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the UK is hoping to get construction down to 66 months eventually @Oldgateboatdriver guesstimate seems reasonable if not a little optimistic for first of class for us/Irving
Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread
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To think they used to launch 25-35,000 DWT Battleships in 2 years and they were peak tech at the time.
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I admire your optimism lol.
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Yea... The 10 year time span from when they laid down steel in 2025 to fully mission capable in 2035, while depressing is, I fear, realistic.
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Different time with different thinking people. They were willing to work their asses off because the dirty Jerries and filthy Japs attacked them.
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Considering the ship will be the most technologically advanced warship ever built by the RCN, 10 years for the first one to reach operational status is realistic. Comparing the RCD to a WW2 ship is like comparing apples and orange's.
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Not really, the tech to build a battleship back then was cutting edge stuff for them, with the same sort of challenges and no computers to help them. We would absolutely struggle to make armour plate that thick and guns that big nowadays. In fact we would have to build the machines to make them first.
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We really struggled in WW2 to produce the Tribal Class Destroyers. They were on the bleeding edge of what our shipyards could handle at that time and took a long time to build, compared to UK yards. Anything bigger than that was beyond Canada’a ability, then.
The RCD class is the most complex thing Canada has ever built.
The RCD class is the most complex thing Canada has ever built.
