thales’s ARPR block2 is almost entirely an X-band AESA isn't it?
I said thales i-mast, not thales apar
thales’s ARPR block2 is almost entirely an X-band AESA isn't it?
No one will distribute salvo specifically for you to shoot it down, aside from specific cases from extreme range. But such attacks are unlikely.With the radar horizon, that is at 60 seconds of engagement time, which would be enough for at least 2 SAM engagements. Then you've got the RAM, then CIWS.
What year were the estimates made for the Kongo and Sejong? The Burke estimate is 2011 dollars I see. The last Kongo was launched 1996 so $1.1 billion in 1996 dollars is not comparable to say $0.923 billion in 2011 dollars when the last Sejong was launched. (The actual estimates given here could have been made even earlier such as when a batch was contracted rather than when the last one's in the water.) And those won't be directly comparable to $0.88 billion in 2017 dollars for when the first 055 was launched. And that would make everything sound right to me since I would think Japan has the highest cost, followed by Korea, and with China a distant third here for a comparable item/service. Cus if they were the same year, I would find the Chinese estimate too high or Korean/Japanese estimate too low. Korea and Japan have higher labor costs and use US-imported weapons systems (manufacturing location aside). If China can build a destroyer for X, a comparable design in the same year I would think would cost maybe 1.5X for Korea (considering it specializes in ship-building) and maybe 2.5X for Japan. But that's assuming the designs were comparable; nobody knows what 2017 items they could have packed into the 055 to edge costs up.Already had a look at this when I was doing the cost estimate for the Type-55 last year. It's all on an old post in this thread.
The Daring and Burkes are very expensive. See list below.
Daring (1.6 Billion USD)
Arleigh Burke (1.8 Billion USD)
Sejeong AEGIS DDG (0.923 Billion USD)
Kongo AEGIS DDG (approx $1.1 Billion USD)
The Koreans and Japanese do their AEGIS destroyers for around HALF the cost of an Arleigh Burke.
And note they buy the same AEGIS weapons sets
So China building a Type-55 for 6 Billion Yuan (0.88 Billion USD) looks correct.
Indian media reports have raised alarms over the launch, pointing out the destroyer is superior to any ship yet completed by the Indian Navy.
"The colossal Type 055 is considerably larger and more powerful than India's latest ... destroyers which have still not been commissioned,"
China considers the US its only serious rival. You aim up, you go up. You aim down, you go down.The text below is copied from a CNN article (full article can found on cnn.com). It makes me laugh. I think China has never take India as a serious competitor.
Model companies must love ships like Zumwalt/055, all these so called stealthy design need literally is plastic blocks, no more delicate small pieces.I now am anxiously waiting on the model makers to come out with all fo the following in 1/350 scale