Absalon Class Flexible Support Ship

[lintu25]

That is bad ass ship :)

[danneeh95]

Good video but what`s the song

[adze1969]

Very nice looking ships.... but as for the music.... cookie monster should stick to his day job

[Gravel47]

Jeg ville gerne sige noget.... men jeg tror FE bliver hidsige på mig hvis jeg røber noget omkring den her båd....

[ReinhardvonHolst]

vid response

[ReinhardvonHolst]

where the hell has my comment gone? i filemd and photographed this ship today in Aalborg

[wojbert]

Dear Danish Friends , I would like you inform than polish figure who visited one of yours Royal Navy Ship after all instead share with polish citizens about his visit , he criticized you , by saying than members of yours Navy looks like a WHALES , the name of this figure who represents only himself is Bronislaw Komorowski, he is communist and after killed President Lech Kaczynski he took his position .

[Morderkaj]

@wojbert What say you try to speak? Understand not good very much speaking of yours.

[SatoTM3]

so ithe flex or roro deck is for 40 vehicles (i guess light tanks or armoured transports or smthng) + 7 batte tanks?

or either 40 vehicles, or 7 battle tanks?

this ship is massive! =S cannons missiles, a small army, helicopters, boats. xD i wish the belgian navy was as awesome as the danish!

we just got 2 lousy frigates we bought from the dutch T_T

[fnukket]

There are coming some bigger class ships. with in the next 5-7 years

[chrthiel]

@fnukket

The Ivar Huitfeldt Class frigates? They are actually a tad smaller.

[SuperFckFan92]

@chrthiel No, The Ivar Huitfeldt class is about 1,4 times bigger. It is a NATo frigate. I think that the standard flex ships are patrol boat class.

But the Ivar Huitfeldt is larger!

[chrthiel]

@SuperFckFan92

Standard Flex is a combat management system, much like AEGIS is, though designed to do different things.

The SF 300 was the first class of ships to use it. Since then we've build six other Standard Flex equipped classes. The Thetis Class OPV, the Knud Rasmussen Class OPV, the Mk1 Holm class, the Mk 2 Diana class, the Absalon Class and the Ivar Huitfeldt. On top of the that the Niels Juel Class corvette has been retrofitted with it.

[LarS1963]

@SuperFckFan92 No they are not.

The Ivar Huidtfeldts will be the same lenght, but have a lower profile and displace about a thousand tonnes less. Basicly, they are the same ship as the Absalon-class, but without the roll-on/roll-off deck. They will be faster, 28 knots to 23 knots. The armament will be the same, but the Ivar Huitfeldt's will have more advanced sensory systems.

The Ivar Huidtfeldt class are true frigates, where the Absalon class are multi-purpose ships armed as frigates.

[jakobpind]

@LarS1963 You are not right.

1: it's called IVER, not IVAR

2:IVER class will be about 1 meter longer, than Absalon class.

3:The armament will be bigger, better. It will be fitted with the VLS, capable of firing Tomahawk missiles. So yes, quite bigger armament.

[LarS1963]

@jakobpind It's possible a bit longer, but the profile is almost identical, and so is the basic outline of the ships, except that the Iver Huitfeldt class is one deck lower, and almost one thousand tonnes lighter. Hence the higher speed.

So while they might be a tiny fraction longer, they are not larger, they are smaller. In fact, if a frigat was larger than the Absalon-class it would not be a frigate anymore, but a destroyer.

[jakobpind]

@LarS1963

I agree.

Are you employed in the navy ? You seem to know quite a lot about these ships :)

[LarS1963]

@jakobpind Just a navy-nerd. ;)

[jakobpind]

@LarS1963

Ah okay :=

I'm on the first crew of the new frigate. Looking very much forward to try the new ship in the spring :)

I was also in africa thos fall, hunting pirates.

Happy new year !

[LarS1963]

@jakobpind Godt nytår og held og lykke med stationeringen ombord på Iver Huidtfeldt. :)

[Blackie3391]

@fnukket Iver Huitfeldt Class Frigates are actually smaller than the Absalon class - but Huitfeldt are a little more advanced and carry more weapons, including cruise missiles - and 5-7 years? Come on - if I remember right, our navy should be finished with the first one in 2011

[jakobpind]

@Blackie3391 No, Iver Huitfeldt will actually be about 1 meter longer than Absalon

[LarS1963]

well... if they HAVE to be a 1000 feet plus you are probably right. But there's French nuclear carrier "Charles de Gaulle" at 900 feet, and the future "Richelieu" which will be bigger, close to or above 1000 feet. ;)

[chrthiel]

@LarS1963

True, but it only displaces about 40% of a Nimitz

[keirfree]

the U S Navy needs longer ships, because its saliors have very big Arses, dudes the Yanks are Face it,, Obese

Nice to see the Vikings have moved up from Longships

:)

[Contrajoe]

@keirfree We yanks are mostly obese, but our military guys are quite fit

[SatoTM3]

@keirfree yh. its mcdonald's fault

u cant help it

[badgerattoadhall]

i love these ships slick make.

[chrthiel]

@badgerattoadhall

I'm glad you like it

[Contrajoe]

This music would be hilarious in G major!

[samkomako]

they took down man battleship of somali pirates last week. Good job.

[chrthiel]

Calling a whaler (large open boat) and a couple of skiffs armed with RPGs and assault rifles Battleships is stretching it a bit, but yeah. It was a good job.

(And this time Absalon even carried a jail, as the first RDN ship in 50 years if not more..)

