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by RetroSicotte
14 Aug 2017, 12:31
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Dunkirk (2017 Film)
Replies: 14
Views: 475
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Re: Dunkirk (2017 Film)

I cannot bring up in any fitting words how utterly tired I am of reviewers trying to plaster 'current' issues onto this film.
by RetroSicotte
13 Aug 2017, 18:14
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

No need for personal attacks. Not that I give a darn but still ... Given there was no personal attack... I probably owe you an explanation as to why I think you have some incorrect opinions about AES that led me to conclude that you think AESA can only exist in a fixed array. In an APAR/AEGIS forma...
by RetroSicotte
13 Aug 2017, 14:15
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

Cheers for the indication on where. Not used those sites a lot. Got it.
by RetroSicotte
13 Aug 2017, 13:20
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

Talking about her speed, does anybody have an actual recorded screenshot of her doing that speed on those trackers?

Would be a handy thing to have around.
by RetroSicotte
12 Aug 2017, 20:30
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

We are talking at cross purposes and you are under a mistaken impression. Firstly, I was discussing moveable arrays vs fixed. I made no mention of array technology: AESA, PESA or whatever. I made the point that moveable antenna have real advantages in many situations including in the nose of a Typh...
by RetroSicotte
12 Aug 2017, 01:53
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

If they like the idea of non-accountability, putting a Daring class destroyer nearby to fry it with the Sampson would be a fun way of seeing them go down with almost nothing to compensate from.

"It just fell really, we dunno why."
by RetroSicotte
12 Aug 2017, 01:31
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

I imagine Blighter might be getting their accountants ready right about now.
by RetroSicotte
12 Aug 2017, 00:49
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

The reasons for fixed vs rotating in a plane are completely different from fixed vs rotating for ships. Say what? In both cases, it's so the radar can look in a different direction. It's the opposite way around in the case of ships. On planes, a fixed radar only looks in an arc forward. A traversab...
by RetroSicotte
12 Aug 2017, 00:42
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

France with a larger navy than us does not use fixed radar. Italy has the largest Mediterranean Fleet and does not use fixed radars. China is not a major naval nation nor are they a superpower; they are a regional power slowly emerging as a global power. Both Italy and France's new designs both use...
by RetroSicotte
11 Aug 2017, 22:46
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

I may have picked a term wrong in that "solid state" was in reference to the fixed, persistent eye of the facing panels, which permits them to be both larger and have greater power useage. Sampson maybe has about 2,500t/r modules per facing (2 of them), while APAR has over 3,300t/r to it.....
by RetroSicotte
11 Aug 2017, 19:23
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

I should add that probably the most advanced radar in the UK is CAPTOR-E, which is a rotating AESA array although it doesn't rotate very far! The reasons for fixed vs rotating in a plane are completely different from fixed vs rotating for ships. The fixed arrays are far more powerful too. Each of A...
by RetroSicotte
11 Aug 2017, 14:18
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

If we were going to make an AAW Type 26, then we ideally wouldn't be using Sampson. It's good, but high mast solid state AESA is the clear route forward. Just look at APAR and Seafire 5000. Italy's developing them too. Artisan is still in a weird area of no-one really knowing if it's a mechanical, P...
by RetroSicotte
11 Aug 2017, 00:33
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Dunkirk (2017 Film)
Replies: 14
Views: 475
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Re: Dunkirk (2017 Film)

Finally got to see this. What an astonishingly good movie. Cinematography was off the charts. Great use of camera, excellent subtle themes (portraying the beach setting so quietly and with so much white gave it a real eerie sense of limbo between life and death), a very innovative soundtrack in whic...
by RetroSicotte
09 Aug 2017, 19:42
Forum: British Army
Topic: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
Replies: 2802
Views: 715172
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Re: British Army Future Wheeled APC

It's been like that for some time. I checked it maybe a month or two ago.
by RetroSicotte
06 Aug 2017, 15:55
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

Clearly the answer is "both of them" and thread the needle between them. ;)
by RetroSicotte
26 Jul 2017, 00:30
Forum: British Army
Topic: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
Replies: 2802
Views: 715172
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Re: British Army Future Wheeled APC

Shot traps pretty much ceased to be a thing with modern armour and munitions around about the 80's and 90's. That kind of munition is just going to shatter or bury inside the armour rather than deflect.
by RetroSicotte
24 Jul 2017, 22:25
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

The whole "have to take the top half apart" is a worrying concept. The idea was supposed to be that they'd be a relatively practical modification to take them.

This sounds a lot like "beyond impractical".
by RetroSicotte
24 Jul 2017, 09:31
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

27.1 eh?

Well, that's her officially passed the Charles de Gaulle's maximum speed then. ;)
by RetroSicotte
21 Jul 2017, 08:06
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

All right, that's enough. Not for the topic. If you two have an issue, go to PM.
by RetroSicotte
20 Jul 2017, 15:16
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

Yup, they announced they would reveal "The first of the eight".

I misread it as all 8 at first as well.
by RetroSicotte
20 Jul 2017, 12:06
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15445
Views: 4410297
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

Let's just dial it back a little, chaps. :)
by RetroSicotte
20 Jul 2017, 10:10
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
United Kingdom

Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) [News Only]

There's been a lot of local media attention and petitions about getting an HMS Plymouth for a while. And lately the RN seems to be going for impact and national focus with the names. (Bringing back HMS Dreadnought and all)
by RetroSicotte
20 Jul 2017, 09:45
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1465147
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Re: Type 26 Global Combat Ship [News Only]

They're called the City Class, check FSL's twitter. :)

City Class is a nice lovely solid name. Was hoping for Firefly Class, or others from the awesome list of F-class names; but I am quite content with this direction.

This does mean that HMS Plymouth is entirely feasible and quite likely now.
by RetroSicotte
20 Jul 2017, 01:15
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Replies: 8470
Views: 2143125
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Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

No, you are quite correct, I misread that entry.
by RetroSicotte
19 Jul 2017, 23:28
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Replies: 8470
Views: 2143125
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Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

http://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-07-19/debates/C1505B77-B746-477C-A966-D48B1D953D67/ArmedForces Ctrl+F for "4,000" a couple times. Looks like 4,000 tonnes is the noted amount. Another MP defines it as only having a gun though, but I highly doubt that was from an informed source (m...