Posted on 07/29/2014 8:17:16 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
So here's what worries me about that. The Russkis are tooling about in their 11,000-mile-range ancient Bear turboprop bombers, flown by equally ancient (and deaf) pilots), loaded with 500-600-mile range ASM missiles of one funky Russki sort or another.
Say 25 of'em launch 75 missiles at a CVN from 350 miles or more out ... can we take out ALL 75 missiles? Even if we know where the Bears are, can we survive a sneak attack?
Them big flat decks make me very nervous. I remember my days guarding the Fulda Gap ... the Russkis believe that quantity has a quality all its own. Can they just overwhelm our yachts?
Actually, it has sharks tied to the hull....with lasers.
20 SS-N-19 “Shipwreck”
Sounds like a fleet killer. Wish she was one of hours instead of Russian.
Question would be how well does the CnC Missle pick the high value targets.
Interesting concept
Yeah. (Shaking head). These guys start to believe in heavier-than-air flight and look where they end up. Some of them even think they're going to take off and land from a ship. And just what, I ask you, are they going to do about the sails, hmm?
The whole ironclad thing is a dead end. I mean, come on, guys, iron sinks, right?
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A torpedo tube for torpedoes, what will they think of next?
Which brings to mind a saying of an old submariner friend of mine.
“Ships of War: there’s submarines and everything else is a target”.
It’s very disappointing that Sea Power magazine can’t get hullforms right. But when you pull your copy directly from a company press release, you get what you get. Ghost is a trimaran that becomes a catamaran when going fast enough; it is not a SWATH. Look up the T-AGOS 19 class or T-AGOS 23 if you want to know what a real SWATH looks like.
They can aim them and yell “PewPew” on the com.
“...But when you pull your copy directly from a company press release,...”
Happens a lot...
Apparently that has become a mandatory course in “journalism” school.
Think it’s more just a case of the journalist being too lazy to do research...
That was my point. I could understand the NYT or WaPo not knowing one ship type from another, but Sea Power is supposedly dedicated to that area of knowledge.
Deadline to get the article out the door?
You know, the old “Just go with we got, and just get it done!” mentality.
That’s probably what happened.
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