Posted on 11/20/2014 7:26:35 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
ABOARD HDMS NILS JUEL IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY It is striking how the now-familiar smooth, angled architecture of todays warships, intended to reduce visual, heat and other signatures, is also somehow inherently Danish-modern. And the first thing one notices after boarding this ship is how clean and spotless everything is almost relentlessly clean.
We clean the ship every day, said Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Jensen, the ships operations officer. Its easier to keep a clean ship clean than to clean a dirty ship.
The Nils Juel is the Danish Navys newest warship, handed over only in August. Its the third and last of the Iver Huitfeldt class of large frigates which, along with two similar Absalon-class combat support ships, will make up Denmarks primary naval force for the next three decades.
They could also be the last significant naval ships built in Denmark, as the Odense Shipyard that built them closed with the delivery of Nils Juel. But the team that designed the ship a combination of Maersk Shipping, Odense and the Danish Navy has established itself as Odense Maritime Technology (OMT), marketing its expertise in producing spacious, logical, efficient designs that can be bought for a fraction of the cost of similar warships built elsewhere.
The Danes claim Nils Juel and its sister ships were built for US $325 million apiece an impressive accomplishment for a ship displacing more than 6,600 tons, fitted with a sophisticated combat and communications suite, armed with Standard, Evolved Sea Sparrow and Harpoon missiles, 76mm and 35mm guns, torpedoes and a helicopter, able to cut the waters at 30 knots and travel more than 9,000 nautical miles without refueling.
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You may be right, OTOH, an awful lot of ships in the Pacific survived torpedo and Kamikaze hits and kept fighting without sinking.
I doubt these aluminum beer cans being made now can survive that much abuse.
The Falklands sort of drove that point home, IIRC>
Dunno if there is a significant difference in missile load for either launcher design.
Good question though. You'd think the VLS new system is a bit more survivable with no launcher to get trashed.
great point!
That was the US Navy standard as well, at least when I served half a hundred years ago.
No...their radar, particular with their helo, would find a WW II Destroyer long before it came into range, and the anti-shipping missiles this vessel carries would sink the WW II destroyer before it ever fired a shot.
They are vertical launch systems, which means all of the mssiles are loaded into indiviudal vetrtical launch cells and are ready to launch.
They would probably have to be in port to relaod those ceslls, although the MK-41 can be reloaded at sea, is it a intensive manual proccess.
I am not sure but I think you can fire a Standard at a ship.
Yes, someone pointed that out to me. Great idea even if it’d be hard to reload.
I found on your website that the Chinese are building light frigates like they are going out of style and their ships have real anti-ship capabilities.
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