Posted on 06/12/2018 8:04:04 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I don’t comment much, but I sure like your posts.
So do I.
Ping.
Love to see some frickin lasers!!!!
I suspect our navy would swap out a bunch of the weapon systems to keep political donors happy. And likely give up some capability doing so.
Those 25mm guns and the anti-torpedo systems are very interesting.
The US has not yet determined which other systems will be onboard, but Hunt said that the Navy might even consider putting high-energy lasers or a rail gun on the frigate.
What are the essential differences between the lighter 57mm MK110 guns and the heavier 76mm Italian guns? I generally like a heavier gun, but can the 57mm fire rockets to boost its range, or does the US Navy prefer to use a lighter gun in return for more ammo?
As I understand it the Italians do make very good ships.
But as we have seen several times, the best technology in the hands of under trained or poorly led sailors is useless. I did notice that this ship review highlighted to big open windows all across the bridge.
Fantastic ship
The 57mm has a higher firing rate and commonality with the LCS fleet.
Thanks!
At least it looks like a real boat and not something designed by an art school committee.
About midway between the Oliver Hazard Perry Class and the Spruance class in tonnage, length, and beam, but that draft is SHAAAALLLLOW at 17 ft. OHP was 22 and Spru-can was 29. That would giver her some definite littoral advantages for close in support that the older ships couldn’t.
Sweet looking ship in this photo.
Don’t know the 57 at all - after my time. If the 76 is similar at all to the OHP 76 Otto Melera (Spellling) then it kicks ass from my experience with it.
Definitely could be to provide added room for the additional VLS - which is a positive weapons tradeoff. Smaller mags for the 57 opening room for the additional tubes maybe?
Guns are no longer used in ship to ship combat, but in clearing away small surface combatants, firing warning shots and shore bombardment. The 57mm Mk 110 is actually a Bofors design and, as the Wikipedia article points out:
“While the 57 mm cannon may not seem as powerful as larger naval guns, such as the OTO Melara 76 mm, some of its performances are comparable; given its rate of fire and amount of explosive per shell, the Bofors gun actually achieves a higher amount of “explosive fired per second” than the 76 mm.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_57_mm_gun
Rate of fire is very much higher than the 76mm and it carries a LOT more ammo on the mount. Other thing is that the 57mm is agile and fast firing enough to be used in a defensive anti-air and anti-missile role, where the 76 really isn’t.
This Frigate is about 100 feet longer than a WW2 TinCan.
Of no use when the millennial crew is absorbed with their iPhag screens.
“What are the essential differences between the lighter 57mm MK110 guns and the heavier 76mm Italian guns? I generally like a heavier gun, but can the 57mm fire rockets to boost its range, or does the US Navy prefer to use a lighter gun in return for more ammo?”
That change seems to go hand-in-hand with doubling the number of vertical launch system tubes to 32. The VLS tubes provide the real punch for the ship, and can hold a variety of surface-to-air and surface-to-surface weapons.
Nice way to plus up our ship count without taxing our own naval ship-building capacity (more domestic subs and destroyers, please).
You have two shipyards capable of building destroyers and two capable of building submarines. They're at capacity now.
So foreigners are going to build our warships now! WTH? We are done people. The globalist Free Traitors™ won...
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