A typical PLAN fleet

vincelee · Sep 26, 2005

what's with this Kvant stuff? I think it's well known that Kvant was still on the drawing board when the 52C was being fitted.

bd popeye · Sep 26, 2005

Also the cost of operating these ships is massive both financially and in terms of manpower and this is probably why the U.S wants rid of them so much (they had already tried selling them to Australia and Greece).

The USN will eventually rid itself of FFG's because they want all their escorts to be Aegis ships. Cost has nothing to do with it. This according to my son who has been on active duty with the USN for 7.5 years.

Many of the USN FFG's are used for drug interdiction missions.

Here are three news articles about FFG's doing drug interdiction missions from the USN web site.

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MIGleader · Sep 26, 2005

IDonT said:
Kidds will be using the same SAM (SM-2) and the SPG 60 fire control radar. The only difference is that it is using a rail launcher and it doesn't have the Aegis battle management system. Before it was decommisioned it was given the NTU (New Threat Upgrade). Those sunburns will be shut down.

Having a high speed missile also presents another problem. You need to have a very fast processor because the missile it self will barely have enough time to acquire its target once it breaks the horizon. Can it tell the difference between a ship, several clouds of chaff, a Sea Hawk helo emmiting a radar signiture of the ship, and active jamming, within 30 seconds?

US has the technology to employ missiles with such speeds but it choses not to. Why, its called greater probability of target acquisition and destruction.

tech to employ such missles? not there yet. they dont have the tech to do it because they never tried to. if you fly slow, can the missle be easily shot down? the missles are radr hoiming, so they home on the radar of the enemy vessel emitted from the home ship.

tphuang · Sep 26, 2005

as I said in the past, do not have too much faith in the american missile defense system. As it was shown with the Patriot/Scud situation, you can have a system that miss the missile completely and still think it hit it.

A typical PLAN fleet

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