The Irish OPVs built in Appledore is a perfect example of what can be achieved for much less than £100m. Don’t forget the proposed 115m OPV is estimated at £100m plus £50m for the upgraded CMS, radar, weapons and integration etc. The metal bashing to near commercial standards with simple CODAD propulsion, non acoustically optimised hull and minimal design complexity shouldn’t be hugely expensive.SW1 wrote: ↑01 Dec 2023, 17:28 I can see the difference on the two cgi images. I wonder why there remained cgi images? I also never heard the price for those two designs do you have a reliable figure for what they were being offered for? I have yet to see any evidence anywhere of a yard in the uk willing to build an opv of that level for £100m pounds. The yard that built the opvs in 2016 were not inexperienced at building ships.
Even building the David Attenborough for £200m near bankrupted camel laird and appledore did go bust building opvs for Ireland.
In the UK they are fully commercial yard not sure they are in France Italy or Spain.
RRS SDA at 15000t at £200m is a completely different beast to a no frills 3750t FLD OPV at £150m. The RRS SDA is vastly more complex and if anything that example reinforces my point.
• The RRS SDA works out at £13k per tonne.
• The FSS works out at £15k per tonne.
• The Samuel Beckett OPV’s work out at £34k per tonne (adjusted for inflation)
• The OPV MAX at £150m is £40k per tonne.
• The Type 31 at £275m is £48k per tonne.
It’s a crude metric but it is worthy of debate IMO.
Why do you insist that such a simple vessel should cost so much more?