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Originally posted by EUFighter View PostThe problem is the GE supplied intercooler. They should have stuck to the proven COGOG propulsion system.
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T 45 and all that.
Originally posted by EUFighter View PostSee page 7 of your link and the details on Project Napier.
Would love to see them try to refit the D45's with Napier Sabre engines, it nothing else it would make a great sound .
The Royal Navy and Strategic Defence Reviews are having a major effect on ability to cover world wide Defence patrolling or Flag showing as well as national tasks such as Falklands and Carribean. A handful of Destroyers will NOT cover all Theaters, just not enough units. When the CVN's come to be deployed there may not be enough viable Fleet to put a combined Fleet to sea with it's Defence and supply train. You will get more low level work from a few advanced OPV's than one almighty Destroyer. I would recommend reading Nick Child's " Future of Britian's Navy". It's a little bit dated but the genesis of current difficulties are exposed. The final global question is,that there are countries out there with the ability to launch nuclear warheads, and is it safe to allow them think, that we think, they haven't the bottle?
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Just to put it into perspective, you could get 20 P61's for the price of one Type 45 destroyer.
If it is about showing the flag this is what counts. I don't see any major air threats in the Caribbean or off the Horn of Africa. This the role is just what a P61 is designed to do.
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Originally posted by EUFighter View PostJust to put it into perspective, you could get 20 P61's for the price of one Type 45 destroyer.
If it is about showing the flag this is what counts. I don't see any major air threats in the Caribbean or off the Horn of Africa. This the role is just what a P61 is designed to do.
You send an OPV and the receiving national says 'thats nice...'. you send an 8,000 ton destroyer and they say ' that is tasty, and decking huge...'. you send a 100,000 ton aircraft carrier and they say 'jesus ****ing Christ, look at the ****ing size of that thing - its bigger than the ****ing Death Star!'
Sometimes the size of the envelope is a large part of the message.
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Originally posted by Graylion View PostIf the UK started having actual competition and stopped feeding BAe whatever they wanted they might be able to afford more ships.
At which point, the leech that is the effectively nationalised BAES shipbuilding industry no longer looks quite so bad...
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Naval ship building processes
Originally posted by Sparky42 View PostIn terms of ship building, outside of the SSN/SSBN, what's US origin? The missile systems, Sonar systems, Radar Systems, engines aren't.
The origin of equipment is determined by availability , first of all , in the Home market, then a Nato/EU supplier, then a non-EU approved supplier if that is the only source. For example when TWT radar was introduced to the RN, it was built in Philips Signaal, and some of it's computerised components came from an electronic company in Galway. Obviously British origin equipments are prioritised but in the end Needs Must dictate.
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