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- 31 Mar 2024, 14:28
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
- Replies: 6097
- Views: 1756449
- 31 Mar 2024, 14:21
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6136
- Views: 1862683
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Great that settles it then HMT 600 even with brimstone or 105mm can be lifted by a Chinook Probably why its been seen towing the light gun. Well, I think that's a Coyote. Bit far away to be sure. Oops no, they are Jackals :cry: https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uplo...
- 31 Mar 2024, 14:16
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19387
- Views: 9716825
- 31 Mar 2024, 14:08
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19387
- Views: 9716825
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
I don't think either are correct. The Navy intends the T31's to have a regular service life and the NSS doesn't mention Parker's idea of selling on "young" ships. Not all of his recommendations were adopted. "Not all" doing some very heavy lifting there Ron! We might all want mo...
- 31 Mar 2024, 14:02
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Ground Based Air Defence
- Replies: 739
- Views: 197278
Re: Ground Based Air Defence
Martlet is a Navy name for a Navy air to ground missile in Navy service. LMM is the name the Army uses for its surface to air missile. Please keep up.
- 30 Mar 2024, 15:07
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
- Replies: 6097
- Views: 1756449
Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Joint Harrier was a disaster. Invincibles usually just deployed with helo's at that time.
One of the many "benefits" of Naval Aviation being owned by the RAF.
One of the many "benefits" of Naval Aviation being owned by the RAF.
- 30 Mar 2024, 15:05
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19387
- Views: 9716825
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
20-25 year service life should be a pretty standard goal. They shouldn’t be doing mid life upgrades either. They should be big enough and simple enough with an open architecture command system to have relatively straight fwd capability insertion periodically at relatively short dry docking periods ...
- 30 Mar 2024, 15:03
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19387
- Views: 9716825
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
there is the fact that the T31's are not intended to have a long service life (in the RN). A) is that a fact B) is that realistic ? A good life plan would be 20 years with a mid life upgrade at 10 years pretty much written into the NSS - that the purpose of the type31 is to reduce service life to g...
- 30 Mar 2024, 14:51
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Ground Based Air Defence
- Replies: 739
- Views: 197278
Re: Ground Based Air Defence
The missile in service with France in the MANPADS role is Mistral, which is heat-seeking. Startreak (and Martlet) are command to line of sight guided and as such somewhat more capable against drones. So possibly that? Martlet is a Navy air to ground missile. I think you mean LMM. Very similar missi...
- 30 Mar 2024, 12:35
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
- Replies: 6097
- Views: 1756449
- 28 Mar 2024, 13:06
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Project Mosquito / Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA)
- Replies: 128
- Views: 37641
Re: Project Mosquito / Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA)
This I understood: UK RAF Seeking More Advanced Autonomous Collaborative Platforms Tony Osborne March 27, 2024 LONDON–The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) is hoping to field an attritable autonomous collaborative platform (ACP) to operate and provide mass to its combat aircraft fleets by 2030, the service’s...
- 28 Mar 2024, 12:39
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: Airlander Airship
- Replies: 73
- Views: 9475
Re: Airlander Airship
Same fkkrs that started this whole CF.
- 28 Mar 2024, 12:36
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4447243
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
His initials are SW
- 28 Mar 2024, 12:25
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Project Mosquito / Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA)
- Replies: 128
- Views: 37641
- 27 Mar 2024, 12:52
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: Airlander Airship
- Replies: 73
- Views: 9475
Re: Airlander Airship
Send a big balloon over a war zone. Sounds a good idea (eyes roll).
- 27 Mar 2024, 12:47
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5669
- Views: 1485766
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
It's not like they are getting in the way of the hundreds of workers swarming all over the ship.
- 27 Mar 2024, 12:46
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1995
- Views: 565852
Re: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
Not the carriers huh?
And yes, they should get a decent ECM system installed,
And yes, they should get a decent ECM system installed,
- 26 Mar 2024, 13:02
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6136
- Views: 1862683
- 25 Mar 2024, 16:04
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 982114
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
If I could have given that comment 10 thumbs up, I would have
- 25 Mar 2024, 15:49
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 982114
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Not to piss everyone off... I'd have probably favoured a UK spec Mirage IV-B, with a British powerplant and lots more buccaneers. In 20/20 hindsight, a transonic or supersonic Buccaneer variant (as outlined in Ray Boot's wonderful autobiography) would have been the best answer. Would have tagged mo...
- 25 Mar 2024, 14:30
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6136
- Views: 1862683
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Russian aggression would likely not take the forms of a traditional invasion of nato countries. Potential disruption could be greater think back to fuel protests of the last decade or so as an example instead disruption to money transfer or payment systems for weeks. Or attacks against infrastructu...
- 25 Mar 2024, 14:26
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 982114
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
True enough, but at the time we were also building a new class of very expensive SSBN.... oh wait.... :D How much did the tosser waste by ordering F-111's and then cancelling the order? Wilson's mob was dazzled by supposed Yankee technical superiority. Too dumb to realize it was actually superior Y...
- 25 Mar 2024, 13:03
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 982114
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
peaking of cost-effectiveness, assuming the F-35/22 R&D costs were an outlier, and it can be kept reasonable with GCAP, hopefully the unit cost at the very least can be kept well below the F-35 (which recently went up). Not a hope in hell and by the way, F-35 purchase price is cheaper than its ...
- 25 Mar 2024, 12:52
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 982114
- 25 Mar 2024, 12:51
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 982114
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Pretty sure the Admiralty wanted the Phantom. I would.mrclark303 wrote: ↑24 Mar 2024, 22:34 F35B is effectively a modern take on P1154 the Admiralty wanted 60 years ago