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- 29 Oct 2023, 14:51
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19150
- Views: 7058692
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Don’t forget the increased number of ships likely to be lost, due to the mortar only having c. 33% of the range of the 5” Naval Gun.
- 16 Oct 2023, 23:13
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Astute Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)
- Replies: 846
- Views: 301329
Re: Astute Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)
Victorious and not Victorius.
- 14 Oct 2023, 20:21
- Forum: Personnel and Units
- Topic: Littoral Response Groups North & South
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1911
Re: Littoral Response Groups North & South
Perhaps, if one had more RN and RFA ships it might.
- 12 Oct 2023, 00:44
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 184123
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Actually, it is rather what the Mods will accept it to be.
- 12 Oct 2023, 00:40
- Forum: Personnel and Units
- Topic: Littoral Response Groups North & South
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1911
Re: Littoral Response Groups North & South
Who knows what lurks “beneath”!
- 05 Oct 2023, 01:49
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
- Replies: 6067
- Views: 1725041
Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Well they had better start work now on making Tempest “Carrier Capable” and make it snappy too, otherwise it will be of limited use. Of course the RAF would prefer this! A similar and predictable reaction to the Scrap Sea Harrier / Harrier GR9 and keep Tornado debacle. They are not a fit Service to ...
- 03 Oct 2023, 19:49
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5985
- Views: 1500984
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
OK then …. Simples! Just build a 3rd QEC carrier instead. Let some (clever?) politician try and argue no reduction in capability if proposing to sell or scrap one of the carriers then!
- 02 Oct 2023, 23:45
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: SSN-AUKUS Future Astute Replacement (2030s) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 239
- Views: 87031
Re: SSN-AUKUS Future Astute Replacement (2030s) (RN) [News Only]
Each boat would only need to be pushed back by about 2 years (c.27 years Service) to increase the number of boats in the (UK) SSN Flotilla. With eight, from commissioning of the first new (UK) boat, nine ought to be possible before 2040, reaching Ten by 2045 and the possibility of having Twelve by 2...
- 23 Sep 2023, 07:40
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410613
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Quite! A collision with a tanker (or a container ship) can achieve it, as events in recent years have shown. I guess it could be put down to the current trend to want to wrap everyone (and everything) in cotton wool. A very grave error in itself.
- 23 Sep 2023, 01:28
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410613
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
That would represent an Audacious decision.
- 23 Sep 2023, 00:31
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410613
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
I do apologise, I appear to have missed out an “n”.
- 23 Sep 2023, 00:30
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410613
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Turturtle Oh My! Now we have negative assertions of an Aircraft Carrier without Aircraft OR Missiles OR Guns! Whatever next! ………….. Perhaps we should have delayed the F35B, MV22 Osprey and Drone Trials for yet another 12 months (until next autumn)! To provide time for capability re-insertion periods...
- 21 Sep 2023, 12:56
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
- Replies: 5411
- Views: 1421086
Re: River Class (OPV) (RN)
shark bait wrote:-
Absolutely Spot On!Long term the B2s should be replaced with something more interesting (T31/T32) and the B1 can be retired.
- 17 Sep 2023, 16:14
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410613
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
I’ll look on the positive side (happier now that the mini-guns have been replaced by 0.5” Machine Guns). Hopefully PWLS has those by now!
- 14 Sep 2023, 18:53
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: South Korea
- Replies: 217
- Views: 15408
Re: South Korea
So you are saying that F35A or B have more than doubled in (dollar) price, since our earlier purchases are you? How do you explain that; when with increased production rates, they were in fact reducing in price. Effects of Russia’s “Special Operation”? or perhaps “COVID”? Neither would account for a...
- 13 Sep 2023, 21:20
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410613
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Reported by Navy Lookout!
- 13 Sep 2023, 20:40
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410613
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
They do seem to have already committed to 24 in 25 for CSG25 to the Indo-Pacific.
- 13 Sep 2023, 12:03
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Albion Class Amphibious Assault Ships (LPD) (RN)
- Replies: 568
- Views: 202131
Re: Albion Class Amphibious Assault Ships (LPD) (RN)
Spots for 2 x Wildcats …. Not much use for the number of Bootnecks likely to need Vertical Lift !
- 12 Sep 2023, 22:59
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15445
- Views: 4410613
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Correct at the present time. However, by the end of this year we should have 2 x notionally operational squadrons (with 18 x operational cabs between them) PLUS a fully equipped OCU, subject of course to aircraft undergoing maintenance. Not so bad then, with another 6 aircraft due to arrive during 2...
- 11 Sep 2023, 15:03
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
- Replies: 156
- Views: 82268
- 08 Sep 2023, 22:29
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19150
- Views: 7058692
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
That would be for Miss Isles herself would it? Sorry, I should perhaps have said A.S. Isles.
- 07 Sep 2023, 08:52
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5985
- Views: 1500984
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
The FCF (LSS) proposal was actually to provide for a “Re-enforced Company”! I do not accept this growing and unfounded conjecture, that what we are looking to deploy is a Light Company.
Barking up the wrong tree springs to mind!
Barking up the wrong tree springs to mind!
- 06 Sep 2023, 22:08
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5985
- Views: 1500984
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
I could have said, that when you say “You think.”, it is obvious to anyone (even to a 12 year old) both in your post and in your reply, “that you have not used the power of thought at all”. However, I won’t.
- 06 Sep 2023, 21:26
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
- Replies: 310
- Views: 133348
Re: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
How about acquiring some of the surplus MV22s ?
- 06 Sep 2023, 21:11
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5985
- Views: 1500984
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
SW1 wrote:- an lhd is a perfectly credible platform for anything the UK would have to do form the sea that is just reality. Alright Group Captain Hindsight. Just what do you think would have been the result, if we had constructed 2 x large LHDs capable of operating the F35B aircraft IF the “B” vers...