1 billion pounds a ship is basically a burke destroyer. US$1.7 billion for a Type 26. US$1.843 for a Burke. Although given the UK are paying heavily for the R&D in the cost of their ships, it could potentially be far lower for a foreign customer that does not have to pay to design and develop t...

I do wonder, why do we class the carriers as being to valuable to risk close to the shore, but not an LPD/LPH? Surely loosing either is an unacceptable loss? Both are an unacceptable loss but one costs £225m with maybe £100m worth of assets on board, the other costs £3.1bn with around £3bn worth of...

Given the fact that a drone was able to land on HMS QE while it was on sea trials, having some sort of laser system on it would be an excellent defense against drone attacks as well as many others. What are the current options, fire an expensive CAM/Aster missile or fire CIWS, both of which if used ...

Lord Jim wrote:The argument is now shifting to the £2Bn being the minimum that the UK should spend, and to meet its more limited aspirations needs to spend around £3Bn

Do you mean 2% and 3%?

His first "Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence" today.

http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/84 ... edf13e6f6e

The RN need to find a workable alternative. Defense has been stripped to the bone. It is an option of more money or lose a key national military capacity which is essential for an expeditionary focused island nation. You can say money does not grow on trees, but look at the recent budget, the Treas...

I have saw several articles mention possible cuts to AJAX numbers as options in the review. Positive upside is, hopefully strike is wiped out, not that we would have the manpower for them with possibly losing 12,000 soldiers anyway.

There are mounting budget pressures, and this is a plan to relieve some of the pressure. Why is that unreasonable? Lord Hutton (former DS) was speaking during a debate on British defence forces in the House of Lords where he said: “I am absolutely opposed to the United Kingdom acting unilaterally—f...

Unless the Commander of the aircraft carrier can guarantee that the other NATO escorts can protect the carrier under the same ROE and in the same response time as our escorts is there a point in leaving such a crucial duty to another Navy? If a NATO escort is assisting in the protection of our carr...

Opinion3 wrote:Does the Royal Navy not need to train for such high threat environments?

The RN trains 24/7.

Which of it's deployments would constitute a high threat environment during peace time I would say that that type of deployment would only be used during wartime or in high threat situations, such as if a UK CSG deployed to North Korea, the South China Sea or the Gulf during heightened tensions. We...

Report due in 2018. "The UK Royal Navy (RN) has instigated a package of studies to explore a future multi-role platform that could potentially address a range of requirements for replacement amphibious, forward repair, and medical capabilities." "One of the key drivers for the MRSS pr...

Some interesting comments by the First Sea lord. "We’ve done a lot of work to consider what a comprehensive, sovereign UK Carrier Strike group should look like. It will vary according to the circumstances of each deployment, but in a high threat environment we would expect a carrier to be accom...

RIP UK defense. The def sec must be preparing his wood chipper for our assets as we speak. With all the former top brass and defense secs that have spoken up in the last couple weeks and there is absolutely nothing in the budget. The government truly does not give a shit. The carriers must be shiny ...

You also said that Mastiff was not used by infantry and only operated in rear areas. No. Mastiff is used by infantry, hence how we both said it was used by the heavy protected mobility battalions. And yes, in a peer conflict, Mastiff is used in the rear behind the main body of the armoured formatio...

fine except that heavy protected mobility infantry battalions are seeing their vehicles replaced by something lighter JLT-V is lighter, more mobile, and offers slightly more protection than Mastiff. The protected mobility battalions are getting an upgrade. I dont see your point. Mastiff was certain...

A type 23 ASW package consists of a, Sonar 2087 towed array system, Sonar 2050 medium-range bow sonar and a Merlin with FLASH dipping Sonar 2089.

Heavy Protected Mobility platforms like Mastiff and the upgraded Bulldog FV432 Neither of those platforms are intended for, or used for reece. They are protected mobility vehicles, they are always used in the rear behind Ajax, Challenger and Warrior. Ajax is in all intents a heavy protected recce v...

Too many things that we need and dont have for strike to work at the moment. I am hoping that we will go back to the current structure of three armoured brigades. Replace the armoured cav regiments with Ajax, continue the Challenger and Warrior upgrades and put MIV in the mobility battalions. Then w...

Mechanised infantry are, as far as I can tell, operating Mastiff at the moment and if we purchase something for MIV then they will operate that. I have not looked in awhile and have forgotten. MIV is supposed to replace the Mastiff equipped Mechanized Infantry battalions in the armoured brigades as...

donald_of_tokyo wrote:- anyway at this moment, the top priority is to find her and save the 44 crew. Hope they find her soon...

Maybe the UK should offer to send a type 23, to help with the search.

~UNiOnJaCk~ wrote:Case in point, look to both Russia and Ukraine.

Not seeing your case.

HMS Prince of Wales is needed to take over the second stage of F35 trials in 2019 while HMS Queen Elizabeth is in its scheduled period of certification inspections in dry dock. Pretty ambitious considering HMS QE F35 trials are in Q4 2018, and HMS PW is not expected in to service until at least Q2 2...

I don't understand why the British Army never assesses French equipments I think they do. The main difference is the UK likes to go medium-heavy, France likes to go light-medium. Stuff like the VBCI, it is an excellent vehicle but I think the British Army thinks it is too light, they want something...

Even if the UK doesn't get to build the type 26s, the cost of research is distributed. Some of subsystems will still be built in the UK. True. Was referring more to the actual block building. Hangar roof. Looks a little cramped. Maybe in place of the decoy system between the CIWS and Hanger? http:/...