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Home » Posts tagged 'FSC'

  • More Details on Type 26

    • March 30, 2010
    • By Think Defence
    • Land, Sea and Air
    • 58 comments

    More details are emerging on the Type 26 Combat Ship. The contract is for the assessment phase only, 4 years and £127 million It is being termed the ‘Combat Ship’ and likely to be the larger of the Future Surface Combatant, so the C1/C2 concept seems to be still alive. The baseline design suggests a 141m long vessel, displacing 6,850 tonnes [...]

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  • Splash the Cash

    • March 25, 2010
    • By Think Defence
    • Land, Sea and Air
    • 38 comments

    As we thought might happen, yet more MoD contracts have been placed. In addition to a concrete order for the fifth Astute class and long lead time items for the sixth the MoD has placed a £126 million order with BAe Surface Ships for the 4 year design and assessment phase for the proposed Type 26 Frigate. The single type [...]

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  • FDR – Maritime Futures Part 2 (Another view on C2)

    • January 8, 2010
    • By Jed
    • Thoughts on the Future
    • 16 comments

    There is no doubt to anyone who has read my comments or my guest articles on Think Defence that I am an unabashed ‘fan boy’ of the Royal Danish Navy’s Absalon Class “flexible support ship”. What I will attempt to do in this article is explain why I think it would make an excellent basis as an “off the shelf” [...]

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  • FDR – Maritime Major Surface Combatants (Future Surface Combatant ADDITIONAL NOTE)

    • January 5, 2010
    • By Think Defence
    • Thoughts on the Future
    • 15 comments

    This is just a quick note on the Think Defence Proposal for a reduced but high end FSC, i.e. collapsing C1 and C2 into a slightly smaller number of C1. It is recognised that this increases risk should one of them have an unforseen accident for example. It also means that there is an increased risk of a hull not [...]

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  • FDR – Maritime Major Surface Combatants (Future Surface Combatant)

    • January 3, 2010
    • By Think Defence
    • Thoughts on the Future
    • 7 comments

    The C1 and C2 concepts as defined in the FSC (Future Surface Combatant) programme make a lot of sense in the context of a cash starved Royal Navy, the study has examined each mission  and threat environments and tried to approach them with a pragmatism not seen in the Royal Navy for some time. It envisages a dual class of vessels, [...]

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  • FDR – Maritime Major Surface Combatants (Introduction)

    • January 2, 2010
    • By Think Defence
    • Thoughts on the Future
    • 9 comments

    The escort fleet of destroyers and frigates provides the combat backbone of the Royal Navy. Whilst capabilities have certainly increased the so called ‘tyranny of distance means that however more capable the Type 42 is than the Type 45, it cannot be in two places at once. It might be obvious but worth saying anyway, ships do not deploy at [...]

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  • FDR – Maritime Futures Part 1

    • December 30, 2009
    • By Jed
    • Thoughts on the Future
    • 23 comments

    I have to dive in and write this piece for ThinkDefence being ex-Navy, there you go, how was that for up front disclosure and transparency ! However I am also been a soldier, and as a life long plane spotter I am also a proponent of air power, so hopefully I can provide a balanced, although maritime centered viewpoint. Threats [...]

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