Navy Frigate Missile Shot

Missile Exercise from around 1998.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• navy
• missile

[VanguardDragon]

What music is that i wonder? I have it but the file is a tad corrupt and it has no real filename.

[gileslestrade]

Soundtrack from Crimson Tide.

[cenmaroon]

I served on the USS Copeland FFG 25 from 1983 to 1985, it is the same class as this ship here. I was on the launch party as port side firewatch just behind the bulkhead to the rear of the launcher when we launched "a bird off the rail". It sounds like and explosion when it launches, Needless to say the first launch i was at i damn near had to change my shorts !

[Kintac]

no one will invade you... stupid cunt.

[swoodard4]

@RonnieJamesable I agree. I am assuming that is why the United States had moved from the Mk-26 (shown in the video) to the Mk-41 VLS on warships like the FFG, DDG, and CG. The reload time was just too slow for the Mk-26. On flexibility with magazines, I believe that is a moot point for US ships. All the ammunition is pre-loaded in the Mk-41 mag. Once you have spent the magazine you're done until you reach port. Then again, the Royal Navy may have a different use for the VLS than the US Navy.

[RonnieJamesable]

@swoodard you're right, they could davit U/S ordnance out, then conduct maintenance, particularly on a barge converted to carry weapons. I was thinking more for a warship or auxiliary vessel that has a different primary role. In that case I'd chose a combination of VLS and manually loaded pods - again the flexibility of magazines is the key feature. Combine that with CIWS & I believe you give your vessel the highest life expectancy possible. In total war a type 23 frigate's is 17 minutes.

[swoodard4]

@RonnieJamesable Is the VLS the Royal Navy uses different to the Mk 41 in the US Navy? I ask because you stated a VLS system stays faulty no matter what, however, the US Mk 41 is accompanied with a crane that allows loading and unloading of VLS canisters, thus maintenance can be conducted. In this situation i'd go with the VLS, mainly because it allows for a quick succession of shots. almost less than one second between each launch in the Mk 41.

[janak19771977]

@VanguardDragon sounds like nightwish

[rocketzombie237]

Wait . . . only one?

[RonnieJamesable]

@jeetendrag10 You're very welcome shipmate. It's been a while since I've thought about this, but the main problem with missile canisters converting STUFT ( Ships Taken Up From Trade ) in wartime seems to be a lack of sensors, meaning the missiles have to be fed target data from a remote source over a data link. In a very heavy littoral threat, like a maritime invasion of Iran, use of barges with SAM missiles to form a cordon around an attacking fleet could work, but could be a tactical nightmare

[jeetendrag10]

@RonnieJamesable thank you sir. i appreciate your reply.

[generalmarkz]

someone is going to have a very bad day...

[sniperpistol50]

nice to know our guys in the feild have a good taste in music....

[RonnieJamesable]

@jeetendrag10 Depends on re loading arrangements. What would you rather have ( from a britsh Royal Navy perspective ) a type 23 frigate with 28 vertical launch sea wolf OR a type 22 frigate with Two 6 barreled launchers, one for'ard one aft, with a team of three gunners and a magazine of 40 missiles a piece. Re load for 6 pods is 3 mins b.t.w.

I've heard weapons engineers say once a VLSW is faulty it stays faulty, where as they could have a look at Sea Wolf missiles stored in a magazine.