HMS Dauntless: Royal Navy deploys destroyer to Falklands
HMS Dauntless is to be deployed off the coast of the Falklands Islands in the South Atlantic, the Royal Navy has confirmed.The Portsmouth-based ship will be the first of the navy's new Type 45 air...
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News item on the RN site confirms Dauntless to deploy this Wed 4th April. Unless they have been installed today, time looks to be running out for pre-deployment Phalanx installation.
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My point wasn't so much the absolute sea state/conditions within which a Type 45 can get a helicopter airborne, more that by the time a Type 45 is unable to safely operate a Lynx the weather is pretty...
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Jim WH wrote:My point wasn't so much the absolute sea state/conditions within which a Type 45 can get a helicopter airborne, more that by the time a Type 45 is unable to safely operate a Lynx the...
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I'd still like to see a VLS capable Fireshadow on tap as well as a decent surface to surface missile. If the 45's get backfitted with the 127mm mount selected for type 26, that'd help quite a bit.
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Just watched HMS Dauntless sail out of Portsmouth Harbour not fitted with Phalanx, l wonder if she has a full outfit of Sea Viper missiles
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I am puzzled by the omission of CIWS. Especially as the ship is going on a high profile overseas deployment where there is a very, very small chance of something bad happening. Perhaps confidence in...
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I do not understand why Dauntless hasnt had Phalanx CIWS fitted when Daring left for deployment with it fitted and Diamond is currently having it fitted. Anyone know why Dauntless has missed out...
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Or perhaps the lack of a hasty installation of Phalanx on Dauntless reflects the fact that cooler, calmer and wiser heads rule over these things, and that such minds have concluded that the reality of...
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"do not understand why Dauntless hasn't had Phalanx CIWS fitted when Daring left for deployment with it fitted and Diamond is currently having it fitted. Anyone know why Dauntless has missed out...
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I can understand why Dauntless hasn't got phalanx as in theory the deployment is going to be routine and no one should be shooting at Dauntless compared to Daring in the Gulf but it'd still be nice to...
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Hello. Newbie here, but well connected. There was never an intention to fit Dauntless with Phalanx or Harpoon. It isn't the case of it being blind to surface threat. Anything that carries a shipbourne...
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My understanding is that Phalanx is of questionable value in the AAW role anyway, and would only be used as a very last defence if everything else failed!However, Block 1Bs are of much greater value...
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pymes75 wrote:My understanding is that Phalanx is of questionable value in the AAW role anyway, and would only be used as a very last defence if everything else failed!However, Block 1Bs are of much...
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pymes75 wrote: My understanding is that Phalanx is of questionable value in the AAW role anyway, and would only be used as a very last defence if everything else failed!As somebody once pointed out,...
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ship fixer wrote:Hello. Newbie here, but well connected. There was never an intention to fit Dauntless with Phalanx or Harpoon. It isn't the case of it being blind to surface threat. Anything that...
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The fact remains, the RN is now so small that all escorts should be prepared to react to unforeseen events.
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Updated: 05/04/2012 12:02On 4 April 2012, the air defense frigate Forbinhas committed a supersonic targets, simulating an antiship missile at very low altitude, pulled from the Missile Test Center of...
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well, hoorah, at last, a supersonic intercept
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French Navy's Air Warfare Destroyers successfully intercept supersonic sea-skimming target On April 4, 2012, the Forbin Air Defense Destroyer destroyed a supersonic target simulating an antiship...
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