056 class FFL/corvette

so its mean they reloaded this missile manually?

joshuatree said:

Doubt it, the ship is just too small of a displacement to have room. The two garages are mostly occupied by the triple torpedo launchers.

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simonov said:

so its mean they reloaded this missile manually?

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I don't know, perhaps dockside it is a manual reload or they may have an auto reloader. But I doubt they have any means of reloading while ship is at sea simply because I don't see room to store missile reloads or a reloading device.

simonov said:

so its mean they reloaded this missile manually?

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My visit onboard one last year don't recall it has any room on that deck below it has any reloading facility whatsoever - on the sides are the triple torpedo launcher, amidship is the control room for the helipad.

If there's any reloading at sea, it'll be a manual one, the good'o taking ammo from the lockers from below decks, pass it up the ladder and stuff.

joshuatree said:

I don't know, perhaps dockside it is a manual reload or they may have an auto reloader. But I doubt they have any means of reloading while ship is at sea simply because I don't see room to store missile reloads or a reloading device.

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It is unnecessary anyway for 056 to have auto reloader. Remember it is meant to operate within 1st island chain with a lot of support both from land and other ships. But I'd like to see it has more than 8 SAM, perhaps 16

Given the size the missile, the space required for a magazine and autoloader, not to mention the added mechanical complexity, I think it's best the autoloader is left out on a ship of 056's size.

Even the good ol' USN is doing manual reloading for the RIM-116.

If the design called for more missiles, then it'd make more sense to simply install a launcher that held more rounds, instead of an 8 round launcher + reloading crane + stored rounds.

antiterror13 said:

It is unnecessary anyway for 056 to have auto reloader. Remember it is meant to operate within 1st island chain with a lot of support both from land and other ships. But I'd like to see it has more than 8 SAM, perhaps 16

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I think 8 is fine, as you mentioned, within the 1st island chain, it has plenty of support from land and other ships. 16 may make it ungainly top heavy.

adeptitus said:

If the design called for more missiles, then it'd make more sense to simply install a launcher that held more rounds, instead of an 8 round launcher + reloading crane + stored rounds.

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It would be interesting that instead of the current format of essentially a fixed box on a turrent and missiles are individually loaded, they create a box that is easily snapped on and snapped off a turrent. So when it comes time to reload dockside, instead of that pic with 8 guys, a pulley, a raised platform, and a dolly while the ship is bobbing up and down; it would simply be a preloaded box swapped in for the empty box with perhaps a crane and 2 guys?

I'm actually more of a fan for the stanflex module concept. IMO if the 056 can be equipped with 2-3 such modules, you'd simply swap them as needed per mission profile.

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