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SeaKings getting really old, Cormorants having maintenance problems, Griffons not powerful enough, Chinooks needed now, Cyclones delayed for years. If used Chinooks can be bought reasonably quickly, why not buy two or three dozen used ones now to replace the SeaKing, Cormorant, and Cyclone, and...

There probably would be merit to the cost of working on various types of SC projectiles regardless of applying it to a full size weapon.  I don't recall off hand having heard of the RAMICs projectile before, but it makes obvious sense given the tedious task of otherwise putting demolition...

Targeting would be the great problem with intercepting a torpedo, since it would have to get in quite close to cripple the weapon if not destroy it at short range or else it would likely keep coming.  Off board acoustics, blue 459nm wavelength active sensing, and other possible sensor types all...

As per posts three/four up: It was tone that I was talking issue with.  Often the remarks I have made have numerous underlying assumptions being made concerning them, and regardless of that there would remain some basic weaknesses or deficiencies as applied in practice.  Despite the degree of...

My concern with Drunknsubmrnr has been with the process of taking individual comments and dismissing them out of hand, often with information which is simply wrong as if to have an unstated purpose behind it.  This is an informal forum which does not have an explicit objective in itself, so why...

Launched from 20,000 metres, an 80 knot wire-guided torpedo would take 8 minutes to reach its target, from 5000 metres at 45 knots for a simple torpedo about three and a half minutes.  In an age of long range sensors and weapons that is a very long time, more than enough for a VLS...

Torpedos will likely remain the most lethal anti-ship weapons for their size, and navies like the USN and Western fleets do not place enough emphasis on defences from them (or at least appear not to on the surface).  Torpedo attack has been rare in the postwar world, however, the most well known...

Most large ships are lost due to uncontrollable fires on board, and it is a common cause of loss or total constructive loss of smaller vessels as well. Contrary to the popular belief that HMS Sheffield was lost due to the use of aluminum in the superstructure, it was the loss of the primary...

I realize this thread is a little more informal than some of the material I have elaborated with, and it is easy for me to see that I am a little more out of place in that regard than virtually everyone else.  I could bore most to tears with  opinions that go back decades on this thread topic...

I hear the engineers what to try out the mine dispensing feature too.

My mistake concerning Lancaster 2006/2007. I can understand the argument concerning the cost of Arctic/coastal/task force boats, however, IMHO it follows the same train of thinking as dispensing completely with tanks in favour of armoured cars.  Don't need a huge fleet of them, just a basic...

'Timidly' would be a poor choice of wording.  What was meant by it is the very obvious fact that the frigate's hull was never designed for grinding through ice, and probably would get ripped open very easily.  The sonar would been readily prone to damage as well.  Moreover, free ice floes are...

The Arctic exercise last year (?) involved operations around Lancaster Sound, well inside the mouth of the NW Passage; where the submarine went I could not be certain. Although I agree with conducting these patrols, having a patrol frigate venture timidly to the edge of the ice to offload a...

Definitely would not be easy to support a small submarine in the NW Passage, but the same would apply to any submarine apart from nuclear (although nuclear would require much greater support farther south, and I can't see it happening).  As far as I can recall, one of the Victoria's was present...

The LAVIII was built as an air defence platform with the 5 barrel 25mm GAU-12 (and missiles), which has a recoil load of a little over 5000 pounds, a few hundred pounds less than a 120mm mortar.  I don't know if the turret rings are identical, but it probably would not be really difficult to...

Ya, easy to be cynical.  I've dropped in and out over the years, been more concerned of late with the growing list of privates, corporals, and sergeants.  Just doesn't sit easy with me, and I'm no bleeding heart either.

My understanding of the Alpha's is that they were designed as interceptors to protect the ballistic missile boats in the Barents and Kara Seas, so they were never too far from base.  Soviet practices also did not put too great a premium on lives, so the small crew of 31 would probably have been...

A typo, Sangamon Class CVE-26-29, converted oiler that had, if memory serves me right, an unrefueled range in excess of 12,000nm even though it was not exploited because its escorts did not have similar endurance. My background, had serious health problems in my early twenties and almost died...

If you could find the earlier post concerning the engineering issues related to AOR/frigate hull design, I would appreciate it. Their obviously would be major differences in the internal form of an auxilliary versus a combatant vessel, since the former would carry larger liquid and bulk loads...

'Frigate' (defined): 1. a fast naval vessel of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, generally having a lofty ship rig and heavily armed on one or two decks.  2. any of various types of modern naval vessels ranging in size from a destroyer escort to a cruiser, frequently armed with guided...