{"id":16552,"date":"2012-08-20T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:46:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:46:14","slug":"royal-navy-announces-design-of-new-type-26-global-combat-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/royal-navy-announces-design-of-new-type-26-global-combat-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Navy announces design of new “Type 26 Global Combat Ship”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Royal Navy revealed the design of the Type 26 today:<\/p>\n

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The announcement on the Type 26 Global Combat Ship has been described by officials as a “significant milestone” in a programme which will support “thousands of UK shipbuilding jobs”.<\/p>\n

Basic specification images show sleek stealth features, familiar to modern warships, making them harder to detect.<\/p>\n

The ship will be 148 metres long with a displacement of 5,400 tonnes.<\/p>\n

The MoD has been working with BAE Systems since 2010 to determine the basic design for the ship. Detailed specifications of the vessel will now be examined.<\/p>\n

Vertical missile silos for a range of weapons, such as cruise missiles, will be housed on board along with a medium calibre gun.<\/p>\n

The hangar on board will house a Merlin or Wildcat helicopter and there will be extra space for unmanned drones, underwater vehicles or other specialist equipment.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The current plan is to build 13 of the ships, which are due to start coming into service after 2020.<\/p>\n

The Type 26 will replace the 13 Type 23 frigates but the MoD is not giving a precise commitment on numbers until they know the unit cost.<\/p>\n

The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, says the ship will be used “across the full spectrum of warfare”.<\/p>\n

He added: “The T26 GCS will be a multi-mission warship designed for joint and multinational operations… including complex combat operations, maritime security operations such as counter piracy, as well as humanitarian and disaster relief work around the world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Royal Navy revealed the design of the Type 26 today: The announcement on the Type 26 Global Combat Ship has been described by officials as a “significant milestone” in a programme which will support “thousands of UK shipbuilding jobs”. Basic specification images show sleek stealth features, familiar to modern warships, making them harder to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,15],"tags":[140,30,61],"class_list":["post-16552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","category-technology","tag-design","tag-navy","tag-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4iY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16555,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions\/16555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}