PRC/PLAN Laser and Rail Gun Development Thread
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care to elaborate? An explanation or calculation would help. I want to learn something
Jura The idiot
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Railguns probably requires more cooling (my guess) but then the AGS rounds are more expensive in all three situations (dumb round, GPS guidance, rocket propelled + terminal guidance). I thought your estimates are pretty good!
Jura The idiot
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any idea about "the small protrusion" in the rear of the gun house:
please
please
There are various issues with current (i.e. western) IEP systems but they are different issues, the Royal Navy's TYPE 45 destroyers have issues with the heat recovery system associated with the special gas turbines it uses not working well in high ambient temperature environments. The DDG-1000 has issues with power distribution to its electric motors and issues with lube oil chillers causing overheating problems, but the GT gensets are essentially sound. The Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers had a leak in it's drive shaft mounting but that's nothing to do with the IEP. The apparent superiority of the Chinese IEP is bandied around as a given but that's only the DC electrical distribution grid, the quality of the gensets, the motors etc have yet to be observed. Also the power ratings bandied around for the Type 055 is the shp of the Gas Turbines not the electrical output of it's gensets, shouldn't conflate the 2, although given the massive size of the 055's radar arrays it will probably have substantial electric generation capabilities, these will not be integrated with the drive for the propulsion.
Assuming the 055's basic hull form design is a sound gunnery platform (despite all the hot air spouted about VLS, radar etc a ship needs first and foremost to float and be stable in rough seas, all the gizmos in the world won't help if its not seaworthy!), the insides will still have to go through major rework to accommodate IEP and EM guns. These are not a drop in replacements, with electric drive there won't be gearboxes but room needs to be found for the electric motors, IEP allows the drive shafts to be shortened to free up space since there's no need for direct connection to the GTs but multiple redundant armoured and water tight routes will need to snake around the vessel to get the power to where it's needed, as power generation is integrated diesel sets can be used as well or instead of GTs as they don't need the airflow hence trunking space can be reclaimed and allowing more flexible placement, if the EM gun fires inert rounds, then weight can be saved in the magazine space which now doesn't necessarily need to be below the waterline as is practice for conventional ammunition. The sheer size of the 055 helps but at the end of the day all this might mean the need for total redesign for a vessel optimised for 'electric wafare'
Jura The idiot
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yeah, Today at 8:18 AM I just reacted to the laughable post
#321 SilentObserver, Today at 6:54 AM
claiming
"Yes, it means a combination of things, the current DDG-1000 can:
- Sustain ..."
I suppose given they're only building 3 of them and their problematic gestation they should just leave them as training or test ships for new tech rather than front line war fighting vessels! Although the Chinese solution of using an LST is a lot quicker and cheaper and people wonder where all the US defense budget goes
Jura The idiot
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here:
Project Napier
and didn't see anything new)
or still don't have several hundred mil to fix the backbone of the RN?!
here's some background:
Mar 20, 2017
Feb 6, 2016
I wonder if they started yet (yes, I now googled
Project Napier
and didn't see anything new)
or still don't have several hundred mil to fix the backbone of the RN?!
here's some background:
Mar 20, 2017
Feb 6, 2016