Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

[Colin Parkinson]

The building will have a standard superstructure for a Spy 7 array. As the article suggests each ship will have modules tested and calibrated at the facility before installation into the ship, cuts down on installation, testing and calibration among other things the facility will achieve. Nothing to do with locking down designs as you suggest unless you mean something else.

It was quoted even here that one of the roles of the station is to test how the systems interact with each other and how to mitigate that by testing different configurations. If they have to move one or more of the sensors, you know the implications that will have for the affected superstructure modules.

 

[Stoker]

It was quoted even here that one of the roles of the station is to test how the systems interact with each other and how to mitigate that by testing different configurations. If they have to move one or more of the sensors, you know the implications that will have for the affected superstructure modules.

Colin I'm pretty sure they know what the main mast with the Spy 7 looks like in design on the ship and I'm sure interaction will be looked with onboard sensors and with sensors on other platforms at the site off the coast with legacy emitters on other ships at sea as well. Your original statement seemed to suggest that the land based testing facility needed to built ASAP and testing carried out until they could finalize the design of the Spy 7 ships mast. The facility is scheduled to be started this summer with a commissioning date of 2027 and the design of the facility is complete according to releases from DND.

 

[Underway]

The systems interactions they are mostly referring to will be internal to the ship and the combat system. So basically how does the gun control unit work with the radar through Aegis and stuff like that.

There might be some antenna farm stuff happening as well but mostly it's a stack of computers talking to another stack of computers through a network setup. Then how does that optimize with the radar etc...

So the detect to engage sequence up to pretend firing of weapons integrated with all the effectors.

 

[Rainbow1910]

Kind of worrisome, as that does not give them much time for testing prior to having to start locking down the superstructure module designs

As surprising as it might be, it is not uncommon for warship designs to have their physical construction begin before the design as a whole is entirely finalized. Especially if this is to do with the upper works that can be built later on and in modules to be added to the hull, these don't need to be entirely design mature before construction starts. The lower most blocks of modern ships are typically the most mature of the design, especially with something like the Rivers where much of those components are still common with the baseline design.

The famous Arleigh Burke class destroyers of the US Navy had the first 5 ships of the class ordered with the design only half complete.

 

[DBNSG]

How helpful will the Scottish experience be for lessons learned and a "don't do this" Manual for the Irving workforce.
I am assuming there is a lot of interaction or planned to be cooperation with all aspects of our build process.
Just don't let anyone go to OZ as they may not come back.

 

[Underway]

How helpful will the Scottish experience be for lessons learned and a "don't do this" Manual for the Irving workforce.
I am assuming there is a lot of interaction or planned to be cooperation with all aspects of our build process.
Just don't let anyone go to OZ as they may not come back.

SUPER helpful.

BAE is part of the design team if not the construction team. All their mistakes and successes are shared with the other two builders. As the power plants and prime movers, as well as engineering spaces are all going to be nearly identical just knowing that the plumbing doesn't quite work as planned and has to be modified in the next ships of class will be corrected and passed to the other yards.

As an example, IIRC there was a "it doesn't quite fit" issue with some of the Diesel Generators on Glasgow. The solution to that will be incorporated into the follow on T26 and shared with Hunter Class and River Class projects.

The challenging parts come as you go further up in the ship. Each variant has its own bespoke combat system, mast arrangement, different navigation systems, comms, internal electronics, radars and weapons combinations. Helicopter support is different, boats are differrent and the list goes on. Canada runs on NA electrical for hotel services, UK on their own and Australia has their own as well.

Which means power, cooling, electrical and HVAC are going to change in type, routing and connections.