The Great Democratic kingdom caledonia

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#51 Post by Rodondo »

I do love the colors being used, very maritime!
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#52 Post by heuhen »

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P class
PT boat

In commission: 1975-1998, 1998-2005 (Super-"P"), 2005-(Super-"P2")

Planned: 45
Completed: 45
Retired: 10
Scrapped: 11
Preserved: 5
in service: 19

Length: 47,5m
width: 6,7m
Draft: 1.5 m
Speed: 37 knots++ (depending on armament)
Range: 475 mi (710 km) at 32 knots (56 km/h)
Complement: 26 (including 6 officers)

Armarment:
1*76mm Bofors TAK 76 cannon
1*RAM box
6*Penguin SSMs
4 x TP 613 torpedo tubes

These boats were built to patrol the coast, and the long, narrow fjords. they are built with only one thing in the mind and it's all offensive. they later received an AA short capacity in the form of RAM, and a modified air search radar. They have, for some reason got the nickname "drug hunter" The prototype was able once to reach a speed of 48 knots, but without weapons and cargo.

Super "P2" version, there are only five boats of. this version is equipped with Thales radars and it has been mounted small wheels on the keel for when it's enter a LCD ship!
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#53 Post by Portsmouth Bill »

the "J" and "P" classes are commendable - they pass the test of looking feasible; but Caledonia :( You have to decide what decade your living in: Archaic Soviet style ssm launchers on a modern hull just look daft.
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#54 Post by ALVAMA »

Portsmouth Bill wrote:the "J" and "P" classes are commendable - they pass the test of looking feasible; but Caledonia :( You have to decide what decade your living in: Archaic Soviet style ssm launchers on a modern hull just look daft.
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#55 Post by Portsmouth Bill »

What? No, just as I said - this is a ship that has stealth aspirations, VLS etc. You just don't stick a great frigging 'HGV petrol tanker' on it and expect to be taken seriously
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#56 Post by Blackbuck »

Couldn't you get away with something simiar to on the Houbei missile boats? Angle the launchers outwards but keep the relatively clean lines?
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#57 Post by Portsmouth Bill »

Beats me; I can see that there are Slava style launchers abaft the bridge, so any stealth integrity has already been compromised. I will retire on this one :roll:
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#58 Post by acelanceloet »

aren't those torpedo tubes?
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#59 Post by ALVAMA »

Portsmouth Bill wrote:What? No, just as I said - this is a ship that has stealth aspirations, VLS etc. You just don't stick a great frigging 'HGV petrol tanker' on it and expect to be taken seriously
Sorry mate, I mis understood.
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#60 Post by Thiel »

Re the P class, I don't think the TAK76 is suitable.
They made sense because they made it possible to get a 76mm gun on something the size of an E-Boat. The P class is much bigger, big enough in fact to use the OTO 76 Compact which, unlike the TAK76, is a very good AA gun.
Also, you might want to find room for an aft facing director. As it stands right now you won't be able to engage air targets head-on because the RAM won't bear, but neither can you engage them dead astern because the director wont bear.
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