DELIVERING THE TYPE 45 AIR

WARFARE DESTROYER
Commodore Richard Powell OBE
Royal Navy

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 AIM

To describe the key lessons from

the delivery of the Type 45 and
explain how they were carried
through into subsequent ship
programs

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 CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Training
 Equipment
 Personnel
 Infrastructure
 Doctrine
 Organisation
 Information
 Logistics
 Lessons carried forward into QE and Type 26
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 HMS DAUNTLESS
6 (originally 12) Air Defence Destroyers
8000T vice previous class 4500T
Massive growth potential designed in
Three major new designs aspects

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 Training – Pre Acceptance

Whole ship safety case

Training shortfalls
Audit process

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 Training – Post Acceptance

Trainers do not know the ship

Ship handling
Propulsion
Replenishment at Sea
Berthing - Stabilisers

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 Training - Aviation

FOCFT in HMS DARING

Other aircraft types
Seizing opportunities

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 Equipment

Relationship with the ship builder and

other Original Equipment Manufacturers
Pride of the ship builders and OEMs
Combat System – Land Based Test
Facility
Weapon system evaluation - acceptability

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 Equipment

Comparison with allies

Missile firings and evaluation
Multinational considerations
Interoperability

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 Personnel

Operating Procedures
Major changes in accommodation and
organisation
Open mindedness, leadership and
imagination

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 Infrastructure
Financial pressure
Always vulnerable and difficult
Unintended consequences
Accountability
Home and abroad

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 Doctrine – not Dogma

Considerable amount of high quality

conceptual work
Needs to be widely understood both within
and without the ship

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 Doctrine – not Dogma

Needs to proven
Needs to be developed
Captain Anti Air Warfare
Alternative roles:
 JTFC

 TBMD

 EMF

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 Organisation

Management of the overall destroyer

programme
Responsibility
Accountability
Differences in imperatives
Captains role and Director Delivery

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 Information

First of class – has A view

Lessons process
Handover of responsibility from OEM to
me
Follow on ships

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 Logisitcs

Support solution
Class Output management organisation
Trials programme and organisation
Deploying

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 Lessons Learnt
 Training – Whole ship safety case - Enables
 Equipment – Importance of effective working
relationship with the OEMs
 Personnel – Best people early in the build
process
 Infrastructure – Vulnerable and needs close
attention

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 Lessons Learnt
 Doctrine – Needs to be understood and then
Developed
 Organisation – Responsibility and
Accountability
 Information – Capturing lessons and owning
the solution
 Logistics – Focusing on support solutions
early in the project

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 Lessons Carried Forward
 Whole ship safety – RN wide
 People
 Relationships with OEM
 Best People

 Project management – Accountability and

lessons applied
 Infrastructure
 Cost modeling
 Schedule realism

 De risking equipment
 Sustainability
 Propulsion – shore based testing
 Doctrine – Still needs focus
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 Interoperability!

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