Recent content by MikeKiloPapa

  Really ....care to elaborate on that ? ...For what its worth i doubt there even was a bid. Do they now....well why dont you tell me what those corners might be instead of that tired old nebulous "commercial spec" (false)argument. I know there are a couple of details of the Huitfeldt...

And maybe to a greater extent the budget available .... AD missiles are expensive and very few nations have inventories large enough to fill all available launchers anyway.

IF that was true , it begs the question whether these advanced air defense systems is actually worth the obscene amount of money invested in them. If all it takes to overwhelm these systems is a few $1-2M missiles, then it puts the viability and utility of surface warships seriously into...

Well technically they could have delivered a bid and just not announced it yet ....however i would not be surprised if they had decided not to bid at all. I think there is a good chance that they have really been out of the running for years.....It was always questionable whether OMT would be...

Alright i'll give it a shot....I'll admit when i first heard the claim from a USN officer on a cross-pol EX, i too was sceptical. But then i asked our own AAW experts (aboard HDMS Absalon) ...and they said the same thing. Later , on a visit to the Danish Navy's weapon center, they too confirmed...

No you are right....my bad...it must have been the voices in my head  ;D Its quite interesting that it has received a lot of criticism back in the UK for being too conventional and unambitious in its design. Aside from the ludicrously expensive automated loading system for the mk45 gun i must...

Well BAE themselves quote the T-26 as being  6900 metric tonnes. I think the 6000 tonnes was for the previous design proposal which was a smaller vessel ~25 ft shorter than the current version. Now the 8000 tonnes displacement number has not been officially confirmed by either BAE or the RN ...

Yes....and the T26 design is, at best, a whopping 4 years newer.....hardly a generational quantum leap that is. With that line of thinking you will never get a new surface combatant. Even if you started on a brand new warship design today, it would still be more than a decade old by the time it...

Ahh....but if you wait another 15-20 years to pick  a CSC design ,there will be even newer and cutting edgier warships to choose from  ;)....clever clever ;D Sorry, but that is simply not true ....The Italian and French FREMMs were launched in 2011/2010, so were the Iver Huitfeldts and TKMS is...

The question is if there is any choice?.....rumor has it that Raytheon has already issued a "last buy" notice on SM-2 missiles....ie they are ending production. Leaving only ESSM block 2,  SM-6 and SM-3 in their portfolio.  As to the veracity of the rumor...i have no idea*, but it would make...

Just to play the devils advocate here , the counter-argument might be that the US Navy has actual and recent naval combat experience. Whereas (continental) European navies.....not so much.

Ahh...i see ....all about the (‿ˠ‿) ..eh!  ;D

:goodpost: Though its not exactly the most flattering pictures.....the Absalon in particular looks like an overweight car ferry from that angle ;D

It might be a bit of national bias showing here so forgive me , but i dont think you can really classify the T26,s Mission Bay as a flex "deck"... its more like an enlarged boat hangar. With an embarked helicopter and the standard 2 rhibs carried, it only has space for what...two 20' ISO...

Bingo!.. :) Well....there are really two issues here.....one is structural, the other revolves around stability.  Structurally speaking the forward A mount and surrounding deck is designed for the weight of the MK45, while the B mount is built to handle the 76mm gun. So structurally there are...