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Huge new warship to give Navy vast power projection
(Australia)
Daily Telegraph, Australia ^
| 11/22/2014
| Ian McPhedran
Posted on 11/21/2014 7:59:30 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: naturalman1975
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posted on
11/21/2014 10:20:32 PM PST
by
TomMore
To: Hugin
70m long by 17m wide well dock that is flooded to allow the four 24m-long landing craft and other boats to operate inside the ship.
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11/21/2014 10:29:15 PM PST
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: buwaya
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posted on
11/21/2014 10:40:52 PM PST
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: dennisw
Why is the flight deck tilted upward at the bow? It has no airplanes. Officially, because the Spanish design, they are based on had the skijump (the Spanish fly Harriers off theirs) and it was cheaper to keep it rather than redesign.
Unofficially - while there are no official plans for the LHDs to operate as small aircraft carriers, keeping the skijump gives us more options for the future than getting rid of it. And even if we never fly our own planes off it, an extra deck for British or US Marine F35Bs might be useful in some joint operation in the future.
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11/21/2014 11:40:24 PM PST
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: steve86
Guess I should click on the link to the article.
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posted on
11/22/2014 2:52:53 AM PST
by
Hugin
("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
11/22/2014 3:20:15 AM PST
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: doorgunner69
"A helo carrier with tanks?" That's almost as cool as
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posted on
11/22/2014 7:09:26 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
To: Chode
Always glad to see the Aussies beef up anything military! They have been great allies to us, unlike some other “allies”...
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11/22/2014 7:11:24 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
To: rlmorel
100%
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posted on
11/22/2014 7:19:45 AM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Hugin
There is a well dock
To: sukhoi-30mki
Have the Australians heard of anti-ship missiles? This large target full of combustibles has no serious anti-missile system.
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01/03/2015 1:24:15 AM PST
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: rmlew
Maybe they will fit something during an overhaul. There will be Phalanxes to spare when one of their old OHP class frigates put up their shoes.
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