US Navy Patrol Frigate Design shown at DIMDEX by Ingalls

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Jeff Head said:

NAVRECO, you got to DIMDEX? Outstanding. I would love to attend one.

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Yes I have...

Here was my coverage (I created a thread in the pictures section of the forum but I guess a lot of members missed it):

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Unfortunatly too little time to visit all ships and visit all exhibitors

I spent 1 hour on Cassard, learned they are fitting TRS3D radars on them and considering modifying them to be able to launch SM2... SM1 are reaching their "use by date" and funds are running low. The officer I talked to don't believe the AAW version of the FREMMs will be funded and French Navy is looking at options to add more life to Cassard and Jean Bart...

I spent 1 hour 30 minutes on the Moroccan Navy Sigma corvette. Nice modern ship.

I only had 30 minutes left for USS Pearl Harbor, I really regretted that because the 30 minutes I spent on it were awesome and the Marine that was my guide really made the most of my time, trying to show me as much things as possible on the deck and in the well deck. Those ships are huge (I hope I get to tour a LPD 17 class and Mistral class one day tho... an amphib that is a bit more "up to dat" i mean...)

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This might be the place to mention the very pessimistic article in Aviation Week about the Burke flight III:
If the trouble is as big as depicted here they can hardly be built. Would there be money for a much smaller number of Zumwalds?

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delft said:

This might be the place to mention the very pessimistic article in Aviation Week about the Burke flight III:

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If the trouble is as big as depicted here they can hardly be built. Would there be money for a much smaller number of Zumwalds?

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How small are we talking, say another two, three zumwalts on top the three already on order?
Zumwalts are orientated to land attack, and "only" hold 80 VLS cells compared to burkes 96 and ticos ~120. Cruisers in the USN are meant to be the central defensive ships, carrying the most missiles, most powerful sensors and most comprehensive command stations. Building Zumwalts as they currently are without modification, and in such small a number cannot replace the ticos currently in service, and if they moved to modify the Zumwalts (i.e.: remove one of the AGS for greater missile room, other internal changes), it may well be that further delays and cost increases will result.

At the moment it looks like flight three burkes will be the only viable way to get replacements for ticos with ships of similar missile load, and in the numbers needed