Think you have missed the point, we wont buy all 138 because there is no money to buy them anymore plus the £-$ exchange rate has made individual aircraft much more expensive which ever model they are. 48 aircraft might well be the lot and there will only be B models. In the very unlikely event of t...

http://navaltoday.com/2017/11/10/uk-eye ... -warships/

On type 31? Doesn't sound likely

The first Merlin deployment on a Type 45 was on HMS Defender in 2013. https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... s-defender[/quote]

Some pictures

http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/news/merlin-meets-defender

SDL wrote:Saw a tweet go by (annoyingly didn't grab it) that mentioned that they've named the 3rd ship to be built before they've named the 2nd... which seems a bit strange.

Guess he wants to name it as he visits the city in question

WhiteWhale wrote:Why would the US buy the T26? They build a better ship for less.

Which frigate is that?

I'm amazed they didn't turn off the transponder for the 26knot run I would expect that it would certainly go quiet for any faster then that, if she is capable of exceeding that of course. The French requirement for PA2 was for it to reach 29 knots at least...they weren't planning on making changes ...

SKB wrote:I hope Happyslapper got to see it all. (He started this thread here and in mp.net if you didn't know)

cockneyjock1974 wrote:

R686 wrote:Good job to all that made it look so easy, a nice way to start my day.

Er thought I started it on Mp

Watching an F35a blatt about above my house right now

[quote="Thorvicson"]Just wondering if anybody has seen any further mention of the Large data display screens that appeared in the artwork for the CVF which were mounted on the Island to give the flight deck teams an overview of the flight deck operations ? You can see the mounting points a...

I hope someone had the sense to purchase the scaffolding and tentage. The cost to hire all of that, and for the duration it's been on, must have been colossal.[/quote]


They have a contract with a scaffolding company to provide all the scaffolding needed for the construction and the deck work

Couple of years time when we have bought yet another two OPV to keep the yards afloat?

Gabriele wrote:Are we even looking at the same image, though...? Here: http://navaltoday.com/2017/03/07/hms-mo ... eployment/ i continue to see GPMGs. Buttstock gives them away. Yesterday I did see a photo on the Royal Navy website with a .50 firing, though.

I blew the picture up def GPMG

[quote="Dahedd"]Rolling the 40mm out across the whole of the UK military seems to be a no brainer.
It would be prefect at sea on the Rivers & possibly on others instead of the 25mm guns.

They all use 30mm guns

Thats the way it would appear

[quote="Jdam"]I was originally thinking that the LRASM was the best suited for what we needed but as time goes by I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better going with the JSM. Given that Norway and Australia are going for the P-8 and JSM as well as its ability to fit in the Mk41 and its integ...

Not sure where to put this put the graphic has a type 45 in so.............


http://navaltoday.com/2017/02/09/royal- ... -november/

[quote="R686"]An interesting story cropping up about T45,
News to me havnt heard of anyone mentioning this before,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02 ... 100-miles/

Great reporting, apparently the T45 is an aging warship

Okay, with Type 31 pushed in 2030s, I think that we cn confidently say that the UK will get 8 Type 26 and nothing more... To even speak about something that will happen in 20 years ( and we don't know when construction of FIRST Type 26 will start ) is silly. :( Exactly my point its so far to the ri...

Aren't cat/trap operations weather/condition restrained so how in that regard is f35b any different to sharkey's beloved hornets? Sure I remember reading a large percentage of the Falklands war flying couldn't have been done with cats and traps due to appalling visibility and sea states... Vertical...

arfah wrote:http://forces.tv/01924704

That was interesting, Fallon says steel cut for T26 in July and the reporter says that T31e will be built after the T26 run finishes so we are looking at post 2030 for this ship.Or put it another way never!

Parker demands work on T31

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/busin ... -fct2dllm9

I'd like to see AW (Leo is a stupid name for manufacturer) update the merlin with twin t55's for commonality with chinook - more so as Apache will lose the rtm322. Merlin has 3 engines, to reduce to 2 engines and use different power plants would be a bizzare thing to do and a waste of time and money?