Just come across this on the 'MOD Media blog'. Can anyone throw any more light on this, or perhaps has access to the full article. I am assuming that it will once again be the 'Electric Boat Company' who helped out on the Astute programme. "Trident replacement The Sunday Times (Business) report...

More likely to see a dozen ice cream vans for use in the next cold war. Yes indeed the Cameroon & Co do have a habit of using sound bites because they sound good or re announcing old news as if it was something new. I am always sceptical of any news, I seem to remember about the time of the las...

http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2015/09/raf-waddington-air-show-scrapped-for-good/ Some good news at last. Fuck off spotter losers :P :twisted: ;) I think they should give you a posting to Scampton, just in time for the first airshow. Then employ you as a guide to groups of plane spotters, or possibly y...

Found this article to be one of the most interesting I've read on F35B, also its relationship with the new carriers :- http://www.sldinfo.com/shaping-a-new-combat-capability-for-21st-century-operations-the-coming-of-the-f-35b-to-the-new-british-carrier Thank you very much Jonas. Real interesting. J...

28 knots is...distinctly disappointing. Congratulations, we've bought a frigate that can't even keep up with the carrier going at full tilt. Once again, I simply fail to see why we move on 12 years and somehow implement worse engines. We already have propulsion methods in service and proven that wo...

28 knots is...distinctly disappointing. Congratulations, we've bought a frigate that can't even keep up with the carrier going at full tilt. Once again, I simply fail to see why we move on 12 years and somehow implement worse engines. We already have propulsion methods in service and proven that wo...

seaspear wrote:Interesting article Jonas

Thanks, I thought so too.

Found this article to be one of the most interesting I've read on F35B, also its relationship with the new carriers :-

http://www.sldinfo.com/shaping-a-new-co ... sh-carrier

https://www.flightglobal.com/assets/getasset.aspx?itemid=63974 Reaper developed to launch souobouy, awaiting flight trials. Soon UK reaper's could have, Sea spray radar Extended wings External fuel tanks National airspace clearance And sounobouy Despenser With all of that it starts to sound like a ...

I believe I read recently that the U.S.N and R.A.A.F have added another console for the P1 in addition to what the Indian airforce purchased the article did not provide details on this and why ,but this suggests growth in this aircrafts abilities . Is that a scoop, that the USN the RAAF and the IAF...

Jonas, from past experiences, I wouldn't read too much into a scale model, no matter how detailed it might be. I personnaly didn't even notice the 16x VLS until today... but if this was really the case, I would expect other and larger (compared to Army/Navy Recognition) defense media like Jane's or...

Yes I can confirm 100% this was the model on display last week. Sorry for not picking up on that matter but I didn't get the chance to meet with someone from the program; I have a long list of questions and BAE Systems said they will try to set up a call for my questions. Will keep everyone here po...

xav wrote:

xav. Can you confirm this model is from DSEI 2015, because if it is then why only 16 strike length silo's as opposed to the 24 we have been told it has.

Our naval focus video from DSEI with an interview about BAE Mark 45 for the T26 Starts at 7:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN0w0UPKl7o If you stop the vid at 8.22 it shows the forward silo's, whether it's my eyesight or not but I only count 16 strike length silo's. Can someone clarify this at a...

Gabriele said :- Well, it is not hard to refuting that claim, since it is simply a false assertion. The point, anyway, is that while it can, it should not do low level ops, as there are many advantages to High Altitude ASW. The obsession with yesterday's methods is not helpful, things move on over t...

In this article there is one paragraph in which the makers are refuting the claims of critics, who claim that the P8 cannot conduct low level ops.

http://www.intelligent-aerospace.com/ar ... n-buy.html

Sorry old chap but you are crediting me with something I didn't post. That quote was part of Lugzy's article, my contribution was below it. I thought that quoting from within nested comments might be tricky, but rather than do a forensic examination, apologised ahead (of what I thought might be hap...

Do you really see Shadow leaving service upon the potential introduction of of the P-8? With Sentinel i can see the justification but i think it might be harder to argue in the case of Shadow as it strikes me as a perfect lower end and lower cost complement to an AAS equipped P-8 in UK service? I c...

I remember one option BAE was looking at was to build two type 26s at a time in a frigate factory , probably they had export orders in mind ? But that idea was dropped , could that of been because of the lack of outside export interest ? Or something to do with Osborne wanting a slower drawn out bu...

Interesting interview with Vago Muradian at DSEI 2015 :-

http://www.defensenews.com/videos/defen ... /72406708/

Shark bait wrote. The ship building order is interesting. We have a national ship building strategy, only problem is it lacks the strategy and only concentrates on the monopoly. A right balls up! It's something I'd hope to see addressed in the review saying we will have 19 ships, with a new one com...

All go for Sea Ceptor [DSEi15D4] Richard Scott 18 September 2015 MBDA has begun delivering hardware for the first Sea Ceptor local anti-air missile system installation after the Royal Navy approved a ‘commit to fitting’ for the Type 23 frigate HMS Argyll. Meanwhile, the company has begun a campaign ...

A little more on the above

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... on-416896/

In view of the claims and counter claims being made on this thread, most of whom (including myself) have no experience of MPA ops, as far as I can tell. Perhaps the opinions of those who have. might be of a little help. ;) http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/567544-maritime-patrol-capability-sds...