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October 2, 2014 at 5:25 am in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2027329

leon
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What does that gunboat use to direct the 76mm gun?

Apparantly Žemaitis (P 11, ex Flyvefisken on the photo) lacks the usual SaabTech Vectronics 9LV 200 Mk 3 Fire control radar the Danish ships have. Its base is still visible on the bridge.

July 23, 2014 at 3:15 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2028543

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Will this be another two Atago class destroyers or a new type of AEGIS destroyer?

July 11, 2014 at 11:47 am in reply to: Indian Navy : News & Discussion – V #2028778

leon
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Thank you for the photos! I hope someone will release a 1/700 kit of her!

July 9, 2014 at 9:57 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2028874

leon
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4500 t OPV? Interesting. Are there any drawings to show the design?

June 8, 2014 at 6:37 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2029577

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Only as comparison: in 2013 there were 465 refugees in UK per million inhabitants – which was not much. In Sweden there were 5680 refugees per million, 1885 per million in Belgium, 1575 per million in Germany and 985 per million in France (source: Eurostat).

The problems in the southern European countries, e.g. the very high unemployment, should be known.

June 8, 2014 at 3:30 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2029592

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What?. These people can pay thousands of dollars for a place on a smugglers tramp steamer…but not for an airline ticket?.

That shows that you have never thought about refugees and asylum at all!

Many refugees enter UK not via planes – which is very difficult, because there are very high fees for airlines transporting refugees (which is true also for shipping lines) – but come by boat to Italy or Spain, then travel to France, where are big camps near Calais, where they wait for an opportunity to travel to UK.

For sure there also people using tourist or student visa to enter UK and use planes, but for that they have to get such an visa. To ask for asylum in the EU outside of the EU (or Australia) makes it unfortunately very unlikely that people can enter the EU.

The right to restrict the numbers of refugees is the same as a denial of a human right: the right on asylum. If you do not understand that, think about what Rii wrote. It is a shame that in the 21st century human rights are not guaranteed even by most of the Western states.

June 8, 2014 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2029600

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The fact that the apathy of the people smugglers towards the safety and security of their ‘cargo’ compounds the misery of the unfortunates involved is lost on you then…so you care about the poor souls caught up in the trafficking but only when their plight supports your, somewhat contradictory, left wing agenda?!.

You probably forgot why this poor people pay for such miserable and dangerous travels and who is responsible for that: those, who do not offer any sufficient legal opportunity to ask for asylum!

To equip states like Sri Lanka with additional means to prevent refugees to travel is part of the politics, which is responsible for this misery.

If there would be sufficient ways to ask for asylum in Australia, EU etc. there would be no business opportunities for smugglers and no need for patrol boats!

But apparently some people constantly forgot that asylum is a human right and human rights are for everyone!

May 15, 2014 at 6:52 am in reply to: Follow on to the Flight III and DDG-1000 #2030164

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In the near future: nothing. The replacements (DDG(X)/Zumwalt, CG(X) ) were too expensive, therefore the Arleigh Burke class is still being built.

Are the details of the Flight III already fixed? Which ship will be the first Flight III? How it will be equipped?

May 13, 2014 at 7:51 am in reply to: Former Blue Angels commander under investigation #2030220

leon
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Strange sentence about the US Military, where a significant number of soldiers is female!

May 7, 2014 at 8:35 am in reply to: Naval deployment to Black Sea? #2030315

leon
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It would be interesting how they determined that “And suddenly all the screens went blank.” 😉

Also this statement is questionable:
“equipped with “Aegis”, the most modern system of air and missile defence.”

Compared to the systems in use by the Russian navy today that may be true, but compared to active phased array radars in use by European navies, I am not so sure.

Read also this sentence:
“After the incident, the foreign media reported that “Donald Cook” was rushed into a port in Romania.”

“The foreign media”? Is there something like that, a common non-Russian media? Or did all non-Russian media reported that? Or which one did that? That is primitive rhetoric trick compared to “The experts say that it is like this” – without mentioning, which experts said that. It could be everything from a simple lie to a lazy writer forgetting to quote his sources.

This appears to be primitive propaganda.

April 18, 2014 at 6:37 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2030648

leon
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Sorry, but there are rules! They are usually called constitution! Any government, who violates it, deserves to go to jail. And instead of accepting a government to violates rules, you should defend the rules against the government! If not you endanger yourself, because you accept that the government violates your rights.

Anyway, we were not talking about a conflict between different states, but an internal Swedish affair (the Swedish government against a Swedish company, which is in German ownership – but that had nothing to do with the German state).

April 18, 2014 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2030653

leon
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No, no! Not every government can break the rules at will without going to jail! That is a feature of failed democratic control or a dictatorship!

April 14, 2014 at 7:59 am in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2030754

leon
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And there are already SM-3 missiles designed to defeat ballistic missiles…

April 13, 2014 at 8:32 am in reply to: 127 mm: BAE 5" L/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 vs. Oto Breda 127/64 Lightweight #2030816

leon
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@ Jonesy: It should be possible to design the ship in a way that both guns are possible, see the MEKO 200, which are equipped with the Mk 45 or the French 10 cm gun.

@ Jinan: yes, the Kongo class have also this gun, probably specially produced for this class (in contrast to the LCFs guns). The interesting point was that the Japanese navy switched from 127/54 to the Mk 45 Mod 4 – instead of the 127/64. Perhaps the reason was that OTO Melaria was too slow with releasing the new gun in time for the Atago class?

April 12, 2014 at 3:19 pm in reply to: 127 mm: BAE 5" L/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 vs. Oto Breda 127/64 Lightweight #2030833

leon
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I do not want to state the gun is better because of its complexity, but the gun is better because of its higher rate of fire and much bigger range.

But the higher rate of fire, e.g. fully automatic loading from the magazines is possible, makes the mounting more complex.
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