Hey, no posts without pictures!
Size doesn't matter, you can be a CV if you want to:
Size doesn't matter, you can be a CV if you want to:
I've just realised that my garden pond fleet is easily more powerful than the Icelandic "battle fleet" of another thread.
We're considering them for NWAC... What do you think?
Here are some units that I found during a trip to Hakone, Japan last year...
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We're considering them for NWAC... What do you think?
Those Tomahawks are pretty mean! Hehe.
Charles de Gaulle, aka Gadhafi's pain in the butt:
The UXV Combatant, a UCAV mothership design proposed to the Royal Navy.
THIS is the shape of war to come - a supership to launch unmanned jets, submarines, tanks and boats by remote control.
By 2020 a new generation fleet of Royal Navy ships will replace tens of thousands of troops on the battlefield.
Dubbed the UXV Combatant - and nicknamed Mothership - the concept has been drawn up by UK arms giant BAE Systems.
It could be in service in 13 years.
The 8,000-ton Mothership is a cross between an aircraft carrier and the Navy's newest Type 45 destroyer.
Its sleek, stealth design means it only shows up on radar as the size of a small fishing boat. Main weapons systems will be concealed, including the 75-mile range, 155mm gun with precision-guided shells.
Each Mothership could carry up to 24 unmanned vehicles for different combat scenarios.
A handful of the ships could execute a full invasion. Currently, it takes around 20 people to crew and maintain one helicopter. An unmanned version could be run by five.
Manned surface patrol boats need 50 sailors to manage. The remote control prototypes need just ten.
BAE Systems' ship engineering chief Charles Nisbet said: "There is still a way to go but we have been working across industry and closely with the MoD on the concept, and this is a considered response to their request for designs." A senior Navy officer said: "The UXV fits very closely with our thinking. The next generation of surface ships has to be able to do just about everything".
I wonder if this has any scope for inclusion in NWAC? (Assuming that it gets some sort of main gate approval in the near future)
i doubt something like this will be build and operational within the next 30 years.
Here's Denmark's finest. It's a command/support ship leading squadrons of frigates, but I first heard about it when it tore Somali pirate mothership a new ***hole - so it's not a newbie vessel. HDMS Absalon.