Shipbucket

Interesting take on the County class B.B.

I like the clean lines compared to the more bluff looking Counties. Certainly enough armament aboard to be more than useful.

Do you have a clean drawing of the GDM-C?

Ask and ye shall receive. I'm pretty sure ace had put it in the below-decks thread when he did it but seems not.

Blackbuck wrote:Ask and ye shall receive. I'm pretty sure ace had put it in the below-decks thread when he did it but seems not.

I don't have belowdeck parts for this gun, so it isn't there (it might be that it has none though)

I like it too. A nice take on the County.
I suppose a nice what-if had Britain had the dollars to spend in the 50s/60s.

Not a drawing but a change of sorts!

Royal Galenian Air Force Update

Due to the escalating belligerence shown by the Russian government and repeated encroachments into Galenian airspace the Ministry of Defence has authorised the procurement of a further 16 Eurofighter Typhoons and 80 new Boeing Slam/Strike Eagles. This comes at a time of uncertainty for the RGAF which having just cancelled commitment to the F-35 was to be without 48 or more aircraft once the F-16-30 fleet retires in 2018.
Given that there is already an open production line for the Eagle in Tol Galen it is estimated that the first new-build aircraft could be ready for testing by the end of the year, production of components in both Tol Galen and the US means that lead times can be drastically cut whilst keeping both lines open, it has also been suggested that as a further lifeline to F-15 production that RSAF aircraft be split between the two lines.
This massive investment in the RGAF comes at a time where all three services are having money pumped into them by the new coalition government. It is envisaged that by 2020 the combined fighter and strike force will consist of the following.

200x F-15 Sneak Eagles (80 new-build + 120 upgraded to common standard under Project Thunderbird)
128x Typhoon Tranche 2 (To common standard under Project Horizon)
72x Typhoon Tranche 3
96x F-16-50 (Nearing OSD of 2023)
120x F-16-50+ (Upgraded under Project Firebird)

The active pool should be around 520 aircraft with most of the F-16-50s already being sidelined by this date.

No new ships, just some reorganising of ground forces, trimming the fat and what not.



Yellow denotes the Active Force IE the cutting edge of the Galenian ground-based component,
Orange denotes a unit of the Active Reserves which encompass ex-active duty personnel who retain a statutory liability for service and are liable to be recalled to active duty status during a time of need.
Red denotes a unit of the Volunteer Reserves which are the part-time military reserve force which consist of civilian volunteers who routinely undergo both training and live operations alongside the active force
There are also the Sponsored Reserves AKA civilian contractors who are employed for various non-essential tasks (mainly logistics) as well as some specialised active-duty tasks but these are not illustrated here.

For the army by itself there are around 355-360,000 men and women spread out between all four tiers.

At some point I need to group the various units into administrative or parent divisions. The ones that currently spring to mind are Guards, Irish, Mountain, Light and Mechanised Infantry and Armoured divisions...

~Mark

Suitably amended from the earlier iteration of the design the support ship is back. This time suitably 'Nordicised' as per the original brief.

She's been stretched from 116 to 120 on the waterline, had some deck heightening where required and had her container deck reworked. Equipment also now fits with the Swedish vibe, at least partially.
I see this as a properly multi-role vessel for smaller nations, not too dissimilar from HMNZS Canterbury. Ideal for disaster relief and humanitarian efforts abroad whilst still offering some oomph.

Generic Support Ship1.5



Specifications

• Displacement: ~8,000t (Standard Load)
• Load: ~1,750t dead-weight
• Length: 120m (WL)
• Beam: 20m (WL)
• Draught: 6m (Mean)
• Propulsion: IEP
• Range: 8000nmi @ 17knots
• Endurance: 30 days before resupply
• 4x Wärtsilä 8L32 Gensets - 2x @ 4,300kW and 2x @ 3,360kW

• Speed:
  • 20 knots (Full) - (Limited Duration)
  • 17 knots (Full) - Regular
• Complement: 40 Core + 80 Mission + 30 Surge
• Accommodation: 150 permanent berths including crew complement - More can be added by use of containerised habitation modules
• Sensors:
  • Saab Sea Giraffe AMB
  • Kelvin Hughes Sharpeye X and Sharpeye S navigation and helicopter-control radars
  • Thales Mirador EO FCS
  • Generic EO surveillance and observation gimbals
  • Various frequency whips and omnis including mil-spec datalinks
  • SCOT-5 plus METOC and Sat-TV
  • Electronic Warfare Systems:
  • Thales Vigile 400 ESM
  • Chemring Centurion Launchers (2 of) - Chimera - Talos - Seagnat | Also capable of firing guided 70mm FFARs and ATGMs
  • Thales Scorpion RESM
• Armament:
  • 1x 57mm Bofors Mk3
  • 1x Twin 40mm Bofors (Oto Melara)
  • 2x 12.7mm LCRWS
  • Magazine space for both embarked air-group and embarked vehicles
• Aircraft Carried: Expected to be two (maybe, possibly four depending on how the innards work out) NH90s or one Chinook
• Aviation Facilities: Hangar for at least two medium or one large helicopter with an elevator to the flex deck allowing for further embarkation of smaller aircraft and UAS
• Boats & Landing Craft: 2x 10m Daughter Craft + 2x 7m RHIBs
• Flex-Deck and Multi-Purpose Stuff:
  • Flex-Deck -30m x 19m x 6m - Various arrangements - 2-6x 8-10m RHIBs or Daughter Craft - Up-to 12x TEU containers including four spots for containerised mission systems
  • Vehicle Deck - 55m x 10m x 5.45m - Primarily intended for light vehicles though at a pinch you could embark CV90s
  • Container Deck - The container deck is set up to accommodate up-to 30x TEU containers with further TEU containers storable in the hangar, boat bays or flex-deck depending on requirements

~Mark.

Nice one. Looks similar to one I did for an Swedish support ship challenge.

I'm sure you said that when I posted the original D: