Type 31 may not be an asw specialist but saying it can be 'easily sunk' by an ssk like its some kind of sitting duck isn't right.

It looked lower, don't know if the amount of rounds carried or fire rate is any different. Had picture but can't post it. Was just a model they put on display.

F35, tomohawk, even potential naval spear (likely none of that will be on type 31 anyway), are not a substitute for NGFS, there is some overlap but they are different capabilities at the end of the day and they cannot lay smokescreen, illume, keep up a barrage etc and each 'shot' is way more expensi...

Surprised no one has brought up the revised boxer rch 155 design shown the other day at dsei. I may be wrong though. Turret seems lower profile.

I don't see how you can justify NGFS as no need by bringing up carrier aviation and the other 14 high end escorts. Those escorts will be hard pressed with their main tasks of asw and aaw and won't be in a position to perform NGFS (kinda makes the 5inch with its expensive ammo system on the type 26 a...

Probably a Russian spy plane, maybe they should install CAMM on the qe class after all

The camera on the phone I used takes 4k images so the pixel count was really high, that's why I struggled to upload at first. It worked after some zooming and cropping so hopefully it didn't downgrade the image quality too much for you all. I may be remembering wrong but one image might have a coupl...

He used to say they were a fiver! How did you persuade him to bring the price down?!

Imagine being stuck on the lower inside deck of the tour boat and having to look through the windows at best, a lot of poor souls suffered that fate. Also this thread is getting a little heated and any abuse directed at a bloke named Jake born in the 90s makes me a little uncomfortable :? Maybe I'll...

A very curious chinook kept flying over QE aswell, made about 4 passes.

A few more.

Got about 50 photos but am having some trouble posting them for some reason, frustrating. Maybe one day when I get my act together you will all wake up to find the thread swamped with lovely HMS Queen Elizabeth photos. Was great to finally see here though, I have been waiting years! First took an in...

Mostly lurk and don't really post but did the harbour tour earlier and got some pretty decent pics and would be selfish not to share on here! There seemed to be a bit of testing going on of the propulsion system while berthed as at one point we noticed exhaust smoke coming from one of the islands. T...

Long time lurker and have never posted, but very sad to hear this news. I have always found Mike to be an incredibly interesting and informative poster, both here and at mp.net. The inspiration from some of his stories contributed to my desire to join the RN, and I'm now going through the recruitmen...