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Every modern warship needs at least one deck gun, even if it's just a 3 or 5" pea shooter.

Tyyr wrote:Every modern warship needs at least one deck gun, even if it's just a 3 or 5" pea shooter.

A pea shooter that could level your house with one round, anyways.

It is still weak by naval standards, though.

Reliant121 wrote:From what dad has said having cannons and SSM weaponry on ships nowadays is relatively superfluous. How long as it been since a major ship to ship battle? I certainly cant think of anything for a VERY long time.

Well he i s correct in regards to SSMs, most naval SAMs can act as SSMs but the deck gun is good for fire support and those times when a million dollar missle is excessive.

Indeed. Firing a million dollar missile to blow up a half dozen pirates in a speed boat is a tad excessive. A simple 5" gun will do that job nicely enough.

Rochey wrote: Firing a million dollar missile to blow up a half dozen pirates in a speed boat is a tad excessive

Yeah, just a tad excessive

Rochey wrote:Indeed. Firing a million dollar missile to blow up a half dozen pirates in a speed boat is a tad excessive. A simple 5" gun will do that job nicely enough.

I think a good 40mm would do the job.

Mikey wrote:

Rochey wrote:Indeed. Firing a million dollar missile to blow up a half dozen pirates in a speed boat is a tad excessive. A simple 5" gun will do that job nicely enough.

I think a good 40mm would do the job.

3-5" gives you redundant AA defence though. Most ships have a bunch of .50 cal's for this sort of thing anyways. Handly outranging an RPG.

Still, 3 guns TOTAL aboard a ship of war just seems like a silly waste of a hull. The thing isn't much better armed then a tank.

Deepcrush wrote:Still, 3 guns TOTAL aboard a ship of war just seems like a silly waste of a hull. The thing isn't much better armed then a tank.

She was designed for Colonial policing, in that regard she's more then a match for anything she's going to encounter in the Africa region.

As long as she doesn't have to fight more then three speed boats at a time.

Deepcrush wrote:As long as she doesn't have to fight more then three speed boats at a time.

She shouldn't have much trouble spotting and taking them out before they can harm her, she has a helicopter and radar after all.

But she's also french.

Deepcrush wrote:But she's also french.

With the rate of fire of most modern deck guns she'd have no problem working her way through a flotilla of speedboats long before they could get close.

Tyyr wrote:But how long has it been since two nations with honest to goodness navies actually came to blows?

1982, although the surface fleets didn't engage. The last such war I'm aware of that involved surface ships engaging was the 1971 India-Pakistan war - there were a few clashes, which the Pakistanis came second in.