[FT] - Islamic Ship Class Names

I would suggest Turkish style names, (eg. whatever they renamed that WW I
German BC). However we want arabic rather than Turkish. Saladin for the BB
perhaps? Djinn class fighters? Efrit

And for the future what about the Houri class tanker!

Now that I take a (serious) look at it, they may name their ships for
historical martyrs.
Jon, perhaps you should do just a little more back-fill of the history.
Enough to get the names of the martyrs that nuked Israel. Chances are that
some classes were named after those individuals or at least the code name for
the plan that carried it out.

What? No one's suggested 'Persia' for a class name yet??

Mk

> Bell, Brian K wrote:

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> Now that I take a (serious) look at it, they may name their ships for
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But that would be individual ships not classes.

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Is the first ship built the name of the class?

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> Is the first ship built the name of the class?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Even individual navies (real world) are not
consistent - eg: one class of the Royal Navy's  DDs are all named after
weapons, and generally called Broadsword class (after first ship in class)
rather than "weapon" class; same goes for the older Leander class ships.
However there are also the old DDs like HMS Norfolk, Devonshire etc. which are
always known as "County" class, and I think the same goes for the (WWII?)
"Battle" class DDs...... Thus RL precendents apply for either naming after a
first ship of class, or having an overall class name that doesn't actually
appear on any one ship.

Jon (GZG)
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