Think i must be a mystique as forecast above answer yesterday that MoD would hide behind the excuse that its 'commercially sensitive' in refusing to give any breakdown of the figures I think English may be your second language and I'd rather see the actual reply from NOA rather than accepting your ...

I don't think that's right. The chronology as I understand it is 2010 : 4 year Design contract back in 2010 - 127£ million 2015 : Demonstration contract : 859£ million 2016 : Long lead item contract for first 3 : 470£ million 2017 : Build contract for first 3 : 3.6£ billion These were all separatel...

If Caribbean's interpretation of the £90 million NAO GFA figure correct, that's £18 million per ship, that gives £268 million build cost per T31 in 2019£'s.... Why? Or, that "build cost per T31 in 2019£" means what? We do not know the price-tag for T26 in the same definition. What is know...

If Caribbean's interpretation of the £90 million NAO GFA figure correct, that's £18 million per ship, that gives £268 million build cost per T31 in 2019£'s.... Why? Or, that "build cost per T31 in 2019£" means what? We do not know the price-tag for T26 in the same definition. What is know...

If Caribbean's interpretation of the £90 million NAO GFA figure correct, that's £18 million per ship, that gives £268 million build cost per T31 in 2019£'s. PS Assuming GFA includes other items than the CIWS Sea Ceptor kit, ESM kit etc, seen it reported recently that the USN SEWIP Block 3, ESM &...

Apologies for my above post, its a duplication of Ron5 post

NAO 24th June reports that during the T31 competitive design phase, the bidders indicated that they would withdraw from the competition unless the MoD excluded the cost of the £90 million for GFA (Government Furnished Assets) from the contract, which MoD agreed to, so looking at ~ £340 million build...

Lara News update on the CAMM-ER / Albatros NG testing from MBDA Italy MBDA announced this morning (June 24) that it has successfully completed a launch of the CAMM-ER air defense missile against a maneuvering target. The shooting, which took place at an Italian shooting range, represents one of the ...

A view of the USN anti-ship missile options

Not sure if true but NavyRecognition reporting 14th June Pakistan buying Albatros NG (CAMM-ER) for its Karachi shipyard build of Turkish Aselsan MILGEM corvettes. If true think may be bad news as would expect full details/specs of the CAMM-ER seeker to be in the hands of the Chinese for them to fine...

Greek frigate contract, reported that LM with their 4,300t MMSC-HN bid has changed so that the 8 Mk41 VLS cell fitted will use the ExLS to fire 32 CAMM's and CAMM-ER's replacing the ESSM's at the prompting of the Greek Navy. The suggestion in the report is that Babcock will follow with the A140 Gree...

Re the Greek contract Naval News 9th June has a short piece on what bids might be considered, gain the impression contract will be for four new frigates, modernisation of the Greek Navy’s Hydra class frigates and an urgent requirement for 'second hand' frigates asap, would the RN T23's be available ...

Lockheed developing the new Precision Strike Missile, PrSM, one of US Army's six top priorities, to replace the 80's 3,700 lbs ballistic ATACMS, max range of 190 miles, 13' length and 24" dia. launched from a M270 tracked vehicle, 2 missiles or the wheeled M142, 1 missile, (M270 and M142 better...

impression that their edge was the max local build content Not sure to which of the contendors that ref is in regard, but Damen has later supplied another series of frigates. The local dockyard in Surabaya has done most of the 'metal bashing' according to the Damen design, but the central blocks, w...

Don't think it has been mentioned that 10th June Fincantieri won a big Indonesian frigate contract for six FREMMs and two refurbished Maestrale frigates, subject to finance being confirmed. Won against a shortlist that included a Damen 10514+ (who had supplied six 60's Van Speijk-class frigates deri...

OTO Melara was/is a subsidiary of Finmeccanica/Leonardo, Finmeccanica was rebranded as Leonardo Jan 2017, its a very large Italian multi-national company 30% owned by the Italian state, Finmeccanica acquired OTO Melara 1992 along with Agusta helicopters and other Italian state companies. Leonardo ha...

In their FY2022 budget USN has cancelled all future funding for the development of the Gun Launched Guided Projectile, formally the High Velocity Projectile, it had been envisaged a 5" variant would be developed for the USN BAE Inc MK45 5"/62 main gun as fitted to the T26 with is new auto...

In their FY2022 budget USN has cancelled all future funding for the development of the Gun Launched Guided Projectile, formally the High Velocity Projectile, it had been envisaged a 5" variant would be developed for the USN BAE Inc MK45 5"/62 main gun as fitted to the T26 with is new autom...

More Aster 30 porn from Formidable Shield 2021 though this time fired from the Italian FREMM frigate F597 Antonio Marceglia

Is it wise to invest so much in developing and buying a French combat system in our frontline Naval ships given the importance of our naval capability and the direction of both the EU and the UK and the "Internet of Warfare" revolution we are seeing with connected subsystems, remote drone...

The new gen Thales AWWS CMS now marketed as TACTICOS as used in the new Damen Belgium/Dutch M-class frigates and the Damen MKS-180 / German F126 frigate

Ref my above post on funding of the CAMM-ER, looked at MoD R&D funding, found the following 2018/9 £1.6 billion ~ 4% of defence budget, that's a long term decrease from the £2.9 billion of 2004/5, which if have my figures correct was ~9%. For a baseline checked out US FY2022 defence budget, RDT...

Ref my above post on funding of the CAMM-ER, looked at MoD R&D funding, found the following 2018/9 £1.6 billion ~ 4% of defence budget, that's a long term decrease from the £2.9 billion of 2004/5, which if have my figures correct was ~9%. For a baseline checked out US FY2022 defence budget, RDT&...

100% funded by the Italians Can't have been 100% funded by Italy, I remember a report of the UK stumping up the last of their commitment to the program, to provide the cash for final trials to get underway. It wasn't that long ago Nov 2019, MBDA 55sec video of the CAMM-ER at Italian test range http...

Re. the T31 Sea Ceptor launchers, Italian sources mention the launchers (see below) in passing on info on the Albatros NG/CAMM-ER, would infer that its unlikely the EXLS would be used. Albatros NG/CAMM-ER build which appears substantially Italian as one would expect as the Italian Government funded...