View Full Version : Type 26 design unveiled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19312378
Well, it looks the business, but then again so did the LCS. Let's hope that this doesn't make the same mistakes.
I do have one question though, what's that strange thing on the bow, literally right on the cutting edge, not far up from the waterline. Some sort of wave reduction device? A bumper for dolphins? Somewhere to place the tow line?
Jimbuna
08-20-12, 05:59 AM
Some of these new designs are starting to look fugly and IMHO this is yet a further example.
That 'strange thing on the bow' is the bow anchor.
HunterICX
08-20-12, 06:07 AM
Some of these new designs are starting to look fugly and IMHO this is yet a further example.
Yeah, they're not getting any prettier these days :-?
probably has a reason that they are designed like that.
HunterICX
Skybird
08-20-12, 06:12 AM
Looks expensive.
Very.
I had an idea, which might be a good idea for an aircraft carrier. A submarine aircraft carrier. I know the last functional one was the I-400 class, but it's still worth a shot. Given the right design, it might even work nowadays. I am currently designing one for a fun project. Tomorrow I will put up some renders.
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Edit:- Here's the renders
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=648&pictureid=5833
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=648&pictureid=5832
Task Force
08-20-12, 10:13 AM
Yes! you can design it, but can you afford it?
Yes! you can design it, but can you afford it?
Not a chance, whole budget was blown on the design costs.
Welcome to the 3rd World UK.
Jimbuna
08-20-12, 11:32 AM
Yeah, they're not getting any prettier these days :-?
probably has a reason that they are designed like that.
HunterICX
Stealth technology, lower radar signature etc.
BossMark
08-20-12, 01:29 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19312378
Well its an ugly bugger, Jesus these modern warships do look crap and ugly these days :nope::nope::nope:
Subnuts
08-20-12, 01:48 PM
Here, have a nice-looking warship.
http://i46.tinypic.com/2z3vp77.jpg
geetrue
08-20-12, 02:42 PM
I had an idea, which might be a good idea for an aircraft carrier. A submarine aircraft carrier. I know the last functional one was the I-400 class, but it's still worth a shot. Given the right design, it might even work nowadays. I am currently designing one for a fun project. Tomorrow I will put up some renders.
Not a bad idea, especially with the new X-47 unmaned aircraft the US Navy is experimenting with right now or how about that new USAF 3,600 mph aircraft if say they could get that thing to work.
What a combination ... I still remember the old Regulus missile program on surface ships and submarines that's how old I am.
Here, have a nice-looking warship.
a radar jammer.:doh:
Not a bad idea, especially with the new X-47 unmaned aircraft the US Navy is experimenting with right now or how about that new USAF 3,600 mph aircraft if say they could get that thing to work.
What a combination ... I still remember the old Regulus missile program on surface ships and submarines that's how old I am.
Actually, a special submarine is no longer needed for this role. All you need is a UAV that fits into the tubes, which isn't terribly difficult.
Additionally, you could argue that all subs became "aircraft carriers" ever since SLCMs came around. A cruise missile is, essentially, a single-use precision bomber. I don't think operating a reusable aircraft in such confined quarters is actually more economical.
BossMark
08-20-12, 03:01 PM
Here, have a nice-looking warship.
OK thanks and heres another :salute:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2006/06/images/gneisenau_13.jpg
Skybird
08-20-12, 03:14 PM
No word on air defence capability, a vague mentioning of modular implemented anti-submarine capability - but an extensive mentioning of disaster relief and reconstruction work capabilties and the symbolism of showing diplomatic presence.
It seems the MoD and I differ in the priorities of features when designing a platform capable to fight and survive in a war. Even more - a platform that they claim should operate for longer time autonomously and at a great distance away from home.
And not one hint over the costs per unit...? It seems to be more expensive than I feared. Should we start a betting game here - how much you bet that the plan to buy 13 units will not stand? When these units shall replace those 13 frigates, the Roxal Navy will shgink even more in numerical size, I'm sure.
The looks, I don'T know what you have, I like it. Classic warships like on your pics always look like uppiled chunks of swimming debris, as if they already had burned out.
One thing is certain: the program will be payed with money that the UK does not have. Right this year the UK will pay 45 billion pounds in interests on debts, which is more than the whole defence budget together.
I love Western economic theories. Always healing deficits and carrying off debts by spending more money and mounting more debts. But everybody frowning his eyebrows that there is a crisis.
Takeda Shingen
08-20-12, 03:39 PM
If you want good looking ships, you've got to go a lot farther back than the 20th century.
http://www.merchantroyalshipwreck.com/HMS%20Victory4.JPG
CaptainHaplo
08-20-12, 08:06 PM
:up: What Takeda said!
They do have beautiful lines, I can't deny it, but my loyalties lie with the Ironclads, pre-Dreadnoughts and Dreadnought warships.
http://www.crabb.co.uk/pictures/james_crabb/01_hms_jupiter.jpg
It just looks lethal, like every angle of it could kill you, and it usually did, instead of the enemy... :hmmm:
Pfft, missing a truly beautiful type of ship in this thread. :arrgh!:
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9839/lesride.jpg
AVGWarhawk
08-21-12, 01:53 PM
The all seem to be getting designed this way:
http://www.gdcanada.com/programs/images/lcs_ship.jpg
CaptainHaplo
08-21-12, 02:33 PM
That looks a lot like the carriers from Carrier Command
TLAM Strike
08-21-12, 04:56 PM
Type 26 Global Combat Ship:
http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/9891/type26line3.gif
... :hmm2:
Meanwhile in Glorious Peoples Republic...
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1589/25199197d1e3b0d8e10aeb6.jpg
I'm just glad they stopped copying us... :O:
Type 26 Global Combat Ship:
... :hmm2:
Meanwhile in Glorious Peoples Republic...
I'm just glad they stopped copying us... :O:
Well, they tried copying the LCS but they couldn't duplicate the rust holes correctly so they settled for the Type 26. :yep:
TLAM Strike
08-21-12, 11:38 PM
Well, they tried copying the LCS but they couldn't duplicate the rust holes correctly so they settled for the Type 26. :yep:
Pfft they copied it quite well actually
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6562/littoralcombatship2528l.jpg
... wait... what :doh:
Nonsense, that's a terrible copy.
Where's the drydock? :nope:
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