Post by nighthawknz on Aug 20, 2018 20:55:35 GMT 12
HMNZS TE KAHA Upgrade progress
On 1 May HMNZS TE KAHA commenced the industrial phase of the Frigate Systems Upgrade Project, in Victoria, British Columbia. The work is being carried out by Victoria Shipyards Limited (VSL), under contract to Lockheed Martin Canada, and will continue through to the end of February 2019, when TE KAHA’s ship’s company will return to Canada. At that point, the new combat system equipment will be set to work and the team in Victoria will begin their preparations for harbour and sea acceptance trials.
There are eight Installation Work Packages to be carried out in TE KAHA during the industrial phase. They involve the disconnection of existing ANZAC systems, their removal and rip out, then the rough fit and installation of the new equipment.
The work packages, which incorporated detailed drawings of all areas impacted by the refit, are a culmination of over 18 months of design that has been carried out by Lockheed Martin Canada, Australian Maritime Technologies and the Frigate Systems Upgrade engineering team. During this iterative and comprehensive design process, over twelve hundred deliverables have been reviewed. The disconnections, rip outs and removals are now underway. For example, Installation Work Package 01E/01F describes the work being carried in and around the Operations Room. To facilitate the strip out and removal of equipment, a section of the bulkhead on the starboard side has been cut out. The old consoles and other items have been passed through here and then lifted to a container on the jetty, where they are accounted for by the Project Team. Some of these items – but not the consoles! – will be reinstalled on the ship, while the remainder will be packaged by the Canadian Navy’s Fleet Maintenance Facility at Esquimalt and shipped back to New Zealand. The stripout of compartments will continue through to the end of September.
In the meantime, the new foremast is being constructed in a workshop on the other side of the dockyard. The existing mast was removed at the end of May and is shown here being craned onto the jetty by the VSL team. Once all the equipment has been removed from the mast, the mast will be cut up and the metal will be transferred to a local yard to be scrapped. As you can imagine, this has been a busy time for the Victoria-based Project Team and TE KAHA’s Keep Alive Team (KAT). While the majority of the Ship’s Company returned to Devonport at the end of April, a small team of engineers and logistics specialists, led by Lieutenant Commander Ben Langley, remained in Victoria for the duration of the industrial phase to assist with the management of removals and to carry out the maintenance tasks essential to ensuring that the ship’s systems not impacted by FSU are still “alive” when the time comes to reactivate them in the New Year.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Commander Matt Wos and Lieutenant Andy James represent the Project in the day-today management of the work being carried out on the ship, as well as carrying out many other duties, everything from receipting deliveries of new equipment into the warehouse to making the arrangements for VIP visits – which, in May, included the Chief of Navy.
The remainder of the Project team is based in Wellington and Auckland, and it has now turned its attention to preparing HMNZS TE MANA for its deployment to Victoria, as well as continuing to progress work needed to ensure the new FSU capabilities are properly integrated into service. This work has been going on for the last two years, with the first major milestone being the installation of the Combat System Trainer (CST) at the Maritime Warfare Training Centre and the completion of Train-the-Trainer courses in March 2017.
The next milestone will be the commencement of the Initial Crew Training for TE KAHA’s Operators and WeaponsEngineers, which will utilise the new CST equipment, as well as the VISTA software simulation packages that support maintainer training. The associated training material will also form the basis of new RNZN career courses being developed by the Defence College – a significant amount of this work has already been completed.
On 1 May HMNZS TE KAHA commenced the industrial phase of the Frigate Systems Upgrade Project, in Victoria, British Columbia. The work is being carried out by Victoria Shipyards Limited (VSL), under contract to Lockheed Martin Canada, and will continue through to the end of February 2019, when TE KAHA’s ship’s company will return to Canada. At that point, the new combat system equipment will be set to work and the team in Victoria will begin their preparations for harbour and sea acceptance trials.
There are eight Installation Work Packages to be carried out in TE KAHA during the industrial phase. They involve the disconnection of existing ANZAC systems, their removal and rip out, then the rough fit and installation of the new equipment.
The work packages, which incorporated detailed drawings of all areas impacted by the refit, are a culmination of over 18 months of design that has been carried out by Lockheed Martin Canada, Australian Maritime Technologies and the Frigate Systems Upgrade engineering team. During this iterative and comprehensive design process, over twelve hundred deliverables have been reviewed. The disconnections, rip outs and removals are now underway. For example, Installation Work Package 01E/01F describes the work being carried in and around the Operations Room. To facilitate the strip out and removal of equipment, a section of the bulkhead on the starboard side has been cut out. The old consoles and other items have been passed through here and then lifted to a container on the jetty, where they are accounted for by the Project Team. Some of these items – but not the consoles! – will be reinstalled on the ship, while the remainder will be packaged by the Canadian Navy’s Fleet Maintenance Facility at Esquimalt and shipped back to New Zealand. The stripout of compartments will continue through to the end of September.
In the meantime, the new foremast is being constructed in a workshop on the other side of the dockyard. The existing mast was removed at the end of May and is shown here being craned onto the jetty by the VSL team. Once all the equipment has been removed from the mast, the mast will be cut up and the metal will be transferred to a local yard to be scrapped. As you can imagine, this has been a busy time for the Victoria-based Project Team and TE KAHA’s Keep Alive Team (KAT). While the majority of the Ship’s Company returned to Devonport at the end of April, a small team of engineers and logistics specialists, led by Lieutenant Commander Ben Langley, remained in Victoria for the duration of the industrial phase to assist with the management of removals and to carry out the maintenance tasks essential to ensuring that the ship’s systems not impacted by FSU are still “alive” when the time comes to reactivate them in the New Year.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Commander Matt Wos and Lieutenant Andy James represent the Project in the day-today management of the work being carried out on the ship, as well as carrying out many other duties, everything from receipting deliveries of new equipment into the warehouse to making the arrangements for VIP visits – which, in May, included the Chief of Navy.
The remainder of the Project team is based in Wellington and Auckland, and it has now turned its attention to preparing HMNZS TE MANA for its deployment to Victoria, as well as continuing to progress work needed to ensure the new FSU capabilities are properly integrated into service. This work has been going on for the last two years, with the first major milestone being the installation of the Combat System Trainer (CST) at the Maritime Warfare Training Centre and the completion of Train-the-Trainer courses in March 2017.
The next milestone will be the commencement of the Initial Crew Training for TE KAHA’s Operators and WeaponsEngineers, which will utilise the new CST equipment, as well as the VISTA software simulation packages that support maintainer training. The associated training material will also form the basis of new RNZN career courses being developed by the Defence College – a significant amount of this work has already been completed.
I have photos of the some the upgrade progess on my HDD, but I don't know how to upload those to the forum.
Sorry
They will be 30(ish) years which is average for NZG 
