New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

[Kirkhill]

The Army’s new watercraft plan banks on autonomy, commercial ships

The Army's plan for establishing a fleet of watercraft in the Pacific includes a commitment to deeper experimentation with autonomous vessels.

www.defensenews.com

Maritime tech strategy thus here.

US Army figures it is short of both time and money therefore it will have to work with what it has on hand, what is already in the pipeline and what it can secure from industry. "What is on hand" includes manpower.

They will be leaning heavily on procuring civilian Offshore Supply Vessels by contract and purchase to be operated by service personel, civilians and, to the extent possible, autonomously.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Germany busy trying to make their Frigates more relevant. This was proof of concept, but the real work is marinizing all the components. Marine corrosion is a harsh mistress.

Missiles That Defend Ukraine Now Protect German Warships: IRIS-T Goes to Sea

Germany has tested the naval version of the IRIS-T SLM air defense system, marking a key development for maritime air defense capabilities.

united24media.com

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

The ace in the hole is CMS330. It was designed to take any weapon and sensor and plug it into the system with minimal (relatively speaking), integration work. You take a Canadian supply chain ship, with a CMS 330 backbone and you can buy, build scrounge whatever weapon system you've got to place it onto that vessel. It's a lot less integration work than with pretty much any other CMS out there.

Even more than that. While the hulls, power plant and hotel systems of the HAL's are getting long in the tooth, the post refit combat systems, sensors and weapons are quite up to date and in good condition. Some of the HAL's will have to be retired to switch their crew to RCD training. Their SMART-S radars are quite acceptable to build a CDC around, and Ops console can also be re-used, as are the ESSM's, 57mm Bofors, torpedo tubes, nixie, etc.

We may need not buy much in terms of the whole combat side of things to bring the CDC into production

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Babcock is looking at building 5 Type 31's in 10 years and that is for a ship that is simpler than the RCD's. I suspect under wartime conditions, they could likley launch 3 in 3 years. Even BB's back in the interwar period, generally took 2 years to build and they were the tech bleeding edge at the time.

 

[Underway]

Battery technology and sizes that don't exist, and add a ship killer vulnerability with no real idea on how to mitigate. Also the land based support requirements for it is massive, and the support side of that also doesn't exist.

Also completely divorced from anything on the submarines, which would come with a wealth of expertise from either Germany or SK, which would have much higher built in standards and maintenance requirements through life, so very different context dropping something like that into a surface ship.

You're saying they exploring a battery powered corvette? Instead of just doing a rafted Diesel Gen with Electric motor?

Are there even any engineers in that staff?

 

[NavyShooter]

Ferdinand Porsche was an engineer as well, was he not?

(Shades of WW2 German Tanks with overly complex electric drive mechanisms....)

 

[Swampbuggy]

You're saying they exploring a battery powered corvette? Instead of just doing a rafted Diesel Gen with Electric motor?

Are there even any engineers in that staff?

Would it not make the most sense to use the same set up from AOPS?

 

[dapaterson]

Would it not make the most sense to use the same set up from AOPS?

They probably want potable water onboard instead.