2006-06-13, CGHRD-1065 .tif files available:

http://www.otanashide.com/5.html

Previous information (The pricing information is OUTDATED, from a time when these were once sold, but sell no more..., but you can have them for free. This is mostly because I feel the hull is too full-bodied below the waterline, the shaft penetrtion is flawed/in error, and I feel these won't see the light of day unless freely available. Too bad I did not make these production ready back in, say, 1994, or even 1992. I was "almost" there, but had way too many unrelated distractions...):

Release Time Table (Things have slipped.. See further below for details...)

    CGHRD-1065; initially released in 2003 as UNAUN Ship CGLW-1065 to be re-released mid-to-late October 2005 (strike that!)...  April 2006

    CGHRD-1165 to be debut mid- to late November 2005 (strike that!)...  April 2006
      
    CGHID-1278 to debu mid- to late December 2005, but no later than early January 2006 (strike that!)...  April 2006


Medium: Bond Paper


Formats:

    CGHRD-1065: 5 sheets of 24” x 36” (60.96 cm x 94.44 cm)

    CGHRD-1165: 6 sheets of 24” x 42” (60.96 cm x 106.68 cm)

    CGHID-1278: 6 sheets of 24” x 42” (60.96 cm x 106.68 cm)


The drawings are presented in a sturdy delivery tube, the drawings are rolled (rather than folded and placed into envelopes) to preserve their value for years to come


Pricing (exclusive of any applicable taxes)

    Single and multiples of same plan:
     
    Singles (unit price):

    CGHRD-1065: US $75.00

    CGHRD-1165: US $85.00

    CGHID-1278: US $95.00

    Multiples (unit price):

    CGHRD-1065: US $65.00

    CGHRD-1165: US $75.00

    CGHID-1278: US $85.00


Multiples, mixed (unit price):

    CGHRD-1065 + CGHRD-1165 + CGHID-1278 Triple-Set:

    CGHRD-1065: US $67.00

    CGHRD-1165: US $75.00

    CGHID-1278: US $83.00

      Each set still individually in tube

      Each set still accompanied by book

Multiple, mixed-plans orders shipped unbundled by release dates so you don’t wait unnecessarily. Date-ready bundles ship together.


Lead the Way

Besides gazing upon these very detailed blueprints, you might ask, “What else can I do with these?” Well, you could:

• Expect mixed-gender, internationally-crewed naval police vessels which deprecate all nations individual power-projecting, flag-waving navies to nothing more than own-shore coastal patrol units (the price of improving humanity and the side-effects of globalization and conflict stabilization/mitigation)

• Join the global forum UNAUN-MPF (Unified Nations Anti-Unilateral Action Navy/Maritime Police Force) to help change the world in which we live and desperately need conflict reduction

• Join a potentially massive, dedicated and vibrant fan base and/or group of authors

  

• Write fiction stories (for book or animation or live action medium based aboard these and to-be released ships

• Use characters created

• Introduce acceptable characters, plots, sets, and world parameters

• Collaborate in 3D game or animation ventures

Also, you could call upon the world body to create a new, valid world naval police force, built from the hull-up. Before we deserve to foray into deep space, we better fix our problems here on Terra Firma/Sol. In whose navy do you want to serve today?



NEWS:      S  L  I  P  S  ....... BUT,  a new ship is in the making, maybe TWO are...




AS OF 2006-04-14 until today's date, 2006-05-11

In the past month, while I've been looking for work, I have decided that I will in short order ignominiously and capriciously kill off the CGHRD-1065 (I) in a dramatic and cathartic way. It too much looks like the real DDG-51, and that is something that I will not let endure. For entertainment value, she can exist, and there will be maybe 4 hulls completed and referenced in the fiction, but for international reasons and hull recognition reasons, and the fact that South Korea and I think Taiwan for some bizarre reason are so "hooked" on Aegis that one or the both of them two cannot even tweak the hull to look a bit more indigenous disappoints me. (Particularly, it would be QUITE heinous if there is some "master-servant" contract term imposing "less than a 5% deviation from the looks of the hulls" or such clause.) So, finally, or partly because of it, I decided there cannot be any more uninspiring, underwhelming "Burke clones" floating about the Net.

