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November 23, 2009 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Another retired tanker commander speaks #2434097

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Unnecessarily – but never mind. 😉

I’m feeling paranoid today, I was reading a newspaper article earlier about how some guy got charged by the police because he started a facebook group telling the local police sergent to get lost (it went a bit further then that actually, but if you want more details it should be easy to find the article).

And if you are wondering why i’m still awake, some drunken fool decided to set the fire alarms off here (college) and we all had to wait outside while the firebrigade showed up and checked the place for flames.

November 23, 2009 at 3:25 pm in reply to: Another retired tanker commander speaks #2434111

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Be careful. If anyone from Boeing is reading this thread, you’re risking a libel suit. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to be associated with him.

Deleted my post

November 23, 2009 at 12:52 pm in reply to: Another retired tanker commander speaks #2434180

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*deleted out of fear for my bank account*

November 23, 2009 at 10:04 am in reply to: Indian Navy News and Discussions #2015185

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Does the INS Viraat have a well dock? When it was with the Royal navy i thought i carried 4 LCVP in a dock? As far as i know it still can be used as a commando carrier in the IN. Any pictures of the dock or inside?

They Are/Were on davits. Its a modernised Centaur class aircraft carrier, not an Amphib. Laid down during world war II, construction resumed in the 1950’s with commissioning in 1959, transferred to the IN in 1987.

November 23, 2009 at 7:14 am in reply to: Nuclear Propulsion in Large Carriers? #2015211

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Yep… 118 reactor compartments have been removed from their ships and are now stored at Hanford!

Dumped in concrete and stored in the open, not really a permanent solution.

November 21, 2009 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Subject Study- RAN Future OPC #2015352

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The Indonesians have it, so we (Australia) wont get it. Wouldn’t it suck if an ANZAC class frigate accidentally confused and Australian Sigma and an Indonesian Sigma and sank the wrong one? 😉

November 21, 2009 at 2:39 pm in reply to: Navy surrenders one new aircraft carrier in budget battle #2015357

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sort of Canberra class specs then sans Dock as we have plenty of those. could a Hull plug Ocean achieve those specs

May as well design the ship from scratch, wont cost all that much and it keeps the ship design offices busy.

November 21, 2009 at 9:49 am in reply to: Indian Navy News and Discussions #2015392

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Defence minister Antony, on his part, indicated that India would go in for a larger 64,000-tonne second IAC after the first one gets going. The eventual plan, of course, is to have nuclear-powered carriers since their “sea endurance” is virtually limitless compared to conventional ones.

That is a complete and utter misrepresentation of the facts. Nuclear Carriers still have to carry fuel for the air group and munitions for the airgroup, these are not limitless. The carriers escorts will still be largely conventional (even with SSN’s) which means that in reality, a Nuclear carrier gives barely more *effective* endurance then a conventional carrier.

November 21, 2009 at 4:41 am in reply to: Nuclear Propulsion in Large Carriers? #2015406

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Oh dear god. Actually the high radioactivity waste would be around for closer to 10,000 years. Fortunately it can be disposed of along with the civilian stuff in the same sort of way. Irradiated material is irradiated material.

And it isn’t ocean dumped, it’d buried and encased in concrete.

I don’t know how long they have to be kept around (the boats), I assume it has something to do with waiting for fuel to be fully spent or short lived radioisotopes to decay. Either way the costs are factored in.

And if you factor in the rising cost of oil and possible insecurity of supplies, nuclear may be cheaper than you think.

I think its actually as simple as that the UK does not have a Nuclear Certified ship breaking yard.

November 21, 2009 at 4:39 am in reply to: Germany To Cut Eurofighter Order, Seek Exports #2435876

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Well, most (i.e. Spain, UK, and Italy) are waiting on the F-35. As they have enough Typhoons for the Air Defense Role……:cool:

No they don’t. Not at the moment anyway. No single nation has much more then 60 typhoons in service at the moment.

November 21, 2009 at 4:37 am in reply to: Navy surrenders one new aircraft carrier in budget battle #2015410

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a BPE with a plated up dock would do nicely.

I think its a bit more complicated then that. Remember there is a re-ballasting system in LHD’s so they can “dock down” as well.

November 20, 2009 at 11:03 am in reply to: Budget and Capability, UK and India compared #2436315

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Yes, we could use it, & the Ozzies are reliable, but that’s only one small part of the jigsaw.

Honestly, grab the guy that made Top Gears Robin Reliant space shuttle, give them the reverse engineered plans of the Trident system and you are set. 😀

The Rocket Motor and missile itself are probably the easy bit, the software is probably the hardest bit. Are their many UK IT guys involved in the European Space Agency or whatever its called?

Maybe this time you wont change your mind about giving us the plans for the bomb…… 😉

November 20, 2009 at 10:57 am in reply to: Navy surrenders one new aircraft carrier in budget battle #2015465

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Hopefully they build two. That gives a “spare” carrier and a “spare” LPH.

And after thinking about it, I’d hope its an LPH rather then an LHD. Probably around 30,000t or so so that it can hold a full battalion group plus possibly a brigade command element.

November 20, 2009 at 5:59 am in reply to: General Discussion #295348

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Apparrently the gun used to be registered in the Idiots name and he didn’t try hard enough to file the serial number off. :rolleyes:

November 20, 2009 at 5:59 am in reply to: Good Samaritan faces five years prison #1886567

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Apparrently the gun used to be registered in the Idiots name and he didn’t try hard enough to file the serial number off. :rolleyes:
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