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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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Ugly, isn't it
Thats before the budget cuts, after it's might be looking nice and clean like this "DDX Jr."...Originally Posted by parihaka
Last edited by lurker; 19 Jan 06, at 00:15.
If it wasn't for the oversized mast structure it'd be more attractive, but if it improves combat capability then I guess it's ok. I question wheter or not these things are really the equal of a DDG-51 or Japanese Kongo though.
"We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be, detested in France."
-Sir Arthur Wellesley
Those ships aren't revolutionary. Looks like cannon fodder to me.
LOL it aint a page 3 model, it aint what it looks like lol (u aint going to sleep with the thing are you...!!!)Ugly, isn't it
The 3 main prinicples y is is a world beater is the folwwoing:-
1. Samspon Radar
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BAe's multi-function radar, which is virtually immune to jamming, will become an integral part of the UK's defence, reports Ian Cameron
The capabilities offered by active phased array MFR have been hailed as the most significant development in the history of radar since its invention in the 1930s.
With longer ranges and higher accuracy, active arrays use software to control beam shape and positioning, allowing multi-function capability, while adaptive waveform control makes MFR virtually immune to jamming.
The multi-function capabilities of active array systems are such that surveillance, multi-target tracking and target indication can all be undertaken on an alternating cycle so fast that each operation appears concurrent.
BAE Systems claims enhanced weapon system effectiveness thanks to SAMPSON. It would provide the following capabilities:
* long-range detection of stealthy targets with a significantly lower false alarm
rate, leading to earlier weapon alert (the radar can initiate tracks within the
"first look" because of its 60: look-back capability within the 120: field-of-view
] that the rotating array covers);
* rapid track formation, leading to an earlier fire-control solution;
* accurate tracking (with full hemispherical coverage up to the zenith position,
90: elevation directly overhead), leading to an improved fire-control solution;
* target classification, leading to imp-roved weapon allocation (SAMPSON's
ability to manage its radar energy would allow such identification features as
raid discrimination, target size estimation and non-cooperative target
recognition);
* multiple engaged tracks, allowing more channels of fire (SAMPSON would be
capable of engaging "several tens" of tracked targets simultaneously, while
with a conventional tracking radar the maximum number would be three);
* active jammer cancellation, allowing operation in intense electronic
countermeasures (a large part of the MESAR program was devoted to
developing these techniques); and
* high availability, providing extensive redundant channels and reliable
components, both in the T/R-modules and in the processing.
Rotating arrays
BAE Systems says that employing two rotating active arrays, as opposed to four fixed arrays, is "better" because of the high cost involved in procuring the arrays and the problems associated of mounting the relatively heavy arrays as high as possible on the ship, to make maximum use of the available type of ship-defense missile. "You'd want to place the MFR as high as possible in the ship, against sea-skimming missile attacks; getting that extra bit of radar horizon could make the difference in getting that extra salvo away to deal with the leakers," a BAE Systems manager said. Furthermore, the company predicts that enemy tactics for attacking a fixed array-equipped ship will be to concentrate a massed missile raid on one side of the ship, thereby saturating one array while effectively making the other three useless.
The Sampson radar dome, a spherical form has now been adopted.
The two arrays in SAMPSON are processed separately, and indeed it would be possible to operate SAMPSON as a single-face radar (in effect creating a SPECTAR). The E/F-band has been chosen as the "best compromise between surveillance and tracking requirements". BAE Systems has selected Mercury Computer Systems of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to provide the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment that will host the company's core radar processing system, so that it can be used across its entire family of products, including SAMPSON.
SAMPSON is designed to be interoperable with a range of weapon systems. Within PAAMS, it will work in association with the Aster active radar guided missile family, for which it will provide target designation and E/F-band mid-course guidance uplink. Within the BAE Systems-proposed SIWS (SAMPSON Integrated Weapon System), the radar system would work with the US family of semi-active radar guided missiles (notably Standard Missile SM-2 Block IIIA and Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, ESSM). In SIWS, the required I/J-band interrupted continuous wave illumination (ICWI) of targets, as well as missile uplink, would be provided by typically two separate CEA-Mount active array tracking radars developed joint by BAE Systems and Australian company CEA Technologies. SIWS was being offered for the now cancelled Royal Australian Navy ANZAC-class war fighting improvement program (WIP) and is now being promoted primarily in South Korea (KDX-3 program) and Turkey (TF-2000 program).
