 Canadian warship replacement plan to use off-the-shelf designsMilitary | 207019 hits | Jun 14 5:12 pm | Posted by: Freakinoldguy  Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote says the federal government will save money by using existing, off-the-shelf warship designs with modifications.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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So, given the fact that their Chief Adviser on the purchase of new warships is an ex Brit Admiral we'll soon seeing some British designed warships tied up to Canadian Jetties which, should look good alongside the submersible jetty queens they sold us in the 90's.
So if we do indeed go with the off the shelf British designs the quality of those designs may be another problem because of things like this:
The United Kingdom’s Royal Navy has been forced to admit that its flotilla of billion-dollar destroyers has a critical weakness: warm water.
The Royal Navy fields six Type 45 destroyers, which were first commissioned in 2009 and are designed to provide anti-air and anti-missile support. The ships cost about one billion pounds apiece, the equivalent of more than $1.4 billion. But despite being only a few years old, the ships are breaking down, apparently because they are being ordered to serve in areas with relatively warm water. While repeated mechanical failures were initially dismissed as “teething problems,” it now appears the ship’s engines are simply unable to cope with being in warm water for prolonged periods without having its engines overtaxed.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/08/these ... z4BbU6IXc8
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/08/these ... arm-water/
Hmm mm. ..refurbished ships of the line?
Might just be some of those new destroyers that don't work so well in warm water. We've been screwed once by our good allies so what's to stop them from doing it again especially since it's the same gong show in power again. They get a good return on a broken product and we get decades of cost, futility and embarassment.
Sounds fair to me.
Hmm mm. ..refurbished ships of the line?
I hear the HMS Victory isn't being used.
It's good to see they can save money by using existing plans and designs, the only thing that worries me is......buying and an off-the-shelf design....
It'll be okay. We're experts now in buying things like Italian Guns and modifying them to use American fire control systems or American VLS systems that use commodore 64 fire control suites, or German diesel engines modified to run on Canadian controls etc etc etc and you get my point.
We've been cross breeding weapons, engineering and electronics suites so long that we've basically created a Borg collective where, despite the improbability of compatibility all our motherships equipment works in lockstep with everything else. Alot of the time not very well but, it does work.
So, this should be a piece of cake. No matter what they buy FFS don't try and make it "Canadian" by bastardizing the weapons, engineering and other electronics systems. Use what they came with even if it costs a few Canadian jobs.
Sounds like we're getting fewer than 3 destroyers and 12 frigates