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Royal Navy
Topic Started: Jun 20 2004, 10:51 PM (535 Views)
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Hi,

Heres a great website for the RN,

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk

Also, please take this thread to talk about the Royal Navy. So, I'll start it off about asking if anyone has heard of the new type 45 Destroyer. An excellent new class of Destroyer.
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Mogz
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I'm not sure how you can claim the type-45 to be an excellent class of destroyer. The type-45 isn't set to begin replacing the type-42 until (I believe) 2007. Has it even under gone sea trials yet? Yes the specs look nice, but until you get one in the water and push it to its limits, we won't know just how good it really is. I will admit though, that the type-42 needs replacing (launched in the 60's I believe) and if the type-45 lives up to its specs, it'll be the ship to do it.
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type 45=unbelievable! talked about this on another forum and general consensus is that we could be looking at a truely special ship! better than the burke layfette and any other destroyr on earth! reason why britian didnt join the horizion project is because the set of armaments and gagets they wanted in the ship brought them into conflict. so they have now got a beast of a new destroyer and i believe that it will be far far superior until the us brings out the burke replacment! will provide info
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she will be approx 7350 tonnes - believe to be 8000 now
max speed of 27 knots - quite impressive
incoporates new stealth features
Type 45 will be able to engage a large number of targets simultaneously, and defend aircraft carriers or groups of ships, such as an amphibious landing force, against the strongest future threats from the air.





At The Cutting Edge of Area Anti Air Warfare

The main armament for the new destroyers will be the world-beating Principal Anti Air Missile System (PAAMS) - a collaboration between the UK, France and Italy. This capability represents a major step forward for the Royal Navy, putting the UK at the cutting edge of area Anti Air Warfare and ensuring that the Type 45 can defend her consorts and allies for decades to come.

The new generation of missiles could be sea-skimming, high-diving, supersonic, stealthy or highly manoeuvrable. Attacks could come from any direction and in salvoes. With its advanced combat system, the Type 45 will greatly enhance the ability of the Royal Navy to defend its warships and other vessels it is accompanying from anti-ship missiles and from attacks by aircraft and land-based threats.



PAAMS has been designed to match and defeat the evolving threat of attacks from sophisticated anti-ship missiles and to deal with attacks by aircraft. It can control a substantial number of missiles in the air at once, thus making it difficult for attackers to swamp the Royal Navy's air defences. PAAMS equipment carried by each ship will include a 48-cell Sylver Vertical Launching System (VLS) for Aster missiles. Also central to the PAAMS system are the highly capable SAMPSON Multi-Function Radar (MFR) for surveillance and fire control, the S1850 Long-Range Radar (LRR) for air/surface search, and the Command and Control system.





Multi-Function, Active Array Radar

The SAMPSON family of radars combines surveillance and dedicated tracking roles into a single system. Sited high on the ship, it can detect and track attacking aircraft and missiles while providing guidance for the ship’s own missiles. It supports point and area defence against current and future forecast air threats in an environment of heavy jamming and land and sea clutter. Functionality includes long- and medium-range search, surface picture and high-speed horizon search. It also performs high-angle search and track, multiple target tracking and multiple channel fire control.




This provides three-dimensional long-range air surveillance and surface surveillance for PAAMS and other ship systems.



The mixture of shorter-range Aster 15 and longer-range Aster 30 missiles selected for the Type 45 are faster and more agile than the previous generation. Exceptional agility is achieved in the ‘end-game’ using a lateral thrust system – commonly known as PIF, PAF.



The Combat Management System (CMS) enables the command team to manage and operate the combat system and achieve the ship’s operational objectives. It will perform tactical picture compilation, threat evaluation, weapon assignment and control of the other combat system equipment, including PAAMS.




PAAMS (Long Range Radar, Multi-Function Radar)
Aster 15 and Aster 30 missiles
Identification, Friend or Foe
Combat Management System
Navigation Suite
Communications Suite
Electronic Warfare Suite
Meteorological Suite
Optical and Electro-optical Detection
Medium Calibre Gun
Close Range Guns
Sonar
Anti-torpedo Defence
Data Links
Helicopter - Lynx or Merlin
Provision for Surface to Surface guided weapon
Provision for Anti Air Warfare Inner Layer Defence
Provision for Torpedo Launch Systems

this came from www.type45.com
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http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/horizon/

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TYPE 45 DARING CLASS ANTI-AIR WARFARE DESTROYER, UNITED KINGDOM
The UK Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers are to replace the Type 42 destroyers, in service since 1978. Six ships have been contracted with a total requirement for twelve. The twelve are to enter service by 2014. A Full Scale Engineering and Initial Production (FSED/IP) contract has been placed on Marconi Electronic Systems (now BAE SYSTEMS) as project prime contractor. All ships will be assembled and launched at BAE's Yarrow, Scotstoun shipyard. responsible for the assembly of the ships. Vosper Thorneycroft will build and outfit the forward section of the ship, masts and funnels.