[Contrajoe]

Around the two minute mark "or... or... or..." do they ever mix things up and carry a little of everything?

[chrthiel]

Well, they can, depending on the mission at hand. FlexModules are sort of like the LCS's mission modules, except that we've extended the concept to include a hospital, C&C facilities, a jail and a couple of other things.

Btw, I made an error when I made the clip, The troops aren't housed on the flexdeck, so it can carry 200 troops and their vehicles.

[Contrajoe]

@chrthiel What is "a couple of other things"? Also, might wanna mention that faux pas of yours in the description or an annotation.

[chrthiel]

I left it open deliberately. Absalon will take anything you can stuff in a container. From the generic (Staff offices) to the specific (Air Force Containerized base)

The RDN keeps getting new modules as they go along. They didn't have any jail during the first deployment to Aden (Rather awkward since they actually caught some pirates), they do now.

What this rather long speech means is that I don't know what all the modules do. Some of them aren't disclosed either.

[chrthiel]

Anyway, I'll probably update this video at some point.

[Contrajoe]

@chrthiel Cool. Question: Besides a costly laser system, what can intercept shells?

[chrthiel]

VLS SeaWolf

[Contrajoe]

That missile knocked out a 114 mm (approx 5") shell during testing. However, I am unsure as to what kind (and more importantly how fast) that shell was going. What are the stats of the type of gun round it intercepted? Also, 5" shells (I think) are in some of the Arleigh Burkes. Thus, again, the problem is not a fault specific to battleships.

[chrthiel]

The 114mm (4.5 inch) shell moves 400 to 1000 fps faster than shells from the mk7, depending on how worn the mk 7 in question is.

So it's faster, smaller and fired at shorter range and at a much lower angle, all of which makes it harder to track.

Take note that I'm not arguing that a SeaWolf can outright destroy a 16'' armour piercing shell, but it can nudge it enough to make it miss, giving the launch platform enough time to launch everything its got, and the scoot.

[fuzz30]

Didn't know gorilla's could sing! Cool ship though.

[MultiIPwnage]

Why do all Army lovers, like Hardcore Death metal

[chrthiel]

Don't know, I just thought that a song about vikings was appropriate.

[wcresponder]

great vid... lousy music.

very impressive ships Canada should adopt this line.

[victorh1414]

Well sorry to say but Canada would never adopt a Danish ship due to our small fights over islands in the north xD However I read that Canada is looking to get 15 new warships... so you can be sure to soon get some new ships :)

[Contrajoe]

@wcresponder Same opinion from me - great video, but the music... ...It just seems odd. Here's a question for the public: Why is the U.S. the only nation that has built carriers of the 1000 foot long+ size range?

[chrthiel]

@Contrajoe

Because the US is the only one willing to foot the bill.

[Contrajoe]

You bet! If it costs ridiculous amounts of money, they'll buy it!

[SatoTM3]

@Contrajoe bc u gotta compromise ;) big ships, small...

[101andrewj]

@wcresponder these are nice, but i believe canada should develope a competitor

[wcresponder]

@101andrewj

I agree, we have great abilities but the politicians can't see it. We have done great work lets do it again.

[101andrewj]

@wcresponder yeah, but canada lacks the motivation to spend money on upgrading our military... mabie if china invades south korea... tho apparently canada is building a series of supply type ship for replenishing warships at sea, and they are set to be the best in that class in the world... they are called the joint support ship, would cost nearly 1 billion dollars each, and be 2x larger then any current canadian navy ship.. i doubt they gunna spend more to develop a native frigate too

[valcan321]

@wcresponder Not just canada but the US also. This ship is litteraly everything the LCS was supposed to be. Cheap, flexable and powerful.

we'll take 50 please.

[M55q]

Hold da op! Der kan godt nok være meget indeni den!

[mikede1515]

with the us navy the british and danish royal navy we are kings of the sea thank good we are good friends and allies

[victorh1414]

yes we are and will allways be ;D

[jakobpind]

Badass ship, but F 361 will be the shiznit ! im looking forward to sailing with it :)

[chrthiel]

True, but then, the F361, F362 and F363 are actual frigates, unlike Absalon (L16) and Esbern Sarre (L17).

[jakobpind]

Touche :) are you in the navy, if i may ask ? and if yes, what do you do.

[chrthiel]

Nope, I'm just an enthusiast.

Btw, I'll update the vid sometime in the near future. I took an indecently large amount of pictures of Absalon when I visited Fredderikshavn Naval Base with Georg Stage Earlier this year.

[anjajune]

Correction to the speed, - Absalon have reached the speed of 26 kts from reliable source afaik

[victorh1414]

really? cool!

[jakobpind]

And the new frigates im guessing 30Kt's+ won't be impossible. They have twice the amount of enginepower !

[jakobpind]

incorrect, it's 25,9 kts :)

[PSKEMan]

I have a cold, and clearly so does however is "singing" this song. The Absalon does appear to be a very well designed ship though.

[chrthiel]

Nope, that's just how they sing. I think it's called growling

[udodgeme]

ECM, ECCM is that something capable of disabaling electronics

[chrthiel]

ECM = Electronic countermeasure

ECCM = Electronic Counter-Counbter measure.

[udodgeme]

ECCM-What's done by that

[victorh1414]

very very nice video! 5/5

this is why people should not fuck with Denmark!!!! lol anyway well done Chrthiel ;)

From Victor

[chrthiel]

My next vid will be about the StanFlex 300. And then I'll probably make one covering the entire navy.

[victorh1414]

when is your new video done about the StanFlex 300????????

Victor