Posted on 09/20/2017 8:16:18 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I’ve been saying this for years. Not just for drug trafficking, but anti-piracy operations as well. Why use a destroyer when a frigate or even a corvette could do the job? Misuse of resources imo.
I hope they don’t mean there aren’t defensive weapons.
Not the $#!++¥ Kitty !!!
$35k to get mothballed ship sea worthy??? Now that’s BS fake news ...
That is exactly what I was thinking.
I knew a guy who served aboard her, and that is exactly what he called her.
I did two WestPac’s with her task group
Mk 38 Mod 2 Naval Gun Systems installed on platforms over the removed MK 13 launchers
Two triple Mark 32 Anti-submarine warfare torpedo tubes with Mark 46 or Mark 50 anti-submarine warfare torpedoes
One OTO Melara 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
One 20 mm Phalanx CIWS rapid-fire cannon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry-class_frigate
If by chance the Navy did decide to upgrade:
They have a 45 foot beam; could an aegis system be built onto that narrow a platform?
Wait, ripping out the urinals alone would cost more than 35k
IIRC they have CIWS, EW, and Super-RBOC, for defense and a 3 inch gun mount for surface action. Their single-arm missile launcher and weapons system was only capable of firing SM-I... I don't *think* it ever got the SM-2 upgrade??? Could probably punt the launcher and put a RAM cell in it's place, then use the below-deck magazine space for something else. They also have a hanger aft. Put an Apache on there and you've got a pirate-killer.
$35 K won’t even pay for the paint and chipping hammers ...
I have no idea, but it wouldn’t be needed. Frigates would be used for anti-drug, anti-piracy, and humanitarian assistance operations, which would free up the more powerful warships for the jobs they were intended for.
If it is just to chase drugs in carribean then it makes sense.
If it is fir any other reason then spruance class makes more sense.
Built pretty solid too!
Durability
On July 14, 2016, USS Thach took over 12 hours to sink after being used in a live-fire, SINKEX during naval exercise RIMPAC 2016. During the exercise, the ship was directly or indirectly hit with the following ordnance: a Harpoon missile from a South Korean submarine, another Harpoon missile from the Australian frigate HMAS Ballarat, a Hellfire missile from an Australian SH-60S helicopter, another Harpoon missile and a Maverick missile from US maritime patrol aircraft, another Harpoon missile from the cruiser USS Princeton, additional Hellfire missiles from an American SH-60S Navy helicopter, a 2,000-pound Mark 84 bomb from a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet, a GBU-12 Paveway laser-guided 500-pound bomb from a US Air Force B-52 bomber, and a Mark 48 torpedo from an unnamed US Navy submarine.[10][11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry-class_frigate#Durability
Someone is just throwing a low-ball number up...without much thinking.
One might imagine $20k in paint required as a minimum. By the time that the Pentagon gets to the final bill....it’ll probably be over 25-million.
It would, if all the Spruances had not already gone through SINKEX
A highly weaponised Navy PT boat would do just as good.
Why paint them? Just gas them up and go.
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