Production of the first-of-class ship, HMS Daring, was begun in March 2003 and it will enter service in 2007. The second, HMS Dauntless, and the third, HMS Diamond will enter service in 2009. The following three have been named as HMS Dragon, HMS Defender and HMS Duncan.

The UK withdrew from participation in the tri-national Project Horizon/Common New Generatrion Frigate (CNGF) programme for the UK, France and Italy, and the project was terminated in October 1999.The Type 45 programme is benefiting from work done on Horizon, for example the PAAMS weapon system and some of the internal architecture of the ship.

The destroyer's displacement will be about 8,000t, the designed top speed will be greater than 27 knots and the range will be greater than 7,000 nautical miles.

MISSION

The main mission of the Type 45 anti-air warfare destroyer is to provide local area fleet defence, with long range radar and wide area defence capability. The ship's combat systems also have the capability to control aircraft and co-ordinate the anti-air warfare operations of the task force. The Type 45 is equipped with long range weapon systems to intercept air threats including super-agile manoeuvring missiles with re-attack modes. The ships will also have close-in weapon systems for last layer defence. The UK PAAMS will defend the ships from missiles approaching individually or in salvos and is capable of controlling a large number of airborne missiles simultaneously. The Type 45 could also accommodate cruise missiles such as the Tomahawk and anti-ballistic missiles if a requirement was identified in future. The Type 45 will be able to operate a helicopter up to the size of a Royal Navy's Merlin helicopter, but will initally operate with Lynx HMA.8 helicopters armed with Stingray torpedoes.

COMMAND AND CONTROL

A joint team of BAE Systems Combat and Radar Systems and Alenia Marconi Systems will supply the combat management system (CMS) and fast ethernet data transfer system for the destroyers. The Type 45 CMS will integrate the PAAMS missile system and control all sensors and weapons. Thales Communications Ltd are leading the team, which includes BAE Systems Avionics, which will provide the Fully Integrated Communications System (FICS). Astrium (a joint venture of EADS and BAE Systems) has been awarded a contract to provide SCOT 3 satellite communications systems. Raytheon Systems Ltd will supply the integrated navigation system. Northrop Grumman (formerly Litton) Marine Systems with Rockwell Automation will provide the platform management system. Alenia Marconi Systems will provide the METOC (Meteorological and Oceanographic) system.

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. It is expected, although not confirmed, that the UK Royal Navy will select only the longer range 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 Sampson multi-function, dual-face active array radar operating at E/F bands. Each face of the array carries 2,5000 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. 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.

Alenia Marconi Systems, teamed with Radamec Defence Systems will provide the Electro-optical Gunfire Control System (EOGCS).

GUNS

The ships will be fitted with the 114mm Mk 8 Mod 1 medium calibre gun system for shore bombardment and 30mm guns.

SENSORS

Wide-area long-range search is provided by the Alenia Marconi Systems S1850M radar operating at D-band, an enhanced version of the Thales Nederland (formerly Signaal) SMART-L. Raytheon Systems Ltd will supply the IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) system.

Ultra Electronics (with EDO Corporation of the USA) has been selected to provide the Type 45's Surface Ship Torpedo Defence (SSTD) system which includes the MFS-7000 bow-mounted medium frequency sonar, a development of the sonar supplied by EDO to the Brazilian Navy. The system will provide automatic warning of a torpedo attack and tactical advice on ship manoeuvres and the deployment of decoys to defeat the threat.

COUNTERMEASURES

Thales Sensors (formerly Racal Defence) will supply the Type 45's radar band electronic support measures (RESM) system. The RESM is developed from Racal’s Outfit UAT but with new signal processing and emitter identification technology.

The vessels will have the Royal Navy's Outfit DLH active naval offboard decoy system, which includes the Siren decoy, an expendable radiating decoy against radar guided missiles, from BAE Systems.

PROPULSION

The Type 45 will be powered by two WR-21 advanced cycle gas turbine engines with intercooler and recuperator (ICR) heat exchangers, which provides significant space and fuel savings. The recuperator recovers energy from the exhaust gases to increase fuel efficiency. Each engine will provide 25 MW. The engines will be built by a team led by Rolls-Royce and Northrop Grumman. Alsthom Power Conversion Ltd will provide other elements of the power and propulsion system, including the electric propulsion motors.


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