The Infinite World

The RXN JMMS ship has been talked about for maybe the last 10 or more years, but there is still no official announcement yet till today 11 Jan 2025.  A lot of people are curious about the details of the ship, how much bigger will the new ship than the current ones in service? Will it have a through deck for aircraft? Of course it would be better to have a through deck like an aircraft carrier, but hopefully something different from the conventional design where you have a tower in the middle side of the ship!  Hopefully it would be like at the rear end of the ship where you can see the whole deck operation! Anything bigger than 200 metre would be a thumbs up, it make little sense and a waste of material and effort to build a smaller ship! The country itself is so small and without any hinterland to say at all, it make sense to have a movable platform to at least keep some hardware away from any possible enemies! Hopefully at least 3 ships are built to a larger scale to have a ...

Modern large warships of today lack short range weapons for self protection and close range engagement. Take a look at the armaments available today on aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ship , supply or support ship, most are small calibre guns which do not offer any real assault ability. Once these big ships are isolated from their other better arms ships in their naval task force, they are sitting duck ! Even modern destroyers or frigates suffer from the same fate. If any one have a few portable anti tank missile launchers would be able to take out a big destroyer. If you try to count how many guns a big US Navy destroyer has, it will not exceed 5. Probably a 5 inch main gun, 2 Phalanx CIWS and a few 20-25mm cannon. If a few laser guided or GPS guided short range missiles are available it would make a big difference!  A few would mean 20 or more missiles to defend the ships or engage close range attackers. Put in a few rapid firing mini guns at strategic position would e...