Tyne Visitor
 

Been otherwise indisposed on forum matters elsewhere and forgot about a visitor to the River Tyne I took a few snaps of two days ago.

HMS Duncan

http://i.imgur.com/9Abre0D.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vuveiuE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Gx5cjeR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RfZYlBj.jpg

Interesting superstructure. What kind of ship is she?

Type 45, one of our newest surface vessels. The structure helps house one of the best air defence radars since the Ticos put to sea, she can track and engage more targets than five of her predecessors, the Type 42s, put together...of course, that's when their Sea Viper missiles work right. The ASuW is a bit weak too, just a Quad-Harpoon launcher plus the usual gun system, but there's room for a TLAM/TASM system to be fitted forward of the current VLS area, so hopefully if we find some money down the back of the sofa they'll fit that. :yep:
She's a competant ship, but like most British projects, needs a bit of patching post release. :03:

God the superstructure ruins what would be an otherwise be a beautiful ship.

If it works, it works, I dare say the captains of the old sailing ships thought the Dreadnought looked butt ugly. :03:

True but to be fair there's never been a sailing ship that was ever ugly.

Looks like it was kit-bashed with a Dalek!

Not sure but that superstructure makes her an ugly bugger.....

Show me a modern war ship that isn't ugly.;)

One of BAEs proposals for the Vanguard replacement is quite an interesting design:

http://tekeli.li/reign-of-steel/bae-ahf-sub.jpg

That's a fair sized bathtub you have there. Nice toys too!!!

Agree with the 'ugly' comments but that is the price you pay in reducing a vessels radar signature as close to 'stealth mode' as possible.

Below is one of her sister ships, HMS Dauntless which visited the Tyne and as you can see, she is moored at the same quay. The weather is often cloudy, dull and overcast in my part of the world.

http://i.imgur.com/kHiliRO.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XnzffDO.jpg