There is a Swedish enlarged version too called Visby Plus. I’ll send you a document about the current Visby and the Visby plus.

Another new one…

I used to have a picture of the yacht-type, but I don’t know where I’ve put it.

I read the accompanying article of the posted drawing and it indeed was about integrated mast design, offering a 360° coverage for the antennae and radars inside and the possibility to mount them on top of each other (and hence avoid interference in an easier way). Otherwise it was just talking about the innovation of the Dutch shipbuilding industry and some projects they had going on. It was a summary of a speech given by K. Damen, the boss of Damen shipyards.

Yes indeed, it was in an article, as mentioned it’s an article in my native language. I haven’t even yet had the time to fully read it, but from scan reading it, I noticed it was mainly about the integrated mast design. I’ll have a further look when time allows.

Turbinia, lately there have been several articles showing that indeed there is a growing fear for over capacity in the container fleet. I’ll have a look and post some if I have the time. It might indeed collapse if you see what they are building and ordering nowadays. And the simple lack of crewing will soon be apparent too (it is already, but with these ships it’ll become even more important). The next in the E-series by Maersk has been named Estrelle Maersk now.

HHI buys into Chinese steelmaker
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s largest shipbuilder, has moved to secure a stable supply of steel by acquiring a
20% stake in China Qinhuangdao Shouqin Metal Materials Co for $51.9 mln. The South Korean builder says it will buy
300-500 th. metric tonnes of steel plate from the company next year. The steelmaker is scheduled to complete a steel
plate production facility with an annual capacity of 1.5 mln. tonnes at the end of this year.

From today’s newsletter, didn’t have anything extra except for these few lines regarding this.

Mittal has recently bought Arcelor I think. There was some commotion about it with governments etc. but in the end I think the deal went through.

MHI and Nippon Steel develop new
steel for mega containerships
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Nippon Steel Corporation have jointly developed a technology to
use higher tensile strength steel (HTSS) with yield stress of 47 kgf/mm2 for the longitudinal strength member of
supersized containerships.
Yield stress indicates the limit beyond which permanent deformation occurs. The longitudinal strength member is the
most important part of a containership’s hull.
New containerships are increasing in size and the steel plates used for them are also becoming thicker.
However, says MHI, when “plates become thicker, toughness tends to decline. Use of the new HTSS, which has
successfully achieved toughness in addition to increased strength and reduced thickness, will not only contribute to
improvements in weight reduction and fuel efficiency, but also increase the reliability of the ship’s hull.”
When toughness is high, the possibility of crack initiation will be reduced and resistance to crack propagation
increases.
The first containership to incorporate the new steel will be built at MHI’s Nagasaki Shipyard and Machinery Works
while the HTSS steel plate will be produced at Nippon Steel’s Oita Works.
MHI says the 47 kgf/mm2 HTSS is the world’s highest strength steel plate for the hulls of commercial ships. In addition
to improved hull safety with higher toughness steel, the reduced volume of steel and resultant lighter ship weight will
allow greater deadweight.
Currently, the highest strength steel plate being used for commercial ships is 40 kgf/mm2 HTSS, introduced fifteen
years ago.
Nippon Steel has developed the new HTSS by applying its Thermo-Mechanical Control Process (TMCP) technology, a
production process that concurrently enhances strength, toughness and weldability of steel through hot rolling and
online water-cooling.
The company has verified the outstanding safety of the steel by using a test facility with giant tensile capacity of 8,000
tons.
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (Class NK) also participated in the development.
MHI designed the hull structure, leveraging characteristics of the steel and realizing increased safety for the hull
structure through optimization such as reduced plate thickness, and steel and welding arrangement.
In general, steel weldability deteriorates in relation to increasing strength. One of the features of the new HTSS is
claimed to be excellent weldability–equivalent to 40 kgf/mm2 HTSS.
MHI has established the most suitable welding method for the new HTSS by conducting various welding tests,
including two-electrode VEGA (Vibratory Electro Gas Arc) welding, jointly developed by MHI, Nippon Steel Corporation
and Nippon Steel & Sumikin Welding Co., Ltd.
“By applying this welding method,” says MHI, “it is evident that the resulting product is superior in strength, toughness
and the quality of welded parts over existing HTSS.”

With the introduction of large-size containerships that combine highly reliable 47 kgf/mm2 HTSS and MHI’s special
design and construction methods, the company says it is responding to the increasing needs of customers for higher
transportation efficiency and reduced environmental load through improved fuel efficiency and enhanced safety of
ship’s hull.

Hello Turbinia, might be something of interest to you. I’ll try to scan something for you about the design of such ships including computer generated test stuff on motion and strength of these giants. I have it available, but I’m not sure if I can scan it and throw it online (maybe send it to you personally), I’ll try to get it here anyway.

you have put the full picture adress in there, including the “http://www. etc. .jpg” in there, then it should show up.

Are you building a 1/200 Kirov class with Sovremenny parts??? How did you do that? Has little or nothing in common with it.
If you wish I can send you HUGE 1/200 plans for Peter the Great. Including lines plan, transverse sections etc. Best technique is using those transverse sections, cut them from ply wood and then use Balsa planks to finish it off. One massive Balsa block can be used to make the bow too, after you finish it you can sand it off to the correct shape and cover it with car filler paste.

It’s the Rosoboronexport promotion video, shot aboard Neustrashimiy.

Rastrub can be used against surface ships too, so it’s a multirole weapon.
Can hardly call a harpoon multirole and compared to the Rastrub in anti-ship mode it doesn’t have that much advantages.
Harpoons are just a self defence SSM, could hardly be called a true anti-ship capability.
With a single helicopter and some torpedo tubes you aren’t going to get far against submarines, the only possible succes would be stumbling upon a lousy subcommander and kill his sub if you’re very lucky.
These ships are true AAW vessels and are by no means called multi-role.
A Sovremenny cannot do anything against submarines and as mentioned air defence and antiship roles are taken by different ships, Sovremennies are not necessary in the fleet. Dedicated anti-submarine ships are. If you’re not dedicated to the anti-submarine role, you make very little chance. Against missiles that is totally different. A Sovremenny can only engage 6 targets with 12 missiles, an Udaloy can take 8 with 16 missiles (at shorter range yes, but with a higher chance of succes after all), that is one of the reasons why the Russian Navy has opted to keep them instead of the Sovremennies.
I do doubt the chances of a Rastrub against a surface target nowadays, but as mentioned they have other ships which are a lot more potent in that role (with expensive overkill missiles, but still capable of doing the job after all).

And the Udaloy II design is indeed the best destroyer design they ever made, there was even some talking about continuing the second of the class, but they refrained somehow. An Udaloy can take care of itself against whatever threat there is, a Sovremenny cannot.

Here is what you can do with a Stereguchiy if necessary (don’t know on what this idea is based though, could be from a wishful thinker too).