13.1.10

Fleet news (13/01/10)

Three new ships have joined the fleet this month as the DDS shipyards gear up for a new year. R110 Billman is the latest Missileer 21A. It is currently unallocated to any deployment or fleet though may assist DDS Research with some UCV development over the next few weeks.

A160 Hexane is the latest Extender 73A oiler and introduces some enhancements to crew R&R facilities (for the crews of the deployment the oiler is part of not just the ship's own crew). A227 Amazon is the latest River 75A transport.

F107 Palaeocene and F108 Eocene have completed their ILU (F107 was completed just before Christmas though was not received back into the fleet until now). F111 Pleistocene and F114 Palaeozoic have begun the ILU. With the Isometric jig now dedicated to the ILU programme the upgrades can take place 3 ships at a time with 1 in preparation or post-upgrade testing.