its real. for some reason the Europeans...well especially the French and Scandinavian navies have an almost Asian view on cleanliness. its actually very refreshing to see ships in such good condition. the flip side to all of that is a disturbing fact.
they don't spend even half as much time at sea or cover even a quarter of the distance that US Navy ships do. so its the difference you could say between plow and show horses....
True, operations make Navy ships at the end of a float look like scrap yard scows. Then again the old ships I saw were well used, Trenton, Ponce, Coronado all new ships at the time, but, still quite dirty compared to this ship.
The mistral class is over-deployed by french navy... but we have three of them when we needed only 2 : So the ships have time to be refurbished often. French ships often remain in service 40-50 years, so "La Royale" keeps ship as goo as they can... mistrals have less than 10 years..
The Trenton had just come out of re-fit and was freshly painted yet ops prior to ours had greased up the well deck a lot, Coronado and Ponce had just sailed in from the Med and looked it.
With a hundred METRIC tonnes of payload and 12 knot long distance cruise, 18 knots loaded. It is not an LCAC but it is better than the old LCU's (by 6 knots top speed), but loses 15 tons (US) of payload, also 1/3 the range. Any reason the old LCU 16nn could go 1200 nmi (@8 knots vs L-CAT 400 nmi @ 12 knots vs LCAC 300 nmi @ 35 knots)?
That is the most ship shape, cleanest well deck I've ever seen on a Navy ship!
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its real. for some reason the Europeans...well especially the French and Scandinavian navies have an almost Asian view on cleanliness. its actually very refreshing to see ships in such good condition. the flip side to all of that is a disturbing fact.
Deletethey don't spend even half as much time at sea or cover even a quarter of the distance that US Navy ships do. so its the difference you could say between plow and show horses....
True, operations make Navy ships at the end of a float look like scrap yard scows.
DeleteThen again the old ships I saw were well used, Trenton, Ponce, Coronado all new ships at the time, but, still quite dirty compared to this ship.
The mistral class is over-deployed by french navy... but we have three of them when we needed only 2 : So the ships have time to be refurbished often.
DeleteFrench ships often remain in service 40-50 years, so "La Royale" keeps ship as goo as they can... mistrals have less than 10 years..
The Trenton had just come out of re-fit and was freshly painted yet ops prior to ours had greased up the well deck a lot, Coronado and Ponce had just sailed in from the Med and looked it.
DeleteWith a hundred METRIC tonnes of payload and 12 knot long distance cruise, 18 knots loaded. It is not an LCAC but it is better than the old LCU's (by 6 knots top speed), but loses 15 tons (US) of payload, also 1/3 the range. Any reason the old LCU 16nn could go 1200 nmi (@8 knots vs L-CAT 400 nmi @ 12 knots vs LCAC 300 nmi @ 35 knots)?
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