So is this "Global Combat ship"
Type 26 Global Combat ship as presented shown in BAE presentations in late 2011.
This ship is based on a design shown at the "Engine As A Weapon 2011" conference. Scaling was based on the assumption of "approximately 148m" being the overall length, which lead to a broad match with the EH101, 127mm LW and ARTISAN radar.
I believe that this version has the mission bay in the hull. I will update this drawing to reflect the alternate design with the mission bay in the superstructure and add that as ..._2
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the model being built on the Clyde?
STV News - Defence review: Clyde shipyards to build eight frigates for Navy
Prime Minister David Cameron said eight
Type 26 global combat ships will start to replace their Type 23 predecessors - fewer than the 13 desired by Royal Navy chiefs.
I think I see from the diagram that this ship uses a
screw propeller.
Now I'm not a ship buff but I was reading about the Voith Schneider Propeller yesterday, and these points impressed.
Wikipedia - Voith Schneider Propeller
It is highly maneuverable, being able to change the direction of its thrust almost instantaneously. It is widely used on tugs and ferries.
A low acoustic signature favours the device's use in minesweepers by minimising cavitation (usually produced at the tips of axial propellers) as the rotor does not need to rotate as fast for a given thrust.
So I was thinking "Hmm Voith Schneider Propeller - all good" and I got to wonder "why not", meaning why is the VSP not used in
all modern ships, especially something where performance matters like a military ship?
Why is this type 26 frigate not designed to use the Voith Schneider Propeller?
Or have I come to the wrong forum for that question? Is this a train-spotter forum for ships, scientists not welcome, because they ask far too technical questions that no-one here has a clue about?