https://twitter.com/defencehqpress/status/1460987353410027530?s=21 Another thankful saved by Martin baker Just waiting for the, waste of money, dangerous aircraft, single engined...should've kept the Sea Harrier etcetec brigade to hit social media. Glad pilot ok. Can the "48 isn't enough"...

KiwiMuzz wrote: ↑17 Nov 2021, 20:29 I saw a comment on Twitter that one reason Sentinel was binned was that it was a "corps-level asset for a brigade-level army". Ouch.

It somewhat makes a sense. on the other hand, things like Sentinels give additional strength to "brigade(if even that)-level Army".

I sincerely doubt that VL Spear. 3 would have a 100 km range. Maybe rather 30-40 km... That would depend how you got it out the cell Spear has a length of 1.8 meters and CAMM has a length of 3.2 meters so i f spear had a rocket fitted that got it to say 2000 ft and mach 1 it should get to 80km IF. ...

If type 31 got a 8 cell Mk-41 could we fit say 16 Spear 3 in them they could have a range of 100 + km also as up thread given sea venom has a bigger body than spear 3 could we take the jet and fit it to Sea venom to give it a 100+ km range yes they are light weapons but would be better an nothing u...

An ex-Navy chief said on an Indian daily that they won't be buying any more of those as every arrested landing needs some remedial work afterwards... easy to make a navy plane into something else but v.v does not hold This does not mean that the plane in itself was bad (Russia buying quite a few fo...

How many Mk41 tubes can be put on T26? If we drop CAMM mushrooms that is...

With the Royal Navy now saying it wants a Hypersonic class weapon to fulfil the FC/ASW requirement, the programme will have had to take a step back and rethink the capabilities required. Will the French stay on board or will they decide to go it alone and develop a supersonic successor to Exocet, w...

Whilst some of the arguments made in this forum for cancelling I-SSGW in favour of FCASW seem logical and rational, it is hard to ignore the fact that every other navy in the world is procuring current generation SSM such as NSM for their warships. If we had a greater number of SSN and/or a greater...

So like the Army the Navy is taking a ten year long holiday from warfighting, not being able to confront anything beyond pirates. . We will still have Harpoon until 2024? We will have Helicopter launched Martlet , Sea Venom and Stingray. . 2024 is just 2 years away. Martlet and Sea Venom are exactl...

tomuk wrote:

Lord Jim wrote:
So like the Army the Navy is taking a ten year long holiday from warfighting, not being able to confront anything beyond pirates.

Come on that is a bit of an exaggeration.

Just a bit.

So it seems that Harpoons will not be replaced any time soon. Disgrace. https://www.navylookout.com/royal-navy- ... ore-2030s/ Another cut. Will anything remain? So like the Army the Navy is taking a ten year long holiday from warfighting, not being able to confront anything beyond pirates. FC/ASW ...

So it seems that Harpoons will not be replaced any time soon. Disgrace.

https://www.navylookout.com/royal-navy- ... ore-2030s/

Another cut. Will anything remain?

Interesting to consider whether this is now part of a pattern, moving away from large calibre naval guns such as 4.5" ,5" and towards medium calibre . US Navy selects BAE Systems' 57mm Mk 110 for Constellation-class frigates https://www.adsadvance.co.uk/us-navy-selects-bae-systems-57mm-mk...

Interesting to consider whether this is now part of a pattern, moving away from large calibre naval guns such as 4.5" ,5" and towards medium calibre . US Navy selects BAE Systems' 57mm Mk 110 for Constellation-class frigates https://www.adsadvance.co.uk/us-navy-selects-bae-systems-57mm-mk...

Interesting to consider whether this is now part of a pattern, moving away from large calibre naval guns such as 4.5" ,5" and towards medium calibre . US Navy selects BAE Systems' 57mm Mk 110 for Constellation-class frigates https://www.adsadvance.co.uk/us-navy-selects-bae-systems-57mm-mk...

But, for what can Egyptians use them? I really don't see the need for them.

Poiuytrewq wrote:And the replacements are still at the talking stage….

Embarrassing and another total procurement failure.

Fully agreed. Another cut in disguise. Disgrace.

donald_of_tokyo wrote: I agree it is arguable, but for me, adding its cost to T26 is similar to adding Nimrod MRA4 cost to P-8A cost.

I think it should be added, because MRA4 costed the taxpayers for MPA capability, but they didn't get that capability before P-8.

Dividing program cost by number of units does not give you a unit production cost. Yes and no BAE say they can get type 26 down to 800 million starting from ship 4 and Babcocks say they are building 5 Type 31's for 250 million per ship However the program cost for Type 26 as it stands is 8 billion ...

Frigates in or near to those three locations used to be Standing Commitments that have, as a result of cuts to the Fleet been “gapped” for some time. If deployable Escort numbers permit, there is no reason why Gibraltar and the Caribbean should not once again see the presence of a Frigate. The Falk...

A question: Why the RN never bought ASROCs? Lack of money or? RN used to operate Ikara, which was massively superior to ASROC. ASROC was a load of garbage in truth. If a target was moving at any reasonable speed, by the time ASROC had delivered its homing torpedo to the area, the torpedo had been d...

Repulse wrote:

Poiuytrewq wrote:Water under the bridge I’m afraid regardless of the rights and wrongs.

Short term probably, medium term (early 2030s) the RN could see the T31s to navies such as New Zealand and focus on a larger fleet of ASW T32s.

I think that the T32 will be an unmanned systems mothership.

A question: Why the RN never bought ASROCs? Lack of money or?

SKB wrote:That grey one, number 7450, could be considered the first "fixed wing aircraft" to have "Royal Navy" painted on its side since Sea Harriers last left HMS Ark Royal in November 2010.

Lightnings will not have before 2023?

No one wants to take the responsibility for signing off the contract for fear of repercussions down the line to their careers. They want someone else to do it, or tell them to do so, taking on the responsivity. If there was the will they could have a contract in place before the end of the month. A...