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- 06 Apr 2024, 20:39
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
- Replies: 5492
- Views: 1550027
Re: River Class (OPV) (RN)
At the risk of being pedantic 'too much and not enough ' seems to be a judgement about perceived value for money rather than compromise. I'm not clear how they're 'compromised'? In my opinion they are too much (over spec’d) for EEZ patrol and not enough for global patrol as there is too much they c...
- 06 Apr 2024, 20:23
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
- Replies: 5492
- Views: 1550027
Re: River Class (OPV) (RN)
They are too much and not enough.new guy wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024, 20:22Compromised how?Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024, 18:55
They are a compromised platform for global patrol and always will be unfortunately.
- 06 Apr 2024, 20:16
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
- Replies: 5492
- Views: 1550027
- 06 Apr 2024, 20:13
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
The war winning assets are other things that we would contribute. You win by ensuring the fighting never starts. Completely agree. More deployable Divisions will help in that endeavour. The Cold War was eventually won by isolating and fragmenting the politics of the communist block and bankrupting ...
- 06 Apr 2024, 19:39
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
You can fight and win a battle using a division and can still lose the war. Having the ability to fight in a divisional structure is very different to deploying two divisions. What use are British Army Divisions if you can’t deploy them? Providing the Divisional HQ’s for other countries Brigades is...
- 06 Apr 2024, 19:21
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Really?
When did the U.K. or US ever win against a peer without using the Divisional structure?
- 06 Apr 2024, 19:19
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19390
- Views: 9719653
- 06 Apr 2024, 19:14
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
I actually see it more of a positive move than that and a damn site more coherent / aligned to what is needed compared to what is being muted. I am not necessarily disagreeing with your proposal but IMO it’s more productive now to illustrate what RN could and should be rather than propose cuts to e...
- 06 Apr 2024, 18:55
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
- Replies: 5492
- Views: 1550027
Re: River Class (OPV) (RN)
My opinion hasn’t changed on this.
Retire the 3x RB2’s back to the U.K. EEZ in 2028 and retain the other 2 in the Falklands and Gibraltar.
They are a compromised platform for global patrol and always will be unfortunately.
Retire the 3x RB2’s back to the U.K. EEZ in 2028 and retain the other 2 in the Falklands and Gibraltar.
They are a compromised platform for global patrol and always will be unfortunately.
- 06 Apr 2024, 18:49
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1922
- Views: 253634
- 06 Apr 2024, 18:47
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
- 06 Apr 2024, 18:44
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
"Think small" option (if the budget do not rise sharply and man-power issue is just kept as is, (not getting worse, but not better either) It will need to be “think smaller” if nothing changes. It’s just more managed decline. Much more proactive to illustrate what 2.5% or 3% could provide...
- 06 Apr 2024, 15:20
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1922
- Views: 253634
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Investment in frigates, submarines and a reinforcement of the national air defence system to include missile defence sounds like a gd idea to me. It will be interesting to see if the Frigates and Submarines take a decade to build and commission like they do in the U.K. In the same place as they wer...
- 06 Apr 2024, 15:10
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1922
- Views: 253634
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
I do doubt this review was done in isolation - if nations are looking for joint security and in that there is a focus on securing places to receive reinforcements, then the only two nations that would do that are US and to a degree the UK. I just can’t see that level of focus from the UK and the US...
- 06 Apr 2024, 09:34
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1922
- Views: 253634
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
It is welcome, it also highlights how far below the 2% of gdp they had fallen (around 1.4% presently) in that this will allow them to reach that target in about 3 years time. The main takeaways for me. • Regardless of the 2% debate, the worsening security picture requires a massive increase in defe...
- 06 Apr 2024, 00:05
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Future Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- Replies: 201
- Views: 351761
Re: Future Royal Fleet Auxiliary
RFA vote for strike action. https://www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insight/news/officers-at-the-royal-fleet-auxiliary-vote-for-strike-action/ Total disaster and frankly, completely unacceptable for RN to be put in a situation like this. Highly likely this will just hasten the demise of the RFA as we kn...
- 05 Apr 2024, 23:51
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1922
- Views: 253634
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Clearly Norway got the memo!
A very commendable $60bn investment in defence spending.
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/n ... id3032878/
A very commendable $60bn investment in defence spending.
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/n ... id3032878/
- 05 Apr 2024, 23:43
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
We would have intelligence and surveillance to give us warning. We knew about Ukraine long before the attack happened. That gives you time to respond if you choose to heed the warnings. It’s not infallible. If a neighbour regularly exercises at scale on the border what is to stop a deep incursion a...
- 05 Apr 2024, 21:53
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Finlands military is orders of magnitude bigger and more capable than any of the Baltic states. So regularly exercising with and having the time to rapidly deploy to support them is possible. Finlands military is very capable but it would take time to fully mobilise the reserves and the length of t...
- 05 Apr 2024, 21:19
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
An alternative could be like some of the NATO owned a/c fleet, NATO / JEF could have a common pool of transport ships. Perhaps but could they be kept busy without a commercial element? Not if they are a one trick LSL. The vessel would need to be something along the lines of: • 80m LOA • A NATO stan...
- 05 Apr 2024, 20:02
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
I don’t know what you mean by difference? Very simple. The U.K. led Joint Expeditionary Force is a rapid reaction force which is great up to a point but the intention was never to persistently deploy into JEF members countries. Between 2014 and 2022 there was no major war in Europe at the scale we ...
- 05 Apr 2024, 19:26
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
- 05 Apr 2024, 16:25
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Much to agree on which is refreshing! I would be looking at fast patrol/multi-role craft and the <100m catalogue of Damen LSL/LSTs. The 30m class, low profile, fast patrol craft would be ideal especially if well dock compatible and able to carry a modest load of TEU and RHIBs. The LSL/LSTs really n...
- 05 Apr 2024, 16:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6142
- Views: 1863569
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
i.e. flipped 180° to vs the opposite direction of travel that the few brief comments on 2022 Future Commando Force modernisation programme, with all of it's talk about going back to RM Commando raiding party roots from WW2. A U-turn like that would be excruciatingly embarrassing but is it possible ...
- 05 Apr 2024, 11:19
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19390
- Views: 9719653
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Well worth a read. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/04/us-navy-royal-rn-frigate-destroyer-submarine-russia-nato/. US Navy or Royal Navy – who’s best at hunting Russian submarines? Walk softly and carry a variable-depth sonar Today we’re going to discuss fighting Russian submarines using surf...