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by BlueD954
21 Nov 2020, 07:46
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Replies: 8470
Views: 2142654
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Re: Type 31 & Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

How cheap can the Type 32 be wrt Type 31 costs?
by BlueD954
20 Nov 2020, 06:55
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Integrated Review (previously SDSR 2020)
Replies: 1307
Views: 59957
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Re: Integrated Review (previously SDSR 2020)

There were once 16 Type 23 frigates, 3 were sold off in the 1990s, 2000s. So technically they should have 8 Type 26, 5 plus 3 Type 31 or 8 plus 3 Type 26s. If Type 32 is just Type 31e export, some should stay are Royal Navy frigates.
by BlueD954
19 Nov 2020, 17:10
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Integrated Review (previously SDSR 2020)
Replies: 1307
Views: 59957
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Re: Integrated Review (previously SDSR 2020)

Amazing how they will find personnel for the Space Command/Force.
by BlueD954
18 Nov 2020, 14:49
Forum: British Army
Topic: Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET)
Replies: 11
Views: 3362
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Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET)

II.4) Short description of nature and scope of works or nature and quantity or value of supplies or services: The Ministry of Defence has outlined a requirement for a replacement Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) service from June 2024 to 2030. This service will form an integral part of the MDL25 lo...
by BlueD954
17 Nov 2020, 05:06
Forum: Deployments
Topic: Middle East
Replies: 81
Views: 5271
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Re: Middle East

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-11/114286 To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, have any British personnel accompanied the deployment of Giraffe radars to Riyadh since February 2020 to assist Saudi Arabia to track and identify objects in its airspace....
by BlueD954
16 Nov 2020, 04:29
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Overseas Patrol - General Discussion
Replies: 77
Views: 17817
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Re: Current & Future Overseas Patrol - General Discussion

https://committees.parliament.uk/public ... 2/default/

Page 14

"The Department [MOD] told us [Commons PAC] that it has made a case to HM Treasury for increasing the size of the surface fleet, but no outcome was yet forthcoming"
by BlueD954
16 Nov 2020, 04:28
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15444
Views: 4409496
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

https://committees.parliament.uk/public ... 2/default/

The usual criticism of Carrier Strike by the Public Accounts Committee
by BlueD954
14 Nov 2020, 12:46
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
Replies: 156
Views: 82236
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Re: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)

Also see this thread/ post https://ukdefenceforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=116734#p116734 Are these sonars also for Vanguard SSBNs? https://www.deagel.com/Sensor%20Systems/Sonar%202054/a001182 https://www.sea.co.uk/simulation-training/case-studies/simulated-sonar-data-for-2054-inboard-replacement/ I see...
by BlueD954
14 Nov 2020, 04:39
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Replies: 6067
Views: 1724239
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Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)

whitelancer wrote:Less the development aircraft, aren't they delivered carrier capable?
What mods are needed?
That's only the IOC date so by FOC....
by BlueD954
14 Nov 2020, 04:37
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
Replies: 156
Views: 82236
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Re: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)

Also see this thread/ post

viewtopic.php?p=116734#p116734

Are these sonars also for Vanguard SSBNs?
by BlueD954
13 Nov 2020, 04:09
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Astute Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)
Replies: 846
Views: 301100
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Re: Astute Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)

Related? https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:539119-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0 II.2.4) Description of the procurement: Defence Equipment and Support Group (DE&S), part of the UK Ministry of Defence, proposes to place a contract with Lockheed Martin UK Ltd for the support of the current Son...
by BlueD954
12 Nov 2020, 15:47
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Replies: 6067
Views: 1724239
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Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-09/113006 By December 2020, when the UK declares Initial Operating Capability (Maritime), 17 aircraft will be fully carrier compatible. The remaining four aircraft will have the required modifications completed as part of an...
by BlueD954
12 Nov 2020, 12:28
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Trafalgar Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)
Replies: 81
Views: 50511
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Re: Trafalgar Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)

I understood that all the remaining “T Boats” were now based at Faslane. So either she is visiting her former home, or the report has been “cut and pasted” and is incorrect. Can anyone clarify? :?: When did they all move to Faslane? I'm guessing they returned to Devonport then the crew will first m...
by BlueD954
11 Nov 2020, 14:13
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Navy Command to 2030
Replies: 208
Views: 11702
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Re: Naval Command to 2030

More than a million $ question: " whether the replacement for the Astute-class SSN Royal Navy submarines will take the form of another submarine." With all the bns poured into Dreadnought, the hearsay says (?) that the biggest advance will be in silent propulsion. If so, can the same be '...
by BlueD954
11 Nov 2020, 08:26
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Navy Command to 2030
Replies: 208
Views: 11702
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Re: Naval Command to 2030

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-03/hl9967 The programme to deliver the first of Class of an SSN Replacement for the Astute Class submarines is currently in the Programme Definition and Design Phase, which aims to identify potential capability solution choi...
by BlueD954
11 Nov 2020, 08:25
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Trafalgar Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)
Replies: 81
Views: 50511
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Re: Trafalgar Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... -trenchant

SUBMARINE HMS Trenchant has returned home to Devonport after 140 days away on deployment – during which the T-boat honed her war-fighting skills with NATO allies.
by BlueD954
09 Nov 2020, 03:48
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: If Biden wins
Replies: 81
Views: 4809
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Re: If Biden wins

Facts of US politics. Indeed. Just wanted the terms of 'the discourse' to be clear, i.e. right. The Congress is not a plural, as for the 'Houses' here... but both are a game of two parts, when the cogs easily start to be 'not meshing' (bicameral for int'l comparisons). Very well. Lots of people mak...
by BlueD954
08 Nov 2020, 12:17
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: If Biden wins
Replies: 81
Views: 4809
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Re: If Biden wins

I don't want to be pedantic (never :o ) but the United States Congress or U.S. Congress is a bicameral legislature and consists of two chambers: - the House of Representatives, and - the Senate. Unlike here, the upper 'house' cannot be ignored, which is of course the crux of the matter that we are ...
by BlueD954
08 Nov 2020, 12:14
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293224
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

both AI and Strike Brigades Sure, evident from the total, but no u-turn on who gets them first ... that was my inference (and only that). - it was a harbinger for this that the OSD for AS90 was recently set to 2030 or was it 2032 EDIT: "“To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the e...
by BlueD954
08 Nov 2020, 04:20
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293224
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

MFP plans IOC 2029, FOC 2029, total 110 plus guns Standing up the first Strike Bde in 2029 then? "InterimWarfightingDivision" absorbing the experimental group into its Light(er) Bde, if need arises A lot should be done in between at the BG level, so that "tanks" won't be the ans...
by BlueD954
08 Nov 2020, 03:48
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: General Procurement
Replies: 62
Views: 5872
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Re: General Procurement

Ok views noted.
by BlueD954
08 Nov 2020, 03:48
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: If Biden wins
Replies: 81
Views: 4809
Singapore

Re: If Biden wins

Also

by BlueD954
08 Nov 2020, 03:47
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: If Biden wins
Replies: 81
Views: 4809
Singapore

Re: If Biden wins