Proceedings Podcast: NATO Navies In Review

[@jeffheiner]

Very interesting payloads not platforms thank you for a great interview and report Mr. Wertheim

[@fredbustin3788]

Another good, informative show. Thanks.

[@adityamookerjee.]

This is a great podcast. When is Mr Wertheim going to release the next volume of The Naval Institute Guide To the Combat Fleets of the world? I am looking forward to it.

[@garyevans3051]

Thank you for the information…..🎉

[@WildBillCox13]

Discharged in '74. There was an experimental mine warfare ship at Charleston then, full of Styrofoam, I was told. I thought ships still used paravanes.

[@RobertReg1]

Good talk

[@SelwynClydeAlojipan]

How about a factory/fabricator ship that can load a bunch of prefabricated modular missile components and then assemble them quickly while transporting them en route to just outside a combat area? The fabricator ship's robotic assembly lines can build specialized missiles that are running out of stock and are appropriate to counter a localized threat. It will probably have to accompany one of the aircraft carriers so it is protected by the carrier's frigates, destroyer screen, and air group. This allows the aircraft carrier and its surface screen to shoot off their load of missiles then retire to the middle of the ocean while the fabricator ship rearms them. It would be similar to a fuel tanker and a fleet supply ship accompanying such a carrier task force.

[@rickjames18]

I have to ask, how did the PLAN manage to get the AESA like AEGIS system on most of their ships that looks identical to the US system? They also have the CAPTAS-4 looking towed array sonar on some ships which makes me wonder how the CCP managed to get so many "western" looking systems still in operation? I could be wrong but from the footage and some articles it seems that way.

[@everettputerbaugh3996]

Why develop something when you can steal it?

[@SamtheIrishexan]

They clearly stole it and reverse engineered. They also have a quite capable scientific community that used the public research to catch up. The PLAN ships are built from stolen tech and they will perform about as well as Russia if they decide to throw down.

[@CCGNZ65]

Espionage pure and simple,it also makes me sick that China has built a modern blue water navy in 20yrs. and now possesses the industrial might that Adm. Yamamoto praised us for at the outset of WW2, hopefully the Chinese can't manufacture the lessons learned or experience achieved in the last 80 yrs. that we have gained and in any full scale naval conflict I'm counting on our submariners to wreak havoc on the PLAN.

[@InsufficientGravitas]

@@CCGNZ65 Honestly there is just as good a chance that they are taking styling cues from US designs to appear moddern and advanced but we won't know weather they actually are till we get a good look on the insides and even then they probably wont declassify that info any time soon. when it comes down to it its not hard to make something look modern, but as the russians have demonstrated its a lot harder to make it actually perform like modern kit.

[@CCGNZ65]

@@InsufficientGravitas Understandable,but dismissing China isn't healthy,respect all opponents,chances are that they can't achieve US naval experience which is hard won,but if the type 55 is anywhere near it's advertised capabilityit is pretty fearsome,I bemoan the last 20 yrs. in which we have the LCS and Zumwalt debacles instead of deploying a modern frigate to replace the Pery class and not developing a Tichonderoga successor,in spite of updates these ships are long in the tooth.

[@michaell.8513]

Very well done!

[@petrokitsul2070]

You guys are rock 👏👏

[@jollygreen4662]

Sharing weapons tech production blueprints opens up to the enemy getting that blueprint

[@everettputerbaugh3996]

Multi-million dollar missiles. They are hand made, one at a time. Buy enough to justify an assembly line and the bean counters will have a wet dream over how much cheaper they will become.

[@wombatwilly1002]

Are Canada's two row boats in the mix?

[@mikhailfranco]

15 Type 26s, allegedly.

[@wombatwilly1002]

@@mikhailfranco With Johnson 9.9's?

[@roberhow2441]

Cargo ship missile platforms.

[@kendonian357]

Errrrrrr.........

[@awesomepawn2]

Yes?

[@kendonian357]

@@awesomepawn2 No??

[@awesomepawn2]

@@kendonian357 understandable, have a nice day.

[@kendonian357]

@@awesomepawn2 Of course. And you