First F-35B Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing on HMS Prince of Wales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpfPBW-z-Q8 (Royal Navy/NavyLookout) 21st October2023 The first SRVL was conducted in benign conditions off the east coast of the US during the Westlant 23 deployment. Also flying operations in hig...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xIthtkEldk (Navy Lookout/Swedish Armed Forces) 19th October 2023 HMS Queen Elizabeth made her first visit to new NATO partner, Sweden, arriving in Gothenburg on 13 October for a week of defence diplomacy as part of the UK Carrier Strike Group deployment. Welcomed by ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsatwFoH6q4 (Babcock/Navy Lookout) 16th September 2023 CGI Animation shows a Mk4 Commando Merlin helicopter landing on the flight deck, launch of sea boat (using twin davits), a Sea Ceptor missile launch (unclear if quad-packed in Mk41 launcher.) Naval Strike Missile ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvBjvuz-rc (Forces News) 9th October 2023 To bolster its defences against a possible Chinese navy attack, Taiwan has unveiled its first domestically-made submarine. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has made its submarine programme a key part of an amb...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upXv4JTmZgs (Forces News) 3rd October 2023 Wildcat is the latest generation of multi-role helicopters specifically procured to operate from the frigates and destroyers of the Royal Navy. Forces News was given a tour of the helicopter embarked on Type 23 frigate HMS Ir...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dASU3K-wrZY (Forces News) 9th October 2023 Getting the UK's heavy armour from A to B takes a handful of specialists and kit. Heavy equipment transporter (HET) vehicles and their seven-axle trailers are used for transporting armoured vehicles, like the Challenger 2 tan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN_1yiVfXQw (Forces News) 11th October 2023 A four-man submersible that could deliver special forces personnel undetected to mission locations has been launched by defence company JFD. Shadow Seal is lightweight and portable, electrically powered, and can travel 80 na...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnN-pIcgErM (Forces News) 10th October 2023 Could Challenger 3's weight be preventing it from being as effective as it could potentially be? Doctor Jack Watling, a Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at the defence and security think tank Royal United Services Ins...

3 minute version of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcucfW1NFnI (Royal Navy/Navy Lookout) 17th October 2023 During her second deployment to the Gulf of Guinea, HMS Trent is working with coastal West African nations to disrupt illegal activity and promote security along busy shipping lanes. Tr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsKNEzcLuxU (Royal Navy/Navy Lookout) 17th October 2023 HMS Prince of Wales has crossed the Atlantic to begin a series of developmental Flying Trials (DT-3) off the eastern seaboard of the US. Aircraft embarked include Chinooks, Merlin Mk2, Wildcat, USMC V-22 Osprey a...

Portsmouth's shiphall is 200m long and 60m wide...

We already have an HMS Argus and Merlin threads.
Groups should be in the Deployments section. Groups are not a specific Equipment section thread.
Please merge or delete this thread.

Seconded.
Take the Australian/Hunter/Vegemite/TimTams/Neighbours chat to the Australia thread please.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Logo_of_the_Reform_UK.svg/1024px-Logo_of_the_Reform_UK.svg.png Reform UK are having their 2023 Party Conference in Birmingham. A selection of the speeches so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPxGtCtYWe0 ^ Nigel Farage (Reform UK Honorary Pres...

Malloy Aeronautics T-600

(Navy Lookout/BAE Systems) 4th October 2023

(Navy Lookout/RN) 5th October 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46O587G9vWk (Portsmouth Proud/Navy Lookout) 4th October 2023 The offshore support vessel, MV Topaz Tangaroa was purchased by the Ministry of Defence in 2022 for conversion to a Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance (MROS) ship. Her primary role will be to protect underwater i...

(Defense Now) 1st October 2023

HMS Prince of Wales, hosted by Carrier Strike Group 10 and USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) will make Naval Station Norfolk it's temporary homeport this fall as it conducts aviation operations off the East Coast.

https://news.sky.com/story/gdp-uk-overt ... d-12972101
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66957412
https://www.ft.com/content/9de96bf8-1ca ... a44d44e0b9
Heh.

From BobP's link ^ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F69pZSZW4AA5m-7?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F69pZSWWkAAj2xe?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F69pZSWXUAA6ypt?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F69pZSTWoAAnePO?format=jpg&name=large (...

I wonder if an Astute went with her? Guess we'll never know.

Why British pilots loved the F-4 Phantom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENQlD3SqBQ0 (Imperial War Museum) 24th August 2023 In 1958, McDonald Aircraft Corporation delivered a prototype, twin engine, supersonic, all-weather, long range fighter - a design the US Navy could not ignore. The F-4 Phantom...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCd0nkSmydM (Imperial War Museum) 9th August 2023 In 1951, Britain introduced the English Electric Canberra. Designed to operate at high level, it would go onto become the RAF's longest serving machine. It was an incredibly efficient aircraft, but by the late 1950s ev...

https://twitter.com/UKdefUS/status/1704574280674000973 https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/09/20/naval-station-mayport-welcomes-british-aircraft-carrier-hms-prince-of-wales/ https://eu.jacksonville.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2023/09/20/british-aircraft-carrier-hms-prince-of-wales-makes-mayp...