LPD Flight II: Flexible and Affordable 

Your right, a long bed version of the LSD.

Andre Sonntag It didn’t need all those fancy bells and whistles before and now it does the job it was meant for just as good.

+wcresponder Hey insist on it ! Call your representatives and leaders and tell them of the Huge growing threat in the Arctic from Putin/Russia !!! Also terror is everywhere as you know ! Canada is one of our best allies and we need your help also, we are being stretched very thin in our military especially after 6+ yrs of O'Dumb Ass F-ing the world up as much as he can !! Thank God they will be gone in Nov.2016 and the "right" people will start the healing to our friends like Israel, Egypt & Taiwan and many more. Maybe one "Mistral" LHD and two LPD or LSD to go along with your two new "Queenston" JSS. Make it a reality and not just a dream ! Good luck Canada, SSgt, USMC 24th MEU, Semper Fi

+Prog X now look at who we have haha

Cold War You mean your new PM ?

Yes

Which is?

@@owaisshaikh3067 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Karel_Doorman_(A833) not exactly the same idea I now realize, but I hardly even remember placing this comment

How so? Hangar does nothing. It's a glorified tent. More deck space baby

@@adventuressurvivalinthailand I don't know, but there's a reason why the USN added helicopter hangars on the flight IIs and above of the Arleigh Burke class destroyers compared to their vanilla ones.

@@adventuressurvivalinthailand I dare you to try and do helicopter repairs on an open flight deck, in sea state 4 with rolling swells, thunder, freezing rain and hail.

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Battle cruisers are obsolete now days ASM missiles and fighter jets could take one out with some ease we need ships that are small fast and cheap.

@odegaard Even if battle cruisers were in larger numbers such as the Russian Kirov Class they are expensive to build, and the Kirov can only carry ~20 Granite missiles. A U.S. Arleigh Burke class destroyer which is much smaller at around 153m compared to the Kirov Class which is well over 250m is a smaller target to hit, plus it usually carries 90+ ASMs when a Kirov only carries 20 Granite ASMs. Even if the Chinese built a smaller more armed battle cruiser the price would be extreme and they would most likely rather spend the money on things such as the Type-03 aircraft carrier or on other ships. It would be much better to get smaller destroyers/frigates to fight which could be made in much larger numbers than a few battle cruisers that could be overwhelmed even in a large surface action group.

@odegaard Even if the Kirov had better more advanced long range capabilities the cost to design upgrade/construct one would be most likely in the billions. Meaning that you could not produce as many. If you can out produce your opponent you have the higher chance of winning. Having lets say 10 Battle cruisers and the enemy has 30 other ships such as frigates, corvettes, cruisers etc. they might lack range, to the zircon ASMs so the battle cruiser can pick them off, but if the enemy has many smaller less costly ships then they can attack the battle cruisers at closer ranges and if even 2-3 battle cruisers are lost it puts them at a much smaller advantage since they lost hundreds of millions to billion of dollars. I think that modern naval warfare will move to smaller less armed ships that might even be autonomous and could be mass produced and could "swarm attack" much larger ships. And even if the zircon had advanced guidance systems it would make it a whole lot harder to hit a ship that is lets say 70m long, and the destruction of a few smaller ships would be almost nothing.

Replacement for Harper’s ferry class.

WanderfalkeAT. They say they are going to downgrade the f-35 to the f-45 mustang II you should look it up its quite neat.

F-45 is just another Fighter-mafia jack ass BS product and article copied from the past criticism of F-15, F-14 and F-22. Now it's F-35, just like when they proposed F-20 Tigershark. Cheap because it's based on F-5, numbers and bla bla bla..... USAF and IDF rejected it because it won't survive in high density middle east ADA environment in 1980s-1990s

WanderfalkeAT "2 Billion a Piece"($2000 million), for an F 35? In fact in 2018 the F 35A is $89 million each and falling. The Su-35 Flanker-E costs $76.4 million. A Dassault Rafale costs $93.6 million. A Eurofighter Typhoon costs $105.7 million. Even the Chinese Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle costs $110 million. And none of these plane will last very long against an F 35 (don't take my word for it read what the pilots that have flown it say).

@@crazyt1ger08 that's funny. I've never heard f35 went against any of those fighters in combat. Where exactly did that happened?

@@RR-us2kp Your first language may not be English so I'll explain what I've done here, the examples above are a single fighter's cost compared to the F 35's cost as from several months ago. Eg. An F 35A single fighter cost was $89 million each (not the ridiculous $2000 million that was quoted by WanderfalkeAT) compared to a Typhoon at $105.7 million. The pilots flying the F 35A have been overwhelmed by it such as in Red Flag 17 where a 20 to 1 kill rate was achieved against F15, F18 and F16s flown by experienced pilots which have flown many of the above fighters. theaviationist.com/2017/02/28/red-flag-confirmed-f-35-dominance-with-a-201-kill-ratio-u-s-air-force-says/