Sa'ar 5 Class Corvettes. The most powerful ships per pound in the world....

I was reading Bayou Renaissance Man's Blog and Peter made a statement that stopped me in my tracks....

I like the Israeli approach, which crams lots of hitting power into even small hulls (see, for example, its Sa'ar 5 class corvettes, which as far as I know are the most heavily armed ships of their size [just over 1,000 tons] anywhere in the world, and on an armament-per-ton or tons-per-weapon basis might be the most heavily armed warships since the age of the dreadnought).

The Sa'ar 5 is the most heavily armed vessel pound for pound in the world?  Being the skeptic that I am I immediately started looking for ships that are as small but have even more firepower.

I couldn't find one.

More disturbing I found a whole host of larger ships that had less firepower...I'm talking about Frigates and Destroyers from high tech nations.

The LCS is an abomination.  Want our allies and potential enemies to sit up and take notice?  Dump the LCS and build Sa'ar 5 with US weapons.

Sidenote:  Check out this weapons load for a 1000 ton ship....via Wikipedia...

Armament:

8 RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles 64 Barak 1 surface-to-air missiles As of August 2013 being replaced by Barak 8 surface-to-air missiles[1] Phalanx CIWS 6 Mark 32 torpedo tubes(Mark 46 torpedoes)