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| Title | Your article is full | This is not a power- | |||
| Date | 2014-02-19 12:54:35 | 2014-02-19 23:39:17 | |||
| Editor | Anonymous | Anonymous | |||
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| 2014-02-19 12:54:35 by Anonymous / Edit this version | 2014-02-19 23:39:17 by Anonymous / Edit this version | ||||
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| t | 1 | Your article is full of <a href="http://yedqzcz.co | t | 1 | This is not a power-projection ship. The designati |
| > | m">qulatiy</a> information. I think your viewpoin | > | on DDH is aclualty fairly accurate, I think. Think | ||
| > | ts are clear-cut. You were also able to make this | > | of her as a souped-up US-style WWII CVE with comm | ||
| > | interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledg | > | and & control capabilities with some Russian-influ | ||
| > | e and writing talent. | > | ence in her design vis-a-vis weapons array. The Ru | ||
| > | ssians, unlike the Americans, designed all their m | ||||
| > | ajor post-WWII surface combatants that they might | ||||
| > | be able to protect themselves in a three-dimension | ||||
| > | al combat environment without relying on fragile e | ||||
| > | scorts. Hyuga reflects this philosophy. Choppers a | ||||
| > | re handy for amphibious insertion & ASW. She can m | ||||
| > | aintain 4 aloft with hanger space for 11. She has | ||||
| > | 64 ESSMs, 2 Phalnax batteries, two sets of three 3 | ||||
| > | 24 mm ASW torpedos of her own & excellent fire con | ||||
| > | trol & communications. Aside from possible spec fo | ||||
| > | rces deployment, there really isn't anything here | ||||
| > | that suggests to me that she's designed for anythi | ||||
| > | ng but ASW & air defense. She's too light & cramp | ||||
| > | ed & has a short deck--not good for even air super | ||||
| > | iority VTOL or VSTOL fighters.And unlike US constr | ||||
| > | uction, she's built on a budget--1.06 billion doll | ||||
| > | ars in US currency, I believe. Not exactly cheap, | ||||
| > | but definitely feasible. Put this in perspective. | ||||
| > | The bloated & much ballyhooed American LCS is cree | ||||
| > | ping up on half a billion US $$$. And I believe th | ||||
| > | e F-35 is projected at around $300 million (per un | ||||
| > | it). What's the point of sacrificing all that ASW | ||||
| > | capability for two or three over-priced fighters t | ||||
| > | hat probably can't even take off the the short fli | ||||
| > | ght deck.Furthermore, Japan has no NEED to operat | ||||
| > | e carrier-based fighters. All their strategic inte | ||||
| > | rests are well within the range of land-based forc | ||||
| > | es. And land-based fighters can carry much heavier | ||||
| > | payloads.This is a medium-sized, self-sufficient | ||||
| > | helicopter-carrying command ship with unusually se | ||||
| > | lf-sufficient defensive capabilities against air & | ||||
| > | sea threats & some light torpedos.Given that Japa | ||||
| > | n's most likely enemies are all building & rely he | ||||
| > | avily on submarines, I think we can take this one | ||||
| > | at face value. http://nehkpg.com [url=http://aayxi | ||||
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