I therefore undertook a mind-bending detour to redesign the CGHRD-1065. It was NOT intended nor did it end up being as simple as altering the super structure. I found a few errors in the way I drew the shaft penetration into th ehull. Very big mistake once found by closer inspection, but the average person might not even notice it for a while, if at all.  What I have done:

• whacked away the DDG-51 "signature (raked tripod) mast and replaced it with something more pseudo-modern, but variation of, a radar mast which I designed in Feb or so of 2003 for the CGHRD-1165

• added radar faces similar to those on some of the Chinese PLAN "Aegis clones" (mainly because "they're different" and I'd repeatedly felt a bit of "anxiety" or agitation that the DDG-51 antennas were replicated by the Japanese, the Spanish, the Koreans... all of which look like cannibalizations of the CG-47 class.... But, I'd found in another country's designs a "fresh break" to "de-Burke" my own over-Burked improvement/alternative to the Burkes

• adjusted the transom more toward (but not fully) vertical (increasing the waterline length a few feet (but not the overall length) to facilitate an increase in fuel carried

• displaced AMR #4's Gas Turbine Generator Set to starboard (not to mimic the real DDG-51; this was another intense source of internal frustration, as I truly did not want there to be an air of copying the DDG-51 anymore on my part). I need(ed) to move the GTGS intake and exhaust stacks from the port side hangar bay (where they are wasting hull, deck and hangar bay space) to starboard (where they can exploit "flexible space" that exists in the workshops I designed into that area way back in 1990 or so in another vellum sketch-up)

• spatially shifted the port and starboard engine rooms to make the propellers turn inboard (I could have "copped out" and made some bizarre claim that the prime contractor for the prime movers suddenly designed a reverse operation engine; the real GE designers did no such thing for the real ships, so I followed suit under the assumption that while it can be done, it probably was too expensive, and probably would ire some districts. So, tearing a page out of the hull designer book, I have to design in some stuff that "makes jobs at the graving dock and the shelters/buildings" rather than at the engine assembly plant); this gave an opportunity to alter tha engine exhaust stacks, particularly since the WR-21 is in this ship's plant at the expense of the LM-2500 that is the unchallenged, unseated, current favorite
  

• added more berthing spaces by:

• deleting the Officer, CPO and Enlisted baggage/sea bag locker rooms and adding about 14 to 16 bunks there, with a dedicated washroom (showers and lavatories included)
  

• deallocating the space for the existing fuel bunker in LL-3 section (and relocating the fuel to the former Supply Storage Room in NN-3 section)

• add positionable stern flaps (not to copy the USN claim of increasing fuel efficiency, but to alter the acoustics of the hull by streaming air, disturbing the physical wake, and to give the hull some opportunity for "deviant" roll, yaw, and other characteristics that might be of real-world interest, but which I thought of for purposes of breaking range-gating of primitive or of "deceivable" missiles
  

• relocated the Morgue and Aft Triage to other places (I find it not very cool to stash away corpses in the food storage spaces pending a helo to offload it/them; besides, the mission requirements of the UNAUN ships might make it infeasible to link up with another ship just to offload the corpse/s)
  

• spatially reversed (in some cases longitudinally and transversely at the same time) the mess deck, the torpedo rooms, some berting accommodations...

• altered the flight deck from a flat design (from hangar bay doors to deck edge) to a twin-outboard ramp by trimming off the outboard flat areas and a few feet from the flight deck aft and down about four feet; the result is outboard deck ramps, as on the JMSDF Kongou DDG-173 and Atago DDG-178. Irrespective of the JMSDF reasons or design philosophy, my desire is to afford an alert or forewarned flight deck crew a safety zone or a haven from a helo crash which would result in composite blades disintegrating at missile speeds all about the flight deck; while this won't offer much protection from rapid fireball or running fuel after the crash, it offers some hope; it also affords capacious space training observation vantage points on the rear transom/sponson area; and, in the case of close-aboard small arms fire, the crew on the defensive has a safe haven from such gunfire (the ship can use roll and heel to improve the fire team's angle of fire or lead on their designated targets
  

Primarily because I wanted to break from the outboard-turning propellers to "jump on" the inboard turning props (mainly because I feel "Japan is ON to something", as this kind of design alteration has to have been significant to and non-trivial for them ), I had to spatially reverse a LOT of compartmental items on several decks in the affected areas. Much of this then forced some adjacent areas themselves to be changed (traffic patterns and access to lockers and stowage, as well as to ladders didn't flow smoothly as I preferred after the initial changes). Ultimately, this sketching/reworking was so intriguing (it induced enough anxiety to "lock me up" such that I could not proceed while my mind weighed the advantages (after all, I am doing the work of maybe 10 lead deisgners and maybe up to 100 draftspersons) and the disadvantages) to me that it spawned not just a "quick and dirty" redraw of the existing hull (which originally, to save me some time, was ONLY to be limited to the bulleted items above), it spawned an opportunity, an opening for a NEW INTERNAL SHIP DESIGN.

