Britain's Rolls Royce Powering the US Navy’s Futuristic USS Zumwalt Destroyer.

[mike2000 is back]

Powering the US Navy’s Futuristic DDG-1000

The Rolls-Royce powered future USS Zumwalt DDG-1000 put to sea for the first time on Monday 7 December 2016. At 8.27 a.m local time she left the dock side at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works Shipyard in Maine, USA, and headed out into the Kinnebeck river.

This advanced destroyer is lead ship in a class of three powered by Rolls-Royce technology. Zumwalt class destroyers provide multi-mission offensive and defensive capabilities and can operate independently or as part of carrier strike groups, surface action groups, amphibious ready groups, and underway replenishment groups.



The future USS Zumwalt, and each subsequent ship in the series, will be powered by a pair of Rolls-Royce MT30 main gas turbine generator sets (MTGs) providing 35.4MW each and two MT5S auxiliary turbine generator sets (ATGs) 3.9MW each, combining to deliver 78MW of total ship power. Zumwalt’s electrical system is configured as an Integrated Power System (IPS), which allows for power generated by the turbine generator sets to be used for propulsion as well as the ship’s weapons, sensors and on-board systems.


Rolls Royce MT30 is the down-select power solution for the Royal Navy's Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF). At a total estimated cost of £3.9bn, two CVF Carriers – HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince Of Wales – are due to enter service in 2016 and 2018 respectively.

In addition, Rolls-Royce Naval is also providing two fixed pitch propellers to this ship, cast and machined at Pascagoula in Mississippi US. Rolls-Royce Naval facilities in Canada have supplied the Multi-function Towed Array Handling System (MTAH) that deploys the anti-submarine warfare towed array sonar and torpedo defence system.

Neil Pickard, Naval Program Director - Americas stated, “Today marks the culmination of the tremendous efforts undertaken by the Naval team. Due to the innovative technology involved with this being the first all-electric ship, we have had many significant challenges to overcome throughout this programme. I would like to thank everyone in Rolls-Royce who has been involved in DDG-1000.”

Alex Greve, Project Engineer Naval said, “DDG-1000’s alpha trials will mobilise nearly 80MW of power on a single vessel. I am proud to be part of the team that will meet this challenge. Our gas turbine generator sets will provide the power density our customer needs to bring tomorrow’s military technology alive.”

Rob Rice, Service Engineer Naval said, “Having served in the US Navy on-board ships powered by Rolls-Royce equipment, I always had a great sense of pride standing on my ship’s deck, porting anywhere in the world! Now, as a Rolls-Royce team member providing an excellent product for our United States Navy and my Country, words will never describe the sense of achievement as I witness USS Zumwalt, light-off, set restricted manoeuvring, cast off lines, and set a course out to sea!”


us-navy-ddg1000 – Rolls-Royce

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[Penguin]

Very nice, but please do not open a new thread every time: put it in with an existing thread on the Zumwalt, to consolidate information on the ship!

@Mod(s): please merge with existing thread

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Commissioned less than a month ago, USS Milwaukee breaks down - UPI.com

It uses a Rolls Royce MT-30 engine

 

[mike2000 is back]

Commissioned less than a month ago, USS Milwaukee breaks down - UPI.com

It uses a Rolls Royce MT-30 engine

Lol come on bro don't be sad. Afterall the U.S navy is no fool. They themselves recognise our defence giant Rolls Royce makes the best/most efficient engines in the world and they are proven since they are used by over 130 navies around the globe.
The U.S didn't choose our world proven engines to power its most sophisticated/advanced warships for nothing. They had to adhere to very strict measures and prove their performance/effectiveness against te very best. Don't also forget Rolls Royce also had to compete with several U.S defence giants to bag this highly valuable contracts. I don't think the U.S would have gave us this contract if they once thought our engines were sub par.

So don't read too much into this news bro. Such complex programs sometimes have to go through some challenges, but I'm sure they will be fixed in no time. Such issues are common every where, its a normal process. So chill mate. .

 

[Penguin]

Commissioned less than a month ago, USS Milwaukee breaks down - UPI.com

It uses a Rolls Royce MT-30 engine

But it is an LCS1/Freedom class LCS, not the ZUMWALT! Why in this thread?

Problem as reported is "metal filings accumulating in lube oil.", has been reported in several units of this class.(LCS1 Freedom). However,, there is no mention of the origin of these metal filings, so why assume it has to do with the MT-30 turbine engine?

 

[Nabil365]

BMW bought Rolls Royce so its now a german company not british..

 

[Penguin]

BMW bought Rolls Royce so its now a german company not british..

You are confusing Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, an entity created in 1998 as a subsidiary of BMW Group for the manufacture of Rolls-Royce branded motor cars, with Rolls-Royce Holdings, an aerospace, power systems and defense company.

