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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Little more than glorified armed fishing boats really...they've no place being in a decent battle.
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That's taking creative license with dragoon's observations. At the risk of repeating myself, the class to which USCGC
Gallatin belongs has a 76mm autocannon, a CIWS system and radar, and smaller autocannon. A ship like this is perfectly capable of going head-to-head with a Soviet corvette--especially if that corvette is out of missile reloads. Whether corvette-on-corvette counts as a decent battle depends a good deal on whether one is present or not.