Jura The idiot
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so you wouldn't consider it to be a waste when a 12 k-displacing cruiser drags a sonar around, no?
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It's not a waste. The additional cost is probably $2-10million USD. A Type 55 costs almost a billion USD.
Having a persistent sonar sensor is very useful, not least in knowing if a torpedo is incoming, and to cue anti-torpedo weapons
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Actually I would in fact consider it a waste of the 055's time, which is why the PLAN needs a ship like the 054A and 054B. OTOH, multirole is the name of the game these days, so having VDS + TAS on board a giant ship better suited to other duties is still a good thing. I envision a 054B tagging along with a 055 and 052C/D/E providing local air defense and ASW duty for these ships as they perform fleet AAW and other tasks.
Jura The idiot
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LOL while asking 38 minutes ago
"so you wouldn't consider it to be a waste when a 12 k-displacing cruiser drags a sonar around, no?"
I would've thought it had been obvious I meant wasting the 12-k displacing hull (packed with weaponry, sensors, featuring command facilities etc.) on moving slowly with a towed sonar ... clearly, I was wrong
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LOL that's what I meant while asking the question (OK I explained in the post right above) ... my English must've failed me, as you're yet another poster who misunderstood
I was agreeing with you. It's a waste of time for a 12,000t ship to zigzag around the ocean dragging a line when a much smaller ship could do exactly the same thing and get the same results. OTOH, what if that small ship gets sunk? All of a sudden the 055 may need to deploy its own ASW sensors to fill in, which is why it's good for the 055 to have those sensors just in case.
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then let me tell you I prefer if a response starts with 'yes' or 'no' (LOL)
I usually try to formulate my question so that it can be handled this way ... which sometimes is impossible: if the answer 'depends'
that's fine (I suppose neither the additional weight or crew would be excessive), but I'm curious about that huge bow sonar array Today at 1:13 PM
I mean Type 055 could be 'the killer' (bluffing now)
That bow array may just possibly be the new standard HMS array for all destroyer-sized ships. Burkes and Ticos have had arrays of this size from the very beginning.
Could I suggest that you make the English less colloquial and make it flow more logically and fully from each point.
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