Modern Stealth Corvette Challenge

[Kiwi Imperialist]

HMS Helsingborg (K32) firing her Bofors 57 mm Mk3 gun - Times Asi

Welcome to the Modern Stealth Corvette Challenge!

Design Requirements

1. Your submission must depict a fictional corvette.
2. The corvette should be commissioned at some point between 1991 and 2030.
3. Features intended to substantially reduce the corvette's radar signature should be included.

Challenge Rules

1. Each participant may submit a single image.
2. The image should be a Shipbucket template modified to include the participant’s art and, optionally, one of the following: ship badge, unit insignia, manufacturer logo, national flag, or naval ensign. Other elements are no longer permitted.
3. One side-view of the participant's ship must be included. One top-view is also permitted, but not required. All other views are prohibited.
4. If two views are included in a single image, they must depict the same ship, in the same configuration, at the same point in time.
5. All art must be in Shipbucket scale and conform to the Shipbucket style guidelines.
6. A textual description accompanying each submission is permitted, but not necessary.
7. Non-serious entries, or entries substantially deviate from the challenge requirements, are not allowed.
8. Off-topic posts will be reported to the relevant authorities.

This challenge will run until Sunday the 14th of August 2022, ending at 23:59 UTC-12 (International Date Line West).
A countdown timer can be found at this link.

A poll will be held after this date. Members of the Shipbucket community will have an opportunity to rate each submission. Please provide honest and meaningful scores for each entry. Responses which grant maximum scores to a select group of entries, and minimum scores to all other entries, will be deleted. Members of the community who manipulate the results in such a fashion may also be subject to a permanent ban. Scores will be allocated in two categories, each with a scale of 1 to 10:

• Drawing Quality - The overall quality of the drawing. One might consider detailing, shading, and accuracy.
• Design Quality -The quality of the design presented, irrespective of drawing quality. One could consider feasibility, practicality, and realism.

[Kiwi Imperialist]

Unmanned and Optionally Manned Vessels Welcome
As the scope of this challenge extends into the near future, I received a question asking if unmanned and optionally manned vessels are permitted. If they are equivalent and size and role to modern corvettes, the answer is yes.

[sebu]

Well; I'd quess no surprice to anyone I'll start this... with an old drawing from the "old school" days.
Though the top view is not required, You cannot win this challenge without it ...

[Illuminati STALIN]

woah nice work, really love the AShM arrangement : D

[heuhen]

I remember that old drawing

woah nice work, really love the AShM arrangement : D

it's the same arrangement used on the Norwegian Skjold class

[Polydegmon]

Designed as a patrol ship for far-off overseas possessions, the Thalean Navy’s Watchman class is quite large for a corvette, giving it good range for its type. It is equipped with powerful electronic radar surveillance equipment suitable for both peacetime work and low-intensity theaters of conflict. While it does not employ any particular materials to reduce its radar cross section, the Watchman's shapes are intended to limit its radar returns. Its helicopter hangar sized for a single NH90 gives the class an additional degree of flexibility. Its main punch comes from 8 MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles, with a secondary ASW capability granted by its bow sonar and MU90 torpedo complement. Its air defences are comprised of an 8-cell Sylver A-43 battery and an OTO Melara 76/62 Strales gun.

[Kiwi Imperialist]

Designed as a patrol ship for far-off overseas possessions, the Thalean Navy’s Watchman class is quite large for a corvette, giving it good range for its type. It is equipped with powerful electronic radar surveillance equipment suitable for both peacetime work and low-intensity theaters of conflict. While it does not employ any particular materials to reduce its radar cross section, the Watchman's shapes are intended to limit its radar returns. Its helicopter hangar sized for a single NH90 gives the class an additional degree of flexibility. Its main punch comes from 8 MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles, with a secondary ASW capability granted by its bow sonar and MU90 torpedo complement. Its air defences are comprised of an 8-cell Sylver A-43 battery and an OTO Melara 76/62 Strales gun.

Thank you for submitting an entry. Unfortunately, I cannot see your drawing. A placeholder with the text "the image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available" appears in its place. Are you sure the URL of the image is correct?

[Polydegmon]

Designed as a patrol ship for far-off overseas possessions, the Thalean Navy’s Watchman class is quite large for a corvette, giving it good range for its type. It is equipped with powerful electronic radar surveillance equipment suitable for both peacetime work and low-intensity theaters of conflict. While it does not employ any particular materials to reduce its radar cross section, the Watchman's shapes are intended to limit its radar returns. Its helicopter hangar sized for a single NH90 gives the class an additional degree of flexibility. Its main punch comes from 8 MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles, with a secondary ASW capability granted by its bow sonar and MU90 torpedo complement. Its air defences are comprised of an 8-cell Sylver A-43 battery and an OTO Melara 76/62 Strales gun.

Thank you for submitting an entry. Unfortunately, I cannot see your drawing. A placeholder with the text "the image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available" appears in its place. Are you sure the URL of the image is correct?

Sorry about that, should be fixed now

[Kiwi Imperialist]

Sorry about that, should be fixed now

Thanks, I can see it now.

