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Navy Sends Argie Warship Packing
The Sun (UK) ^ | 2/25/10 | DUNCAN LARCOMBE, DAVID WILLETTS, and STEVE HAWKES

Posted on 02/25/2010 6:04:30 PM PST by SmithL

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To: Army Air Corps

That’s fair sized ship to have no anti-ship missiles of its own. The Sea Skua has a pretty small warhead compared to the Harpoons RN frigates carry.


21 posted on 02/25/2010 9:52:28 PM PST by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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That is how the Type 42 (Batch 2 and 3) DDs are outfitted. Go figure.


22 posted on 02/25/2010 9:55:27 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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The thing is, the Type 42 DDs were designed more as air defense DDs.
23 posted on 02/25/2010 9:57:35 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: SmithL

I though the Brits neutered the Type 42’s by retiring the Sea Darts. Besides, without anti ship missiles, they have little value.


24 posted on 02/25/2010 11:15:14 PM PST by rmlew (Democracy tends to ignore..., threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed)
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They still carry the Sea Dart. Aslo, the Lynx helos aboard the Type 42 can carry the Sea Skua AShM.


25 posted on 02/26/2010 6:31:54 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: 11Bush

After the shell is fired, and as it travels through the atmosphere it absorbs the available water and expands from 4.5” to 14.5”...just like them Dollar General sponges.


26 posted on 04/03/2010 11:31:20 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (Atchafalaya Basin; when you're there , thats the best)
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