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There was news about this in Finnish media yesterday saying, that they will be sold for 6 million euros. The Chief of Defence Admiral Juhani Kaskeala will visit Croatia 5-7th next month due to this deal.

There's also some talk with some quotes from a Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija saying, that the purchase of the 2 Helsinki-class ships will increase Croatian Navy's firepower by 50% and gives Croatia for the first time during their independence a chance to monitor the seas also from below the surface as well as locate and fight submarines if necessary.

Yes they have those sonars to my knowledge. That towed array sonar is supposed to be quite powerful as far as I've understood.

But yes they only have the two depth charge rails, so the ASW capability could be better, but as Croatia currently doesn't possess any ASW capability whatsoever to my understanding I guess it's a very welcomed addition to their arsenal. I wonder how big of a task it would be to add ASW rocket launchers on the deck to add more ASW firepower like the Finnish Rauma, Hämeenmaa and Kiisla classes have. Shouldn't be that expensive at least to my understanding.

What comes to the ships shape they are very well taken care of and are in a very good condition. It was mentioned in a Finnish Navy related magazine Rannikon Puolustaja recently, that those two last Helsinki class ships are partly even in a better shape than the 10 years younger Rauma class and Finnish Navy keeps their ships in a very good condition generally.

In the same magazine btw. they're saying that the whole Finnish Navy's underwater surveillance capability will drop now after the Helsinki class is decommissioned, so those sonars should be quite good indeed. The ship's air surveillance capability is quite a bit weaker though, than Rauma and Hamina classes have for example, but that's understandable as their radars are much older and their earlier planned upgrades were canceled after they decided to decommission the class.