Recent content by Swampbuggy

No expert, but I’d think you’d at least need a retractable bow thruster in conjunction with your main propulsion, if you didn’t have azipods.

Story of my life, brother. Lol!

Sorry, I posted the image separately. But I think you can see what I’m referring to in this image.

Not the cut out midships, further aft. I see where the RHIB on davits is located, but if you go almost to the stern, there’s a cut out on the bottom deck with what looks like a side scan sonar apparatus. I was just noting it as I’ve mostly seen that setup all the way at the stern as opposed to...

Interesting that cut out on the port side sweep deck. Looks to be for deploying UUV, towed sonar etc.

L Let me just correct myself here, I should have written 30mm. Apologies for the erroneous information.

The drawing looks like something 25-35 mm range. I’d hope for the 35 Marlin that the CSC is supposed to get. At least there’s a better options for ammo (the 25 doesn’t have an air burst shell, for example).

I have to say, the artwork does put me in mind of an evolved MCDV. I’m very interested to see her from the stern to see how that platform is arranged what the differentiation (if any) is between the flight deck and sea can storage.

Having only seen the one side in the concept drawing, I’m imagining that it may have a duplicate RHIB on the other.

I would say, based on everything I’ve read on this thread and others, that the replacement vessel will likely be somewhat longer and larger overall. With the MCDV already bumping up against the 1000 tonne mark, I’d imagine it would be considered a major ship, in that context. Though, with Heddle...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/05/vard-unveils-new-vigilance-opv-design/ From twitter, a presentation at CANSEC regarding a proposed MCDV replacement by VARD.

I read that way too fast and thought it said “survivable, fightable and adorable”. Maybe that’s one way to connect to the public??

Ok, I get it. To be clear, I meant fleet mix, rather than execution. I’m of the mind that logistics are more important than they get given credit for and Germany has a Navy where that doesn’t take a back seat. I guess I could have pointed at the USN or RN as other examples, but they’re also far...

Emulate the fleet plan, but not the execution then, maybe? 😉