ArmChairCivvy wrote:navy base lease was renewed for another 40 years just prior the 2014 invasion,

Yes, but by who? Putin and? And what happened to that other signatory soon afterwards?

The black sea fleet of Russia is based in Crimea. He certainly wouldn't be independent. If it were independent, we would have seen the same picture as in the DPR and LPR - banditry and poverty. And now everything is very good in Crimea. Problem of these two "republics" is mostly that the ...

Question should a well designed warship be compartmented to the extent that a single hole below the waterline can lead to immanent sinking when there is no explosion and fire , a warship is supposed to be built to absorb, mitigate, and control damage, or was this a result of a poor warship design. ...

Do not compare the annexation of Crimea to Russia and the attempt to separate Chechnya in a row. Chechnya tried to separate Islamic fanatics and we would have received before the Caliphate in the North Caucasus region. More terrorist attacks and more migrants. Nope, Chechenya and Crimea are exactly...

This was said in 2011; since then the Silovniki faction seems to have completely (?) taken over, and cemented their position since 2014 by fomenting the nationalistic hysteria: He sad the problem of corruption was deeply rooted in the Russian society, "it persisted for centuries and is yet to ...

Russia and vast majority of its people are anything but bad, but it has a vary small group that hold 99% of the power and wealth and think they can do what they want to whoever they want. They control all major media outlets and enjoy taking direct action against anyone who even looks at them funny...

So - do you think that we will build a piece of kit (the T26s) at great expense and then not equip it, or do you think it is more likely that another line of kit will simply be eliminated in its entirety, thus making better use of resources? . Considering that's UK MoDs long standing policy ( Type ...

NickC wrote:

Ron5 wrote:
Utter bollox // Utter bollex // Utter bollex // You are a troll.

Are you OK, at times you come across in need of help, may be need to book yourself onto an anger management course to keep the blood pressure down.

if you look at the Saab-Airbus proposal, because of the size of the wing on the A330, it is going to require two radar antennae on top of the aircraft. Are they mad? Saab have a pre-engineered and in production solution on a UK built aircraft, and instead they're proposing a novel solution on an ov...

Lord Jim wrote:Regardless of the above, unless terrain was blocking sensors the Frigate should have seen the Tanker.

Yep.
Also, stealth isn't invisibility, particularly on such ranges where ship collisions are happening...

NickC wrote:back to my mantra the T26 is too costly and class should be terminated after the first three ships.

Ok, so if T26 at 700-800 mil. is too expensive and T31 at 250 mil. is too cheap (not capable enough), what could we get for say 500 mil. pounds? What capabilities?

Dahedd wrote: Looking at the video with the tugs they appear to have made the situation far worse.

Agreed.

ArmChairCivvy wrote:Sad, but it is good that they have 5 ships, but crews only for 4-5.
- room for growth. Or added resilience, as this case shows.

Then the RN is definitly resilient.

ArmChairCivvy wrote: On the Wildcat thread we could discuss if some should receive dipping sonar sets for littoral ASW.

That's what I wanted to ask. I didn't know that they are just releasing torpedos cued by ship's sensors...

was thinking that the RN uses just Merlins in ASW role? I presume it was a timed experiment: Will the torp (dummies) splash into water, within range, before the target is obtained in x-hairs? - and not about ASW tactics but testing self-defence ( HMS Diamond not being a sub-hunter) capabilities. A ...

Simon82 wrote:

abc123 wrote:"The destroyer used her sonar and Wildcat helicopter – armed with Sting Ray torpedoes – to hunt the Trafalgar-class boat...”

Optimistic perhaps, but not particularly strange.

That's what I meant to say, optimistic at least. Also, I was thinking that the RN uses just Merlins in ASW role?

Anybody finds this strange? "The destroyer used her sonar and Wildcat helicopter – armed with Sting Ray torpedoes – to hunt the Trafalgar-class boat , which in turn sought to get Diamond in her periscope cross-hairs without being noticed, a challenge made harder by the near-glass like state of ...

About sending RAN and USCG to secure APEC summit in PNG, I wonder, have Chinese announced sending some of their own ships there for the same purpose?

Yep, rusty indeed... Reminds me of an old WW1 anecdote about German Army in Russia.

About Yasen-class submarines ( and submarines in Russian Navy in general ):

https://russiandefpolicy.blog/2018/11/0 ... et-part-i/

Poiuytrewq wrote: Strategically, building a large percentage of the T31's in England would be a sensible idea to offset the Scottish Independence threat, could this give an added boost to Cammell Lairds bid?

Yep, Britain/England must avoid what happened to Russia with Ukraine...

Lord Jim wrote:Pride has a big part to play in all this. Russia still needs to be a world naval power as well as on land and in air. Projects like the modernisation of the Kirov class meet this need.

Potemkin-style, as ACC said.

Do I see the great Potemkin act (Patjomkin) in this? - no money/ other priorities as for carrier aviation - we've got the next (nuclear) carrier on the way (appr. 2035) anyway - so never fear (and the current administration will not need to have 'egg' on the face... capability hols do not :) transl...

These large vessels are going to be extremely impressive when they are fully refitted with the new systems that are available. Does any have actually information on what these refit entail? Imagine how many cruise missile they could carry just for starter! Meh, IMHO they are just White Elephants fr...