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 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: my personal design for a new SS UNITED STATES

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: my personal design for a new SS UNITED STATES Posted: November 13th, 2014, 2:44 am 

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Nice looking ship in the oceanliner tradition. However, I think the era of the traditional oceanliner is past. Atlantic crossings in a ship is not particularly interesting to tourists. And speed is not particularly important in such crossings since anyone in a hurry will take a plane. However, I do ...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 12th, 2014, 7:26 pm 

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One thing I would like to suggest is that you look at the newer 76mm mounts in place of the 57mm gun. There are some indications and some RUMINT that the Mk110 doesn't quite work as well as the marketing would indicate, most notably in that the first two Zummwalts (which have huge margins*) lost th...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 12th, 2014, 7:23 pm 

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Interesting Shipright. I'll certainly file that away. Dwight, something occurred to me while I was posting in another thread. Do you intend to draw either version of your ship in Shipbucket scale and to Shipbucket style? I ask because if not, then the thread is really in the wrong place and I'd req...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 5th, 2014, 1:01 am 

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- a volume closed off from the water outside it creates bouyancy, if there is water in it or not. (following Archimedes' law) - whatever the bow design, removing volume requires balancing. if you remove the volume but keep the (relative) weight, the bow will dive in deeper, and even without waves t...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 5th, 2014, 12:25 am 

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I don't think ANY of the current crop of medium caliber guns are particularly effective at sinking anything more than small crafts with their gun(s). Trying to sink a container carrier or cruise ship with them will be like trying to sink a fishing boat with a 5.56mm or a 7.62mm rifle. Another funny...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 4th, 2014, 8:42 pm 

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Added rednerings of the underwater profile for the Coast Guard variant. Basically, the bow sonar pod is dropped and the bow is reverted to the original knife shaped profile. The idea is that as the ship approaches hull speed, the bow -- being extremely slender, sharp and with minimal flare will cut...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 4th, 2014, 4:48 pm 

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yes the 57mm. Norway was originally going to us it on there Skjold class, but they found out that the gun had an slow respons time, and the weight of the stealth housing was so that it made the original turret it was build on slower. (Sweden took just the Standard 57mm turret and replaced it with t...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 4th, 2014, 4:30 pm 

Replies: 39
Views: 26361


Added rednerings of the underwater profile for the Coast Guard variant. Basically, the bow sonar pod is dropped and the bow is reverted to the original knife shaped profile. The idea is that as the ship approaches hull speed, the bow -- being extremely slender, sharp and with minimal flare will cut ...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 4th, 2014, 2:33 am 

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well, if you do not make the weather deck the strength deck you have to put expansion folds in all decks above. you also have to have to put more material then you would have put in the hull until the weather deck now into the hull below the waterline. in other words, making a deck running the full...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revision 3

dwightlooi
 Post subject: Re: FFG 500 -- Fletcher Class Guide Missile Frigate - Revisi Posted: November 3rd, 2014, 7:32 pm 

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just saying, there are some structural concerns before you can get that boat deck you are describing. you already need to reinforce the hull under and the helideck over the boat hatches you have right now already, making it three times bigger would actually make your helideck something like 20 time...
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