Written by D-Mitch
The following images depict the most important naval forces by each country of the European region. Similarly with my previous
Naval Forces posts, I
used almost the same criteria to categorize the warships. I avoided each country's system of pennant
numbers such as -D- for Aquitaine class that allocates
the class to destroyer type despite the non destroyer's capabilities. I tried to avoid also the unfair
categorization of warships in a higher position in the hierarchy such as
the Joao Coutinho
class or various fast attack craft to corvettes, such as Molniya or Nanuchka class, without having
missile
launch capability or their capabilities are inferior to a modern
corvette respectively. I did my best to avoid all
these unfair classifications and based on capabilities, size and
armament I divided all the classes. I have excluded types of
warships such as landing craft, offshore patrol vessels (including the Romanian Type 22 frigates), gunboats, various auxiliaries, etc. Obsolete ships or ships of which their status is unknown, they have been excluded. Bulgarian ships that have missile launchers are reported that they do not carry missiles but I cannot verify that, thus they are included. The warships of the United States 6th Fleet are included in both graphs. Please note that the silhouettes represent the type of the vessel and not the class.
