When I started my intention was to take what could be the money for type 32 and add a few ships and make the rest of the patrol fleet below C1 into proper C2 & C3 and with the above program I still think we could end up withTempest414 wrote: ↑19 Nov 2022, 14:11 For me any tire 2 ship should be half the cost of a tire 1 ship given that both type 45 and type 26 are 1 billion per ship and type 31 is 400 million there is some room left to spend a bit more
What I would like to see in place of of any type 32 is a 2.5 billion pound program to build 3 more type 31 and 3 more River B2's giving 8 of each class and this is what I would like to see program
3 x type 31 @ 375 million each = 1.12 billion
3 x RB2's @ 100 million each = 300 million
8 x 57mm guns for the RB2's = 70 million
8 x Camcopter S-300 for the RB2's = 30 million
8 x sets of 8 NSM for T-31= 200 million
8 x Containerised TAS to be used by both classes =240 million
16 x 8 cell Mk-41 =150 million
Extra CAMM for Type 31 to bring them to 30 each 200 million
this would leave money for over run and other stuff
8 x Type 31 with 1 x 57mm , 2 x 40mm , 24 CAMM , 8 x NSM and 16 Mk-41 Plus helicopter with 20 LMM or 4 Sea Venom
8 x River B2 with 1 x 57mm , 10 x Hero 120 , Camcopter S-300 with 6 LMM
plus 6 containerised TAS systems and maybe 4 x 8 round containerised Rapid Ranger ( Sea Ranger) systems for the RB2's
As said by some here we could get 2 or 3 x type 26 depending on cost but for me I would rather have 16 very good C2 & C3 ships