A New Toy for the Navy

[Nigel H-J]

Wonder whether Dave would have liked this when he was in :think:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hamp ... 852111.stm

Regards
Nigel

[Techy111]

A Tad small for our David i reckon.... :think:



Tony

[TSR2]

And not enough antena for him to play with ;0)

[DaveB]

Was that the officers mess they were talking in :o

Couldn't do with the MCO being in the Ops Room. The Ops Room staff would be able to hear what inappropriate names we call them

I have to say, I prefer the last HMS Daring but there's no doubting the new ships technoligical advances. It's all very 'Star Wars' compared to my day.

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[SkippyBing]

Dave, with the advent of modern technology I think they've put the MCO in the OPS room so they can see when the OM(C)s have finished dusting the overheads!

[ChrisHunt]

54 heads? I thought they said they had 190 personnel on board? That ops room looks like it belongs to Destroyer Command X rather than an actual ship. BTW I'm pretty sure Destroyer Command X doesn't exist, but I wish it did!

Regards,
Chris

[Seaking]

Yea I watched it, a mass of technology for sure, their ratings mess was something else, how times have changed since my day.
Plug points for charging cell phones, laptops, overheard private lockers lol, they have it made nowadays....hey I'll sign back on lol.

[DaveB]

Skip.. I have no idea what an OM(C) is but I doubt it would have happened in Mountbattens day (I know it didn't!) I ended my time as a 3-badge killick like the chap in the film but I was nowhere near as polite

54 heads must have been an error mate. I don't think even AR IV had that many.. unless of course the new Daring is a floating urinal ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Techy111]

Did you hear about this sad event the other day...?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -eBay.html



Tony

[SkippyBing]

I have no idea what an OM(C)

Monkeys who work in the MCO (think it stands for Operator Mechanic (Comms)), I'm fairly sure it's changed again but it was OM(C) when I did my task book so I can't be bothered learning the new name.

I know there's a lot of spare space on the T-45, that's what happens when you want to put such a heavy radar so high up, but 54 heads sounds a bit superfluous unless you plan on a third of the ship being in there at a time. I'm guessing a reporter asked a stupid question and got a made up answer, not that I'd ever do something like that....