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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.
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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.
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.
Swampbuggy
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I haven’t seen any discussion on this yet. But these pics are from Seaspan’s pavilion (I didn’t take these, I believe they’re Noah’s). It’s purportedly the Seaspan pitch for the CDC program. I didn’t see much in the way of details included in the fb posting.
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Oldgateboatdriver
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Looks like it's using a SPY radar as its main radar. I am not sure that meets the "made in Canada" criteria that is meant to move us away from the US for that specific ship type. I would have expected a European radar, either a SMART or a Thales NS110 type radar.
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And I can just about guarantee that the flight deck depicted is too large.
Oldgateboatdriver
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But it doesn't lead to a hangar for the helo. If they have room in the specs displacement to make it big enough to land a Cyclone in an emergency, I can't blame them for that.
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Just when does Seaspan expect that they will have the runway to start building the first of these?
Maxman1
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Perhaps the build could be spread out to other yards like Heddle.
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I truly hope so.
These are needed now.
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If it's like the AOPS flight deck, it exists primarily as a space with a retractable awning for use as a cocktail party area.
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Don't forget PT.
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I'm trying to channel my internal PO, so of course I'm forgetting PT.
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That Seaspan model was stated to be already out of date based on Seaspans new designs (CANSEC reporting... they just wanted to have a model there to show they were working on stuff I think).
Noah is reporting that CDC is upping the VLS requirement from 16. Which means likely 24 as they go in 8 packs. So its pretty much a regular guided missile frigate at this point and we can stop pretending its a corvette.
Noah is reporting that CDC is upping the VLS requirement from 16. Which means likely 24 as they go in 8 packs. So its pretty much a regular guided missile frigate at this point and we can stop pretending its a corvette.
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The new Sea Giraffe 4A has fixed arrays and I believe its going on the new Finish Pohjanmaa class corvette. As does the Germans with their Hendsolt TRS 4D.
Actually the Saab had a ship design for the CDC at CANSEC as well. They used the same mast design as for the Pohjanmaa class. The Saab Lightweight Integrated Mast
Its a fully composite mast design with a SG4A and SG 1X integrated into it (along with other stuff). If Canada wants to push the boundaries that's an interesting way to go.
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Still have this nagging feeling that we’ll somehow see the Rivers reduced to 6 and be given 12-16 of these corvette/light frigates/minifaxs. Happy to be wrong.
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If they up the VLS to 24 then it's gonna be shootyfax not minifax.
