The HCSN has denied there are problems with it's new class of guided-missile destroyer despite the fact D01 Olana and D02 Micom have had to be returned 3 times to port under tug after engine failures and prop shaft breakages in the few weeks since both entered service. "With any news type there are teething troubles." a HCSN spokesclone told reporters, "Both ships and their future sister ships will be the mainstay of our surface fleet for the next few decades."
A more fundamental problem that is rumoured with the type is that it is a little top heavy. Although it should be fine in normal operations in heavy seas and storm force windows it is feared the ships could be in trouble. The HCSN are denying this though interestingly both ships have been booked into port for "modifications to topweight" according to a HCSN watcher blog which will include the addition of ballast and the moving of a radar to another part of the superstructure. The problems will still persist according to analysts but the modifications will mean it has to be "an extreme storm to cause potentially catastrophic problems".
