News Battle of Dogger Bank II?

[mojoey]

Good read on the Kuznetsov... http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...to-be-heavily-armed-even-without-its-air-wing

Are...are those VLS tubes?

Metal as .

 

[APDAF]

They have just one carrier, which is old and seldom used.

She is newer than half of the Nimitz class... being commissioned around 1990

 

[Andy44]

She is newer than half of the Nimitz class... being commissioned around 1990

The Nimitz class is, however, exceptionally well-funded and kept up.

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Are...are those VLS tubes?

Metal as .

Yeah, they look cool. And if there's a fire on the flight deck, be it from an accident or a combat hit, they might look really cool...from a safe distance.

The space taken up by those tubes is space not usable for hangar space, and it's also pretty much where you would want to put steam catapult machinery, so while it increase's the ship's organic firepower it seriously compromises the effectiveness of its air wing.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

The Nimitz class is, however, exceptionally well-funded and kept up.

That they are. Saw Nimitz herself a few months back over at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard undergoing midlife maintenance. It was pretty cool.

 

[Linguofreak]

I don't think the USSR was ever really into power projection; certainly not in the style of the US Navy or the Royal Navy before that. Russia has always been most concerned with fending off invasions and deterring attacks, thanks to historical episodes with Hitler and Napoleon, etc.

Unfortunately, their strategy for fending of invasions has been invading their neighbors to gain Lebens-- *ahem* -- buffer zones.

 

[Urwumpe]

Are...are those VLS tubes?

Metal as .

Not exactly VLS, since they are not vertical, but like for the Oscar submarines, tilted. But yes. And each missile has the size and mass of a MiG-21 and is about as intelligent as a Japanese Kamikaze pilot. And flies with Mach 3.

The more cool feature of the carrier is on the sides... the firepower of a few S-300 batteries combined.

I really hope the carrier OPS DLC for DCS arrives one day. Also it would be pretty cool having such a freak design in Orbiter... its not optimized and streamlined like Nimitz and its successor, but so full of compromises, that it is getting fun again.

 

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37928222

Russia's defence ministry says two of its navy destroyers forced away a Dutch submarine to stop it spying on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
The sub was 20km (12 miles) from the Admiral Kuznetsov at the time of the incident, the military said.