Thursday, March 10, 2005

ship recce

i'm trying to refresh my memory of the ships that i learnt and recognised during my air force days. there's nothing classified bout them coz it's available on the net.

however, recognising a ship from 5000ft in the air and not getting into it's MEZ or GEZ is another totally different thing. and trust me, it's not easy. (MEZ is missile engagement zone and GEZ is gun engagement zone)

in the navy, the name of the first ship of a particular design built will also determine the 'class' of the ship.
i.e. Singapore navy decides to build corvettes of a new design. the first corvette is named Victory. subsequently, all the corvettes built of this design will be known as the Victory class though the name of the ship might be Valour, Vengence, Vigilance, Valiant or Vigour.

Singapore
Endurance Class (amphibious landing ship)
Victory MCV (missile corvette)
Fearless PV (patrol vessel)
Seawolf (missile corvette)
Bedok MCMV (mine sweeper)

Malaysia
FS2000 aka lekiu (frigate)
Kasturi aka FS1500 (frigate)
rahmat (frigate... and i totally forgot how it looks like)
Hang Tuah (training ship)
handalan aka spica-m (missile gunboat)
perdana (missile gunboat)
jerong (gunboat)
newport (amphibious support)
musyturi aka OPV (offshore patrol vessel)
lerici (mine sweeper)
MPCSS (multi-purpose command and support ship)

USA
Kitty Hawk, Nimitz (aircraft carrier)
Arleigh Burke (a destroyer that's capable of destroying the entire Singapoe, Malaysia and Indonesia air force with it's 200mile range radar and 100mile range missiles)
OHP (frigate)
LA (submarine)

Indonesia
Cluad Jones
PV57
Van Speijk
Tribal
Fatahilah
Parchim
kondor
Frosch
Tripartite

UK
type 42 (frigate)

Australia
Adelaide (similar to the OHP coz US sold it to them)
Anzec

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