Comments on: ‘Better than new’ Aegis CGs http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6820.html Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicholas http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6820.html/comment-page-1#comment-340033 Nicholas Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:34:30 +0000 http://www.murdoconline.net/?p=6820#comment-340033 I agree that new ships will be needed eventually. They should take the plans for these ones, work out what worked and what didn't, fix the problems, improve what can easily be improved, then bring out a new class which is an evolutionary improvement over the current one. By limiting how much new technology and how many changes are made, the risk of cost blowout or significant failure is limited. Until military procurement is fixed I think that's the most they can really do. I agree that new ships will be needed eventually. They should take the plans for these ones, work out what worked and what didn’t, fix the problems, improve what can easily be improved, then bring out a new class which is an evolutionary improvement over the current one. By limiting how much new technology and how many changes are made, the risk of cost blowout or significant failure is limited. Until military procurement is fixed I think that’s the most they can really do.

]]> By: Murdoc http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6820.html/comment-page-1#comment-340018 Murdoc Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:14:53 +0000 http://www.murdoconline.net/?p=6820#comment-340018 <b>Nanderbus</b>: "<em>The SPS-49 air-search radar was removed, reducing topside weight and improving stability.</em>" How much of an effect that will have, I don't have the slightest clue. Nanderbus: “The SPS-49 air-search radar was removed, reducing topside weight and improving stability.”

How much of an effect that will have, I don’t have the slightest clue.

]]> By: Nadnerbus http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6820.html/comment-page-1#comment-340005 Nadnerbus Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:55:16 +0000 http://www.murdoconline.net/?p=6820#comment-340005 Why update perfectly good ships when you can build whole new ones for billions more to fight an enemy and war that doesn't really exist at this time, probably in the future too? Don't these hulls get a certain amount of battering and stress on them that makes them structurally unsound after a while, no matter how much they update them? It sounds like a good idea, but if the basic ship itself is wearing out, slapping new paint and Flow Masters on it doesn't seem to be much of a savings. Hopefully the experts deciding this stuff know. Did they do anything to address the top heaviness of the Ticos in this refit? Why update perfectly good ships when you can build whole new ones for billions more to fight an enemy and war that doesn’t really exist at this time, probably in the future too?

Don’t these hulls get a certain amount of battering and stress on them that makes them structurally unsound after a while, no matter how much they update them? It sounds like a good idea, but if the basic ship itself is wearing out, slapping new paint and Flow Masters on it doesn’t seem to be much of a savings. Hopefully the experts deciding this stuff know.

Did they do anything to address the top heaviness of the Ticos in this refit?

]]> By: Nicholas http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/6820.html/comment-page-1#comment-339982 Nicholas Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:07:20 +0000 http://www.murdoconline.net/?p=6820#comment-339982 That sounds like a lot less of a waste of money than the DDG-1000 program or whatever it's called now. That sounds like a lot less of a waste of money than the DDG-1000 program or whatever it’s called now.

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