Plymouth Gin...
Posted on 02/01/2006 5:21:30 PM PST by Cornpone
The most powerful frontline warship since the Second World War was launched by the Countess of Wessex yesterday, marking a resurgence of British naval ship building.
The first of Britain's new Type 45 destroyers took to the waters of the Clyde as the world's most advanced air defence ship.
Daring will be able to track and destroy a target the size of a cricket ball travelling at more than three times the speed of sound, a "quantum leap forward in the Navy's capabilities", according the Royal Navy.
The boat's defensive system, combining a hugely powerful radar and missile system, has left American visitors to the yard "shaken and shocked", according to BAE Systems, its builders.
The destroyer's launch was watched by a crowd of 11,000 and hundreds of Daring's Glaswegian shipbuilders.
In the next 10 years, as many as eight T45s could be built at a cost of £650 million each. Also to be commissioned are two large aircraft carriers (£3.5 billion), four Astute class hunter killer submarines (£3 billion) and a fleet of up to 14 auxiliary ships (£3.5 billion).
Daring will be fitted with its radar and missile systems before its sea trials in early 2007. Its Samson radar, from its current location in Portsmouth, can monitor all take offs and landings from every major European airport.
I'm certain the F22 radar cross section is smaller.
And then there's the.... no, wait, if I told you that I'd have to kill you.
Also, my understanding is that the type 45 destroyers are using only technology licensed from US developers.
The nick name for the USS Ronald Reagan is the "Ronnie ray gun" for a reason, folks. (it's better and faster than Teddy's "big stick.")
The Brits can certainly track and launch against a target the size of a "cricket ball" (roughly the size of a softball), but they'll be launching a conventional weapon, either a missile or something like an (American) Phalanx system. The US developed the tracking and guidance systems with them (and others) that they're touting here. Our purpose is to use them with directed energy systems.
They absolutely contributed heavily to this development (as did the Israelis and several other allies to be named later) but this article implies that it is some sort of British coup (and a march on those nasty Yanks). The real professionals in the British Navy are not into that sort of stuff. Their PR flacks and media drones, however...
"Over the centuries, the amount of rum changed from time to time. Prior to 1740, Pusser's Rum was issued to the men neat, that is without water. They received 1/2-pint twice daily!"
"In 1970, the Admiralty Board decreed that there was no place for the daily issue of rum in a modern navy, and so ended the daily issue of Pusser's Rum in the Royal Navy on July31st,1970. This date since then, is referred to "Black Tot Day".
Plymouth Gin...
The finest rum ever.
Your post reinforces the assurance we should feel if Iran were stupid enough to try and block the Strait of Hormuz. We could station the Navy there which, in conjunction with the Air Force, would defend against sea and land-based threats - silkworm anti-ship missles and other shore hazzards. Even if an Iranian missle were to somehow get within several miles of an American ship, well, I assume you know what a radar-guided Phalanx system can do to an incoming target in a fraction of a second :)
I'm certain it is much smaller. The F-117's Xsection has been compared to a bumblebee.
Quite well.
If that's not a phallic symbol...
There's probably on 20 sailors on it anyway.
Me, I'd keep two of the 16" turrets and put one of Gerald Bull's super guns on the third turret for shooting people I really, really, really didn't like. I'd probably keep two of the double 5" mounts on either side, updated, and make the rest of the 5" mounts into phalanx systems. All of that would leave plenty of room for Tomahawks and anything else appropriate.
ROFLMAO!
Resistance is Futile!
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The United Kingdom has quite a few (think North Sea); the Wikipedia lists these:
From the Wikipedia's list of oil fields broken down by country.
The Sunburn is Russian and is over 20 years old. Hardly "new."
The dark kind, I would imagine.
""Over the centuries, the amount of rum changed from time to time. Prior to 1740, Pusser's Rum was issued to the men neat, that is without water. They received 1/2-pint twice daily!" "
from what I ahve seen of the very high cask strengths of rum casks stored in cooler climates, this daily allowance could have been 75% alcohol (150 US proof).
How are these for a list of some past and present names
Dreadnought.....Warspite.....Valiant.....Revenge.....Resolution.....Superb.....Conqueror.....Thunderer.....Magnificent.....Majestic.....Victorious.....Formidable.....Implacable.....Triumph.....Immovable.....Terror.....Victory.
My favorites, HMS Spanker, HMS Audacious and HMS Irresistable, LOL.
Hail, Brittania!
Leni
The American military is protecting Israel and will continue to do so.
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