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One of the priorities is to vent to the outside for fires inside a ship, it goes a significant way to ensuring that the atmosphere is safe. That can mean damage to the route outside, but that's a necessary evil to keep the ship floating. FORD I heard had other issues, like sabatoge to the...

The fistfights in their parliament would indicate that no, they don't all agree. Lol

As the mission deck is a direct line to the flight deck anything that could be flight launched could be stored there (Surviellance assets etc..). Some of the examples below are in this category Like posted above ASW: UUV that drives around looking for contacts, surfaces when it finds one and...

Mine hunting is remote. Mine sweeping is you go into the miefield yourself. The joke is "Any ship can be a minesweeper.... once". AOPS if used in a mine hunting role would be multiple NM away from the mine positions and send in UXV, small boats to do the job. You can have the biggest...

Mine sweeper bad. Mine hunter, ok depending on external effects.

That guy just took the Navy Lookout article and jazzed it up, added some additional analysis. The same format as well almost exactly. I wonder what they used for sources. That being said it's more technical approach speaks to me. What is interesting is that the ship size they are quoting...

Couldn't even tell you if I wanted. Those tables change all the time and there are too many variables based on who you are shooting, how big they are, time to target, how many ships are in the enemy task group and all that stuff. Knowing CO's though, why save any ammo for the second shot...

Hence why Ballistic Anti Ship Missiles are so interesting. They get to the target area very quickly from long ranges, then do a normal anti-ship missile profile when they get down to thicker atmosphere.

The doctrine on ASM usage refers to specific salvo weights when planning engagements that are required to penetrate enemy AAW defences. You need X NSM/Harpoon/whatever per enemy ship you are attacking to ensure a hit. "A ships a fool to fight a fort." ~Nelson Peer vs Peer ASuW is a rarity...

Yikes. Thats a significant list.

The top looks about the same beam as the post and about three times as long as the post. So more narrow is my recommendation. But its very very close. I love your image of the successive generations of the mast. Mast design is the hardest part of a warship I think these days. I'm...

The best quote in the RCD today I read was that "this will likely be the best General Purpose Ship in NATO" given its current configuration. It won't be the best AAW ship, it won't be the best ASuW ship, it might be right up there with the UK T26 for the best ASW ship.

Its time to change things. That paint scheme in current drone warfare conditions is a danger. It was designed to hide from close range submarine observation in fog. We are now looking at long range IR/digital observation from air and surface. The colour needs to recognize that. I do...

I also noticed the aft section where the funnel for the DG's likely is (and where the RAM is located) look wider than the other variants. Might be wrong on that, just might be an optical illusion after they installed different equipment there.

I was terrible in the Black Sea and Med. Better in northern lattitudes. I was doing research for a service paper on paint/coatings and their various signautures, so did some prelim research into the paint. The current paint scheme was developed by research into North Atlantic Fog (which also...

Are you referring to the RCD no longer being that annoying light grey that I always complain about because its so bright to air targets? I was wondering if that was intentional or just a function of the ship model just using a stock paint colour. You got some inside info on the colour change...

Yep, we have Japan as a leader for Aegis and SPY 7 and UK as a leader for the hull, and Australia as a partner to work with during our current construction. This is going to de-risk the ship quite a bit, and that's a good thing. We only need to keep talking with them.

The Vics will not be given to anyone. They will be broken up. Submarines all have a maximum number of dives. The Vic's will have approached theirs. Helping the Philippines is not on our bingo card, they will get assistance from somewhere else closer to home more likely. Korea or even...

I know its frustrating but you got this bud! I'm a modeler a bit myself and it would annoy me more to have it wrong than do the work to try and get it right.

Better angle on my shark fin mast lol