US Coast Guard Gets Firepower?

[Mike Wren]

will be doing my Unicraft Predator UAV in Coast Guard colours, with Black undersides & armed with a hellfire under 1 wing & a MG pod under t'other

[anthonyp]

I think we got an impromptu group build right here.  My MH-72B will be complete by the weekend (painting the Hellfires and emergency raft capsule now), but I just placed an order with my local hobby shop for a Revell NH90 and HH-65.  Actually, I ordered two of each, decals already spoken for from both HH-65's, while the NH90's will become a USCG MH-91 (as the MH-90 designation already belongs to a NOTAR design here ) and Canadian Rescue helos (the decals and winch from my Italeri Cormorant will come in handy).

I seem to recall there being an AEW Orion that was in USCG service for a little while.  It's now painted all white with a blue stripe, and the words "US Border Patrol" on the side of it.  I know there was an HC-130 with a rotodome at one time too.

Have to get my Coastie HH-70A Merlin and HV-22B Osprey done.

I also remember seeing on the US101 site, there was a CGI mockup of potential US101 uses beyond Marine One.  There was a USAF SAR bird, a USN cargo bird, and a USCG bird.  Here's a link to an article with a pic of all four, followed by a side view of the USCG bird.

US101 4-ship
US101 USCG side view

[SinUnNombre]

I thought of a few more things I'd like to add to my list.

How about:
Higgins boats?
PT/Swift boats?
AAAVs?
FLS Opticas? http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/62...ed168f1576e.JPG

Jon

Edit: If this goes to GB stage, I'm in 100% sure for the Bronco, 95% sure with the Skyraider AEW(if theres a kit of it), and 50% sure with a PT boat(if I can find the kit reasonably priced).

[Captain Canada]

Coast Guard ships are cool.......add all the guns you'd like. As they say, if the poo-poo ever hits the fan, they'll be turning grey and fighting. And hey, the boys gotta practice.........

I'd like to do one of the old CDN destroyers as a CG ship. Icebreakers are cool, too.

As for the Merlin/ Cormorant/US101, I'm planning on a Canadian Coast Guard one.

 

[Scooterman]

I seem to recall there being an AEW Orion that was in USCG service for a little while.  It's now painted all white with a blue stripe, and the words "US Border Patrol" on the side of it.  I know there was an HC-130 with a rotodome at one time too.

The AEW Orions are used by US Customs.  I think they have about half dozen or so.

And the EC-130V was used by the USCG for a little while but couldn't find funding for it or something and it sat in the Boneyard for a bit.  The USAF snatched it and as of '02 was still using it out of Nellis and Edwards for classified tests.  

[Scooterman]

Oh!  To go with the P-3 idea.....why not also the new 737MMA/P-8A?

[SinUnNombre]

Did someone say, Coast Guard Bronco?



If I find a good three-view, I'll do the Skyraider AEW as well.

Jon

[rallymodeller]

Gary, I hate to be a JMN here but the Visby is a Swedish class of ship. The Norwegians use the Skjold class...



...which is just as stealthy, does over 60 knots and is a partial ground-effect ship.

[Gary]

Dohhhhh!!!

Crap, I always seem to get those two ships and their countries mixed up.

Thanx

[Joe C-P]

Rather than a full LHD, how about an LPD or LSD? Helo deck and well deck, but smaller. Make it a "mother ship" for a bunch of high-speed interceptor boats and armed helos.

I will someday do the Revell WIG as a Coastie rescue vessel.

JoeP

[rallymodeller]

60 Rafale for 2 CV? That's an awful lot of weight for a little aircooled 2-cylinder. I mean, really. Andre Citroen designed them robust, but isn't that pushing it a little too far?

heh. Sorry. Just started a new job at an  auto parts store, so I have car-on-the-brain...

[Aircav]

60 Rafale for 2 CV? That's an awful lot of weight for a little aircooled 2-cylinder. I mean, really. Andre Citroen designed them robust, but isn't that pushing it a little too far?

Oh Man, thats funny                

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Indeed, and that's the probleme...



For me, we don't really need a second CV...

Of course, if you want 2 CV operational in the same time, you need more destroyers, more La Fayette frigate, more sub, more Rafale, and we don't have so much money... That's why we'll have 2 CV for 1 CVW...

But is it necessary to build a 2 billion € new CV just for the time when the CdG will be on dock?


For me, and a lot of people in France, including French Army, it's a waste...
The one or 2 billion € needed by this new program would be better used in buying more Rafale (the French Navy at the begining wanted 100 Rafale, because with only 60, an operational CVW will have only 35 or 40 fighters...), more SNA (French SSN).
A parliementary report says that with the cost of the PA2, French Navy could have 2 or 3 new Barracuda sub with cruise missiles...
(And more French are sure that this money could be better used in the hospitals or the subburbs...)

But French Navy is more and more used for humanitarian missions, maritime control etc... not real for strike. That's probably why a second PA was choose:
With 2 CV, you have every time the ability to strike + humanitarian missions.
With 1 CV and 2 or 3 Cruise Missile Laucher Sub, you have every time a bigger ability of strike, but sometimes long period without any ability of humanitarian missions...

It's just example...

[elmayerle]

Pollux,

I think the role the USS Abraham Lincoln played to bringing aid to Indonesia after the tsunami is a pretty good arguement as to why you need a second CV, nothing else really lets you move support in quickly with integral helicopter and cargo delivery/transfer capability.

[Hobbes]

On the other hand, for the price of one CV you can buy a squadron of LPHs which are even more flexible (having a well deck and vehicle parking space plus a large flight deck).