offered 2 of these to Thailand

Second is that due to China’s belligerent attittude in the South China Sea, it is possible that the US wants to help bolster our defense capability even more. They have already provided the PhN with 2 Hamilton-class Cutters so far, it is possible that the next step will involve providing these ships.

Third is that the USN has a LOT of these ships that they could allocate for distribution to US allies. There are 9 decommissioned ships already set for allocation, and all 18 ships currently in active service are all set to be retired by 2019, 6 years from now, so that’s a total of 27 ships in total for allocation. I don’t think that all of the US allies will be able to absorb or accept all of them, hence it is possible some could be offered to us.