During this time frame, I then serendipitously happened upon some old Internet-based images printed, but lost in a jumble of papers I'd not looked at for maybe 2 years, maybe a year actually.  One of the images was the Russian M-7 reduction gear set. They should get a hefty bonus and a lifetime supply of vodka and other prizes for this plant innovation. When I paused and realized the implications of what I was looking at and sitting on for a year, I was intrigued, incensed,and disappointed in myself for having not incorporated a variation of it in my CGHRD 1285. But, had I done so, it might have prevented me from going with the "Azipod", or azimuthal pod arrangement I had unconsciously designed back around 1990 but let collect dust until 2005 after I returned from Tokyo.

So, I decided (that someone has) to pay some homage simultaneosly to the British AND the Russians (I'd already been eying the Kongo flight deck for years): I decided the newer ship would NOT be powered by LM-2500s. Westinghouse has a very good design and old thinking and inertial restraint are preventing them from gaining traction.  (Perhaps the real world has too much vested in or too deep an obligation to GE, but I have no such constraints. After all, these are personal notional not industry and national designs.)

I think that not only are the Japanese "onto something" by using inboard turning propellers (could it be acoustical, or for wake-alteration purposes, or (considering the wake a component of the hull) an expensive pursuit of "reduced visibles"?), but I think the British are onto fuel savings with the heat recycling device atop their exhaust section of the engine module. Moreover, I was itching for a way to use propeller shafts (I've already designed the CGHRD-1165 and subsequent to that a ship which has THREE (3) Azimuthal Propulsion pods, neither of which want "overshadowed" by the CGHRD-1065 (II)... ) but yet split the modules apart for damage control reasons -and, and-- as well as to enable each of the four engines to individually or in unison drive one or both of the shafts. It is such a "cool" design on the part of the Russians that I think the US avoided it either for patent reasons or just because of the "not designed here" syndrome. So, after sketching some layouts that could fit in the same or slightly streamlined hull dimensions, I married the WR21 to the Russian reduction gear assembly, but then modified things a bit to not be a 100% clone of the existing shaft layout as published by the Russian designers.

(If I can turn this into a gaming environment, a 3D animation environment, or a good set for live-action film in addition to being the sets for my pending fiction works, I would be very happy. However, I am wary of with whom I'd allow rights to my works. I am highly partial to Linux and to Sony, period. I considered Nintendo and Konami. But, it seems Nintendo is moving to the other (dark) side.)

As for the newer ship broached above, it is tentatively being designated CHGRD-1095, although CGHRD-1065 II has a chance, at the risk of seeming too much like a certain set sci-fi ships...

It has:

• slightly better-faired hull than the CGHRD-1065 forward, and a more flat-tapered hull form aft

• retains the designation "Cruiser" due to the upgrades and capabilities and due to the tired, bombastic, arrogant and hostile sound of the term "destroyer" (particularly since today there are no "torpedo chasers/destroyers" missions)

• redesigned the forecastle (making it flat, and leaving only the forward/main gun, the VLM and strikedown hatches, and some minor deck-flush equipment

• redesigned superstructures forward and aft

• an additional deck (which now puts the bridge on the 0-5 instead of the 0-4 level)

• commensurately and conspicuously jettisoned the name "CIC" to TEC/OEC, for Tactical Engagement Center/Operational Engagement Center

• laterally increased space between the twin top-down ladders in Compartment Sections FF and GG

• moved to FF0-1 from FFM (alternately FF1) the following ship's offices: Barber Shop, Ship's Store Storeroom, Ship's Store, 2-cell Brig, Master-at-Arms Office, Bacteriological Lab, Pharmacy, Sickbay Office, Sickbay Ward/Infirmary

