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- 22 Mar 2021, 18:43
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Puma Helicopter (RAF)
- Replies: 380
- Views: 97362
Re: Puma Helicopter (RAF)
This part of the Command Paper is pretty incoherent. Investment in a new medium lift helicopter in the mid-2020s will enable a consolidation of the Army’s disparate fleet of medium lift helicopters from four platform types to one; including the replacement of Puma. Investment in a new helicopter, go...
- 22 Mar 2021, 09:45
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9743595
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
More good news! It's not good news, it's a gimmick. She's sometimes going to operate from somewhere that's less than three days sail from where she already operates from. It's like the time crackpot Williamson announced HMS Severn was going to be based in Cardiff and Tyne was going to be based in N...
- 21 Mar 2021, 17:26
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Airbus A321 (RAF)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 18196
- 21 Mar 2021, 17:16
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Airbus A321 (RAF)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 18196
Re: Airbus A321 (RAF)
If this really is legit, it's the long-range version and looked like this until a few weeks ago. https://www.scramble.nl/images/news/2020/october/A321neoLR-Titan-640.jpg On 26 October, Titan Airways took delivery of their first of two A321neoLRs. G-XATW, c/n 10150, was flown from Hamburg-Finkenwerde...
- 21 Mar 2021, 17:05
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ships
- Replies: 179
- Views: 30723
Re: Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ships
The Sunday Times is also running the story but says the project is to be fast-tracked with expressions of interest sought "within weeks". It's ambiguous about numbers and about the 15 crew (sorry not got a link - I borrowed one of those foldy things that leaves ink on your fingers). Some t...
- 21 Mar 2021, 16:46
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8497
- Views: 2201113
Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
Has that actually become a binding order? The only reference I can find is to a preamble contract.MikeKiloPapa wrote:On the face of it Babcock would seem to have a good chance due to A140s commonality with the two Huitfeldt based AAW frigates Indonesia signed a contract for last year.
- 17 Mar 2021, 14:51
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9743595
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Most already going through extensive Lifex. Already planned to run some until mid 2030s.JohnM wrote:Someone is going to have to pay a pretty penny to extend the life of T23s by that much...
- 17 Mar 2021, 13:35
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9743595
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Thank you.
So we'll still be in the transition period as the T23 go.
By 2030 half of T26 delivered; all Type 31; Type 32 about to come on stream.
As long as...
So we'll still be in the transition period as the T23 go.
By 2030 half of T26 delivered; all Type 31; Type 32 about to come on stream.
As long as...
- 17 Mar 2021, 06:35
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9743595
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Have you got a source please?Repulse wrote:Apparently the “24 Frigates” mentioned by the PM relate to:
6 x T45
4 x T26
5 x T31
And 9 x T23s...
Speculation but is the RN heading towards having 13 ASW Frigates (8 T26 + 5 T32)
- 16 Mar 2021, 17:34
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9743595
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Positive: if the MCM mothership (T32) is also escort capable (I.e. T31 or better) then we have more flexibility and more combat capable ships Hopefully I can be educated here but could the Type 26 be used for the Type 32 concept, my thinking is that we already have the design or is the Type 26 not ...
- 15 Mar 2021, 17:09
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Integrated Review (previously SDSR 2020)
- Replies: 1307
- Views: 61891
Re: Integrated Review (previously SDSR 2020)
Only caught it in passing but James Heappey said during defence questions in the House this afternoon that any announcement relating to the future strength of the army is going to be left until next week. I think the IR tomorrow is going to be very light on detail and very heavy on hyperbole.
- 15 Mar 2021, 16:49
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
- 14 Mar 2021, 15:54
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Obsolescent and outgunned
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8142
Re: Obsolescent and outgunned
It gets a walk-on part in this.
- 14 Mar 2021, 11:35
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Obsolescent and outgunned
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8142
Obsolescent and outgunned
Obsolescent and outgunned: the British Army’s armoured vehicle capability
https://committees.parliament.uk/public ... 5/default/
Oh dear.
https://committees.parliament.uk/public ... 5/default/
Oh dear.
- 12 Mar 2021, 18:08
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Apache Attack Helicopter (British Army Air Corps)
- Replies: 615
- Views: 215838
Re: Apache Attack Helicopter (British Army Air Corps)
Not a given that it's going to appear on Apache, but seems most likely: UK signs up for JAGM missile The United Kingdom has placed its first order for the Lockheed Martin AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) weapon system developed for the US military. The US Department of Defense (DoD) announ...
- 12 Mar 2021, 12:02
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9743595
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
And their existing Martadinata class seem to be Tacticos driven which won't do any harm from the interoperability point-of-view.
- 10 Mar 2021, 15:31
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ships
- Replies: 179
- Views: 30723
Re: Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ships
The threat to world’s communications backbone – the vulnerability of undersea cables https://www.navylookout.com/the-threat-to-worlds-communications-backbone-the-vulnerability-of-undersea-cables/ https://www.navylookout.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BELGOROD-KC-139-Submarine-2.jpg https://www.navy...
- 10 Mar 2021, 11:48
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
If it happens feel free to let us know.Poiuytrewq wrote:RichardIC wrote:
There's no indication anywhere that the UK F-35B will become Royal Navy assets.
Not yet...
- 10 Mar 2021, 10:21
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
There is that, absolutely.SW1 wrote: But if it were me I’d be far far more concerns about the complete lack of merlins and significant issues within the fleet that is barely able to support a single carrier air wing never mind two.
- 10 Mar 2021, 10:04
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Got any official sources for that? Anything that vaguely equates to the Integrated Review HMG is going to publish next week?Roders96 wrote:It's not shafting America at all, they don't want to buy the jet themselves.
- 10 Mar 2021, 09:53
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Does the same apply to the US if they end up doing the same? There's a difference between doing it to yourself for your own reasons and having it inflicted by a third party. The fact is, if we jump when the IR is published next week, we jump first. If the Fleet Air Arm end up with 50 to 60 F35's an...
- 10 Mar 2021, 09:26
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
I don't, however, see deploying UMSC jest as a 'national embarrassment'. As many people have said before, it is a mutually beneficial arrangement because it is a joint operation. Those aren't US jets being borrowed by the UK for a UK operation - they are NATO jets taking part in a NATO operation (o...
- 10 Mar 2021, 06:43
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Why's that then? The crude mathematics of a total buy of only 48 F-35Bs combined with the reluctance of the RAF to let them spend any more than the minimum amount of time at sea. It just doesn't justify having two carriers at sea together. And when one does go to sea 8-12 aircraft is probably the s...
- 09 Mar 2021, 12:19
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Except RFIs are buried deep in the system. It was only noticed by an Italian blogger that specializes in trawling such unlikely material for scraps of info. And that Italian blogger has 5,500 followers on Twitter including a large portion of the UK defence trade press. It was also tweeted from the ...
- 09 Mar 2021, 09:30
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4464204
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Not quite what happened, the Telegraph reporter asked the UKDJ last week if they could run the RFI story this week (their reporter follows the UKDJ account and that's where he noticed the news). Why they marked it as an exclusive on social media and went with talk of launching F-35B replacements I ...