Posted on 11/07/2016 5:47:10 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
And the new tank the McNamara.
Early in WW2 we supplied our subs and other boats with defective torpedos. I believe many didn’t go off on target and the government wouldn’t do exhaustive tests because each unit was too expensive.
The government made it a crime for a ships crew to open and ‘fix the problem ‘. Men Died be of it. Crews tinkered and made them work anyway. Government is an ass.
Line the decks with Phalanx CIWS and use the missile tube/space for ammo storage - target Irtanian style small boat attacks. Or better yet forget the Phalanx and buy the Russian Kashtan CIWS.
Otherwise sell the ship for scrap.
The Kashtan is supposedly not too well regarded by the Russian navy and export customers ... its missiles are not reliable.
The Russians are using the old AK-630 CIWS with medium-range SAMs on several of their new-built ships, India and China have also opted against going for new Kashtan orders.
A naval Pantsir is said to be in the works.
The solution seems obvious....... practice a lot and thus increase the market for the manufacturer thus lowering the unit cost per round
I thought of the AK, but did not know the Kashan was not as hot as the videos made out. Still, let’s compromise and have a live fire shoot off between the Phalanx and the AK on Iranian small boat swarms - the Iranians would get to test their tactic and we’d get to see who made the best Gattling-stye naval gun.
IIRC, the U2 was a preexisting plane that they just attached longer wings to.
I saw the cockpit of a U2 once. The seats were made of wood!
Powder bags cost nothing because we have hundreds left over from WW2.
Unless of course we destroyed them all for some inane reason.
http://trishulgroup.blogspot.in/2008/10/indian-navys-ciws-saga.html
Other than the great visual effect, neither the Phalanx nor the AK-630 are ideal for swarm boats. You are better off with a stabilized weapon system like the Israeli Typhoon and French Narwhal. A good compromise CIWS system is the 35mm Millennium Gun.
OK then, let’s add your selections to the mix of the rearmed Zumwalt and see who the winner is.
The Zumwalt-class destroyers were conceived in the late 1990s
I blame crystal meth
The fuselage was based on the XF-104 prototype (only two built). The XF-104 first flight was in March, 1954, and the Air Force rejected the U-2 design in June, 1954 with a first flight in August, 1955.
The U-2 was 63 feet long, and the XF-104 was a little over 49 feet, so there was clearly quite a bit of modification.
The F-104 was developed from the XF-104 (fuselage shy of 55 feet). The F-104’s first flight was in 1956.
So is the U-2 based on the 104, or is the 104 based on the U-2?
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