Recent content by Underway

No....

As nostalgic as that is I'm pretty sure they can do better. Lol

What you said isn't incompatible with what I said. Ideas get cut. For example, the River Class has now gone from all the requirements the RCN needs in a single ship to all the requirements the RCN needs to the ships class. Example, naval gunfire support. I suspect that later flights of the...

I think they are looking at China's build speed and reorienting on the idea of a high low mix. Australia and UK are down that direction. Ukraine showed that stockpiles matter, as does build replacement speed. So having your super high end carriers, aircraft and destroyers augmented by lower...

This is standard stuff. Big ideas, then you hit the design phase and things get cut off the tree of ideas pretty quick. My future career goal is to work in that office. They need an engineer to keep them honest.

Less capable frigate design but, considering they need hulls more than they need "quality" and overdesigned frigates that are just small destroyers in disguise. There was a design with Spy 1 that was proposed and it had 16 VLS cells. 16 cells, good radar, proven seakeeping meeting US DC...

I think this is the idea. It communicates this fact to everyone else through data link. People seem to be under the misunderstanding that ships do anti submarine warfare on their own. Let me make this clear. A ship doing anti submarine warfare on its own is probably DEAD. I don't know how...

Yes. There is a UAV that does ice reconnaissance, the S in SAR, and extends the ships surveillance. There is another UAV that does VERTREP (air logistics). I'm sure there will be a flight deck. I'm fairly confident there will be a small hangar for UAV's. I'm 100% sure there will be no...

Is there a tool that can do the helicopter job. If yes one is not required. UAV/s with dipping or dropping capability. What does that look like? Does that get us the 80% solution? And does it match the crewing model? The job of finding a submarine far away from the ship so it can't get...

Agree with this. Some amazing creative people out there, doing awesome stuff from "learn how to do X Y Z", educational stuff for nitche knowledge and creative shows. Yes there are lot of "guy got hit in the nuts" channels but that's not showing up on my algorithm!

This isn't new. The boomers are still the largest voting block and they happily were outraged like everyone else. And they generally are the one complaining about "soft kids these days" . This isn't generational, its just people being people. Lots of Gingoism in history getting countries...

So I was thinking about the CDC and whether or not it needs a helicopter option. A good ASW ship needs a helo to find a prosecute a target. And then I'm realizing that the RCN isn't looking at the problem like this anymore. The RCN is going what do we need. We need a ship that go to the ice...

Just because you detect a submarine doesn't mean its a threat.

To late to edit! I'm gonna own it.