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Vogue
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Posted - 2010.07.04 19:50:00 -
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Great documentary about The latest Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring. From its design, construction and use.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/building-britains-ultimate-warship/4od#3089519
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Posted - 2010.07.04 21:15:00 -
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Years ago I played Harpoon a naval warfare simulator. You had an interface like an air traffic control screen. They used it to form fictional scenarios in the Tom Clancy book Red Storm Rising. Where a wing of Russian Backfire bombers decimated a US carrier fleet. Of course that is just a simualator. But the falklands war AFAIK is the only example of modern naval warfare. And most notably where an Exocet missile sank HMS Sheffield.
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Posted - 2010.07.06 16:31:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 06/07/2010 16:32:02
The latest sabre rattling by Argintina over the falklands is by its corrupt leader who should better spend her time creating true law and order for its masses including property law for the poor. Than diverting attention from her own incompetance to the Brtish bogeyman and the Falklands.
In the past long gone Argintina used to be a wealthy country but this was ruined by leaders who were economic idiots.
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Posted - 2010.07.07 15:16:00 -
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wiki copy pasta:-
Design
The vessels will displace approximately 65,600 tonnes each,[3] over three times the displacement of the current Invincible class. They will be the largest warships ever built in the UK and the most capable aircraft carriers outside of the U.S. Navy.[19] Nothing of the scale has been proposed for the Royal Navy since the cancelled 1960s CVA-01 programme. Giving evidence to the House of Commons Defence Committee, the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Alan West explained that interoperability with the United States Navy was a factor in deciding of the size of the carriers as the firepower of the carrier's airwing:
[for a] deep strike package, we have done ...quite detailed calculations and we have come out with the figure of 36 joint strike fighters ...that is the thing that has made us arrive at that size of deck and that size of ship, to enable that to happen. I have talked with the CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) in America. He is very keen for us to get these because he sees us slotting in with his carrier groups. He really wants us to have these, but he wants us to have the same sort of clout as one of their carriers.
The design features two small island structures, one devoted to ship navigation, and the other to air operations. This allows optimal placement of bridges for both tasks: navigation calls for a bridge placed forward (as on the Charles De Gaulle), while air operations are made easier with a bridge placed abaft (as seen on the US Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier). Two deck lifts will be used, both on the starboard side.
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Posted - 2010.07.10 16:36:00 -
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The Falklands was a close run thing. The Admiral in charge of the fleet said that if it lasted another 2 weeks they would have lost. Systems were failing on navy ships. This is something overlooked with modern militaries - the maintenance quality of ships, tanks, fighters etc. I can't find the link but there was a league table with USA at the top with 100 and then other countries with a relative score. UK was around 76.
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Posted - 2010.07.10 21:27:00 -
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Edited by: Vogue on 10/07/2010 21:28:19
The Japanese built the biggest ever battleships. The Yamamoto and its sister ships were 72,800 tons!
WW2 gave a learning curve to the naval technology at the time which had not been tested in large scale warfare. And radar was seen as a bit of a gimmick for a while before it was taken seriously.
Likewise I think there would be a learning curve if a big naval battle happened in our current times. I think missile spam ftw! Rather than have missiles that skim above sea level that can be taken out by those point defense gatling machine gun things why don't missiles shoot upwards. At 10,000 feet then would be directly above a target ship then zoom down.
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