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Dutch LPD-2 not accepted for service |
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Posts: 716 (15-Aug-2007 14:48:47) |
According to this document, www.mindef.nl/binaries/Voortstuwing%20LPD-2_tcm15-74785.pdf, the dutch secretary of defence did not accept the second dutch LPD "Johan de Witt" for active service due to problems with the propulsion system during trials in the Caribbean.
Seems the "all-electric-ship" with podded propulsion still has to mature.. |
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Kielland |
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Posts: 2248 (16-Aug-2007 15:18:51) |
Such problems are always an annoyance, but I'm sure that they will be able to sort it out.
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WillR06 |
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Posts: 918 (21-Aug-2007 05:24:51) |
I,m sure the Dutch Navy will sort out any issues, I actually saw her in Den Helder about 4 weeks ago, alongside her sister ship, and looked OK externally but no work was then visibly going on.
Adapt and overcome!
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E2R |
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Posts: 39 (21-Aug-2007 18:52:23) |
It is not the concept of AES and/or podded propulsion that causes the problems; the problem is the pod itself. The pods are from a serie of which more than 20 are already sold and proven, but the pods which were chosen were the first with this power-output. So where they thought there was no risk because of the pods were proven, they suddenly ended up with the kind of problems you expect when you're the lead-customer of a product. In hindsind they should have chosen 3 smaller pods (of a variant which already has been sold) instead of those 2 larger new pods...(may be somewhat more expensive but lower procurement risk and better for redundancy)
Fortunately all these problems are within the guarantee of the yard and has no financial consequences for the RNLN. Standby Q!
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Posts: 25 ( 9-Sep-2007 23:24:09) |
A Babelfish translation of a press report about LPD-2:
07-09-2007 14.37 |
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