Shouldn't that be high-speed engines? The power is demanded by the size of the hull and the speed of the vessel. Of course all diesel engines used in fighting ships are of the high speed kind so perhaps I'm wrong.
056 class FFL/corvette
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Huh... isn't 6.5 billion pounds equal to around 10 billion USD?
The exchange rate today is 1.62 USD to 1 British pound. 6.5 billion pounds = 10.53 billion USD, divided by 6 ships = 1.755 billion USD per ship at today's exchange rate. Keep in mind that this is total program cost estimates and not just cost of construction.
Yes...but if you add the things the Darings were designed for but not including (ie. the Harpoons, Launching Tomohawks, the rest of the ASW capability, etc.) then I expect the cost per Daring would come up to and either equal or exceed the ABs.
The Daring is one heck of a vessel...but to get them to be multi-mission will cost, just like it costs for the Burks, and at the end of the day, the Burks have twice the number of tubes that can already launch different ordinance for the same price.
I know this though, any US Carrier group would be happy to have a Daring along helping tremendously in the AAW mission, particularly if the are "link" enabled to the AEGIS vessels. From exercises they have already performed together, this impression is held within the US Navy service, all the way up the chain of command. The Daring is an impressive vessel. Wish they had 12 of them fully outfitted..
My latest issue of "Proceedings" from the US Navy Institute indicates that the Type 056 is now definitely being built in five different locations. They are going to build a lot of them...and need to to replace the older vessels.
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Consider how many rust buckets and dingy they need to phase out, that's not a surprise; but my suspicion is that the PLAN can absorb that many new vessels at the same time, they need to teach a lot of old sea dogs new tricks and new sailors to handle the new techs, y'know...it'd be quite a quantum leap from Hainan class sub-chasers to 056 corvettes.
Well, if they have planned for this...and I believe they surely have, then they will have been rotating crews through training classes while not at Sea preparing them to take on these new vessels.
We will see, but at the rate they are building them I have to presume they have been doing some intensive training. Otherwise all these new ships are going to sit around for a while...or they will do OJT as they bring them into the fleet, using NCOs from the first few to train up new crews as needed.
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