It's interesting that they've updated their mast, and now the Combat Systems page basically just says "hey we'll put whatever radar you won on it, but that NS100 sure is cool." Definitely keeping their options open. ....when looking at what constitutes a light frigate in today's world.... ...

Why wouldn't maintenance requiring a dry dock be at Rosyth lol The linked article doesn't explicitly mention drydocking the CVs, it simply refers to the port having the depth and space to accommodate them. Duqm has a pair of rather gigantic dry docks , but it's big selling point for the RN is likel...

Going to be watching that LSC RFI pretty closely, and probably tearing my hair out as they do some dumb...stuff.

Lord Jim wrote:Is it me or is the tail fin on the E-7 bigger than on the commercial 737?

Same as the civilian NG, just looks big because the short fuselage and the top hat kinda throw the visual balance out of whack. If they'd put a bigger fin on, it would have created production/maintenance issues nobody wanted.

I don't think it's quite accurate to say there's no appetite for reform, rather that reform is perceived as so difficult, divisive, and fraught with pitfalls that there's little hope for constructive progress. The Veto issue is among the most glaring examples: the founding superpowers wanted the UN...

I wonder if NATO should build a UUV support facility on Iceland, would seem a logical location and allow a screen of UUV to be maintained in the UK-Iceland-Greenland gap as a sort of mobile SOSUS net. Might well make sense, but we're a ways out yet. There won't be a sizable NATO ASW UUV fleet for s...

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-one-tiny-swedish-submarine-sunk-us-aircraft-carrier-20503 also in RIMPAC 2000 H.M.A.S Waller had a very successful excercise Being in the same position to do the U.S.S Abraham Lincoln and a couple of LHD,S and a nuclear sub In 2016 a Chinese submarine ...

AKA submarine tender, of the old. - now that the SSNs don't (in the main) need one "Need" no, though they sure could benefit from them. I'll try to reword it: A less diminished need, that is now coming back? Sorry I didn't mean for my reply to seem sharp. An nuke can operate effectively w...

adding an adequate crane to an Amphib or building a UUV tender. AKA submarine tender, of the old. - now that the SSNs don't (in the main) need one "Need" no, though they sure could benefit from them. Technically, same with the UUVs. You could put a mobile crane on a sufficiently specc'ed ...

Lord Jim wrote:I suppose they could come up with some sort of launching cradle that is floated out.

Creates complexity and adds risk. Doable, but debatable whether it's a superior solution to adding an adequate crane to an Amphib or building a UUV tender.

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I guess its no coincidence it looks like a Point Class....

Specifically, a Point with the MV Ocean Trader treatment.

Same news by Xav-san Canadian AESA looks compact. May be able to be added to the T26's own mast? https://www.navalnews.com/news/2019/02/canadas-combat-ship-team-awarded-csc-design-contract/ Do you mean by replacing Artisan on it's spinner or by fully adopting the Canadian configuration? Both LM's a...

Explaining Brexit to Americans.

In July Japanese selected LRDR for their Aegis Ashore batteries, defeating the Raytheon SPY-6 GaN radar used in the new Burke Flight III destroyers. Is batteries an accurate expression? Sensors onshore, but all shooters afloat? Or, may be I have missed some news... Good post, though, as everyone te...

Yes generally, they are continuation deals, and driven by desire to limit damage. Some are time limited (I dare say these time limits will shift to the right later in order to further limit damage if alternative arrangements haven't yet been implemented) and some are not. Some are unilateral action...

Mr. Dunt pulls no punches . The British government is actively sabotaging the work it has spent the past two years completing and then doing a victory dance. There was a weird, and very un-British, quasi-religious undercurrent to all this — a sense that things would work if you just believed in them...

US Army launches prototype phase of the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW): The NGSW PPON details how the Government intends to award up to three prototype Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) under the authority of 10 U.S.C. § 2371b, with each COMPANY developing two weapon variants under the NGSW p...

Forgot to ask when is the USN wanting the new vessels or should I say when was/is the announcement on the chosen design supposed to be made ? The design + build RFP was to be this summer though it now appears to be coming closer to the end of the year, with the winner chosen next year. I thought th...

Thirdly, the program's made a definitive turn toward a more capable product than originally envisioned. While still seeking to constrain costs, the Navy has expanded their threshold requirements in a direction that suggest a preference for a larger and more capable hull. I'm not sure I agree. Can y...

Don't think they go for t26 either tbh ,bit confused how or why when excluded from list of possibles it could now or potentially be a contender , thought it was well out of the game ? First, the FFG(X) program launched with a requirement bids had to include a "parent" hull which was alrea...

Our Frigate requirements are still fluid, but the program definitely seems to be turning toward larger hulls and greater capability. Accompanying this shift, there's even hints/suggestions of a more dramatic fleet re-balance following the acquisition of more capable Frigates. God just think of the s...

SKB wrote:"No Deal" is a misnomer, there is already a deal that the EU and UK both already have. It's called the WTO.

Coming 2020, Nigel Farange and BoJo Reunion tour: "Get the UK out of the WTO!"

such an upgrade for Type45, tagging the carriers onto [that buy] makes a ton of sense. Under any kind of threat situation there would/ should be a T-45 in presence. True, and I've seen some pretty serious pushback against the prospect of overspending on CVN radars over here. But A) the economics of...

Very cool to see that M-USV. Gives a sense of the scale the Navy's talking about, and the hull has some interesting aspects to it as well. Atlas still appears a long shot for a manned combatant over here, but might be very well positioned for the unmanned program.