That's how the USN rolls!

Only America would operate 4000 ton ships that are so lightly armed.

I'm talking about the Oliver Hazard Perry class. At one point it had missile launchers for SM-1s and Harpoons, but those got removed due to the retirement of the SM-1. As a consequence, it also lost the ability to fire Harpoons.

So it basically has no anti-air and anti-shipping capability anymore. What does it have left? Not much, they weren't very heavily armed in the first place. They have point defense from a Phalanx CIWS and its 76mm main gun. They have anti-submarine torpedoes. Seems like a waste of such a large platform.

Israel's Sa'ar 5 manages to be equivalently armed at a quarter the tonnage (they don't have a big gun, but they actually have AA).

The one thing it does have going for it is that BIW builds durable ships. Too bad that it can barely defend itself.

In a similar vein, there are reports surfacing that, contrary to previous beliefs, the DDG-1000s can't operate the SM-2. Ergo, no serious AA capability either. One has to wonder how they managed to make Raytheon's Standard Missile incompatible with a ship running Raytheon's PVLS, Raytheon's radar and Raytheon's electronics suite. Especially when the SM-2 is fully interoperatable with the current VLS cells on Burkes and Ticos. Especially when the ship is a 15000 ton beast.