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by Timmymagic
28 May 2021, 16:32
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
Replies: 5411
Views: 1420306
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Re: River Class (OPV) (RN)

Another 'Dazzled' River B.2 should be seen soon...HMS Spey now out of Dry Dock at Falmouth..

by Timmymagic
28 May 2021, 16:25
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: MBDA (UK)
Replies: 310
Views: 26630
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Re: MBDA (UK)

Seen this below that tweet. "Mbda’s maritime launch system for sea ceptor is shorter than that for camm er, so installing them on types 26/31/32 will impact on what is currently below the launcher" If they are resuing bits and bobs from the type 23 for the 31's camm er might not be possib...
by Timmymagic
28 May 2021, 16:14
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15444
Views: 4409343
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

I think we are going to get plenty of good pics from CSG21 Here's another decent set (see entire thread)...with bonus submarine (not an Astute though..) USS Mount Whitney leading the line next to QE. Sub is NRP Tridente from the Portuguese Navy (Type 214 sub). The CSG is the two lines on the right....
by Timmymagic
28 May 2021, 16:13
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15444
Views: 4409343
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

Thinking of our late friend desertswo who would have been 65 today. I’m sure he would have enjoyed seeing and discussing the recent happenings with the carriers. He would have loved this. He was a massive loss to a lot of communities. I though smoking was going to be banned from all RN warships? Th...
by Timmymagic
28 May 2021, 13:27
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: MBDA (UK)
Replies: 310
Views: 26630
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Re: MBDA (UK)

Looks like CAMM-ER for the British Army is a thing...great news.

Just need the RN to get onboard now as well...well done to Gabi for getting an answer..

by Timmymagic
28 May 2021, 12:23
Forum: British Army
Topic: Ground Based Air Defence
Replies: 685
Views: 190962
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Re: Ground Based Air Defence

CAMM-ER on the way for the Army...

by Timmymagic
28 May 2021, 12:21
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056665
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

I'll post this is the GBAD thread as well...CAMM-ER is on the way for the Army....Gabi asked the question of the Commander of 7 AD...

Possible implications for the RN, Type 26 and Type 31 to benefit?

by Timmymagic
27 May 2021, 10:41
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: RN anti-ship missiles
Replies: 1030
Views: 242161
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Re: RN anti-ship missiles

andrew98 wrote:Any chance they could fit them in Bahrain on the way out?
Very unlikely. Why bother going to the effort of prepping and testing the munitions in the UK, having the personnel and equipment to load them here, then not bothering and leaving it to more ad hoc and costly arrangements elsewhere.
by Timmymagic
25 May 2021, 10:32
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056665
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

Don't forget the RN has 11 sets of 2087. 3 additional sets have been purchased for the first 3 T26. Otherwise they'd have had to cannibalise the 8 x T23 ASW's whilst they were still in service. Sometime the jumps, from clicking on a notification are random. And ended up with this old one. - when th...
by Timmymagic
24 May 2021, 15:09
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Future Solid Support Ship
Replies: 1972
Views: 547376
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Re: Future Solid Support Ship

What is interesting is that the commitment to three FSSS must be linked to the commitment to have two CVF deployed. That is surely linked to the to the need to go beyond 48 F35B (which would allow 24 normally on the single deployed CVF) to 60-80 which would allow two CVFs with 24 each? Don't forget...
by Timmymagic
19 May 2021, 15:05
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Replies: 6067
Views: 1724133
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Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)

MBDA Spear will look pretty much exactly the same as SDB2 when mounted in the F-35B...

by Timmymagic
19 May 2021, 10:32
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: New Zealand Defence Force
Replies: 619
Views: 38492
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Re: New Zealand Defence Force

NighthawkNZ wrote:Well the RFI is out and they want quite a capable vessel
Anything out there that fits the bill? The Canadian Harry De Wolf Class?
by Timmymagic
17 May 2021, 22:11
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15444
Views: 4409343
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

And a pretty good (and accurate) shot at naming them. USS The Sullivans appears to be the ship in the middle.

by Timmymagic
17 May 2021, 21:26
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15444
Views: 4409343
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

