Slightly larger but apparently designed to meet the same requirement is the Breca Corvette C20, a joint venture of Bremer Vulkan of Germany and the French Chantiers de l'Atlantique. The C20 multi-purpose corvette has been designed to combine stealth, mobility, firepower and operational flexibility with low procurement and running costs. Its price is said to be around US$ 100 million. The vessel's hydrodynamic form has been tailored to suit sea conditions in the Pacific. The helicopter platform of the 2 000-tonne vessel has been stressed for rotorcraft of up to ten tonnes and the hangar can house helicopters of up to five tonnes. Propulsion can be either CODAD or CODOG, driving twin controllable-pitch propellers.
The armament can consist of a gun of up to 100 mm, ship-to-ship missiles, vertical launch anti-aircraft missiles, torpedoes and CIWS.The manufacturers presented their project armed with an OTO-Melara 76mm, four McDonnell-Douglas Harpoons and 16 vertically launched BAe Dynamics Seawolves. The vessel's performance is very close to that of the other manufacturers' vessels. All have been designed to meet the Malaysian Navy's requirements. On the sales side, price, offset conditions and political factors are likely to weigh more than the design.
Vosper Thornycroft Project Cerberus Stealth Corvette