MilEME09
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Interesting to note Norway will get its first T26 before we have our first river
Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread
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Rainbow1910
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Mostly because Norway is robbing UK Type 26's directly off the production line with basically no changes from what it looks like, so the UK will be in for some further hard times with their already busted Type 23 fleet.
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But the Bermudian banks holding the Irving fortune are getting theirs, and isn't that what really matters?
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Norway’s electricity crisis is about to hit Britain
European countries like the UK have become too reliant on cheap hydro from Scandinavia
www.telegraph.co.uk
Norway has made a fortune exporting both hydrocarbons and electricity to Europe. This is just rebalancing the books a bit.
Meanwhile, as BC and MB are discovering, hydro is not eternal.
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I always thought the Brits would have to build more Type 31's than the 5 Planned to replace their River's and flesh out the escort fleet. Hot production and all that. They may get those 5 Type 31's before they get all 8 Type 26.
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Norway’s electricity crisis is about to hit Britain
European countries like the UK have become too reliant on cheap hydro from Scandinavia
Norway has made a fortune exporting both hydrocarbons and electricity to Europe. This is just rebalancing the books a bit.
Meanwhile, as BC and MB are discovering, hydro is not eternal.
And Site C is producing 130MW more than forecast, it seems
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So if the output had been lower than projected, would the municipalities willingly accepted less? If the original compensation deal wasn't based on output, why should it now?
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Wrong thread I think.
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More like a whirlpool…
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The plan has always been that they would get the type 31's in full well before they get all the type 26. The type 31 were acquired in order to maintain numbers of frigates and cover the retirement of Type 23's in the meantime (i.e. until all 26's come on line), after which they are to decide if they build more type 26 (Batch 3, by then) or move on to a new type altogether.
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They were also intended to be a modular platform for export, and I love that the Polish will be getting some called the 'Wicher' class, which I'm going to just assume is the Witcher class and they'll have names like 'White Wolf'. It was supposed to be a cheap and cheerful warship with good capabilities but limited combat recoverability (which keeps the capitol cost down) but not sure how the actual design ended up.
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Which is one of the reason I theorized at some point that Canada might want to get a few, in order to cover the gap between the self-retiring HAL's and full replacement by of RCD's. Depending on speed and production, this may now get covered by the proposed corvettes.
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Speaking if corvettes, Davie apparently has a proposed design for a corvette with near arctic capabilities, but I can’t find anything other than a vague graphic shown in this video at 1:36 …
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The corvettes seem very far off, especially with a lot of the talk about them being domestically built with large percentages of Canadian equipment. With how many foreign orders are coming down the pipe seemingly for the Type 31, it seems doubtful that we'd be able to procure any before the Rivers end up coming online anyway.
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Davie is much better at self promotion then their track record would support.
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And somebody's kid once photoshopped an ADATS turret on to a LAV. Image does not equal plausible design.
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Aside from corvettes, destroyers, subs and the like, is it possible we’re running too thin with just 2 supply ships?
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True enough.
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For those who can't see the video;
The smaller corvettes look pretty sleek, there seems to have been a deliberate effort put into stealth shaping and potentially some requirements for cold water operations. It looks to feature a 57mm Bofors, 16 VLS cells of some description, likely 4-8 NSM amidships, RAS capability, torpedo tubes, a flight deck, boat/small mission bay, fixed panel array mast, gun control director, helipad of some kind and some section of the stern open potentially for payloads?
The bigger design is interesting, it has a spinning array on a mast seeming with some fixed array panels too, a 76mm gun, potentially VLS behind it, a Millennium gun aft, more substantial boat/mission bays amidships, a larger helipad, a stepped stern for cargo and most prominently, a bow seemingly designed for some not insubstantial icebreaking capability.
Very interesting showing from Davie, I have never seen these renders or related info elsewhere yet. We'll see if its all blunder, Davie doesn't have much of a track record to go off especially with warships. I wonder if these are just repackaged designs they got from buying Helsinki Shipyards lol.