HMS Queen Elizabeth and USS Iwo Jima groups meet up...thats quite a group of ships...you could retake the Falklands with that...think the 2 SES off the QE and Iwo Jima are LCAC (I did post originally that I thought they were Norwegian Skjold Class but think I was wrong). Not sure if the Whidbey Isla...
by Timmymagic
17 May 2021, 21:02
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056665
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

The best thing would be to build a 5 ship B3 River class - effectively a B2 with a multipurpose Wildcat / UAV hanger which can act as a mission bay instead. This would allow three of the B2s take over from the B1s, and give the RN a core MHPC design. £800mn max. Thats the BAE Avenger design... Do n...
by Timmymagic
17 May 2021, 20:55
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056665
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

ASW, why fit S2087, surely that's best left to the T26 with its quiet and expensive HED propulsion system, T31/T32 diesels/gears are not silenced with rafts and enclosures, quiet hull not necessary for its primary AAW mission, if you do that will drive up costs, fit a HMS as with the T45 or a less ...
by Timmymagic
13 May 2021, 19:05
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Project Crowsnest (RN)
Replies: 220
Views: 79135
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Re: Project Crowsnest (RN)

Jake1992 wrote:It may be dead in terms of the USMC but if the RN are looking at a new unmanned system for AEW then why not go for the V-247 ?
Cost of development....it would make buying V-22 look cheap, and we can't afford that.
by Timmymagic
13 May 2021, 15:39
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Project Crowsnest (RN)
Replies: 220
Views: 79135
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Re: Project Crowsnest (RN)

Said it before and I’ll say it again why not go for this with all the different roles it can be used for it could give a better AEW and a reaper style capability to the carriers. https://www.naval-technology.com/projec ... ft-system/ V-247 is dead. Killed off when the USMC totally revised their MUX...
by Timmymagic
12 May 2021, 10:19
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Project Crowsnest (RN)
Replies: 220
Views: 79135
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Re: Project Crowsnest (RN)

SW1 wrote:It’s the OSD for the entire Merlin fleet at present
Which is just a programmatic date based on a submitted and approved business case. It will of course be inevitably moved right once someone does the new case...
by Timmymagic
11 May 2021, 18:18
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: Lynx/Super Lynx Helicopters (RN & AAC)
Replies: 34
Views: 24891
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Re: Lynx/Super Lynx Helicopters (RN & AAC)

Lord Jim wrote:Confused Merlin HM1 must have had some deck trials either on a similar contraption or on an actual ship surly
On a ship I would have thought. The rig for a Merlin sized helo would be massive.
by Timmymagic
11 May 2021, 11:38
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15444
Views: 4409343
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

Again it is the navies job to stop that and push for more B's I think 60 is the magic number as this allows for max effort of say 25 jets per carrier with this being said if the RAF wanted A's then an order for 40 A's could be made after the 60 B's have been confirmed but which make an order for 10...
by Timmymagic
11 May 2021, 08:44
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15444
Views: 4409343
United Kingdom

Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

For example would the US of been ok overtly in a falklands situation or would the uk if they used a QEC in a Grenada type situation Easy answer to that. A USMC pilot was attached to a Sea Harrier Squadron during the Falklands. In the rush to embark everyone 'forgot' about it. He was keen to go Sout...
by Timmymagic
08 May 2021, 16:25
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1464767
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

Are you sure that the changes will come in to effect if a second referendum is announced rather than the secessionists winning a referendum because if it is as you suggest then moving the work away before the referendum has taken place could be handing the secessionists a massive stick to beat the ...
by Timmymagic
07 May 2021, 13:37
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1464767
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Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

Sure looks like tiles now they've taken the plastic off ... Absolutely. I've not heard of surface ships being fitted with tiles before, but there was a note on the UKDJ tweet from someone that said that HMCS Montreal (Halifax Class) was fitted with tiles. Looks like she received them in her first r...
by Timmymagic
06 May 2021, 18:18
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15444
Views: 4409343
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

If the RN have been sitting on photos of the two carriers together at sea then they are now stuck with the problem that releasing them will be seen as baguette waving at this critical time for Anglo/French relations. My stick is bigger than yours and I have two! Also, if true, didn't this happen be...