I guess this is s dumb question. The new CSC will have the 2 x twim 13 inch torpedo launchers for the Mk54. Why is it that surface ships can not carry the much bigger Mk48? I get the Mk54 matches the helicopter dropped units.
I have not understood this. If the opposing sub has a MK48 or the like and the ship has one too, would then not even things up a bit?
Just finished mine warfare CRR today. Our CO was on Vancouver off the coast of Libya when the HMS went hot on a mine. The ship stood off 6km from the mine and they brought in a UK team to destroy it. The mine exploded and the entire ship shook, from 6km away.
So yah, heavyweight torps do cool things like crack your ship in half, but also ensure that your shin and thigh bones are co-located. So survival stations might be a problem.
Just finished mine warfare CRR today. Our CO was on Vancouver off the coast of Libya when the HMS went hot on a mine. The ship stood off 6km from the mine and they brought in a UK team to destroy it. The mine exploded and the entire ship shook, from 6km away.
So yah, heavyweight torps do cool things like crack your ship in half, but also ensure that your shin and thigh bones are co-located. So survival stations might be a problem.
OMG that's an amazing pull of a reference. I have read it, but didn't realize I internalized that image until you just pointed it out. That book was so visceral at times I was actually sick to my stomach.
OMG that's an amazing pull of a reference. I have read it, but didn't realize I internalized that image until you just pointed it out. That book was so visceral at times I was actually sick to my stomach.
Ok but that is not out the ability to do with engineering. I guess there is point in not doing it as I see no navy one does it today. I was wondering the reasons as just a torpedo to torpedo fight it would even the odds.
Ok but that is not out the ability to do with engineering. I guess there is point in not doing it as I see no navy one does it today. I was wondering the reasons as just a torpedo to torpedo fight it would even the odds.
France has awarded contracts, each worth €10.9 million ($11.8 million), to Airbus Defence & Space and Dassault for early-stage development work on a new maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) based on their respective A320neo and Falcon 10X platforms.
I was at VDC last night, man they are busy, overflowing parking lot with 5 vessels in at once including the Metakala barge that went aground late last year and needs major hull work. Plus a C-Class ferry, big US tug, and two CCG vessels.
France has awarded contracts, each worth €10.9 million ($11.8 million), to Airbus Defence & Space and Dassault for early-stage development work on a new maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) based on their respective A320neo and Falcon 10X platforms.
I’d be surprised if they purchased the P-8. Peer pressure is a shitty reason for buying military equipment. My read is that the Americans want something that works and does the job.
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I’d be surprised if they purchased the P-8. Peer pressure is a shitty reason for buying military equipment. My read is that the Americans want something that works and does the job.
The Americans want something that works and does the job, absolutely. But the Americans also prefer money to flow to American companies - and it’s an American company that current has a product that works well & does the job well.
(Slight distraction but relevant…wasnt it a Canadian squadron that’s won some trophy the last few years in a row on some ASW exercise?)
Usually peer pressure is a shitty excuse to buy military kit. But in this case, I don’t know that it is…
Regardless of what wizardly we park into an Aurora, the airframes themselves are just old. We could pack them full of the most high tech kit on the planet, it doesn’t change the fact that the aircraft themselves are decades old.
We are getting the P8 as things currently stand, I believe. Minister Arcand even made some reference to it a few weeks back, with media outlets buzzing about 8-12 aircraft to be procured.
In response to the Royal Canadian Air Force Request for Information on long-term maritime patrol aircraft Boeing has offered its best P- 8A
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*I would love it if Canada had a solution so that funds could be spent in Canada. Most of us would, absolutely.
But Bombardier hasn’t taken the initiative to design, test, or market an ASW or CMMA aircraft to the point it could be marketed as a state of the art platform at a more reasonable cost…which is a shame since Bombardier just won ‘Top Business Jet’ manufacturer worldwide
The GlobalEye was a bizjet based aircraft that could have filled the role, but without much global interest currently in that niche, it hasn’t gone anywhere minus the few aircraft that were/are in service.
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