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This is how I think the ship building rates go,
Experimental The hull design and laying of the inner structure about 1-2 1/2 years. Integration of possible new or experimental technology and the fixing of any design flaws, about 1 year. Then the fitting of the interior would take about 1/2 year. Last, trial runs should be conducted for about 1 year. Total of about 3-5 years.
Classes in Normal Production The laying and construction of the hull, about 1/2-1 year. Adding interior systems, technology, and design flaws, about another 1/2-1 year. Trial runs for 1/2 year. This takes about 1-2 1/2 years depending on the size and design elements of the vessel.
Defiant class ships are the main exception to this because they can be built probably at the rate of one ship taking only 3-6 months to complete.
Galaxy's are also an exception just because of the sheer massive size of the ship, 42 decks can take a long time to complete.
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i would imagine it only takes about 2 weeks at most to construct Danube class runabouts. Were talking about serious mass production here. All the pieces are more than likely prefabricated and only have to be assembled.
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The only reason I gave a time frame like that is because, Defiant class ships are much smaller than most others but, I never said what I wrote was fact. It wouldn't surprise me if it takes longer to build a Defiant class starship.
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Galaxies should be much faster to produce now that the prototype phase is over. Has anyone else noticed that the secondary hull seems to be produced in at least two modules (four counting nacelles) and welded together? I believe this could be further evidence that modularized hull components are replicated somewhere. Remember that a lot of the phaser and computer systems are standard now and are probably also mass produced. I believe the five year estimate is probably a good one.
If you think about it wouldn't interior finishing take up a lot of time on a ship that size? I'm guessing it would be necessary for workmen to come in and do things like lay carpet, install replications, computer consoles, lights, etc manually... Without all of this development time could probably be reduced a fair amount - leaving things like this out would make a lot of sense in a war-time situation.
In construction the more experimental a ship's components are the longer it should take to build. If a ship reuses standardized components and hull designs like the Neb. and Miranda it should really speed up development a lot both in the prototyping phase and when testing (proven systems will probably not be tested as much as the experimental). The Sovereign probably took at least 10 years to construct then. Depending on just how many new systems (like the warp core) were used in it.
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