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Just a thought: PN Semi-Submersible --unarmed
Topic Started: Jun 11 2005, 08:08 PM (2,412 Views)
Lorenz_Mallari
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el_commandante
Jun 12 2005, 10:35 AM
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Oplan pawikan

A big warship will be built soon in ----



Is this true? what kind of ship? destroyer, frigate, or corvette? and for whom? for the PN?

I think its a cruiser :armywink:
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Lorenz_Mallari
Sep 11 2007, 06:00 PM
el_commandante
Jun 12 2005, 10:35 AM
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Oplan pawikan

A big warship will be built soon in ----



Is this true? what kind of ship? destroyer, frigate, or corvette? and for whom? for the PN?

I think its a cruiser :armywink:

For and BY whom?
"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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horge
Sep 11 2007, 06:41 AM
Sir Frenzy :armysmile:
Auxiliary Floating Drydock (Light)

Manoks earlier provided a link to pics on his website:
http://www.hueybravo.net/NavyPages/afdl1drydock.htm

Actually, our Bacolod (Frank Besson) class LSV also has a quasi-FD configuration,
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/lsv/
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meaning it (the SSV configuration) can submerge partially.

The ability to design-build larger floating drydocks allows a yard to explore
building "baby" assault ships: just add a helo deck and hangar on top of the
dock walls, troop space under that, and cram the cradle with RHIBS or LC's
and amphibious armor. Lots of other possibilities from there.

Not a whole lot of technological challenge involved, and the PN has been
doing the same sort of jury-rigging on its aging LST's for decades.

:ssalute:
horge


PS: My interest in this vessel class is exceeded only by that towards seeing old
commercial merchant hulls converted to camouflaged OPV's: ships that look like
fishing or research vessels, but are actually fully armed, long-endurance OPV's.
(Sure, it goes against signed conventions, but everyone else is doing it, hehe)

Nice idea. Is there a precedent or a like model now existing?
"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes."

"Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can."

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pachador


one of the Filipino shipyards purchased an ex-PN floating drydock . they are now using it


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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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