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by ArmChairCivvy
26 Jul 2022, 11:55
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056767
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

As for my Fantasy 180 meter cruiser with its 144 cells We are starting to get into the same 'ball park': 160 x 22 meters Not too far off from 149.9 m (492 ft), a beam of 20.8 m (68 ft)... on these AAW ships the crew will soon lose the gym as ABM has been announced to be coming T83 will go up from j...
by ArmChairCivvy
26 Jul 2022, 11:41
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117506
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Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

tomuk wrote: 26 Jul 2022, 00:48 It isn't a British Icon it is a rip off
With the definition adopted within defence, I am (still) relaxed ;) about claiming it to be 'British to the bootstraps'
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 20:43
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056767
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

a single PWR3 or SG9 reactor provides a similar 30MW output to the Rolls Royce MT30 turbine. For a surface ship I'd choose the MT30 every time, the costs of nuclear are just gargantuan. Of course this is all true. Even if you do all the clever tricks the French have done - use lower yield fuel so t...
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 19:31
Forum: Conflicts
Topic: The war in Ukraine
Replies: 1163
Views: 85588
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Re: The war in Ukraine

Remove Ukranian presence from Black Sea, create a land corridor to Transnistria, and claim higher percentage of recently discovered oil and natural gas reserves in the region. If Ukraine can clear west bank of Dnepr then will help their morale No ports left on the Azov Sea is v bad for the future o...
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 19:16
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
Replies: 5411
Views: 1420346
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Re: River Class (OPV) (RN)

A modern-day equivalent of the gunboat on the Yangze River
- a good film, btw
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 18:01
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
Replies: 5411
Views: 1420346
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Re: River Class (OPV) (RN)

donald_of_tokyo wrote: 25 Jul 2022, 15:22 HMS Trent's stern machine gun is now 12.7mm, not 7.62 mm?
To be able to clear the Malaya Straits?
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 13:45
Forum: UK Defence Forum
Topic: Technical Support - Post here if you're having technical issues with the forum
Replies: 23
Views: 2503
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Re: Technical Support - Post here if you're having technical issues with the forum

I have a problem scrolling to the frame that includes the 'SUBMIT' button. - the problem only appeared when I switched to a Mac, assume frame handling is somewhat different from the implementation on MS (is this the first time ever that their product works better than Apple's ?) Lots of manual 'clic...
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 13:35
Forum: Conflicts
Topic: The war in Ukraine
Replies: 1163
Views: 85588
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Re: The war in Ukraine

A good chance that a significant Russian force will be trapped on the western side of the Dnepr. They should have heeded history as at the end of the Thirteen Years' War over Ukraine "In 1664 peace negotiations began. According to the truce, Ukraine was divided along the Dnieper River; Russia r...
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 13:16
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056767
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

SW1 wrote: 25 Jul 2022, 10:05 More interesting to speculate achieving the aims in a complete different way.
Global cruiser (finally :clap: :clap: ) with RR minireactors and an MT30 to add oomph for sprinting? :clap:
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 09:44
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117506
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Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

From that article "Hauser, now a venture capital investor in a series of UK tech companies, sold his shareholding in Arm in 2016 when it was bought by Japan’s SoftBank" so I would say that both the proceeds that went to him as well as his vision are serving the UK well. The British Icon, t...
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 09:34
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: UK Politics - General News & Discussion
Replies: 412
Views: 18999
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Re: UK Politics - General News & Discussion

committed to 3% Defence spending The candidates are by now increasingly copying each other's pledges; a bit worrying. The last one who said 3% and meant it was Hunt, but that was in the earlier race. He is a Sunak backer, though. - I concur with the view that Sunak's foreign policy exposure/ experi...
by ArmChairCivvy
25 Jul 2022, 09:24
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Conservative party
Replies: 432
Views: 19458
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Re: Conservative party

SW1 wrote: 07 Jul 2022, 16:53 he tells you exactly what u want to hear, and then tells the next person exactly what they want to hear even if it’s contradicting what he told u and then doesn’t remember who he told what to.
Are you talking about the NI Protocol, by any :D chance
by ArmChairCivvy
24 Jul 2022, 21:14
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5981
Views: 1500391
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Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

a Bay class with another 120 Years ago, when the Bays were LSA(D), they were considered wonderful as a crew of 49 could operate them. Now (and also then) if and when we need them to do all things to all people, then the higher figure is probably right. But in the 'olden days' the difference was eit...
by ArmChairCivvy
24 Jul 2022, 10:18
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056767
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

