Powered by Gas Turbines?

You would be lucky to survive for long enough to be tied to the stake, let alone burnt at it!

2.5% is totally inadequate in the current Geopolitic environment!
Captain Flip-Flop says he want defence to get 2.5%, but ONLY IF, it doses not interfere with Labours other priorities. In other words it is a meaningless “commitment”.

Might not have the orders, but we definitely have the need for at least 2 x shipyards for the building of “escorts”.

Let us hope then, that the RN have contingency plans to retain Triumph and re-commission Trenchant and Talent, to cover the gap until we can boast a mixed flotilla of at least 10 Astute/AUKUS boats.

Glad that someone else is on the ball!

Or 356 days too early!

Archway actually!

SD67

Of Guyanese descent maybe, but NOT Guyanese as he was born in the UK.

Warm Water Ports and Shipbuilding capacity!

Apparently 12!

Flight Station Zebra ?

Sell 2 x T31 and buy 1/2 a T26 ? Really, that is not funny!

Amazing what you can achieve with a “Selfie Stick”. ha! ha! ha!

For me, it should be 892 NAS without a doubt.

I think you will find that 17 Sqdn. now has 4 x aircraft and Marham has 30. Although the expectation had been for 3 and 31, but AFAIK the third aircraft from the previous batch was delivered to Edwards Air Force Base (not Marham).

Possibly a new design for all four?

Did not know that they were considering the Bristol Sycamore!

Continued retention of Tranche 1 Typhoons?

Failure to adequately fund Defence in the forthcoming budget should definitely become a resigning matter for both the Chancellor and the PM.

May be so, but then it was not designed as a dedicated CSG/TAPS escort! It was designed as a GLOBAL COMBAT SHIP, capable of (if not mainly) singleton deployments. One of unintended consequences the cut in T26 numbers “to save money” has left expensively outfitted ships, that in practice may be restr...

They were actually fitted (and then subsequently removed) during the last 4+ years.

Sweden tightens it’s “Grip” ?

Thank-you, bobp. It might be “the eighth but as you say, it is just not quite clear enough.

How about what is on the near side rather than the )agreed) Merlin aft of it?

Not sure if they would mix the aircraft types on a lift though?