The F-35 now packs more punch: specifically, the 20-foot Standard Missile, or SM-6, complete with a 140-pound warhead. But not fired from under the wing — rather from a nearby Aegis destroyer. In September, the Marines completed a proof-of-concept test in which a Marine Corps F-35B detected a cruise...

Having been initially quiet enthusiastic about a Type 31 based on the BMT Venator design I began to have some doubts not least as to how you could pack the promised capability into a 110 metre, <4000 ton hull, especially when compared in size to a Type 23; Venator 110: Length: 117 meters Beam: 18.0 ...

Nice summary; the Point will surely be an SSS (rather)? - whats the latest on that design (a silence?) - do the Points have any off loading capability without access to a harbour? Now that the four remaining Point's are pretty much permanently tasked to the MOD isn't it time we painted them grey ? ...

Apologies but I've come quite late to this debate and have been playing catch up so to speak . :? but am not sure I would be quiet so despondent about the Type 31 as some of our posters seem to be ! I may be being unduly optimistic but when the Minister ( forget which - Fallon?) stated that the inte...

Agree with that @ CR4ZYHOR5E , looks better when it's 'rough and ready'. I always think it looks strange seeing the Marines jets launching with no ski jump too. Good to see they seem to have got Paveway IV ready to go and externally too but to my mind we will only have really arrived when we see 12...

FOUND YOU ! lol