From Type-31 thread.
dmereifield wrote:donald_of_tokyo wrote:dmereifield wrote:GFE can't be account for much of that, surely.
Why not?
I (optimistically) imagined that it reflects the decision to "add" non-negligible GFE to the program?
# If total money is not enough, for exmpke, by disbanding HMS Monmouth now and relocating CAMM system (and its ~60M GBP update cost), directly to T31.
By the way, from there this "2B GBP" came from?
Sounds surprising that GFE could comprise 40% of the programme costs, especially since Babcocks AH140 seems to use so little kit from RN inventory. What are they using exactly other than CAMM that could be furnished by HMG?
Among the 2B GBP, 1.25G GBP is for build and first year maintenance/training/manuals, 250M GBP is for "other" (non-related to building, as noticed several months ago). So, the added 500M GBP (or 100M GBP per hull)
could be the GFE.
If so (and only if), what can be done?
# A little too much assumption, I agree
Here I assume the basic 1.25B GBP hull has
- a 57 mm gun, 2x 40 mm gun, and 12 CAMM
- a Helo hangar, 4 boat bays, place for 2-4 ISO 20ft container.
(completely meeting the T31 RFI requirement).
Then, if the 100M GBP per hull, is for "addition", what shall we do?
- add Sea Sensor ship torpedo defense system (was option in RFI) = ~10M GBP?
- add 12 more CAMM to make it 24 = 10-20M GBP? (+ 12M for missile itself?)
- execute hull-sonar option = 3-4M GBP?
- execute muzzle speed radar on the 57mm gun = 1M GBP?
- improve the FCS for 40mm guns from optical/IR/laser to those including radar, = 3-4M GBP?
- and to handle all these options, improving the CMS to
-- improve AAW analysis capability (added CPU/memory, 5M GBP?)
-- newly add ASW tactics/analysis capability with 2-3 more consoles for ASW team (20-30M GBP?)
So, ~50-80M GBP to make it "normal GP frigate" is easy to imagine.
For another 20-50M GBP, there are many options easily foreseen. For example, the CMS level shall be pretty low (even with above improvements) in the basic 1.25B GBP program = it is just a corvette budget. ESM/ECM systems have many options and the level differs very much. Even with only these two, it is very easy to amount to 50M GBP.
Again, a little too much assumption, I agree, but if include the CMS improvements, the 100M GBP per hull is very easy to be consumed.