Philippine Navy acquires Hamilton class patrol craft

**hein** · March 18th, 2011 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by userfriendly

The Chinese have a modern navy. Its big enough to threaten the US navy's dominance of asia. I found a article that said the Chinese navy can have as many as:

6 nuclear attack subs
54 diesel subs
25 destroyers
49 frigates
85 missle armed patrol crafts
55 landing ships
3 nuclear missle subs
145 aircraft
34 helicopters

Why would anyone want to mess with that?

Restback ng Pilipinas

Hopefully....

**safeorigin** · March 18th, 2011 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by Big_daddy

agree...medyo luma na rin yung gamit nya...more for coastal patrol sya instead of frontline blue water operations.

too slow for coastal patrol

smaller, lighter turbine patrol boats would have been better for that role

like this particular columbian patrol boat

**Ry_Tower** · March 18th, 2011 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by safeorigin

this is the particular ship they bought

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Hamilton_(WHEC-715)

WHEC-715 specs:

http://www.harpoondatabases.com/ency...Entry1502.aspx

P***, gas turbine engine, takaw sa fuel niyan. Mabuti pa speedboat na lang panghabol sa mga smuggler at illegal fishermen at abu sayyaf kesa naman antigwa na lumalamon ng gas!

**safeorigin** · March 18th, 2011 08:01 PM

they have both turbine and diesel engines

diesel for long range cruise and turbine for dash

but yeah, smaller vessels would benefit from this better

**Big_daddy** · March 19th, 2011 03:50 AM

di ba meron binigay sa atin na fast patrol craft...di ko sure if HK or US nagbigay...I think Pegasus class sya or something.

**chua_riwap** · March 19th, 2011 05:09 AM

sana lagyan nila ng ganito.....

gatling gun

**safeorigin** · March 19th, 2011 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Big_daddy

di ba meron binigay sa atin na fast patrol craft...di ko sure if HK or US nagbigay...I think Pegasus class sya or something.

royal navy peacock class yun

navy corvette yun so medyo mabagalbagal pa

chua, meron atang phalanx CIWS yung bagong acquire

**chua_riwap** · March 19th, 2011 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by safeorigin

royal navy peacock class yun

navy corvette yun so medyo mabagalbagal pa

chua, meron atang phalanx CIWS yung bagong acquire

ah ok....so iyon na pala yun.

**hein** · March 19th, 2011 04:27 PM

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Last ditch effort lang ang Phalanx CIWS. If there are ten missiles coming your way, dasal ka na lang.

**safeorigin** · March 19th, 2011 04:49 PM

nowadays, you wouldn't expect missiles to come in horizontally

they would approach the target vertically since their velocity is augmented by gravity

so whether you shoot them down or not, it will still hit you