Aboard Danish Frigate, Clean Lines and Room To Grow

C4ISR & Networks ^ | Nov. 20, 2014

[doorgunner69]

"seriously most ww2 stuff would be dead as soon as they had a missile lock."

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>

[doorgunner69]

Fairly sure the ones you saw were the ole turret mount launchers. The newer vertical launch stuff is fire and forget, that is it. No reloads below deck.

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.

[GeronL]

great point!

[JimRed]

“We clean the ship every day,” said Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Jensen, the ship’s operations officer. “It’s easier to keep a clean ship clean than to clean a dirty ship.”

That was the US Navy standard as well, at least when I served half a hundred years ago.

[Jeff Head]

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.

[Jeff Head]

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.

[AppyPappy]

I am not sure but I think you can fire a Standard at a ship.

[GeronL]

Yes, someone pointed that out to me. Great idea even if it’d be hard to reload.

[GeronL]

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.