Rolls-Royce Limited, the original company founded in 1906, and split into Rolls-Royce plc and Rolls-Royce Motors in 1973. Rolls-Royce plc existed from 1973 through 2003 then became Rolls-Royce Holdings

BMWs only involvement with Rolls-Royce Holdings is the BMW Rolls-Royce joint venture, established in 1990, to produce the BR700 range of engines for regional and corporate jets, including the BR725 powering the Gulfstream G650, which received EASA Type Certification in June 2009.

RR Motors was sold by Vickers Plc to Volkswagen in 1998. The Rolls-Royce brand name and logo were controlled by aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce plc, and not Rolls-Royce Motors. The aero-engine maker decided to license the Rolls-Royce name and logo to BMW and not to Volkswagen, largely because the aero-engine maker had recently shared joint business ventures with BMW.

 

[mike2000 is back]

You are confusing Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, an entity created in 1998 as a subsidiary of BMW Group for the manufacture of Rolls-Royce branded motor cars, with Rolls-Royce Holdings, an aerospace, power systems and defense company.

Rolls-Royce Limited, the original company founded in 1906, and split into Rolls-Royce plc and Rolls-Royce Motors in 1973. Rolls-Royce plc existed from 1973 through 2003 then became Rolls-Royce Holdings

BMWs only involvement with Rolls-Royce Holdings is the BMW Rolls-Royce joint venture, established in 1990, to produce the BR700 range of engines for regional and corporate jets, including the BR725 powering the Gulfstream G650, which received EASA Type Certification in June 2009.

RR Motors was sold by Vickers Plc to Volkswagen in 1998. The Rolls-Royce brand name and logo were controlled by aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce plc, and not Rolls-Royce Motors. The aero-engine maker decided to license the Rolls-Royce name and logo to BMW and not to Volkswagen, largely because the aero-engine maker had recently shared joint business ventures with BMW.

You should have allowed him to do his research alone. Afterall, Google is there for a reason. lol He really believes we can sell a strategic company that is crucial for our defence needs to another country(even a friendly one)? lol Good one. He should know better. The British government has a strategic stake in Rolls Royce and foreign ownership(thats if we ever allow one in the first place) is limited at no more than 15% of the company.

@Penguin ,@Blue Marlin , @Steve781 , @Hamartia Antidote , @gambit , @James Jaevid , @AMDR , @FrenchPilot , @Bundeswehr et al. Seems our government might soon be favoring a BAE take over of Rolls Royce.

Chris Blackhurst: Rolls-Royce should merge with BAE Systems

• CHRIS BLACKHURST

CLose ties: Rolls-Royce already works with BAE Systems on some products Rolls-Royce
The Government has got itself into a pickle over Rolls-Royce.

Five profits warnings in less than two years have forced Downing Street to consider the future of the engine-maker.

Of particular concern, apparently, is “that Rolls-Royce’s management has no substantial experience of defending against hostile takeovers”.

When I read this in the FT, attributed to sources familiar with the plans, I did a double-take.

The Government has a “golden share” in Rolls-Royce that prevents the company from selling 25% or more of its net assets or 25% or more of the strategically sensitive nuclear division without its permission.

In addition, a foreign investor cannot hold more than 15% of the group.

"It would create a giant UK defence business, one capable of taking on overseas all-comers."

Chris Blackhurst

These clauses were inserted into the company’s constitution when it was privatised in 1987.

A hostile foreign bid is highly unlikely, so that narrows down the scenarios to an aggressive UK move.

Only one fellow engineer — BAE Systems — is capable of mounting such an attack.

Or a strike could come from a finance house, from private equity, possibly a consortium with a view to breaking up Rolls and selling off the parts.

It’s curious the Government should zone in on the management’s lack of hostile takeover expertise.

Such has been the lack of hostile M&A in recent years that I’m struggling to think of anyone who would tick this box.

My cynical suspicion is that this is polite code for “we don’t rate Rolls-Royce management highly, not in the situation the company now finds itself”. Who they’re really talking about is Ian Davis, the ex-McKinsey consultant now Rolls chairman, and former ARM chief Warren East, parachuted in as chief executive earlier this year.

Davis lacks experience in this field, at this level. East left ARM in 2013 and had picked up a nice portfolio of part-time appointments. It’s difficult to imagine him relishing the full-on workload that now confronts him.

The pressure on both men is intense, especially with activist shareholder ValueAct stoking the flames.

They strengthened the board with the appointment as a non-executive director of Sir Kevin Smith, formerly of GKN and BAE, and today cut two senior bosses in a revamp of its structure.


READ MORE
Rolls-Royce axes top executives in management overhaul

Even so, officials would be forgiven for looking across at another defence contractor and wishing its chairman was at Rolls-Royce.

