P840 - HOLLAND

摘要

In 2005, a study by the Dutch Navy concluded that changes in the field required a different type of vessel. The study proposed selling four frigates of the Karel Doorman class, measuring 122 metres for a crew of 154, and replacing them with four new Oceangoing Patrol Vessels, with a permanent crew of 50 and accommodation space for 40 non-listed crew. Since the end of the cold war, the focus has increasingly shifted from traditional combatant warfare to facing more unconventional threats: pirates, smugglers and terrorists rather than large foreign navies. It is due to the demands of this so-called asymmetric warfare, but also with humanitarian missions in mind, that the Holland class of ships was conceived, resulting in longer endurance, all-weather operability, self-sustainability, versatility, smaller crews and more economic operation at patrol speeds.