• moved into FFM a new Enlisted Berthing, EB2

• modified the TEC/OEC to contain two circular multi-function consoles (4 seats and 5 seats) used by the French and Chinese CIC engagement officers

• moved from GGM (alternately GG1) the officers staterooms and the Wardroom and from the GG0-1 the pilots and several other senior officer staterooms and put them in all the O-2 level in FF0-2

• retained in the GG0-1 level the XO's and CHENG's staterooms, forward of the GTM air intakes, but separated from them by separated by an athwartship passageway

• installed into GG0-1 section aft an "atrium" to look down onto a new feature of the ship; the upper area of the atrium can be secured, or isolated, during action stations

• installed into GG0-1 section, between the GTM air intakes, the Ship's Internal Security/Surveillance Office and the Deck Department Office

• installed into GG0-1 section aft a port and a starboard CBRF, or Chemical, Biological, Radiological Filtration/Fan Room, outboard of each GTM Exhaust Uptake

• installed into GG0M abaft various ships offices a new space: Mosque/Chapel/Meditorium; even a quasi-combat vessel should have a compartment dedicated to supporting the group worship of various religions; this space is not dual-purposed for any meetings, lectures, training related to combat, policing actions, mission briefings or debriefings; it is a sanctuary for any Sailor or Officer who needs spiritual refreshening; the surrounding offices are non-combat-related

• installed forward of the MCM (Mosque/Chapel/Meditorium) the following ship's offices:

• Commanding Officer/Public Affairs Officer
• IRFM (damn, I cannot remember why I made that acronym...)
• CCC (Command Career Counselor)
• Disbursing/Earnings Management Office
• Personnel Records (Enlisted personnel service records)
• Yeoman/XO Office (Officers service records)
• CMC (Command Master Chief)

• installed near the MCM the following offices:

• Messing Chief's Planning Office
• access/egress trunk connecting to Deck Two, and the MER #1B upper and Lower Level machinery
• three (3) Enlisted Personnel TV rooms: Rm 1 containing two (2) 48" TVs and ten (10) seats for each on an inclined deck; Rm 2 containing 60" TV with four (4) seats; Rm 3 a 48" TV with six (6) seats; Rm 1 has asset-tuned headsets to allow personnel to watch a selected TV without disturbing the adjacent seats

• installed abaft the MCM the Ship's Shrine; this fixture is visible from the atrium above; it has park bench-like seating to allow up to 8 personnel to sit and the surrounding allows for some 20 or more to stand at times of reflection, but combat or policing actions discussions are forbidden to be made in this vicinity

• installed abaft TEC/OEC an athwartship passage containing port and starboard access/egress ladders (stair-like, not vertical) and one passageway-located emergency scuttle to allow emergency egress from EB4

• Flag CIC is renamed to SEPACC, for Staff Engagement Planning and Coordination Center, thereby deprecating the hostile tone of the decades-old named "CIC" (Combat Information Center)

• moved CCS to GG-2 (abaft Communications Center) from HH-2, displacing the former location of SpecDet (Special Detachment/Law Enforcement Detachment) Berthing

• moved SpecDet berthing to the O-1 level astride the VLMs, to put them closer to and in between the boat deck hangar bay for quicker, deployment when Alert-10 or Alert 5 have not been announced

• moved the after compass into AMR #3 in KK3 from MM3 in AMR #4

• moved frozen, chill and dry stores to HH2 from JJ3

• relocated the forward twin APUs (Auxiliary Propulsion Pods) to between the VLM compartment and the AMR #1

• relocated the forward twin active fin stabilizers to FF3 from HH3 for enhanced snap posturing

• made the forward fins retractable vs non-retractable

• redesigned the forward section of the aft superstructure to include two (2) fifteen to twenty-foot boats on the port side and six eight-foot-long (8') Police Special Kawasaki jet skis which are very fast, ballistically-armored,and can carry the driver and 3 to 4 armed riders, allowing 18 to 24 troops or Law Enforcement Officers to run down/take down certain vessels; after the last person is off each jet ski, the vehicles go into auto-corral mode (circling the subject vessel), return to base mode (to prevent uncontrolled/unaccounted-for hostiles from destroying, hijacking or otherwise manipulating the vehicles and to enable the ship to launch a new/supplementary boarding team for force augmentation or to replace slain team members), or trail-target mode (so that the boarding team can fall back, abandon the ship (they may board, only to find the subject vessel booby-trapped, or face overwhelming firepower but suppress it long enough to beat a wise and hasty retreat) and return to base)

