Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, October 3, 2016

Sighted Ship, Sank Same

An Incat catamaran has been sunk in the Red Sea by the Yemeni Army, say Arab news agencies.

Al-Masirah Television and Tasnim News Agency report that the 98m wave-piercing HSV-2 Swift, built at the Prince of Wales Bay Incat shipyard in 2003, was destroyed in a rocket attack off the shores of the Red Sea port city of Mokha early on Saturday.
CDR Salamander has a lot more on this.

Those older ASCMs truck along at about 700 MPH. Some of the somewhat newer ones are a tad bit slower. And some of the newer ones can be fired from shipping containers.

If you want more than a minute or two's worth of detection and tracking of an incoming missile, then you have to operate thirty or forty miles offshore. Which pretty much guts the original rationale for the LCS class, as they will be no more survivable in such an environment than was the late HSV-2.

1 comment:

Old NFO said...

Well said. I was aboard Swift when she was out in Naha a few years ago. Looks like they lost everyone onboard in that fire.