Type 26 Global Combat Ship - Royal Navy

[Blackwater]

Royal Navy unveils its latest stealth warship

Royal Navy unveils its latest stealth warship that has a radar footprint the size of a fishing boat despite weighing 5,400 tonnes

Read more: Royal Navy unveils its latest stealth warship that has a radar footprint the size of a fishing boat despite weighing 5,400 tonnes | Mail Online

 

[LurkerBaba]

The overall displacement seems a bit less

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The U.K.'s Ministry of Defence (MOD) has unveiled its new multi-mission warship - the Type 26 Global Combat Ship (T26 GCS). Due to replace the thirteen Type 23 frigates in Britain's Royal Navy when it enters service in after 2020, the T26 GCS has been in development by the MOD and BAE Systems since 2010 and is intended for use in combat and counter-piracy operations as well as supporting humanitarian and disaster relief work around the world.

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Images released by the MOD this week show the basic specification of the ship, which has a displacement of around 5,400 metric tons (5,314 l-ton) and will be around 148 m (485.5 ft) long. These specifications were pared down from the original working baseline of a vessel length of 141 m (462.5 ft) and displacement of 6,850 metric tons (6,742 l-ton) in an effort to reduce costs from £500 million (US$786 million) to £250-350 million ($393-550 million) per ship.[/QUOTE]
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Designed to be one of the most advanced vessels in the Royal Navy fleet, the T26 GCS is expected to feature vertical missile silos capable of housing a range of different weapons, a medium-caliber gun, a hanger to accommodate a Merlin or Wildcat helicopter, a flexible mission space for unmanned air, surface and underwater vehicles or additional boats, and the most advanced sensors in the fleet.[/QUOTE]

Royal Navy's T26 GCS next-gen warship unveiled

 

[LurkerBaba]

Images of the Type 26 Global Combat Ship (T26 GCS)

 

[civfanatic]

So... its a frigate?

Sad how the RN has to resort to fancy names like 'Global Combat Ship' to mask its ever-decreasing potency and relevance.

 

[Armand2REP]

The real question is what the budget is going to allow. BAE delays and cost overruns double the original price. UK economy is in double dip recession. Running a Greek style deficit must be eliminated and MoD spending will be greatly reduced. It hasn't been yet with flat line spending.

 

[p2prada]

The ship is in a similar weight class as Shivalik class. What's better is there is a lot of automation on the GCS compared to Shivalik. The crew complement on Shivalik is a lot more than that of GCS. It would be prudent to say the P-17A would be an equivalent to the GCS.

Eventually the GCS won't be as good as the P-17A as the British want a cheap ship.

 

[LalTopi]

So... its a frigate?

Sad how the RN has to resort to fancy names like 'Global Combat Ship' to mask its ever-decreasing potency and relevance.

Indeed. Why the 'Global' bit. Sounds like a multinational corporation trying to big itself up. The range is not global without resuply of feul.

 

[LalTopi]

The real question is what the budget is going to allow. BAE delays and cost overruns double the original price. UK economy is in double dip recession. Running a Greek style deficit must be eliminated and MoD spending will be greatly reduced. It hasn't been yet with flat line spending.

Well, one things for sure, the number will be less than thirteen - the current number of Type 23s they are about to replace.

The Type 26 will replace the 13 Type 23 frigates but the MoD is not giving a precise commitment on numbers until they know the unit cost .

BBC News - MoD reveals design of Royal Navy future warships

These will be complemented by six type 45 destroyers - although I am not sure these can be classed as 'destroyers' as they are air defence ships and hence cannot 'destroy' other ships, or attack land based targets.

 

[p2prada]

Global as in a lot of other countries are interested in the ship too.

UK hardsells the Eurofighter - Times Of India

In the naval sector, Fox said the UK was offering R&D partnership for a new combat ship to India. "We're looking at the concept of building a new fighter vessel, called a global combat ship, which we want to have other countries in at the beginning of the project rather than merely making something and selling something. We would like our partners to help us develop something that would suit their interests. So that even though we might have variants of the same basic ship, we would have interoperability." India, he said, had agreed to study the project, a basic design for which was already available, Fox added.

Of course, it doesn't mean India could be interested. It is their opinion, not ours.

This ship is modular in construction but the ship's aren't fully multirole like Indian frigates. They are all role specific like the FREMM.

 

[LalTopi]

Global as in a lot of other countries are interested in the ship too.

UK hardsells the Eurofighter - Times Of India


Of course, it doesn't mean India could be interested. It is their opinion, not ours.

This ship is modular in construction but the ship's aren't fully multirole like Indian frigates. They are all role specific like the FREMM.

Ahh I see. There is a reference in Wiki to Global sales. Although it seems like only Brazil and Australia have expressed serious interest. No mention of India.

Britain needs foreign markets to keep the per-unit costs of the new frigates down enough to keep them affordable.[22] As of 31 January 2011 Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey had all expressed interest in collaborating on the Global Combat Ship, and the UK was in "close discussion" with Canada.[23] A Canadian union campaigned that the Global Combat Ship threatened Canadian shipbuilders and in the run-up to the May 2011 election a spokesman for the Canadian Defence Minister ruled out involvement with the British programme.[24] Turkey also later rejected the design as not meeting its requirements.[25]

In January 2010, Jane's Defence Weekly reported that the governments of the United Kingdom and Australia were exploring the potential for cooperation on the C1 and C3 designs, which corresponds closely to the Royal Australian Navy's requirements in replacing its MEKO-200 Anzac-class frigate with a new frigate type (Project SEA 5000).[26] An initial decision for the frigate replacement is not expected until at least 2018.

The British and Brazilian governments agreed on a defence partnership that may lead to the sale of five or six Type 26 frigates to the Brazilian Navy.[27] In October 2010, BAE made a detailed proposal to the Brazilian navy, for a package including Type 26 frigates as well as variants of the Wave Knight-class tanker and River-class patrol vessel.[28]

Global Combat Ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Blackwater]

LB i posted the same news before you.can you pls merge your thread into mine as i was the first to post this


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