Posted on 02/25/2010 6:04:30 PM PST by SmithL
Someone should send em a Garmin before they get a RN Harpoon in their side....
Drummond-Class Corvettes come with 4 MM 38 Exocet SSM Ship-Killers.
“Corvettes come with 4 MM 38 Exocet SSM Ship-Killers”
If you see it, SINK IT!
Where are they hiding the 14.5 inch gun? I can’t believe that the gun on the front is a 14.5 inch. Maybe, but it sure looks too small.
That's 1 (one) 4.5 inch gun.
The last time the Argentines violated British waters they lost the submarine Santa Fe (formerly USS Catfish) in Georgia and the cruiser General Belgrano (formerly USS Phoenix) in the British proclaimed “exclusion zone”.
I guess some lessons just don’t stick - especially when you are dealing with Peronistas turned communist.
That’s one 4.5” of course.
If that was 14.5 cm it would be a 5.7” gun. May be?
Mega-bump.
14.5, 14.6, whatever it takes.
14.5, 14.6, whatever it takes.
Need to send some of us Texas duck hunters.... You know if it flies it dies.......
They’re mostly in Palm Beach doing that right now.
‘Looks more like a 3”.
I’ve been yachts a lot bigger than that tin can!
ARA “DRUMMOND”
Displacement: n/a tons (empty); 1,170 tons (full load)
Length: n/a ft (80 m)
Beam: n/a ft (10.3 m)
Draught: n/a ft (3.55 m)
Propulsion:
2 shafts / propellers
2 SEMT Pielstick 12 PC2.2 V 400 diesel engines, 12.000 shp (8.948 kW) tot.
Max shaft horsepower: n/a shp max
Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h)
Range: 4,500 nautical miles at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Armament
4 Aerospatiale MM 38 Exocet SSM
1 4in/55 (100 mm) Creusot-Loire CADAM turret DP automatic fast-firing gun
1 twin 40 mm 70-cal. OTO Melara (Breda Bofors) AA guns
2 20 mm L/ 90 Oerlikon automatic guns
2 12.7 mm machine guns
2 triple 324 mm ILAS-3 ASW torpedo tubes (Whitehead AS-244 torpedoes, quantity n/a)
Aircraft: None
Complement: 95
Radar:
Air/Surface Search: Signaal DA08 (equipped with IFF).
Surface Search & helicopter control: Signaal ZW06.
Fire Control: Signaal STIR
Navigation: Decca TM 1226
Sonar: Thomson Sintra Diodon
Electronic Warfare:
Decoys: (no details available)
Datalink: (no details available)
Weapons Control System: Thomson-CSF System Vega, CSEE Panda MK2 director (optical), NASA director (optronic, for the 40 mm gun).
Concept/Program: French designed and built general purpose avisos (classified as “corvettes” by the Argentine navy).
Builder: n/a shipyard, Lorient, France.
Designer: n/a, France.
Design: A69 type.
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