So you end up with a clean container outline for transport. No sticky out bits. We Brits play it safe, and have added a roll-over cage :D https://arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OQ5NXSXRFNDD7MLDI7TSFW7NHE.jpg The racing green go-faster stripes do not show on the picture (nor in...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:

indeid wrote:MANPADS on the swarm ships would quickly mitigate the presence of a Wildcat and force it on the defensive.

With Martlets yes; with Sea Venoms no

How many can it carry? Thats the main advantage of a swarm attack, numbers take the advantage away from the high tech but low number systems.

Perhaps a container expert can help me out. These sure look to me like standard ISO 20' container size (20x8x8.5) except for height. They look taller than 8' 6". Is it my eyes and they're really that high? or is there a military container standard that enables the greater height. With the exce...

Ron5 wrote:Many apologies, Gabriele is correct. 10k meters. 33 thousand feet. Goddam metrics tripped me up again.

Fair one, I can't really talk, I struggle with the 1 hour difference between ZULU time and British Summer Time, let alone different units of measure.....

The primary RN defence against swarm boat attacks will be the Wildcat. Each Wildcat will be able to carry 20 LMM missiles (I forget the RN name, Martlet perhaps). The Widcat's excellent AESA radar will see them in plenty of time for the EO turret to paint each one in turn with a laser on which the ...

Ron5 wrote:

Gabriele wrote:The US Navy built LCS for replacing its minesweepers.

Ha, ha, ha, most amusing.

Any ship can be a minesweeper once!

Ron5 wrote: CAMM-ER was advertised with a 3,000m ceiling.

40+km range but a max height near 10,000ft?!

Not the most challenging system to avoid......

james k wrote:The RN managed to get something past the accountants at the Treasury? I'm both surprised and pleased. That doesn't happen often.

If it's just a funding extending support contracts and any training then chances are come from within the RN delegated budget. Maybe they ran a sponsored bake at NCHQ.

I don't particularly care whether they've put sharks with head mounted lasers on it, it's a roro ferry. Feel free to write to the 1SL telling how he doesn't know what he's talking about and should merely go for a jolly to Calais if he wants to see what a proper warship is. Maybe we could use school...

Ron5 wrote:I suspect the RAF would have that for breakfast. Hope I'm wrong.

I hope they can have SHORAD for breakfast.

Although considering that an asthmatic Tornado with one engine out and a particularly fat Nav in the back can get above a Rapier MEZ, the improvement will be a marked one.

Interesting that the article explicitly mentioned the T23, not the T45 (maybe behind the paywall?). Makes sense not to spend the cash on the T23 if all efforts are focused on getting rid of them, but unless the RN is sticking to its single role AAW/ASW ship (that's gotta change?) then maybe the T45...

Manpower attract the best talent The article by Humphrey also points out that the RN maintains the single point of entry (and then you'll make engineers and admirals from them); rather than attracting people to the "pinch trades/ posts" horizontally, from other labour markets where they h...

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Opinion3 wrote:

SDL wrote:he might be able to tow Ocean ........

Fake news, already been rebuked.

That was yesterday, and this is Ocean we're talking about.

How many individual trucks with the missiles would 4 batteries equate to? I would be amazed if all the rotational batteries are equipped, moving equipment around sub-units as they go through training cycles seems to be standard now. If it is just replacing the Rapier task down South maybe an operat...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-d ... -committee

ACM Peach to NATO in 2018, hope they are ready for him........

Last planning stats I saw it can fly 1000nm, stay on station for 2 hours, refuel 10 F35B from dry to full and then fly 1000nm home. The wide body solution is not just used by the RAF, but everyone. The USN wouldn't have even got its aircraft over Afghanistan if it hadn't been for a massive fleet of ...

james k wrote:Looks like someone already did the 737-200.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/ques ... -airfields

As a tanker it's tiny though, I bet the fully loaded total weight of a 200 series is around the amount of fuel you can offload from a A330.

Clive F wrote:"Wait a minute, there are people in the world that pay sticker for cars? Holy moses!"

Yep they are called civil servants (ie work for the state) who have no concept of commercial reality. lol

Civil Servants? The capability branches and requirements managers are military......

Seriously? That sounds like the times the RAF claimed(s) that the RN never needed aircraft carriers as it could provide air defence for the fleet worldwide. That wasn't true either. It needs a big runway like all other civilian A330's. No real advantage having rough field capabilities, there will a...

Big, slow moving/stationary targets. Funny kind of Rapier successor. Press release hints not too many will be bought. Why a funny successor? Both wheeled, both require stationary firing so limited by set up times, both are radar guided. Only loss is the EO tracking option, which I believe is an ava...

I suppose it depends on terminology. In the case of CAMM it uses high update rate Air Surveillance radars to in effect act as the Fire Control. So there is only one radar instead of two, and since its one level of service you can do wide area sureveillance while guiding the missile to look in its se...

Big, slow moving/stationary targets. Funny kind of Rapier successor. Press release hints not too many will be bought. Why a funny successor? Both wheeled, both require stationary firing so limited by set up times, both are radar guided. Only loss is the EO tracking option, which I believe is an ava...

giving you the local only picture, direct radar to launcher connection and no networking. Out of those three, the wording of the middle one is left unclear to me? Local picture, yes. This can be enhanced by search radar support (you know: air picture consolidation, deconflictation...) without any f...

The brochure said a slimmed down control can be added to the radar or launcher truck in lieu of the TOC dedicated truck. Yes, giving you the local only picture, direct radar to launcher connection and no networking. Considering the dates involved with the C2 contract award and expected retirement o...

Is it removed like DROPS or self lowered on the legs like the Giraffe? Not to forget that we have ordered the newest Giraffe for a couple of batteries - Falklands was mentioned at the time The Giraffe is the designation radar for Land Ceptor/Sky Sabre, with the C2 system coming from Rafael. So it l...