Most losses will come from catastrophic single ship incidents rather than being aggregated across the fleet and time. Their point about the disproportionate impact on naval base areas and communities is something I had not thought about directly, but one can see how this would be an issue.

Are we discriminating against Motor Launches here!

Pink Lists yes. Though if we are only talking down to destroyer or escort level it might well be that the numbers are in the official campaign write up. I don't have my copy here so can't check that.

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A good read, this brings it to the point for me:

'This raises the legitimate question of why Germany should stick with FCAS and provide the necessary funding for the development of an aircraft that may not best meet the Air Force’s requirements.'

the transfer of the existing batteries. Then the US has its own expanded requirements. So unless there is progress on European assembly of battery components as well as missiles the figure is well unrealistic, even before the funding element is solved.

In the film the pontoon/barge construction does look a little more substantial than in the painting.

Quite near the truth.

I was merely saying that from a second or so shot I was not going to extrapolate too much.

Okay, its only a very short shot, seems more stable than I thought. I was getting strong RCH155 vides there.

Or rather the gun doesn't seem to be fixed to the pontoon and runs back on it. Maybe it's too hard to be sure from that though.

That's a lot of War Studies.

Would like to have seen the recoil effects when firing.