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1 posted on 05/02/2008 5:41:21 PM PDT by Rikstir

Another engineering masterpiece from my company.

2 posted on 05/02/2008 5:42:27 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgement has come.)

3 posted on 05/02/2008 5:44:37 PM PDT by Rikstir

4 posted on 05/02/2008 5:45:14 PM PDT by Rikstir

An awesome achievement - thanks for posting this.

6 posted on 05/02/2008 5:48:28 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))

Let’s see if she can track an F-22.

8 posted on 05/02/2008 5:51:03 PM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)

Nice boat, but I still think it looks like an ithyphallic Aegis.

9 posted on 05/02/2008 5:51:36 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding.)

General characteristics
Type:	Guided missile destroyer
Displacement:	7,205 tonnes Light Seagoing (8,092 tonnes Deep load) (both figures are 'start of life')
Length:	152.4 m (500 ft)
Beam:	21.2 m (69.5 ft)
Draught:	5 m (16.4 ft)
Propulsion:	2 shafts Integrated Electric Propulsion; 2 Rolls-Royce / Northrop Grumman / DCN WR-21 gas turbines (21.5 MW) 2 Converteam electric motors (20 MW)
Speed:	29+ knots^[1]
Range:	7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at economical speed
Complement:	190
Sensors and processing systems:	SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar S1850M 3-D air surveillance radar 2 x Raytheon X-band Radar (Type 1047) 1 x Raytheon S-band Radar (Type 1048)^[2] MFS-7000 sonar
Armament:	SYLVER missile launcher 48 x MBDA Aster missiles (Aster 15 and Aster 30) 2 x Phalanx 20 mm close-in weapons systems 1 x BAE Systems 114 mm (4.5 inch) Mk 8 mod 1 gun 2 x Oerlikon 30 mm KCB guns on DS-30B mounts NATO Seagnat countermeasures launchers SSTDS underwater decoy
Aircraft carried:	1 x Lynx HMA 8 helicopter or 1 x Merlin HM1 helicopter^[3]
Aviation facilities:	Hangar & flightdeck

10 posted on 05/02/2008 5:53:49 PM PDT by Red Steel

HMS Daring: A century apart. Different, yet the line is there...

11 posted on 05/02/2008 5:58:20 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Holy State or Holy King - Or Holy People's Will - Have no truck with the senseless thing.)

Tracking a Typhoon fighter is good; let us know when it can track a Typhoon submarine.

16 posted on 05/02/2008 6:18:43 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)

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