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Excellent article catch. I'm not surprised by the multiple JSS thinking. We really wanted 4 when the project got off the ground. Not looking at 4-5 is important. Also explains my CM meeting earlier this year regarding "people needed for projects"... makes a lot more sense all of a sudden.

Passive just listen. So like a sonobuoy it will just radio its recieved sensor data to the ship. There are also active sonobuoys as well. They just act as sensors, so processing is done on the ship. I suppose if the platform is large enough some processing could be done on the UXV, but then...

Passive sonars have a much longer range and don't give away your positions. Its a bit of a cat and mouse game with passive vs active sonar usage.

The Berlin Class are used as submarine tenders for the German Navy. They can pump out oily bilges and blackwater into their own systems, treat it properly and release the treated water that meets enviro standards back into the ocean, allowing more space for the stuff that can't be treated to be...

They aren't FFH, they are DDGH, and they are named correctly according to NATO naming conventions.

Unscrewed are not there yet. Likely we will, like other navies, be combining crewed with uncrewed in appropriate roles. The mission sets for the CDC can't be done right ow with uncrewed systems. Like CDC will be launching some UXV to help them in their work.

Given the RCD program is running for about 20 years and the CDC program is not even funded who the hell knows what future gov't will want to do with these.

Mogami does all that and more with the same amount of crew. There are limitations if course. Ship will have to be designed with the idea in mind that help is nearby (continental) and not on the other side of an ocean. Removing the redundancy from the ship for combat systems ( one Rader, one...

Nope.

Some rumours: CDC no longer has a length restriction of ~105m. I already assumed this was arbitrary, but now that DND has bought waterfront land beside Shearwater this "space" problem starts to go away. Particularly if they also have plans/thoughts to create a naval station in Quebec. CDC...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Takes a day or two to distribute that information and reign in the IRGC, depending on who's in charge. And given the organizational dispersion of Iranian politics/religious class/military class, some of those IRGC folks might not recognize the people who...

On a beach defended by remote controlled turrets in bunkers, covered by fibre optic drones that las targets for automatic 120mm mortars with auto loaders dug in 6km back from the beach.... Lol

We'll see if its an actual ceasefire. IRGC run in their own cells with their own CoC without in many cases centralized control. Getting them all to lay off the drone strikes would require coordination and communication. I suspect tomorrow there will be scattered drone shots still, even IF Iran...

It's amazing how high their productivity is because they can't fire anyone from their jobs. So companies replace people with technology as much as possible. Or they just hire very very carefully.

For sure, there is certainly upper deck space above the mission deck for that.