BAE chairman Sir Roger Carr loves the public cut and thrust, can glide smoothly along the corridors of power, and knows which doors to open and palms to press.

He is also a chairman who has been on the wrong end of a hostile takeover. He lost that fight, at Cadbury’s, but no one is more versed in the art of media and political persuasion than Carr.

He has enjoyed a good dust-up ever since his days at Williams Holdings, Centrica and Mitchells & Butlers, and as president of the CBI.

He has become vice-chairman of the BBC Trust just as the broadcaster’s future is under renewed scrutiny.

I would not be shocked if quiet words have already been exchanged between Carr and the ministers and mandarins. Given the extensive nature of Smith’s CV, it is inconceivable the two don’t know each other.

A marriage between Rolls-Royce and BAE looks increasingly like a neat solution to a gaping problem.

The two companies co-operate extensively on military aircraft and the Trident nuclear submarine programme, and will again on the mooted next generation of Successor submarines.

It would create a giant UK defence business, one capable of taking on overseas all-comers.

The downside would be that the sole UK contractor would be able to play the MoD for all its worth.

But BAE and Rolls separately can — no other UK company does what they do, making planes and submarines in BAE’s case and adding the engines in Rolls’.

A BAE joined with Rolls-Royce would not have to be so in the thrall of foreign defence procurers, notably Saudi Arabia. And it would have a civil aero-engine division to fall back upon.

Downing Street should do what it gives the impression of itching to do, and steer Rolls-Royce towards BAE.

Rolls-Royce should merge with BAE Systems | Business | London Evening Standard

I am in favour of this merger. Even though i know it will mean BAE will be an even more dominant global giant who will have no competitor not only in U.K but even in the world(well bar U.S Lockheed Martin obviously. lol).

 

[Slave_to_the_waffle]

I didn't know p*rn was allowed here!?! Wow, she's got a nice butt!

Zumwalt's MT30s are good looking though:

Why didn't the US go domestic?

 

[mike2000 is back]

I didn't know p*rn was allowed here!?! Wow, she's got a nice butt!

Zumwalt's MT30s are good looking though:

Why didn't the US go domestic?

Because we make better engines??.............. lol

By the way you are a slave to the waffle??

 

[Blue Marlin]

You should have allowed him to do his research alone. Afterall, Google is there for a reason. lol He really believes we can sell a strategic company that is crucial for our defence needs to another country(even a friendly one)? lol Good one. He should know better. The British government has a strategic stake in Rolls Royce and foreign ownership(thats if we ever allow one in the first place) is limited at no more than 15% of the company.

@Penguin ,@Blue Marlin , @Steve781 , @Hamartia Antidote , @gambit , @James Jaevid , @AMDR , @FrenchPilot , @Bundeswehr et al. Seems our government might soon be favoring a BAE take over of Rolls Royce.

Chris Blackhurst: Rolls-Royce should merge with BAE Systems

• CHRIS BLACKHURST

CLose ties: Rolls-Royce already works with BAE Systems on some products Rolls-Royce
The Government has got itself into a pickle over Rolls-Royce.

Five profits warnings in less than two years have forced Downing Street to consider the future of the engine-maker.

Of particular concern, apparently, is “that Rolls-Royce’s management has no substantial experience of defending against hostile takeovers”.

When I read this in the FT, attributed to sources familiar with the plans, I did a double-take.

The Government has a “golden share” in Rolls-Royce that prevents the company from selling 25% or more of its net assets or 25% or more of the strategically sensitive nuclear division without its permission.

In addition, a foreign investor cannot hold more than 15% of the group.

"It would create a giant UK defence business, one capable of taking on overseas all-comers."

Chris Blackhurst

These clauses were inserted into the company’s constitution when it was privatised in 1987.

A hostile foreign bid is highly unlikely, so that narrows down the scenarios to an aggressive UK move.

Only one fellow engineer — BAE Systems — is capable of mounting such an attack.

Or a strike could come from a finance house, from private equity, possibly a consortium with a view to breaking up Rolls and selling off the parts.

It’s curious the Government should zone in on the management’s lack of hostile takeover expertise.

Such has been the lack of hostile M&A in recent years that I’m struggling to think of anyone who would tick this box.

My cynical suspicion is that this is polite code for “we don’t rate Rolls-Royce management highly, not in the situation the company now finds itself”. Who they’re really talking about is Ian Davis, the ex-McKinsey consultant now Rolls chairman, and former ARM chief Warren East, parachuted in as chief executive earlier this year.

Davis lacks experience in this field, at this level. East left ARM in 2013 and had picked up a nice portfolio of part-time appointments. It’s difficult to imagine him relishing the full-on workload that now confronts him.

The pressure on both men is intense, especially with activist shareholder ValueAct stoking the flames.