BAE Systems say that SAMPSON should be regarded as a long-range sensor, its software-programmable search range (depending on which surveillance domain and update rate is selected) extending out to "several 100s of kilometres" and being described by the company as "significantly more than the 150km-range of APAR" - a performance that is directly related also to the chosen frequency band (E/F-band for SAMPSON as opposed to I/J-band for APAR). In fact, BAE Systems maintains that on the Type 45 destroyer, the Alenia Marconi Systems/Signaal S 1850M long-range 3D radar that is designed to work in partnership with SAMPSON "really is superfluous and is not needed to perform the mission of the ship". The company suggested that the reason the large volume search radar has been incorporated in PAAMS is "more of a historic nature, associated with work sharing issues" that were such a problem during the trilateral Project Horizon.
2.PAMMS
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PRINCIPAL ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE SYSTEM (PAAMS)
The primary weapon system of the Type 45 will be the Principal Anti-Aircraft Missile System (PAAMS). PAAMS is a tri-national programme involving France, Italy and the UK. The contract for series production was placed in November 2003. The prime contractor is Europaams SAS, a joint venture company owned two thirds by Eurosam (MBDA and Thales) and one third by the UKAMS subsidiary of MBDA.
The missiles being developed for PAAMS are the Aster 15 and the Aster 30. The Aster missile carries an inertial computer with datalink, an active J-band Doppler radar seeker and 15kg warhead. The speed of Aster 30 is Mach 4, and range is over 80km. The missile has manoeuvrability of up to 62g, achieved through the use of the EADS Aerospatiale PIF/PAF guidance system.
While the French / Italian PAAMS uses the Empar G-band radar, the UK PAAMS has the BAE Systems Insyte Sampson multi-function, dual-face active array radar operating at E/F bands. Each face of the array carries 2,500 gallium arsenide transmit and receive modules, with an output of 25kW. BAE Systems has reconfigured Sampson to produce a near spherical design which retains the two arrays internally. Modes of operation include long and medium range search, surface search, high-speed horizon search and high angle search and track. Sampson uses digital adaptive beamforming which makes it highly resistant to electronic countermeasures. The first Sampson radar has been installed on a representative Type 45 foremast in preparation for PAAMS integration in 2006.
PAAMS uses a DCN Sylver A50 vertical launcher with eight cells. The Type 45 will have six Sylver VLS. The command and control system will be supplied by UKAMS, although Thales Airsys will build some of the core elements.
BAE Systems, teamed with Radamec Defence Systems (now part of Ultra Electronics) will provide the Electro-Optical Gunfire Control System (EOGCS).
3. Electic Engine
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No to sure on what there using on this one or how it works will lokk ofr mor einformation....!!!
Is it just me or it looks like the padoga super structure of Japanese BB's?Ugly, isn't it
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Is it just me or it looks like the padoga super structure of Japanese BB's?
The Main mast shape IMO looks like the USN North Carolina class fast battleship class main mast. (i.e. USS Washington, North Carolina)
But I do agree with Sparten, The two masts (main and secondary) very much replicate the Pagoda's and secondaries when viewing from that angle.
Cant wait to see her for real at the next Naval Review or the next big event Britan has for the Queen etc or who knows maybe even a visit to Philly.
It wouldn't be that bad looking....if there wasn't that big ass trophy sitting on it.
Now that England is preping for the Queens 80th bday We may get a chance at seeing real pics of her upclose.
I'm not impressed by this ship. What a lame excuse for a destroyer. The only thing innovative is the fact that it's got some sort of modular design goin on.
But the higher the radar the better right?
Supposedly, they are revolutionary.
Rotating phased array LPI radar mated to active radar homing fire and forget OTH missiles.....the USN doesn't have any of that.
No one does.
Yep.
Could you Please clarify with the reasoning to why you not impressed by this ship..??
This is the Most Advanced and Deadliest Ship ever built to date..!!!
Apart from the ground brakeing RADAR Technology which like sniper has stated no-one else has, and to which is un-jamable with todays tech..!! It has some awsome firepower.....armed with 48 Aster missiles with 40lb warheads each, each can stop the fastest enemy jet 60 miles away...do some reaserch and read up on PAMMS as well u may be enlighten to as why it has such firepower..!!!
Also read up on the SMAPSON RADAR system...!!!
Or r u the type of person that cause it aint American it aint worth it or anygood..???
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