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- 19 Apr 2024, 00:34
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Yes there are too few AAW Destroyers, let’s solve that by buying more. When? 2045? Are you wanting build more T45? The T83 is a very long way away. You are overstating the scale - we are talking about a few ships that need to be escorted, a fleet of 17-20 ships could do this also when needed. How a...
- 18 Apr 2024, 21:25
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
I said a T45 was needed here as the primary threat is from missiles and UAVs - that’s exactly what we have now. The Red Sea is a tasking for relatively cheap choke point escorts in numbers as is Hormuz etc. RN don’t have enough T45 to be wasting precious assets on flash points. They need to concent...
- 18 Apr 2024, 20:55
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The T31 fans here implicitly support this view because most of their arguments involve mythical T31+'s that have had oodles of extra money spent on them. They are no more mythical than extra T26 at this stage. Virtually no one has been more critical of the T31 than I have with the endless missed op...
- 18 Apr 2024, 16:24
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Two or three T31 for the same £1bn depending on how they are configured would add a lot more. Such a cheap T31, 330 GBP a pop, cannot do any good AAW. Are you suggesting that the T26 will be a more accomplished choke point AAW Frigate than a T31 if they both embarked the same number of CAMM? Why?
- 18 Apr 2024, 15:21
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
You have to plan with the budgets / people you have not what you wish for. That statement doesn’t exactly help your argument for more unfunded T26. We can see that instability already - there are two large competing global pacts now with a sizeable third group of countries such as India sitting on ...
- 18 Apr 2024, 09:18
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Do you accept that the RN surface fleet has never been so small and that every vessel capabilities count? Yes - Do you accept that the proliferation of sophisticated weaponry has never been so wide? Yes - Do you accept that money and crewing issues means more of the same is not sustainable? The c...
- 18 Apr 2024, 08:46
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5663
- Views: 1481085
- 18 Apr 2024, 00:46
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
- 17 Apr 2024, 20:42
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Shock horror what about some SM6 to go in the Mk41 VLS rather than Aster which don't.* You want to add SM6 to the T31 at almost $5m a missile? Seems unlikely. Not specifically T31, T26 too if we want hypersonic and ballistic on them. What would be cheaper buying from Raytheon or getting MBDA France...
- 17 Apr 2024, 19:51
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
- 17 Apr 2024, 19:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
….If it is mini-sub in Persian Gulf, how about several dozens of slowish UUVs and USVs with active VDS + TASS, with Sat-Com? If it is in a confined water, emerging UUV/USV technology is a bigger threat against submarine much more than a surface vessel. Sounds like a larger deployment than even a T3...
- 17 Apr 2024, 17:17
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: RBSL Challenger 3 (Future) Main Battle Tank (British Army)
- Replies: 357
- Views: 74582
- 17 Apr 2024, 17:16
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 223
- Views: 79787
Re: 105mm L118 Light gun
Low friction so moving it isn’t hard.
Tackling the slopes and employing effective breaking downhill may be problematic.
- 17 Apr 2024, 17:12
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: 105mm L118 Light gun
- Replies: 223
- Views: 79787
- 17 Apr 2024, 15:04
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The Iranians have a significant fleet of mini-subs which have really tested the Royal Navy. Agreed the threat is clear. Also UUVs will proliferate further and become a growing threat. What is needed to counter that? Is it a T26 or more likely something deployed from a T31 or T32. A Captas 2 or 4 in...
- 17 Apr 2024, 12:12
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
I would have thought the Falkland & West Indies Guard ships do an important job, replacing escorts in both APT(N) & APT(S). Arguably, there should have been one based in Gib for many years, to perform a similar task in the Med and along the West African coast, again a job that doesn't need ...
- 17 Apr 2024, 12:01
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9641294
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
You will simply dismiss them as you don’t wish to do them and so the argument will go around in a circle. As an effort to move the debate on. Simple question for anyone that feels like answering. What could a T26 with 48x CAMM in mushrooms and 24x MK41 Strike cells do better than a T31 with 32x Mk4...
- 16 Apr 2024, 14:39
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1850424
- 16 Apr 2024, 09:59
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5663
- Views: 1481085
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
The £11bn for all 13 was let slip by an Admiral back in 2014. The only relevant thing now is what an additional batch would cost. Adjusted for inflation the cost of the last batch of 5 is now £920m. Just with average inflation that cost will rise by £30m-£40m per annum. They are a £1bn Frigate now ...
- 16 Apr 2024, 00:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 86
- Views: 690
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
It's been stated time and time again. What has been stated? Apart from lots of empty announcements and endless criticism of the current incumbents nothing approaching a clear vision for the future of the country has emerged yet. The cash raised from the non-doms appears to have been allocated to mu...
- 15 Apr 2024, 21:08
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 86
- Views: 690
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
14 years of Tory austerity and "there's a lot of money that could be moved around". Are you aware of the state of local authorities going bankrupt? The NHS is funding disarray? Schools falling apart? The state of the roads? The lack of big infrastructure projects? Tell me about about Labo...
- 15 Apr 2024, 20:07
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5663
- Views: 1481085
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Rome wasn't built in a day it takes time to rebuild capability, Cammells/A&P would love the work if it is at no risk to them, SDA virtually bankrupted them again. A bit of subbing is fine, but the risk goes up the bigger the blocks are. As for Fergusons I wouldn't touch that dumpster fire with ...
- 15 Apr 2024, 20:00
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 86
- Views: 690
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
Because the public accounts are FUBAR….. It’s not that simple. HMG has little fiscal headroom because it is choosing not to reallocate funding to different priority areas. UK GDP is now more than £2.2Trillion. Government spending equates to around 45% of that figure. That’s a lot of money that coul...
- 15 Apr 2024, 19:48
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5663
- Views: 1481085
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
We will have a smaller fleet of specialists and potiential a larger group of all rounders in the middle. No sure that’s adequate. If funding remains roughly static a more balanced approach is the likely outcome IMO. - 8x T45/T83 - 8x T26 - 8x T31/T32 The cruiser idea for makes little sense for mult...
- 15 Apr 2024, 19:23
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5663
- Views: 1481085
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
I fear you are right, because this comments on this thread seems to represent the wallcharts first requirements & strategy last approach that got us in this shit in the first place. I don’t understand why are not jumping for joy at the news? Surely an extra 5x T26 in the North Atlantic is what ...