They strengthened the board with the appointment as a non-executive director of Sir Kevin Smith, formerly of GKN and BAE, and today cut two senior bosses in a revamp of its structure.


READ MORE
Rolls-Royce axes top executives in management overhaul

Even so, officials would be forgiven for looking across at another defence contractor and wishing its chairman was at Rolls-Royce.

BAE chairman Sir Roger Carr loves the public cut and thrust, can glide smoothly along the corridors of power, and knows which doors to open and palms to press.

He is also a chairman who has been on the wrong end of a hostile takeover. He lost that fight, at Cadbury’s, but no one is more versed in the art of media and political persuasion than Carr.

He has enjoyed a good dust-up ever since his days at Williams Holdings, Centrica and Mitchells & Butlers, and as president of the CBI.

He has become vice-chairman of the BBC Trust just as the broadcaster’s future is under renewed scrutiny.

I would not be shocked if quiet words have already been exchanged between Carr and the ministers and mandarins. Given the extensive nature of Smith’s CV, it is inconceivable the two don’t know each other.

A marriage between Rolls-Royce and BAE looks increasingly like a neat solution to a gaping problem.

The two companies co-operate extensively on military aircraft and the Trident nuclear submarine programme, and will again on the mooted next generation of Successor submarines.

It would create a giant UK defence business, one capable of taking on overseas all-comers.

The downside would be that the sole UK contractor would be able to play the MoD for all its worth.

But BAE and Rolls separately can — no other UK company does what they do, making planes and submarines in BAE’s case and adding the engines in Rolls’.

A BAE joined with Rolls-Royce would not have to be so in the thrall of foreign defence procurers, notably Saudi Arabia. And it would have a civil aero-engine division to fall back upon.

Downing Street should do what it gives the impression of itching to do, and steer Rolls-Royce towards BAE.

Rolls-Royce should merge with BAE Systems | Business | London Evening Standard

I am in favour of this merger. Even though i know it will mean BAE will be an even more dominant global giant who will have no competitor not only in U.K but even in the world(well bar U.S Lockheed Martin obviously. lol). View attachment 279887

if so then it will be rolls royce military and bae systems whilst rolls royce commercail would remain as they are making money making engines fro boeing and airbus and are in various partnerships.

if rolls royce and bae do merge it will be massive, lockheed massive in some aspects. who makes their own engines as well as there own jets.

 

[Slave_to_the_waffle]

slave to the waffle??

Waffle's rule:

 

[Penguin]

Why didn't the US go domestic?

I could say: " The Rolls-Royce MT30 (Marine Turbine) is a marine gas turbine engine based on Rolls-Royce Trent 800 aero engine. The MT30 retains 80% commonality with the Trent 800, the engine for the Boeing 777"

But it is even simpler: it is in many ways domestic to the US!

Rolls-Royce power for DD(X) demonstrator
The new Rolls-Royce MT30 marine gas turbine has been selected to power the Integrated Power System (IPS) Engineering Development Model (EDM) for the U.S. Navy's DD(X) multimission destroyer program. This order marks the company's entry into the U.S. Navy large gas turbine market.
...
The DD(X) EDM gas turbine generator set will be provided to Northrop Grumman in early 2005. The MT30 is expected to have more than 75 percent U.S. content, and design, manufacture, assembly and testing of the generator set will be performed in the U.S. The AG9150 gas turbine was developed in Indianapolis and features nearly 100 percent U.S. content.

The 36 MW MT30 has 80 percent commonality with the Trent 800 aero engine, which has won a market-leading 44 percent of the Boeing 777 program, achieving more than two million flying hours since entering service in 1996.

Shipping, shipbuilding, offshore news

In addition to the twin fixed pitch propellers onboard the Zumwalt are two Rolls-Royce MT30 Main Turbine Generator Sets (MTGs) and two RR4500 Auxiliary Turbine Generator Sets (ATGs) that will provide a total of 78 MW for total ship power - the MTGs provide 35.4 MW each and the ATGs 3.9 MW each. The MT30 MTGs are produced in England, and the RR4500 ATGs are produced in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The MT30 is the most power dense marine gas turbine in the world,

Rolls-Royce Power Package for USS Zumwalt

Clearly it is also a great engine ;-)

And on LCS Freedom class
Shipping, shipbuilding, offshore news
Rolls-Royce to Power Ten Littoral Combat Ships for the US Navy | Business Wire

The Development and Application of the Rolls-Royce MT30 Marine Gas Turbine

 

[mike2000 is back]

Waffle's rule:

LOL I see.
You are captain Svens lady isn't it?

 

[James David]

@mike2000 is back , buddy that engine looks kinda like a rocket engine or something... Engine for that gray colored thingy that's floating in the water you say? Sorry cant help it Lol!