[Blackbuck]

Commonwealth of New England - Flower-class Corvette

NES Shamrock - K06
NES Violet - K35
NES Jasmine K23
NES Lilac - K26
NES Poppy - K213
NES Columbine - K94
NES Clover - K134
NES Verbena - K85
NES Carnation - K00
NES Rose - K102
NES Snowdrop - K67
NES Hemlock - K203

The Flower-class Corvette are a class of twelve diesel-powered constabulary vessels used for the protection of the Maritimes and eastern seaboard. They take their names from a variety of sources all following the flower theme, mainly split between Union Navy vessels of the Civil War or Royal Navy corvettes of the Second World War.

They derive from a French design but were constructed in Commonwealth yards with a number of local alterations.

Initially ordered in 2005 construction began in 2007 with the first vessel, Shamrock being commissioned in 2009. The Final vessel, Hemlock came into commission in 2013.

The class are comprehensively signature managed ships with shrouded waterline exhausts, minimal hull openings and particular attention being paid to minimising radar returns by avoiding the use where possible of external antennae and other protuberances. This was further enhanced / minimised in their mid-life upgrade which Shamrock as illustrated shows.



General Specifications

• Length (Overall) - 108m
• Beam (Overall) - 14.4m
• Draught - 3.2m to keel, 4.2m to bottom of sonar dome
• Displacement: ~2,775t @ full-load

Propulsion
Method

• CODLAD
• 1x ~600kW Schottel auxiliary propulsor
• 3x Kamewa water-jets, two steerable nozzles, one plain nozzle

Systems

• 2x MAN / Ruston 16VRK280 @ 8,000kW ea.
• 4x MAN / Paxman 18VP185TG generator sets @3,360kWE ea.
• 2x Cummins C200D6 service generators @ 250kWE ea.
• 2x Cummins C100D6 service generators @ 100kWE ea.

Speed

• Max. >30kts on all engines
• Cruise ~16kts on one VP185

Endurance

• >3,000nm @16kts
• 21 days worth of supplies
• VERTREP via the flight-deck or forecastle and UNREP via astern-replenishment

Complement + Accommodation

• Core crew: 70
• Supernumeraries: 15
• Total accommodation: 90 berths + 10 austerity berths

Sensors
Radar

• Thales Nederland fixed-face NS106 E/F-band multi-function sets
• Thales Nederland fixed-face NS50 derivative I-band multi-function sets
• 2x Raytheon Anschutz Nautoscan E/F and I-band civilian nav radars
• Blighter A400 / C400 type fixed-face LPI Ku-band sets

Optical

• Diehl BGT SIMONE LWIR staring surveillance system (port, starboard, fore, aft with additional trainable sensor in the form of a FLIR systems HDC-MR)
• FLIR systems SWIR surveillance cameras mounted on the NS106 panels

Acoustic

• Ultra Sea Searcher HMS-1606
• Ultra Sea Lancer compact towed array

Armament - Post-MLU

• 1x BAE Bofors 57mm Mk3 with guided ammunition handling capability in the form of ORKA, MAD-FIRES or similar
• 1x BAE Bofors 40mm Mk4
• 16x Mk.56 cells for a total of 32 ESSM Block 2 (directors removed for Block 1 with the MLU and replaced with CEAMOUNT in the new mast)
• 8x Naval Strike Missiles (replacing Sea Eagle)
• Two pairs of containerised 324mm torpedo tubes for Mk.50 and Mk.54 lightweight torpedoes with a total of 12 weapons carried for use by tubes or helicopters

Electronic Warfare

• Syntonics PARCA-derived software defined jammer mounted on the four faces of the mast
• Bird Aero SPREOS DIRCM arranged in a four-cornered setup atop the bridge
• 2x Dagaie NG type multiple decoy launchers with a combination of distraction and seduction decoys as well as anti-torpedo decoys
• Rohde & Schwartz R/C-ESM system in the top portion of the "unicorn" style mast
• Saab NLWS laser-warners on each face of the mast

Communications
Integrated "unicorn" mast with:

• MADL-derived Link 16/22 datalink analogues
• Rohde & Schwartz V/UHF communications antennas
• TACAN
• Planar-array CEC to support engagements with large NEN escorts

General communications

• Ultra-wideband conformal arrays on each face of the mast structure alongside PARCA-type SATCOM arrays for X and Ka-band coverage.
• Numerous conformal antennas for civilian services as well as a number of Rohde and Schwartz wideband T/R antennas]/list]
  
  Aviation
  Hangar and flight-deck for a 10-ton class helicopter or 5-ton class helicopter and UAV(s), shown with a navalised Bell 525 because why not
  
  Boat(s)
  One 8.5m RHIB deploying from a davit on the port-side of the ship behind a roller shutter door, possibly with a
  
  Modularity
  Flexible mission space in the stern for a pair of 20-foot and a pair of 10-foot containers, usually consisting of the previously mentioned towed array and torpedo tubes plus a spare pocket fore stores, fuel or whatever else you might need.