Shocking News - French Victorious in Combat

[Tsukiyumi]

No missles, no anti-aircraft weapons? Just sad....

Most of our modern ships don't carry more than one gun either; the job of anti-air and ship-to-ship are covered by various missiles and CIWS.

[Aaron]

That's because she was designed for light policing duties. Not everything requires a ship with a billion dollars worth of weaponary.

[Tsukiyumi]

It does carry two Exocets. Those things are pretty serious anti-ship weapons, and that cannon is fairly powerful with a high ROF (78rpm).

[Sionnach Glic]

Cann me over-careful, but I think I might look at this ship and just possibly notice the cannon...

Well, if they approached from behind then the cannon wouldn't be noticeable. If it were nighttime, that would also have helped to screw up any chances of recognising the ship for what it was.

[Deepcrush]

True enough.

[Foxfyre]

US Navy uses deceptive lighting to simulate differnt ship types such as tankers, cruise ships, fishing boats ect........ If they were doing something similar and it was dark you might mistake that class of ship for a civie (such as a fishing boat).

[Nickswitz]

Except it just so happened that that fishing boat had trained Marines (or French equivilant) with weapons and tactics. Yeah, I think it was slightly unfair to the pirates, but who cares, they don't really deserve fair.

[Tyyr]

Call me a bastard, but I think their first mistake was bothering to take prisoners. A few rounds from the deck gun then let nature sort out the rest.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

US Navy uses deceptive lighting to simulate differnt ship types such as tankers, cruise ships, fishing boats ect........ If they were doing something similar and it was dark you might mistake that class of ship for a civie (such as a fishing boat).

Deceptive lighting? How would that work? *Legit curious*

[Tsukiyumi]

Call me a b*****d, but I think their first mistake was bothering to take prisoners. A few rounds from the deck gun then let nature sort out the rest.

Agreed.

US Navy uses deceptive lighting to simulate differnt ship types such as tankers, cruise ships, fishing boats ect........ If they were doing something similar and it was dark you might mistake that class of ship for a civie (such as a fishing boat).

Deceptive lighting? How would that work? *Legit curious*

I imagine, putting rows of lights at various heights, or extinguishing others to mimic the lighting profile of certain known ship types.

[Sionnach Glic]

At a distance, the only thing you'll see of a ship is its lights during night time. Setting lights at certain points can give your ship the impression of having a different shape than it really does.

Tyyr: I'm inclined to agree with you. As callous as it may sound, I really think we need to start setting examples of what happens to pirates.

[Graham Kennedy]

Actually she was designed to be a very light, small, cheap ship with minimal crew and capability. Low cost to operate, but therefore perfect for this kind of mission.

The gun is a 100 mm cannon. As well as that she carries two 20 mm cannon, plus the two Exocets mentioned before. She also has a helicopter; not sure if that's armed or not, but you have to imagine it can at least have a couple of GPMGs mounted on the doors. You'd be mad to take on a real Frigate or Destroyer in her, but that's really not what she's designed for.

[Deepcrush]

So she's a Diet-Frigate or something?

[Tsukiyumi]

So she's a Diet-Frigate or something?

It's the TAB of naval warfare.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Thanks, Rochey and Tsuki. That'd make sense.