One thing I noticed when the USN was debating putting females on subs was that the two sides seemed to seperate along generational lines.
Usually the opponents of putting women on submarines seemed to be older, and were the same guys who were against females going on surface ships and had the same tired reasons. The ones who seemed to have no problem with women on submarines were in general the current generation of enlisted and officer.

Just Curious, in the Western surface ships, do woman crew sharing same quarter, same bathroom with mans crew ? If they don’t, then the same partition arrangement has to be make available in the subs.

In the USN no. On the surface ships there are designated male and female berthings.

Tone down the signature please (suffering temporary blindness now!).

Seriously, there is no need for such an annoyingly large sig.

Inside the red square you have the Kingposts for high line transfer and the Nulka launchers.

What are the latest developments on the ex-FFG-8? Is she already in Pakistan?

Getting repaired after ramming a pier during sea trials.

Polmar and Friedman in their respective books, say SPY radars provide guidance for perhaps 20 missiles at any time. They also mention each arrach has 8 transmitters (how? SPY is PESA, shouldnt it have one transmitter?) and total of 32 CFAa (what is CFA?). Should i read that as ability that each face can guide 32 missiles? 128 for complete system in ideal circumstances? But why do they themselves settle on ‘perhaps 20’ missiles?

Cross Field Amplifier.

Each array is not its own radar the whole system is the radar. SPY-1 and the Command and Decision computer system can handle X number of missiles at any time, not X per array. Now SM-6 will potentially increase that number.

This is getting abit tedious, because the fact is that Britain would almost certainly not have operated an Iwo Jima LPH in 1982. But if we had, under wartime pressures, none of the things you seem to think are huge problems would have been insurmountable. The Task Force sailed south three days after the invasion. In wartime things happen quickly. The Iwo Jima class were simple, straightforward ships, there is no getting round it.

Likewise, I am well aware that the Rusty B was in a poor state. So what? If it was an emergency, she would have been used, even if bits were falling off. Or are you saying that hundreds of men were not working on her as the Falklands crisis unfolded for that very reason?

Wow you are delusional. The RN would of been unfamiliar with the radars, comms gear, steam plant setup, all of the axillary machinery, the combat systems, the consoles in CIC (just getting them familiar with NTDS would of taken weeks if not a few months) the BMDS and EVERY other system on that ship.

Listen to what people who have actually served are saying it never would of happened.

An Udaloy-class destroyer of the Russian Navy to return to service after 18 years overhaul.

Don’t they mean after 18 years of being left to rot?