HMS Daring eases through first sea trials
Looks not dissimilar to an Airfix Leander as produced in about 1970, but i dont think Leander had 2 turrets up front.
I should have been building series 1/2 aircraft anyway.
I should have been building series 1/2 aircraft anyway.
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Isnt the size of that superstructure contrary to stealthy design, hence allowing detection from a much larger range by attacking A/C? IE if the enemy are in range, then so are you.
Stealth is far stranger than that, so i'm sure BAES know what they're up to...
Wikipedia claims 75mile range on the ASTER 30 so that's still probably enough.
Some of the systems developed for the T45 will end up in CVF. SAMPSON comes to mind.
Hmmm... I suspect the RN would like that to happen, but it's not really needed, especially if you've got a T45 kicking around. Part of the reason CV(F) has been delayed so long is that the RN want a carrier with loads of aircraft AND Command, control, PAAMS and anything else they can think off.. oh and all for £2.50
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Isnt the size of that superstructure contrary to stealthy design, hence allowing detection from a much larger range by attacking A/C? IE if the enemy are in range, then so are you.
Nobody's air defense ship is stealthy when its main radar is transmitting.
The basic idea is to try to shoot down the incoming attackers, and, if you can't get 'em all, act as a great big radar decoy, take all the hits, and thereby spare the carrier(s).
Nobody's air defense ship is stealthy when its main radar is transmitting.
The basic idea is to try to shoot down the incoming attackers, and, if you can't get 'em all, act as a great big radar decoy, take all the hits, and thereby spare the carrier(s).
Commander David Shutts, the ship's senior Royal Navy officer
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Man that must have been so painful on runs ashore....HMS Dainty what on earth made them call a ship that?(unless they had started to run out of them (names) ) that is...
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212 man,
DARING has not yet been commisioned, ergo a Commanding Officer has yet to be appointed. When HM Ships are in build or refit a Senior Naval Officer is appointed. Cdr Shutts may even be a Ginger Beer, who is overseeing the final period of the build.
Hope this clarifies the matter.
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DARING has not yet been commisioned, ergo a Commanding Officer has yet to be appointed. When HM Ships are in build or refit a Senior Naval Officer is appointed. Cdr Shutts may even be a Ginger Beer, who is overseeing the final period of the build.
Hope this clarifies the matter.
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Cdr Shutts may even be a Ginger Beer
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Adding to what Bruiser L said, for Contractor's sea trials (ie she's still "owned" by the Contractor), she will be under the command of a Master Mariner of the Merchant Navy.
Some of those D for DARING Class destroyers did have rather nancy names; like DELIGHT, for instance.
Airfix did a Srs 1 kit of the DARING and it somewhat pre dated the LEANDER one.
Some of those D for DARING Class destroyers did have rather nancy names; like DELIGHT, for instance.
Airfix did a Srs 1 kit of the DARING and it somewhat pre dated the LEANDER one.
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Getting back to the sea trials, what was the problem with the gun? As its old technology, I would have thought that it would have worked OK, or is it because its old technology?
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If I remember correctly from my long past association with the Andrew, destroyers and submarines are boats, not ships. Is that still the case?
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Submarines are called boats, Destroyers are not, they are ships. Destroyers are ships as they are designed for sustained deep water operations. Submarines are still called boats by dint of their historical development from semi-submersible motor-torpedo boats, and that the first ones would be carried on ships to their target area.
A general rule of them is often applied, "ships can carry boats, but boats cannot carry ships" (hence it could be argued that a submarine is not a ship as it cannot carry boats, bar special forces.. Oh never mind). This is rather to simplistic as many mega yachts can carry boats, but shouldn't be classified as ships as they are not deigned to operate effectively in the middle of, for example, the North Atlantic. They may be capable of such a voyage in benign conditions, but are not deigned so to do.
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As GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU stated:- Some of those D for DARING Class destroyers did have rather nancy names; like DELIGHT, for instance.
Dainty,Daring,Decoy,Defender,Delight,Diamond,Diana and Duchess with three more destroyers of the "Daring" class built for the Royal Australian Navy i.e. Vampire,Vendetta and Voyager.
Dainty,Daring,Decoy,Defender,Delight,Diamond,Diana and Duchess with three more destroyers of the "Daring" class built for the Royal Australian Navy i.e. Vampire,Vendetta and Voyager.
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