Jura The idiot
General
does it really?
(I would've thought like the same what the debater
schenkus
told you)
LOL! now I recalled your video from Thursday at 7:57 PM
how is the search going?
052C/052D Class Destroyers
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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(I would've thought like the same what the debater
schenkus
told you)
LOL! now I recalled your video from Thursday at 7:57 PM
The shared plenum is only required for hot-launched modules like the Mk 41 VLS. If you don't need to share a common bottom, then the bottom can be whatever the hull allows.
As for the multiple VLS launches, I don't remember which video it is, and TBH have not been looking all that hard.
Does anyone have details about how the cold launch feature is implemented in this VLS ?
Is this a small additional "booster" you put into the bottom of each cell of a cold launched missile, or is this is bigger mechanism that sits below all the cells of a module ?
I have always thought there is a shared cold launch mechanism below the cells, but I might be completely off.
Jura The idiot
General
I second that question
Hyperwarp
Captain
If we assume the 052D launch system is similar to the Mk.41 or Sylver then that arrangement is problematic. The canister dimensions may vary but the overall dimensions of 8-cell module is fixed.
1 & 2: Mk.41 VLS
3: Sylver VLS
4 & 5: 052D VLS
Jura The idiot
General
I wished my memory was better ... only now I realized I had seen this:
before ... Jun 21, 2017
First time seeing an entire group of 052D VLS modules fully opened.
Compared with 054A's VLS:
If it is in fact a universal launcher, then each cell would provide its own gas ejection mechanism, which would sit at the bottom of the cell, just like for land-based cold-launched SAMs like HQ-9 and HQ-16. Again, Mk 41 and Sylver are both hot launch VLS, which means they have to share a common plenum structure. There is no plenum for the UVLS, so the only structural constraint on the bottom is from the hull, not from the launcher itself.
Jura The idiot
General
@Bltizo
You've just been vindicated. Henri came to the same conclusions you did. The crane is not a permanent fixture on the ship but is placed ashore.
Yeah, I suspected that must be the case.
Though, much credit of course to Henri for doing the research and finding some very interesting previously unknown documents that definitively proves those suspicions and settles this matter once and for all.