RN new Type 26 impression
 

BBC News - MoD reveals design of Royal Navy future warships

they're aiming for 5400 tons and a buy of 13

I'll put money on 6500 tons and a buy of 6

The UAV hangar has been removed and replaced with a manned aircraft hangar !!!!!

...with an accompanying press release stating that we need so few because they're just soooo much more capable than the old ones.:ok:

.... but with an ISD ahead of the F34B! :E

I see that the new vessels are described as "Global Combat Ships" rather than "frigates". Another example of the "why use one word when three will do" Americanisation of the English language. Sigh......

Very pretty. But, Military Aviation?

a) they will fly helicopters if we have any left

b) they are in competition for defence dollars that may be needed for the carriers

c) part of the UK overall armed forces and so we need to know what the MoD are up to with our money

e) they will have some anti-air capability (maybe)

Where are they going to be built? given that Scotland may soon be going its own way will we see a return of warship building on the Mersey?

in bits all over the place according to the Beeb

I take your points, Harry, but this ain't realy aviation.

Courtney

On the other hand, it is military, which is something this forum is usually sadly lacking....

. . . cruiser?

Fair enough. It's military and it's interesing.

....cruiser?
ISTR when the County Class GMD's were proposed, being cruiser size, they were listed as destroyers, as it, "sounded cheaper than a cruiser".:ok:

Light cruiser surely??

Keep going guys, by page three we will have a full battleship :E


Mach Two

Without the boat to park on and those above the turnover rate in both crews and helicopters would be pretty high.. So it is relevant.

Sounds good; so long as they are capable of being in more than one place at the same time.

Amusingly, it's a greater displacement than a T42 Batch 3. It's a not exactly a T21 frigate - not necessarily a bad thing, but the RN need to think pretty carefully about this as if there's a bill bigger than say £500m each then they're likely to get.... not a lot.

Really, one assumes that the RN need probably 25-30 FF/DD hulls, which with 6 (Count 'em!) T45s, either they need another 6 T45s and then a build of 18 T26s at one every nine months or so. Alternatively six T45s + 22 T26s.

However, can't see it somehow. Too bad for the fisheads, and the rest of us.

S41

More the size of a Type 82 than anything else
Any we all know what happened to the plans for those...

the only answer to getting a lot of cheap hulls is to go overseas and buy a dozen or so of something already in production AND STOP THE RN from "upgrading" them before delivery