"Is This What Naval Warship In 2050 Will Look Like?" Topic
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Tango01 | 01 Sep 2015 9:41 p.m. PST |
" Images have emerged of intimidating vessel, dubbed Dreadnought 2050, that could be the future of the Royal Navy * The stunning vessel pushes today's engineering boundaries to the limits, with hulls that can make them invisible * Engineers believe it could be crewed by 50 people, rather than the current 200, thanks to remote-control technology * New-style operations room could allow commanders to focus on specific areas from up to thousands of miles away Sleek and stealthy, it resembles something from Star Wars. In fact, this is what British warships could look like in as little as 35 years. With RAF jets already being replaced by drones piloted by men sitting at computer screens many miles away, the Royal Navy is now investigating how technology will change the fleet. The answer, it seems, could be a generation of largely remote-controlled seafaring beasts with ‘speed of light weapons' and a hull that can make them invisible to the naked eye…"
Main page link Amicalement Armand |
emckinney | 01 Sep 2015 10:25 p.m. PST |
Somehow, I don't think that they really meant "fusion." |
Whatisitgood4atwork | 01 Sep 2015 10:50 p.m. PST |
I have no idea if that's what a warship will look like. But it is cool. |
David Manley | 02 Sep 2015 2:20 a.m. PST |
Some interesting seamanship challenges there. Good to see what our bright young things are thinking (and better to see them NOT thinking along the lines of the "Black Swan"!!) |
Noble713 | 02 Sep 2015 3:34 a.m. PST |
Overall an interesting design, except: Engineers believe it could be crewed by 50 people, This sounds great for Navy budgets….until you need to perform maintenance on the ship….or conduct damage control after sustaining casualties. Good luck fighting fires and plugging holes with a skeleton crew. |
Maddaz111 | 02 Sep 2015 3:47 a.m. PST |
hmm, what role is this ship.. Its an aircraft carrier, land strike, anti warship, anti submarine, anti air warfare frigate? So.. is it any good.. Think it is a rubbish design, since it will be so expensive we will end up with a fleet of two ships.. that no prime minister will ever risk putting in harms way. |
GarrisonMiniatures | 02 Sep 2015 4:44 a.m. PST |
Nothing wrong with a fusion reactor in a future design, though admit optimistic! Like the tethered copter – I assume to avoid possibility of systems getting hacked and/or to enable it to stay up longer. Not sure about a see through hull though – just means you can see what's inside, so assume this would be very limited and designed to reduce or mask the outline. The 2 new carriers are supposed to have a service life of 50 years, say 2065-2070, so will still be around in 2050. |
Allen57 | 02 Sep 2015 6:00 a.m. PST |
The ship is cool but I cannot recall a futurist getting it right yet. Remember the landship? |
Lion in the Stars | 02 Sep 2015 8:37 a.m. PST |
Noble713 has the important point: small crews are great until you need to fix something or die in combat. A crew of 50 implies roughly 12 people on watch at any given time. CO and XO don't stand watch, plus the ship's office, galley, and supply. You'd have enough off-watch people to have two hose teams (of 4 sailors each) to fight fires, and that's NOT ENOUGH. USN submarines have 2 hose teams in the offgoing section, and 2 more hose teams in the oncoming section. Then you need overhaul teams (usually another 4 sailors) to chase hot spots, DC toolkit teams (2 sailors) to carry the stuff to patch the holes, submersible pump teams (4 sailors, because the pumps are obscenely heavy and so are the power cables)… and I can keep going. As expensive as modern warships are, I cannot see a Navy chasing the false economy of minimal crewing, because minimal crew makes the risk of losing the whole ship much greater. The technologies I expect to see in midcentury warships are the Operations Room, the heavy use of drones, and railguns. Lasers for AA and CIWS would be nice, but you'd need a huge powerplant to feed an adequately-powerful laser. The Trimaran hull is an excellent way to reduce fuel consumption, but it makes for a much wider ship. The Independence-class LCS is almost too wide for the Panama Canal with a beam of 104 feet (the original Panama Canal locks are 110 feet wide). If you scaled the LCS hull up to ~950 feet long (appropriate for a small carrier or gator-freighter), you're looking at a waterline beam of at least 230 feet. For comparison, the Queen Elizabeth-class carriers have a waterline beam of 128 feet and a flight-deck beam of 230 feet. So you'd need to build new drydocks to handle the much wider trimaran ships. |
Tango01 | 02 Sep 2015 10:47 a.m. PST |
Quite interesting observations Lion… (smile) Amicalement Armand |
tberry7403 | 02 Sep 2015 11:36 a.m. PST |
Does it come equipped with flying cars? |
49mountain | 02 Sep 2015 1:19 p.m. PST |
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