160 x 22 meters Not too far off from 149.9 m (492 ft), a beam of 20.8 m (68 ft)... on these AAW ships the crew will soon lose the gym as ABM has been announced to be coming T83 will go up from just anti-Abm to being capable of dealing with hypersonic threats - i guess no one has an exact idea of wh...
by ArmChairCivvy
24 Jul 2022, 09:20
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7056767
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

maybe T26 AAW version or T31 AAW version, both T26 and T31 had already developed a AAW version which the RN can quickly adopt Where does T32 fit into that? The first thing the RN should do is start by building a few more T26s. 10 should be the minimum for each class, though ideally 12. Indeed. Afte...
by ArmChairCivvy
24 Jul 2022, 08:52
Forum: British Army
Topic: Ground Based Air Defence
Replies: 685
Views: 190995
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Re: Ground Based Air Defence

Millennium would be my preference to use on ships instead of either the Phalanx or Bofors 40 as think more effective eg Millennium fitted to the Iver Huitfeldt class I think the renders for the Polish T31 derivative also sport it. But continuing on from @LS's enthusiasm for Skyranger, it does come ...
by ArmChairCivvy
22 Jul 2022, 14:58
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 83 Destroyer (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 324
Views: 123434
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Re: Type 83 Destroyer (RN) [News Only]

Personally the T83 programme is a test of what the country wants the RN to be over the next 20-30 years. It it wishes to credibly and independently send a task force to take on and expect to defeat a Chinese or (to a lesser extent) Russian force, the T83 needs to be akin to a cruiser in all but nam...
by ArmChairCivvy
22 Jul 2022, 14:19
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Indian Armed Forces
Replies: 342
Views: 21747
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Re: Indian Armed Forces

Hmmm...
Can we also pass on - as part of the bid - the letter from the US DefSec (a fixed price guarantee to make EMALS work on QEs)?
- note: tongue in the cheek... but the Devil is in the detail
by ArmChairCivvy
22 Jul 2022, 08:02
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Indian Armed Forces
Replies: 342
Views: 21747
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Re: Indian Armed Forces

with the design work done The French chipped in £100 mln for the (early) blue prints... early meaning CATOBAR, among other things - I guess the ridiculous conversion cost given for us to switch to CATOBAR is irrelevant as construction was (by then) already well under way: cutting open 200+ compartm...
by ArmChairCivvy
22 Jul 2022, 07:22
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: UK Politics - General News & Discussion
Replies: 412
Views: 18999
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Re: UK Politics - General News & Discussion

Ooops... more drinks on someone else not an option anymore; time to sober up? Today's Torygraph has assembled some ONS figures: "Government borrowing rose to £22.9bn in June, the highest figure for the month outside of Covid, after a surge in the UK’s debt servicing costs. The Government’s inte...
by ArmChairCivvy
21 Jul 2022, 16:06
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5981
Views: 1500391
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Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

Repulse wrote: 21 Jul 2022, 15:28 If the UK is doing anything significant from the sea, one of those will be riding shotgun.
Yep, but the other aspect is being in-situ and doing "something" early on (assuming the scale fits the situation developing; sometimes better to sit tight & wait).
by ArmChairCivvy
21 Jul 2022, 16:02
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: EU Combined Military Thread
Replies: 286
Views: 18888
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Re: EU Combined Military Thread

Air, Sea... Land: FAMOUS 2, European Future Highly Mobile Augmented Armoured Systems 2, has now (Phase 2) more participants, and as it is about enhanced Arctic mobility (mountains seem to count in the category, where-ever they are), spot the odd one out in the list: :) Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Lat...
by ArmChairCivvy
21 Jul 2022, 15:12
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5981
Views: 1500391
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

have to start somewhere (and Argus can be part of the early journey, helping to 'mature' the concept). gap is clear - no independent “war level” amphibious operations outside of the JEF structure until the new balanced and affordable force is in place. In terms of C&C, I’d see an appropriate le...
by ArmChairCivvy
20 Jul 2022, 07:36
Forum: Deployments
Topic: Arctic Circle
Replies: 8
Views: 891
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Re: Arctic Circle

Looked back into the above-linked March 2022 paper, and the ten-year plan must be counting from that date (not from 2017, when the planning got a new focus; otherwise the ship contributions highlighted would be hard pressed to make it into the defined time envelope): "Developing CapabilityDevel...
by ArmChairCivvy
20 Jul 2022, 07:26
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Project Crowsnest (RN)
Replies: 220
Views: 79138
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Re: Project Crowsnest (RN)

Folks may remember how the winner for the bidding was announced - only to be reopened after a v short time
- so the buyer knew that something was 'amiss' but still :crazy: went ahead