Originally Posted by
Thomas coupling
It was designed by the French - Thales.
It has Phalanx I suppose so a 40yr old close defence gun which could deter drones?
Noticeably the Phalanx discharges its 4500 rounds within 1 minute. Each magazine of 3 (1500 in each) costs $135,000 once discharged, averaging $30/round of depleted uranium shells.
On three previous occasions, the gun has engaged drones @ sea (killing two sailors) and taken out an Intruder A6. It also locked onto the Missouri launching chaff at a range of 3 miles, hitting the ship with atleast 4 rounds.
Overall I believe the ship was built to take the gun to sea - because the gun seems to have a better war time record than the ship
At £650,000/day, shes' going to milk the budget dry before firing one shot in anger.
Wow. Your best argument against the ship is the CIWS that's installed on it. And then you got that essentially all wrong. The "defects" you refer to were resolved literally decades ago. The latest system version is Block 1B which is what is installed on the QE and the latest Phalanx round is the ELC (Enhanced Lethality Cartridge) which uses a tungsten (
not depleted uranium) penetrator. And since you seem to be all worried about the price of the ammo, the latest electric gun version has multiple firing rates to conserve ammunition.
A very insightful post. But since you got it all wrong, your post provides insight into the author, and none at all into the ship or the weapons it employs.