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12 miles...that's a little close for comfort isn't it?
If it was too dangerous to even get airborne, I'd just park the jet on the end of the runway pointing out to sea, makes the Butt (sp?) switch and loose off a couple of anti-ship missiles if that were the case.
If it was too dangerous to even get airborne, I'd just park the jet on the end of the runway pointing out to sea, makes the Butt (sp?) switch and loose off a couple of anti-ship missiles if that were the case.
I think the problem is that the advances in technology aren't readily obvious, but suffice to say that a single T45 is more capable in the air defence role than everything sent down in 82.
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From: Exit stage right.
Amazingly it can shoot down missiles as well as aircraft.
I think the problem is that the advances in technology aren't readily obvious, but suffice to say that a single T45 is more capable in the air defence role than everything sent down in 82.
I think the problem is that the advances in technology aren't readily obvious, but suffice to say that a single T45 is more capable in the air defence role than everything sent down in 82.
Relying on defence assets is great but they all have to work at the same time and keep doing so................
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From: London/Oxford/New York
Seeing as how no Navy has EVER had to face an attack by anywhere near 40 missiles at the same time in the missile age I think that T45 with its 48 Sea Vipers will be fine. Isn't that more missiles than the Argentines have fast jets?
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From: Exit stage right.
Seeing as how no Navy has EVER had to face an attack by anywhere near 40 missiles at the same time in the missile age I think that T45 with its 48 Sea Vipers will be fine. Isn't that more missiles than the Argentines have fast jets?
Just because something hasn't been done doesn't mean it will never be done.
USS Cole lost out to something a lot less than a missile.
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I think the problem is that the advances in technology aren't readily obvious, but suffice to say that a single T45 is more capable in the air defence role than everything sent down in 82.
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From: The sunny South
"48 missiles but only 8 launchers?"
Irrespective of your question being "hypothetical / rhetorical", what launchers and what reload? The Type 45 has a VLS (Vertical Launch System) incorporating silos. 48 Sea Vipers in a VLS is a vast improvement on a twin launcher with 22 Sea Darts (Type 42 Batches 2 & 3) or 40 Sea Darts (Type 42 Batch 3).
The classic layer-defence system would have CAP taking out most of the shooters (air or surface) before they got within target acquisition / identification range anyway leaving the Type 45 to deal with any leakers with its hard kill and soft kill countermeasures.
Irrespective of your question being "hypothetical / rhetorical", what launchers and what reload? The Type 45 has a VLS (Vertical Launch System) incorporating silos. 48 Sea Vipers in a VLS is a vast improvement on a twin launcher with 22 Sea Darts (Type 42 Batches 2 & 3) or 40 Sea Darts (Type 42 Batch 3).
The classic layer-defence system would have CAP taking out most of the shooters (air or surface) before they got within target acquisition / identification range anyway leaving the Type 45 to deal with any leakers with its hard kill and soft kill countermeasures.
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From: Bristol
Should the entire Argentine air force arrive, all 48 could be fired in 10 seconds.
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The classic layer-defence system would have CAP taking out most of the shooters (air or surface) before they got within target acquisition / identification range anyway
Anyone care to spot the obvious capability holiday?
Anyone care to spot the obvious capability holiday?
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From: Aylesbury
Are all of her systems actually fitted and functioning or was she obtained through the "Smart Procurement" process?
My thoughts exactly.
"for many years there have been VERY cheap and VERY quick and easy ways to render all Falklands airfields useless for defence in about 10-20 minutes (by green minded attackers)."
Quite.
My thoughts exactly.
"for many years there have been VERY cheap and VERY quick and easy ways to render all Falklands airfields useless for defence in about 10-20 minutes (by green minded attackers)."
Quite.
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From: The sunny South
...for many years there have been VERY cheap and VERY quick and easy ways to render all Falklands airfields useless for defence in about 10-20 minutes (by green minded attackers).
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From: by the Great Salt Lake, USA
The T-45 has no "launchers", irregardless of what that article mistakenly says.
The VLS cells come in a "box" of 6, there are 8 "boxes" aboard... but all 48 cells have their own lid, and the missiles inside can fire independently of any other cell.
The VLS cells come in a "box" of 6, there are 8 "boxes" aboard... but all 48 cells have their own lid, and the missiles inside can fire independently of any other cell.