Re: T45 Daring class progress and unidentified ship


Eugene Griessel wrote:
"Fin" <f_macrae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry to post a naval related question. Doesn't seem to be the norm
anymore ;)

You should be ashamed of yourself!

Looks like they have the main radar in place along with the main gun
although I couldn't make out much more from my vantage point. They
have sneakily parked 4 other vessels all round it. I tried to track
down what the offending ships were without much luck. My 3x zoom
wasn't enough to make out the names of the ships accurately and the
hull numbers didn't bring up anything useful from google. Does anyone
know what class of vessel they are? My guess would be a frigate of
some type as it was noticably smaller than the T45, although I believe
the T45 is substantially bigger than the T42s which were DDGs so you
can probably ignore that. Anyway feel free to have a look and help me
identify these mystery ships.

Wild guess - I do not have Jane's handy - but the 29 and 30 pennant
numbers belong to the Malaysian vessels Lekiu and Jebat - and they
look vaguely like that IIRC.

Eugene L Griessel

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

Hey Eugene,

Thanks for the quick reply. That looks like it might be right.

They seem to have done some significant upgrades to it's radar profile
and upgraded the main radar at least in size. Looks like they have
upgraded the main gun as well.

http://navy.mod.gov.my/sitecont/option-com_content/task-view/id-105/Itemid-204/lang-en/

The hull and forecastle (if thats the right word) along with the hull
number make it too much of a coincidence to not be the same vessel.

Well spotted though, Cheers

Finlay

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