A modern Flower-class corvette concept

How would you design a modern Flower-class corvette?

An optionally crewed 1,000 to 1,500 ton escort would combine redundant machinery, fixed guns, modular payloads, and close cooperation with a larger frigate.

A modern corvette is sketched as an optionally crewed vessel of roughly 1,000 to 1,500 tons. A helicopter landing area would allow maintenance personnel to board, with basic cooking, washing, toilet, and sleeping facilities for short stays. Redundant electrical generation and propulsion are priorities, with pod propulsion and a probable diesel-gas-electric arrangement proposed. Built-in weapons would include an automatic 76 mm gun and probably a 57 mm gun, alongside modular equipment for changing roles. Working beside a Type 26, these vessels could extend its sensors, strike options, and area of coverage. The frigate would retain its own anti-submarine capability if the uncrewed vessels became unavailable. That independence is central to the objection to building a command ship that depends on drones to perform its main task.