Posted on 06/07/2016 10:46:49 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Royal Navy's most advanced destroyers break down in the Gulf because the water is too WARM, bungling defence chiefs admit
Britain's £1billion a piece Type-45 Destroyer ships break down in warm water and are being retrofitted with diesel generators, defence chiefs have admitted. Complicated Rolls Royce gas turbine engines work in the cold water around Britain but the vessels have been left adrift in the Gulf on several occasions because of failures.
The problem first became apparent when HMS Daring lost all power in the mid-Atlantic in 2010 and had to repaired in Canada.
The ship needed fixing again in Bahrain in 2012 following another failure.
MPs were told of the problems at a defence committee hearing into the problems amid claims the number of new frigates due to be bought by the Government could be slashed as a result.
The Daily Record revealed the problems today and said their were fears of job losses at the Clyde shipyards as a result of the problems.
Former First Sea Lord Lord West today slammed the failures and told MPs: 'This is not a good position to be in.'
He told the Ministry of Defence had 'run out of money, effectively'.
Rolls Royce told the committee the engines installed in the Type-45 Destroyers had been built as specified - but that the conditions in the Middle East were not 'in line with these specs'.
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Uhhh...Im not sure I’d want to be on *that particular* one. Too ‘splody for me.
This is hilarious.
Did the designers also work on the F-35? The B-1?
How could they not know the operating temperature range of interest, when every engineer in any navy knows the temperature range, and is constantly reminded of temperature either by SVP graphs or by hourly seawater intake temperature readings? A professional would design either for a seawater pump capacity sufficient to cool everything even when in the Persian Gulf or at least with a supplemental pump to take up the slack when the ship is in the Gulf.
Didn’t anybody stop to think that these boats are “ocean going” and would run into warm waters?
I wonder if they have any of the original four-stackers we sent them left?
Don’t laugh too hard, many of our older nukes had this problem.
For a moment I thought they might have lost vacuum in the condenser, but that would be a lack of suck.
Oh well, ...
BTTT
They found out that water is wet, too.
But at least they’re financing thirld worlders to replace their native British population.
wonder if the Prince of Darkness is involved in this?
Doesn’t the Royal Navy also participate in joint excecises with us in the Caribbean?
At least they are better looking than the LCS
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