Comments by "David Houseman" (@davidhouseman4328) on "This is how the new Type 26 frigates look" video.

  1. @MyAqaa The last budget was an increase.
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  2. The original plan had 5 of those 13 being general purpose rather than anti sub. It's a lot of ship for a GP frigate, I'd prefer a larger number of worse ships.
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  3. It's not built for area air defence, you'd need a big upgrade in radar as well, generally making it a different ship. So the ability to use Aster isn't useful. MK41 has wider use for choice in weaponry and compatibility, it will include FCASW.
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  4. Under the current model the type 31 will cover the day job while the type 26 goes to war so basically there isn't a less risky asset to put them on.
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  5.  @AndyH2023.  I think it will be basically because it isn't fixed yet, we have a Interim anti ship missile decision coming soon and a development project for the FC/ASW.
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  6. Learning pretty high, that there won't be other issues, less so.
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  7.  @oculosprudentium8486  48 sea ceptor cells, 24 MK41.
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  8.  @GGG19872  being named the 83 makes a 26 variant unlikely as it suggets a larger ship.
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  9.  @GGG19872  the Australia government website has there dimensions as the same as the UKs 26s and the full load displacement at 8.8k tonnes.
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  10.  @zipz8423  No, the defence review was a budget increase and more than promised in the 2019 election. There were some troop number cuts but that wasn't my post.
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  11.  @zipz8423  as I said, no they didn't, stop lying.
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  12.  @zipz8423  Do you actually read what your replying to? The budget went up. If your talking about redundancies that would be troop number not budget.
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  13. You must think Islam is a very persuasive Religion.
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  14.  @anthsarin070497  Nope, all being built in there respective countries. There should be some knock on work in design and subsystems but not in the actually ship building.
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  15.  @BroadHobbyProjects  building some cheaper frigates is exactly what we need to do. The 26 is larger, more advanced and more heavily armed than the ship it's replacing leading to it being multiple times the price. That's not sustainable to be going 1 for 1.
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  16.  @BroadHobbyProjects  having more advanced ships doesn't help when they are tied up doing routine work. Having the cover of the 31/32 means those 4 26s are truly available. In terms of losing ships the type 31 is an Iver Huitfeldt hull with a quality CMS, it's something that can be turned into a full warship very quickly. If we need to replace ships we need numbers built over current quality.
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