Continental Defence Corvette

[Stoker]

Current/Previous Surface Layers

Orca Patrol Boats - 33m, 20 kts, 5 crew
Kingston MCDVs (OSV) - 55 m, 15 kts, <47 crew
HdW AOPVs - 104m, 17 kts, 65 crew plus 22 pax.
Halifax Frigates - 134m, >30 kts, 255 crew
Iroquois Destroyers - 121m, 29 kts, 280

Future Surface Layers

USVs (Various)
Orca-ish Patrol Boats
OSVs
AOPVs
CDCs
RCDs

Needless to say I am a proponent of more, faster, Kingstons with smaller required crews but able to accomodate larger passenger loads through seacan accomodations.

Kingston Class can go to sea with 36. New Pods for the class can accommodate 8 vice 6. I am looking at repurposing the PODs for AOPV's for more training bunks.

 

[Kirkhill]

I think one way that people are going to adapt to UxVs is through a combination of two streams.

1 - treating UxVs as munitions - smart munitions, capable of doing more than previous generations of munitions, but still munitions.
That, I think will work for the small stuff.

2 - adding "auto-pilots" to all craft and allow them to "stand watch" under supervision.
The more rest the supervisors get the more they will come to trust the "auto-pilots"
Eventually they will not only leave the bridge, they will leave the ship.
This would work for logistics, surveillance and comms nodes.

Fighting the ship is a whole other issue.