• altered the hangar bay to be more like my CGHRD-1165 my CGHID-1278-- now it can carry not only the CH-46 and CH-47, EH-101 and other larger helos of other nations, it can carry and support the CH-53. Moreover, it can carry the US V-22 or any Chinese clones of the V-22 that fit in the same or general dimensions as the V-22. In other words, the hangar bay is 60 feet long. The port bay has twenty (20) feet of clearance between the hull and the berthing module in the bay overhead, and thirteen (13) on the starboard side, but about 11.5 to 12.5 feet beneath the berthing module, meaning that between 2 and 4 MD-500s or OH-58s can be carried

• overall fuel load for the ship and the helos is increased to about 2503.14 tons of fuel (based on assumption that JP-5, F-76 and such are about .91 of the weight of water)

• replaced the four (4) LM2500s with KWRRT-21s, which I am saying are joint manufactured by Kawasaki, Rolls-Royce, Trent and isolating each to its own engine room

• inserted slightly off-centerline longitudinal bulkhead in main engineering compartments, thereby separatin the engine modules into their own engine rooms; the engine rooms are not only separated by transverse bulkheads, but by longitudinal bulkheads as well. This means that short of a supercavitating torpedo or heavy mine, the hull has better watertight integrity in the event of running aground in shallow water, pierside explosions, engine module explosion, missile attack and other low-order detonations or unsuccessful high-order detonations; MER #1A and #1B and MER #2A & #2B correspond to Starboard and Port sides

• moved the reduction gear box sets into a separate gear box room, which is located between the main engine rooms

• MER 1 and MER 2 retain Gas Turbine Generator Sets, with MER #1A having GTGS #2 and MER #2B having GTGS #3

• Spaced the four GTGS units by 3 transverse bulkheads placed between each compartment; staggered the four GTGS as follows:

• GTGS #1 forward/port in AMR #1, in compartment E-4-122-2-M

• GTGS #2 amidships/starboard in MER #1A, in compartment G-4-188-1-M

• GTGS #3 amidships/port in MER #2B, in compartment J-4-266-2-M

• GTGS #4 aft/starboard in AMR #4, in compartment M-3-384-1-M

• increased size of the towed array and decoy room

• as with the CGHRD-1065 mod, altered the flight deck from flush fore-to-aft to split level by trimming the after width and lowering the resulting deck via ramps, as on the JMSDF Kongou DDG-173 and Atago DDG-178 to afford flight deck crew a safety haven from a helo crash which would result in composite blades disintegrting and sending debris at missile speeds all about the flight deck; this won't offer much protection from rapid fireball or running fuel after the crash, but it offers some hope, as well as training observation vantage points on the rear transom/sponson area

• added 57mm and 27mm gun mounts amidships and aft, respectively, to the superstructure

• removed the office and CBR fan room spaces from the 0-1 level in the forward end of the after superstructure and replaced the space with the package elevator to enable direct supply to the mess decks as well as to the reefer flats on Deck 3; also affords some servicing to the supply area, although it is now served via the twin strikedown/kingpost arrangement forward of the VLM (Vertical Launch Missile) Mount

• shortened BOTH missile modules (VLMs) from strategic and tactical types (as depicted in the West), since UNAUN is not in the business of contemplating long-range, deep-strike assaults and not in the business of flaunting or advertising "superior precision firepower", freeing up the lowest of each deck for alternative uses

• installed in beneath the aft VLM the Supplies Management and Storage Room, considering that an over-capacity missile deluge system kicked into use by the holdback of a missile launch abort will protect the room, and any attack savage or sufficient enough to render the deluge system inoperative or useless probably would doom the ship anyway, and therefore renders moot any point in trying to save SMSR

• Rearranged the CPO berthing and split it across two (2) decks for enhanced survivability of the CPOs, although now they are situated near some possible airborne noise emanating from the engine exhaust uptakes and the air intakes

• removed from the EB (Enlisted Berthing) spaces all of the space-dedicated lounges and increased personal bunk space

• moved the former EB dedicated lounges to decks above and dedicated them to being modules for TV watching, computer use, and cards playing

And more...