Yes, and work will be continuing “in the existing facilities” on blocks for both Hulls 2 and 3 !!! Do you really think that they will have room for Hull 4 and 5 Blocks to be built let alone stored , whilst they are still attempting to build and assemble the same for hulls 2 and 3. They will need the...

Any Batch 2 T26 are highly unlikely to be laid down this year! With plans for these to be built in a major new facility which has yet to be built (possibly not yet even having received planning consent), I would think it more likely to be well into 2024 or even 2025 before hull 4 and/or hull 5 could...

Three are currently active, …… FTSP means Diamond is undergoing “Routine” Maintenance, so still active. Two vessels with PIP completed (one about to rejoin the active fleet) and another PIP underway. From the awful low point of just a short while ago, it looks like significant progress to me, even t...

Yes, but GB left the incoming government in 2010 “No money”!

Of course people in the UK DID clock that. The point is, that as a UK subject, HE should have considered that to be the first and foremost consideration. By not doing so, he has insulted all of his “countrymen”. If he demonstrably cannot be bothered about them, then he really should not expect to ge...

wargame_insomniac Wrote:- What??? Where did I suggest that can probably halve numbers to what you came up with. No, you did not, but the more realistic numbers of what would be available for “other tasks are my figures. If you want to rely on your figures being “available”, then an additional T45 an...

wargame_insomniac wrote That would leave 2*T45 and 4*T26 free for other tasks and missions, including CASD, TAPS, and sole actions, including participating in NATO standing deployments and ASW missions etc I’m afraid that this is the sort of assessment that our politicians seem propogate. (I really ...

You seem to be making the case for a third “Escort” building yard. Portsmouth perhaps ?

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Wrong F-35, wrong country, wrong thread.... *sigh* :roll

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Unless just maybe some of the “88” end up being changed to F-35B, for deployment on USN LHD’s or RN QEC Carriers.

Only if the correct actions are consistently taken by HMG (and underlined with adequate UK Tri-Service presence) in and around those territories.
In essence meaning, “We are going to need as a minimum, a (significantly) larger Army, Navy and Air Force”.

Dazzle Paint to be applied in Jacksonville?

Easy solution. Disperse them onto the 2 x QEC Carriers.

I assume you meant “Has been taken down”, as I would not have wanted to be working under it, if it “Had come down”!

Is he really going to personally finance an extra 2 x T31 Frigates? The country to which he owes so much !

Special (Trawler) Operation?

I note that much like the CDG (R91), there is a paucity of Non “Operationally restrictive Spots”. I counted just 12! A wonderful design indeed ??? I don’t think. The design needs a third Deck-Edge “Lift” as well (Port side, Aft), if further operational restrictions are to be avoided.

The French and US can look after their own related problems, we should just concentrate on ours.

Should be classed as treason in my view!

Scimitar54 wrote: ↑12 Oct 2022, 22:27 cockneyjock1974 might be able to suggest somewhere suitable! PhillyJ wrote: ↑13 Oct 2022, 12:06 Does CJ still frequent this thread? downsized wrote 13 Oct 2022, 12:25 Doubt it, been driven off like a lot of good, knowledgeable posters. Still listed as a register...

cockneyjock1974 might be able to suggest somewhere suitable!

Far more than seven, if they really want to live up to their name.

Actually, it is ……….. “Both”.

Wishing her Bon voyage and a prompt return!

He will anyway! Putin’s rationale for invading was because he felt that Russia was threatened with aggression by “NATO”. Well, after the showing of the Russian Army during his “Special Operation”, he must now be not just having sleepless nights, but Nightmares as he has demonstrated to the world bot...

“A Bridge too Far” for the would be Tsar methinks.