carr wrote:
Looking good! I like the -9B. Nicely done.
Thanks. I cannot find any pictures of them on Burkes yet, and I only got so close to the piers my last trip to Norfolk. As of now only the Flight Is. On a side note, at least one Flight IIA has Harpoons criss-crossed between the stacks now. Muhuhuhuhu! They have finally gotten their heads on straight.
carr wrote:
Hey, just a thought... If the Mk110's were consolidated into a single mount placed where the RAM is...in keeping with the Navy's practice of reducing the number of guns/missles to the bare minimum. Of course, on the other hand, there's a lot to be said for redundancy. I don't know where the RAM would go, though.
That was the idea with replacing the aft Phalanx mount with a RAM. The right arrangement would be for a Burke to have 2 Phalanx and 2 RAM, but like you said, the Navy has a tendency to reduce weapons to one-on-a-ship. The justification for the arrangement I have, however, is that the Mk110s are BIG point defense weapons and can be used against craft ranging from boats to the slow, clumbsy missiles that hopefully Iran or someone else silly would bring to the table. I imagine that possibly in the Navy's world that would take the place of one Phalanx and one RAM mount. Otherwise, the RAM and Mk110 could literally swap. Deflectors would just have to be put between the launchers and the air-intakes.
carr wrote:
What are you covering with the location of the Masker belts? On the model, the belts seem somewhat far forward...I'm just curious whether you had a specifc location plan or if they're just placed generically? Also, the belts on a Perry stop near the keel but don't actually cross it, if I remember correctly.
There is a guy down there with a whole compartment full of pots and pans, and all he does is bang them together.
But really, that is how they are set up on the real Burkes. The plug might dictate them be pulled back a little. Yes, they do cross the keel in one, big, long strip. When I first learned about it I thought this technique was the coolest thing! SIMPLE!!! Super simple.
I picture it like they're sitting around a table with a pen and napkins. "So, how do you quiet the ship?"
"Well, why not just blow a bunch of bubbles over the hull?"
"Where does the air come from...your butt? No. You would have to have an air compressor that would break and make its own noise, right?"
"Ah...well....okay....wait, no! Run it from the propulsion plant."
"Niccccce."
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I'm impressed with the speed of your builds! Of course, compared to my snail's pace builds, everyone looks fast.
Thank you so much. I only have a few days to pound as much work as I can out of this, then, into the box until Japan it goes. I leave Virginia-land.
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