Would not the type of steel used come into play ? It makes a big difference, USS Cole after attack by small boat carrying C4 explosives in Aden 2000, 17 sailors died 39 injured. If you look at photo above the horizontal strake line weld is HY-80 steel, below is High Strength Steel (HSS), likely if ...

"It's said that the IH started as a commercial hull design" Who said, please quote authoritive source, otherwise your just pedalling black propaganda and no doubt if you talked to Danish Navy you would get a polite ear bashing for impugning that hull did not meet full Navy design standard...

Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion Postby Poiuytrewq » 02 Jun 2018, 10:40 NickC wrote: I fail to understand why you want to create a mission bay on Arrowhead 140 / Iver Huitfeldt at the expense of the weapons deck, if memory correct the T31e RFI requirement does not mention a mis...

Iver Huitfeldt class frigate undergoing FSST. Iver Huitfeldt hull built to full Nato STANAG specs, it is not a "commercial" hull.

The US DOD GAO reported the Current Top Five Most Expensive Weapon System Programs in 2017$ What did surprise me was the Osprey making it into the top 5, on reflection perhaps with this disaster of a program it should not have. #1 F-35 $366 billion - no surprise due numbers and massive delays. #2 Bu...

@Poiuytrewq I fail to understand why you want to create a mission bay on Arrowhead 140 / Iver Huitfeldt at the expense of the weapons deck, if memory correct the T31e RFI requirement does not mention a mission bay only ability to carry two TEUs, Arrowhead has ability to store four TEUs under the fli...

Team31 Babcock Arrowhead 140 is a tweaked version of the Danish Odense Maritime Technology (OMT) Iver Hiutfeldt AAW class frigates, an exponent of steel is cheap and air is free. 1. Hull design from the Absalon class and optimized it for twice the power and incorporated the Stanflex concept with int...

NickC wrote: ... Two questions for Donald-san, budget said to be 50 billion yen ~£350M per ship, would this be the total cost or exclude GFE and therefore comparable to the £250M Type31e OPV as specified in RFI The purchase cost of JMSDF is consistently cheaper than equivalent RN assets. As you kno...

Rolls Royce last week announced awarded contract for the MT30 to install on the new class of Japanese 30FFM frigates. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) awarded contract August 2017 for design and build of the Multi-Mission Frigate, 6,000 ton FLD length 130 meters, beam 16 meters CODAG (two 6,000 kW ...

The US House Armed Services Committee, HASC, report on the FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act says the USN F-35C doesn’t have range to conduct long-range strikes without in-flight refueling. "The committee notes that the aircraft carrier air wing has been optimized for striking power and...

'Submarine Matters' blog article on the delay on the launching the first of the new Barracuda class SSNs, Suffren, laid down in 2007. Delay due to slow development of the new nuclear reactor which started in 2003, French employ low enriched uranium as having to use their civilian R&D nuclear fac...

Dutch expected to authorise major expenditure of additional Euro 6.7 billion (Euro 2.5 billion already budgeted for two submarines) on navy. Includes updates of their four AAW FLD 6,050 ton De Zeven Provincien class destroyers, will receive the all new SMART-L MM/N (EWC) extended long range L-band r...

Yeah, and that's after they have purchased 600 Super Hornets; and whenever you compare the two you have to keep in mind that there are other things that have to go on top of the Super Hornet costs (for example, targeting pods, which the F-35 includes). Wikipedia states 280+ F-35 delivered and yet U...

US working to integrate the B-61 gravity bomb with the F-35, in 2015, the aircraft flew with a B61-12 to test how it would vibrate in the aircraft's internal weapons bay. No date quoted for IOC. The 12th version of the B61 gravity bomb is said to be more than three times more accurate than its prede...

Watch for further contracts. When they asked how much it would cost to purchase 40, with all related equipment to actually fly and operate them, in late 2016, the estimate cost was over 10 billion USD. http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/go ... ft-support Let's not fall for the usual "Black H...

DOD GAO April 2018 WEAPON SYSTEMS ANNUAL ASSESSMENT REPORT In FY2018 dollars estimates development cost $65.5 billion / ~ £47.8 billion, Procurement cost $115.5 million / ~£84 million each , weighted average of the three different a/c , A,B & C, B costs ~ 20% more than A so cost of F-35B ~ £100 ...

P-8A Increment 3 - DOD GAO Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, April report 18-360SP p118 Increment 3 design changes intended to provide enhanced capabilities in four areas. The first two include communications, radar, and weapons upgrades in current a/c, the second two are a new open systems architec...

From Type 26 thread @GutoAberconwy confirms the 1st Type 26, HMS Glasgow is due to be accepted from builders summer 2025. She will not be fully operational until 2027. Donald-san "Technology is training and experience. New first-of-class ship taking 7 years to build is long, but not surprisingl...

Caribbean wrote: Poiuytrewq wrote: How much more than £250m do you think an Absalon based design with almost no offensive weaponry would cost if built by Babcock? On a base cost of $225m in 2007, a straight 3% inflation (probably appropriate for a COTS/MOTS design) would give a modern price of arou...

Norwegian MoD April 16th stating that full operational capability with their F-35A should be reached in 2025 with the integration of the JSM anti-ship missile with C2D2/Block 4 update. Re. Gabriele post above of new Block 4 graphic you could infer that similar timescale applicable to integration/FOC...

Electric Boat talking at SAS2018 on the new US SSBN 566 feet long Columbia, saying achieved 85% completion of computer aided model and 25% disclosures/electronic drawings, started build of hull with missile compartment in co-operation with UK, MOD/BAE/Subs, mention of Dreadnought further ahead in bu...

Correction to above post FREMM beam should be 19.7 m, finger trouble.

Do you have a source on the T26 having a 1,000t growth limit? Or that the FREMMs are maxed out? Italians and French sure don't seem to think so, they've got heavier prospect designs already proposed. Navy Recognition quotes the Australian Navantia SEA5000 proposal based on the Hobart class, ASW shi...

US FY19 Navy Justification Book - LRASM 25 missiles, $3.13M/ £2.2M each, so not so colossal if you equate SCALP to LRASM.

Funding required for sixteen per Type 26 x 8 + 100% war reserve X £2.2 = ~£600M, if US waives any costs for R&D ?

DefenseNews re. German Tornado, fears over costs as Britain ditches its aircraft. Keeping the aging aircraft current is shaping up to be a challenging undertaking for the Luftwaffe. The fewer aircraft in the tri-national program, Britain/Germany/Italy, have led to “significant technical, logistical ...