Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) programme
Four new 37,000-tonne naval tanker ships are to be purchased for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary as part of the £452m Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) programme, it has been announced.
The ships, which are to be built by South Korean firm Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, will be manned by the RFA and provide fuel to Royal Navy warships and task groups.
http://www.defencemanagement.com/new...y.asp?id=18949
Dave
Congratulations to the DSME team and the RN for successfully concluding this lucrative deal. 450 million GBP is really an efficient price for four 37,000-ton fleet tankers. In-service date of 2016 from initial steel cutting to complete trial runs seems pretty quick too.
Sorry,but I get very confused in these matters.
The article states vessels of 37,000 tonnes,now if they are of the BMT design then I assume that they are one of the Aegir family.
As far as I am aware there are three vessels in this class consisting of Aegir 10,18 and 26,the numbers denoting the tonnage.
So my question is,which one of these relates to the 37,000 tonne in the article,and if so would this tonnage be when fully loaded.
Sorry if this question is obvious to you,but it's not to me,thanks.
Originally Posted by jonas
I scratched my head for a minute too. It's got to be the fully loaded tonnage. The BMT/BAE/DSME proposal has always been based on the Aegir18R hull - which comes in at 17000t dead.
http://www.bmtdsl.co.uk/BMT/bmt_medi...pAegir-18R.pdf
It would be easy to whinge about how the requirement was for 6, not 4, but these days we ought to be pleased we're getting anything.
Here's a similar MoD article if anyone's interested:
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/De...RfaTankers.htm
Nu-Labours's defence industry stratagey strikes again. British defence industry to be BaE
Really pleased with the order would prefer them to have been built on Queen's Island. But the Kiwis seam to have had no problems with HMNZS Endeavour.
Well said. And as to being built here in the UK how much would this have cost?
Dave
MoD Article:
A damn-sight more, suffice to say. We don't have the yard capacity or practical expertise any more - hence it was never even tabled as an option.
It's rich of Labour to bemoan the contract as detrimental to British industry, when they did so little to reverse or even slow the decline.
I'd have loved to have seen the ship built on the Mersey, the Tyne, or anywhere over here, but there's been so little investment and such a scandalous attack on the profitability of UK based shipbuilding, that its simply unachievable. You can't have your cake and eat it, Mr Murphy.
Thats a sad state of affairs. I bet Churchill would have called you an idiot if you would have proposed something like the above in his times. Times change...
Yes six would be nice,but four is good enough at the moment. Just one thing,the bmt link you provided is for the AOR version am I right in thinking that we have ordered the AO as in this link:-
http://www.bmtdsl.co.uk/?/309/1978/
Is this the ship we're getting?
Another CGI image showing it replenishing the French PA2. I guess it gives us a little depiction of what it may look like replenishing the QE-class:
Pretty nice vessel. Would have been nice to have it built in a British yard, but oh well.
Well, wherever the construction takes place, it's still a pleasant surprise.
Just the 'primary casualty receiving ship' to sort next...
Reeding a bit I just learned that the Royal Fleet Auxiliary already operates a number of ships that weren't build on British yards. There are even ships from Italia and Germany, so the above isn't really a new development. Interesting.
yes its good to see
Argus was rebuilt in Harland & Wolff in Belfast
At one point there was even one built in Gadansk. They were hired
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