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| Just a thought: PN Semi-Submersible --unarmed | |
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| Lorenz_Mallari | Sep 11 2007, 06:00 PM Post #21 |
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Frustrated Airsoft Player
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I think its a cruiser
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| Marschall | Sep 11 2007, 06:46 PM Post #22 |
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For and BY whom? |
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"THE BEST PARENT AND GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY AMONGST MEN IS TRUTH" ~ Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei “When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.” - G. K. Chesterton MSantor is not a man of sound reason. Savages have always preferred the club for they know that they are powerless against the pen. But who is the greater fool - the savage or the one that gives him power? May Truth rebuke you. | |
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| al'Lan Mandragoran | Feb 11 2009, 08:45 AM Post #23 |
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Nice idea. Is there a precedent or a like model now existing? |
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"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes." "Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can." - Robert Jordan; The Wheel of Time | |
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| pachador | Feb 21 2009, 05:41 AM Post #24 |
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one of the Filipino shipyards purchased an ex-PN floating drydock . they are now using it |
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| kingkong | Apr 27 2009, 12:29 PM Post #25 |
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BRP-Rizal BRP Rizal (PS-74) is the first of two Rizal class ships in service with the Philippine Navy. She is formerly an ex-USN Auk class minesweeper that were produced during World War II, and is now classified as a patrol corvette protecting the vast waters of the Philippines. Along with other ex-World War II veteran ships of the Philippine Navy, she is considered as one of the oldest active fighting ships in the world today Under the Philippine Navy, she was reclassified and recoded a number of times. As a Minesweeper, she was first classified as RPS Rizal (PCE-69), then was reclassified as a Patrol Corvette under the new code RPS Rizal (PS-69). In 1996 she was renumbered as BRP Rizal (PS-74), which is used to this day. Together with her sister ship, she was one of the Navy's main warships during the 1960s up to the present Sensors and processing systems: Raytheon SPS-5C G/H-band Surface Search Radar Raytheon SPS-64(V)11 Radar DAS 3 I-band Navigation Radar SQS-17B hull-mounted Sonar (high frequency) Mk52 GFCS for 3"/50 guns Mk51 GFCS for 40 mm guns[1] [2] Armament: 2 × 3"/50 caliber gun Mk22 dual purpose guns 2 × Mk1 Mod2 Twin 60 caliber Bofors 40 mm gun 2 x Twin 70 caliber 20 mm Oerlikon guns 4 x 50 caliber 12.7 mm machine guns |
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