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To: rlmorel

FFG-60 Rodney M. Davis. My first ship after I commissioned. I thought they actually did quite a bit for their crew size - carried 2 lamps (not often enough to actually do that), had a passive tail, Mk48 torps, CIWS, 75MM gun, Single rail launcher for Surface to air missles or harpoons. Only real drawbacks were the SAMs were too short range for proper screening and the radar suite was limited. Gas turbine engines were solid.

Course when VLS and phased array radars came out the writing was on the wall.


12 posted on 07/27/2015 8:58:25 AM PDT by reed13k (w)
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To: reed13k

Good summary...did they not always deploy with LAMPS on board? I thought they would always have them, but...maybe they only deployed them depending on the nature of the deployment?


14 posted on 07/27/2015 4:24:17 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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