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 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: Notional British LPD/LHD with big guns

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: The Alternative Postwar Royal Navy Posted: July 29th, 2011, 8:35 pm 

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I know you can't see me over here, but I have a big vein bulging out of my forehead.

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: Objective Global Warship

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: Objective Global Warship Posted: July 29th, 2011, 4:15 pm 

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Merely the battalion-based expeditionary unit. Major landings are not the purpose of OGW; a true invasion would be supported by other units entirely. We're almost volume-unlimited, but there is only so much capacity to move ground units ashore (currently something like 4 LCAC and a small pile of MV-...

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Australian DDG the helio option

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: Australian DDG the helio option Posted: July 29th, 2011, 3:14 pm 

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I just don't see any way that that hull could hold three helos with the original machinery plant as well as Mk 42, Mk 13 and ASROC/Ikara. Consider how much the large helo hangar drove the Spruance design, and realize that that hangar was about 1/3 the size of that needed here (1 SH-3/2 SH-2 vs 3 Wes...

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: Objective Global Warship

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: Objective Global Warship Posted: July 29th, 2011, 2:11 am 

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@Erik: May I use the MLRS rockets? The uppermost one is, as I recall, the real-world GMLRS. Extra-long range NDB rocket makes sense, if you want nuclear ASW, even in a smallish-ship context. Launching things out of a non-VLS doesn't make sense for anything but a stupidhuge ship with intrinsic reloa...

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: Objective Global Warship

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: Objective Global Warship Posted: July 25th, 2011, 4:33 pm 

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I want to emphasize that this drawing is not in my usual style of 'attempting to be reasonable and sensible'. Well, that's not quite right either. My usual standpoint is 'attempting to be reasonable and sensible (with the set of preconditions that currently persist in the United States Navy)'. The p...

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: Objective Global Warship

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: Objective Global Warship Posted: July 25th, 2011, 2:38 pm 

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Surely, we can do better. The natural ultimate conclusion would be a ship mounting radars in the PAVE PAWS class. However, SABMIS would not have been a terribly useful warship outside of this confined role, and PAVE PAWS is huge, so a truly useful multi-purpose warship with such radars would natura...

 Forum: Alternate Universe Designs  Topic: Objective Global Warship

erik_t
 Post subject: Objective Global Warship Posted: July 25th, 2011, 1:56 am 

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My good friend Rob (some of you may know him as Sea Skimmer) has been kicking around a few idea with me for a good long time. These tend to be a little bit out there, in the "Victory is Win! Budgets are Death!" sense. They tend to be tangentially related to real concepts, as truth is regularly stran...

 Forum: Personal Designs  Topic: My little idea! A Fast support and commands ships.

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: My little idea! A Fast support and commands ships. Posted: July 24th, 2011, 9:48 pm 

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RAM would make much more sense than Sea Sparrow, as there are no illuminators or air seach radars fitted. The field of view of the port navigation light (dark gray with a little spot of green) is very poor - it should be fitted right below or above the bridge wing.

 Forum: Non-Shipbucket Drawings  Topic: US Next Generation Frigate

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: Oliver Hazard Perry Class Upgrade Project Posted: July 24th, 2011, 4:20 am 

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They train and elevate separately, like a high-gain missile illuminator.

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: Australian DDG the helio option

erik_t
 Post subject: Re: Australian DDG the helio option Posted: July 24th, 2011, 3:53 am 

Replies: 17
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The name, so we're clear, is 'Tartar'. Not 'Tatar'.
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