Recent content by NavyShooter

A well deserved horn tooting....and no surprise of issues with an ISI product.

Muffintop....

Shapeways is shut(ing) down. Non payment to many of their designers. Bad news there.

I have reached out to the designer to see what they are willing to 'adjust' for me. We'll see what happens.

They have a 25mm chain gun. That's it. They are a constabulary role vessel, not a warship.

A question - how close does this look to the 'current' RCN plan: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/hobby-diy/other/type-26-city-class-frigate-3d-print-model I'm tempted...

Rumours of there being an F-16 strike or something today - perhaps they are now in service?

On a ship, there's also the FOD factor - having the CIWS located on Hangar Top, if it was dumping the brass out the side instead of cycling it back into the drum, you'd have brass all over the upper decks back aft. Not a good thing. The brass cycles back into the drum in part for...

Reloading a 20mm CIWS is a long evolution - the empty casings in the drum have to be cycled out as new ammo is being cycled in. It's an evolution for a team of 6-8 with multiple cans of ammo staged on the hangar top to both deliver the new ammo to the drum, and receive the empty casings. If...

I suspect RAM is an update based on the UAS threat - and with CIWS having 1580 rds in the drum, which equals less than 21 bursts of fire, with each burst probably having a lower Pk as compared to the RAM - having 42 RAM give a lot more potential kills...particularly in a threat environment with...

The number of positions that have become a depth of one is concerning. The brain trust of experience in the RCN has gone from a deep pool to a much shallower pond. That should be concerning to leadership...

C-4 + C-4 = C-8? Or, is it AK22 + AK25 = AK47?

I was aboard the RUS ships that visited Halifax in '93 (I think it was '93?) and they had all of their missile hatches painted shut.

Maybe, with the new 'guided warhead' modules, they have declined to accept anything by the motors?

I was onboard GAT during that time. It was...interesting...