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Yes! speed is medium to low....it needz to be near 50 Knots instead of 30knots for fast attack crafts....30 knots is normal speed......
at least 40-45
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Yes! speed is medium to low....it needz to be near 50 Knots instead of 30knots for fast attack crafts....30 knots is normal speed......
at least 40-45
It's a patrol boat, with missiles. For effective patrolling, you need endurance. To get endurance (incl. range) , you have to have economical propulsion. So, you you put in fewer or different engines than if speed were of the essence, with less SHP and you sacrifice speed. That's incidentally also why this is a 500 ton boat and not a 220 ton Type 022: if you stay out longer at sea, you need a bigger crew and creature comforts (galley, beds etc)
Penguin, a noob question, if you will : Do engines come in different configurations (settings) ? Which is to say just as a Jeep may switch from a 4x4 to a front (or rear)-wheel drive; can ships switch from a full power setting to give chase or to escape (hence the 40-45 that he was talking about) to a setting that economizes on fuel and hence allows you to stay out longer ? I'm not sure if I can elucidate well enough because I know next to nothing about ships....but to use another example - an Air craft's after-burner switched on for pursuit or escape to a normal thrust for cruising !
Penguin, a noob question, if you will : Do engines come in different configurations (settings) ? Which is to say just as a Jeep may switch from a 4x4 to a front (or rear)-wheel drive; can ships switch from a full power setting to give chase or to escape (hence the 40-45 that he was talking about) to a setting that economizes on fuel and hence allows you to stay out longer ? I'm not sure if I can elucidate well enough because I know next to nothing about ships....but to use another example - an Air craft's after-burner switched on for pursuit or escape to a normal thrust for cruising !
It will be used all or mostly in peacetime, for which duties it is quite suitable. In wartime, it is a unit with capabilities matching its essentially defensive tasks, to be conducted under cover of landbased aviation. So, yeah, value for money.i think pn choose really good fac in limited funds
It will be used all or mostly in peacetime, for which duties it is quite suitable. In wartime, it is a unit with capabilities matching its essentially defensive tasks, to be conducted under cover of landbased aviation. So, yeah, value for money.
It will be used all or mostly in peacetime, for which duties it is quite suitable. In wartime, it is a unit with capabilities matching its essentially defensive tasks, to be conducted under cover of landbased aviation. So, yeah, value for money.
Hey, Penguin ! Can this vessel be used adequately in anti-piracy operations if it were operating solo ?
I would think so, though only relatively close to home (compared to e.g. Perry class and other frigates) or ... from a foreign base (i.e. close to their shore)Hey, Penguin ! Can this vessel be used adequately in anti-piracy operations if it were operating solo ?
Hopefully all and otherwise most of its servicelife will be spent patrolling, rather than having at it with the eastern neighbour. Relative to aircraft even 50-60kt is slow...what is the use when it will be used mostly in peacetime? I still think it should be faster because the "hit and run" role everyone has been talking about would not be very useful if its slow and that too if an aircraft is on its tail
While I agree with the first part of your post, you are saying the 8x c802 on Azmat FAC are less effective than the 8x C802 on Zulfiquar F22P? Or, that the latter is toothless?during war this boat will be very good asset in terms of harbor denial and channel denial to the theme enemy. DESTROYERS & FIRGATES are more of an offesnive weapon which for Pakistan has traditonally been its submarines.
so during war this boat will help keep the channel open from enemy but definetly can't take out frigates or destroyers of the enemy.