HMS Daring, the first of a planned class of eight Type 45 destroyers, will be launched from BAE Systems Naval Ships Scotstoun yard on February 1st. When she enters service later this decade she will be the world’s most advanced anti-air warfare destroyer.
Designed to provide a robust air defence umbrella for a carrier strike force or amphibious task group, she and her sisters are breaking new ground in terms of their design, construction, combat system capability, habitability, propulsion and power engineering.
The Type 45 programme is designed to provide the Royal Navy with a versatile destroyer capable of contributing to worldwide maritime and joint operations for much of the first half of this century. As well as providing a specialist air warfare capability, they will also afford the fleet a general-purpose multi-role platform capable of performing tasks from peace support and defence diplomacy through to high-intensity warfare.
At approximately 7,350 tonnes displacement Daring will be the largest surface combatant built for the RN since the Second World War. Daring will be able to transit 7,000 nautical miles at a speed of 18 knots, and reach a maximum speed of over 27 knots if called upon to re-deploy at short notice.
As well as breaking new ground in the capability she will offer to the Royal Navy, the Type 45 has seen radical changes to the way ships are designed and built in the UK.
The warship design was undertaken at a number of sites throughout the UK, predominantly at the Type 45 Prime Contract Office in Filton, the BAE Systems Type 45 Platform Design Centre in Scotstoun and VT Shipbuilding premises in Portsmouth and Southampton. The detailed spatial integration, using the CADDS5 computer-aided design tool, has resulted in a comprehensive three dimensional electronic model within which every piece of physical structure, pipework, ducting, machinery, equipment and ship furniture has been defined in extraordinary detail.
Daring has been assembled from large pre-outfitted ‘megablock’ modules, an approach designed to increase build efficiency and thus drive down construction man-hours. In Daring’s case the aft or rear blocks were built at BAE Systems’ yard in Govan and floated downriver to Scotstoun, the mid sections were built in Scotstoun and the bow was built by VT in Portsmouth before being floated all the way up the West coast of the country and up the Clyde. This division of the work between yards across the UK has pioneered a new way of building complex warships and the same concept will be applied, at a larger scale, to the construction of the Royal Navy’s two new aircraft carriers
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Designed to provide a robust air defence umbrella for a carrier strike force or amphibious task group, she and her sisters are breaking new ground in terms of their design, construction, combat system capability, habitability, propulsion and power engineering.
The Type 45 programme is designed to provide the Royal Navy with a versatile destroyer capable of contributing to worldwide maritime and joint operations for much of the first half of this century. As well as providing a specialist air warfare capability, they will also afford the fleet a general-purpose multi-role platform capable of performing tasks from peace support and defence diplomacy through to high-intensity warfare.
At approximately 7,350 tonnes displacement Daring will be the largest surface combatant built for the RN since the Second World War. Daring will be able to transit 7,000 nautical miles at a speed of 18 knots, and reach a maximum speed of over 27 knots if called upon to re-deploy at short notice.
As well as breaking new ground in the capability she will offer to the Royal Navy, the Type 45 has seen radical changes to the way ships are designed and built in the UK.
The warship design was undertaken at a number of sites throughout the UK, predominantly at the Type 45 Prime Contract Office in Filton, the BAE Systems Type 45 Platform Design Centre in Scotstoun and VT Shipbuilding premises in Portsmouth and Southampton. The detailed spatial integration, using the CADDS5 computer-aided design tool, has resulted in a comprehensive three dimensional electronic model within which every piece of physical structure, pipework, ducting, machinery, equipment and ship furniture has been defined in extraordinary detail.
Daring has been assembled from large pre-outfitted ‘megablock’ modules, an approach designed to increase build efficiency and thus drive down construction man-hours. In Daring’s case the aft or rear blocks were built at BAE Systems’ yard in Govan and floated downriver to Scotstoun, the mid sections were built in Scotstoun and the bow was built by VT in Portsmouth before being floated all the way up the West coast of the country and up the Clyde. This division of the work between yards across the UK has pioneered a new way of building complex warships and the same concept will be applied, at a larger scale, to the construction of the Royal Navy’s two new aircraft carriers
http://www.type45.com/
http://www.baesystems.com/type45/type45_2.htm
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