The T31 has come a long way! No it hasn't it is still the same ship it was before. It may just have in the future a set of Mk41s fitted. A capability it has always retained from the mother IH design. The concept has come a long way not the design that was ultimately chosen. The plan was always to b...

Simple question: Is the Royal Navy receiving a dividend for major export successes for UK PLC?

If so how can the Army and RAF replicate this success and what other RN programs could ultimately be structured to achieve a similar result?

with 32 cells we could push VL Spear 3 in attack and EW this could allow type 31 to have a load out of 32 x CAMM , 32 x Spear-3 , 16 x FCASW and 8 to 16 x NSM add to this its Wildcat with 20 LMM or 4 x Sea Venom We could also add in a containerised TAS if working with the CSG which could now look l...

The quickest way to Medium and Long range ABM capability is either SM6 or SM3 which go in Mk41 so why not Mk41 for T45? If you want CAMM there may well be other locations you could fit the launchers, at the front of the hangars could be one option. Lots of options. Firstly how many ABM missiles wou...

CSG2025 in the Indo Pacific? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/17/rishi-sunak-signs-security-deal-with-japan-tension-china/ The fourth UK-Japan joint ‘Vigilant Isles’ military exercises, taking place in Japan later this year, will be the biggest yet with around 170 UK personnel taking par...

A bit controversial but in light of the Mk41 addition to the T31s with a combined 160x Mk41 capacity plus 192x Mk41 capacity on the T26s and potentially another 96x Mk41 capacity on the T45s is it now time to ditch FCASW and concentrate on an AUKUS standard ASuW missile(s) to ensure a plentiful supp...

One of the reasons I assume the RN wish to fit T31 with MK41 May be that they now know CAAMM can be quad packed in MK41. If that is so, would it not be good value for the RN to fit 16MK41 cells to T45 permitting the load out of CAAM and weapons such as FCASW or TLAM? What is the priority for the T4...

Based on this graphic there us still space for at least 16x NSM or 24 CAMM in mushrooms without deleting one of the mission areas. C3AB77DB-6CA3-4A2D-A2AB-13A0DD8B8D20.jpeg It’s a lot of amidship space to play with. It may even be possible to squeeze 32x Mk41, 24 CAMM and 16x NSM in a conflict scena...

If it gets all 32 cells it puts Type 31 on a par with Type-26….. Absolutely but would a better comparison now be with the USN’s Constellation class? Apart for the ASW deficiency the T31 now compares very well against the Constellation class with the four Port/Starboard mission spaces, 50% greater r...

It very good to have options but this feels reactionary and a bit unfocused, lets hope some more details come out soon. Apologies but I respectfully disagree. This is the very definition of increased lethality. It does raise more than a few question’s though: - Can 32x Mk41 cells and 8x NSM be fitt...

There is no money. There is plenty of money, it’s just a question of where the MoD chooses to spend it. The RN has soldiered on with Argus for a reason, money was definitely one and possibly also because the Bays aren’t suitable for conversion. Even then you’d get one with a hangar max, it will be ...

- New requirement: the Bays were designed when the UK had the ambition to land a brigade, primarily as logistical / vehicle transports (replacements for the Round Table LSLs) operating alongside a LPH and LPD. We aren’t landing a Brigade anywhere over the beach and operating these large ships close...

Repulse wrote: ↑13 May 2023, 12:03 The three LSDs would be sold….

Why?

What can a Prevail style LSS do better than a Bay LSS with a fixed hanger?

I don’t necessarily disagree with your overall proposal but selling Bays to lease converted Points seems nuts.

Please explain the rationale.

First superglue now cable sabotage, what’s next?

It’s time to get a grip.

Launched at NATO’s Wales summit in 2014, the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) is a UK-led task group consisting of armed forces from the UK and eight partner nations: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden……..The task group is designed to demonstrate the UK’...

I tend to agree that JEF will be our primary focus for committed forces within Nato, but it is far more appropriate for an Army brigade to be the resource used for that commitment. So where does that leave RM? RN will always cut RM and the Amphibs first. Perhaps that cutting process has already sta...

NickC wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 09:42 Babcock now faces a financial hit of up to £100m on the £1.25bn programme.

So far….

If the high-north is dead for 3Cdo - for... reasons - then no-one has told the Commandos. Why would the High North be dead for 3Cdo? Even with the radically altered security framework across the Nordic/Baltic/JEF, LRG(N) will regularly exercise with other forces in the area. Why would this change? ...

Moved across. - 3 LSVs are RN-manned. Thanks, I thought they were going to be RN manned also. ….even without T32. No problem. Simple questions. 1. What will the T32 be able to do that the current fleet can’t handle? 2. Where is the rationale to suggest the T32 is so essential? 3. Is it appropriate t...

Total of 8 vessels available, each with typically 120-140 RFA crew. A small number of core-crew will be also onboard the MROSS(1) and MHC-OSV. Then, what if 3 FSSS comes in? I guess, our "hope" is, - RFA Tide Class Tanker – 1 not available, 3 available, 4 total - RFA Wave Class Tanker – d...

Reading that numbers will be cut I would suspect considering they’re reviewing surface fleet requirements. Capability with no thought for cost wonder where they learnt that from… Thats the problem, the political ambition was and still is bigger than the budget envelope. The simple fact remains that...

….regarding the Waves unless they are modified perhaps to act as mobile offshore bases. What do you see as a mobile offshore base? The main difficulty is lack of crew and when the 3 FSS show up it’s going to get a lot worse. Also as the MCMVs decommission, they will be replaced by RFA crewed PSVs a...

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POD Progress!

As I have said before Type 31 will deploy on its first deployment with 1 x 57mm , 2 x 40mm , 24 CAMM , 8 NSM and S2170 towed Anti Torp defence I hope you are right! Readjustments to current planning are going to be made in the DCP as the global security picture has changed massively in the last cou...