CAMM-ER test footage.

Here's the delivery timeline again...any changes since last time in Red So of the UK's '48' here's the status: Note - Delivery is 'usually' a minimum of 2 years after order. Delivered to date LRIP 1 - April 2007 - No UK Orders, (US F-35A only) LRIP 2 - July 2007 - No UK Orders (6 F-35B for USMC, fir...

Unless I'm imagining it, there were statements between 2015 and 2019 (the summer of three DefSecs) about how F-35 procurement was being brought forward to deliver 48 by 2025 theoretically permitting up to 24 UK aircraft at sea Actually the intention was to deliver all 48 by 2024. The final 'block' ...

Negotiating tactics most likely for the jets after our initial 48. Integration of Meteor statement was also interesting I wonder if things are not going to plan, we haven't heard about it since the test examples were delivered over a year ago (not that I expected every detail to be listed). Absolut...

This is disappointing that this has had to be stated loud and clear....but also encouraging that it has been stated in no uncertain terms by the Secretary of State for Defence. The fact that he actually made the statement publically sounds like there has already been some serious concerns and/or arg...

Repulse wrote:Would say a 12 cell CAMM VLS, 2 x 30mm and a Wildcat would be sufficient.

Edit: Basically an extended Echo with a hangar

I wouldn't necessarily go that far, just a Phalanx and the 30mm. Merlin would be needed however.

Hypersonic missile (Mach 7-10) >> Super sonic missile (Mach 3) > stealthy-agile cruise missile >> TLAM > Harpoon. If you're talking cost and survivability only I'd put Harpoon ahead of TLAM. It's more expensive, plus is more likely to get a hit against an enemy vessel as it performs terminal manoeu...

But, adding maneuver capability is not difficult. It is difficult and very expensive. The Pershing II was the first to combine manoevering and an RF sensor in one package. That was aimed at stationary targets however. To manoeuvre in such a way to not mask the sensor or make it more susceptible to ...

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but "no Exocet's fired in combat" ??? UK and France have never fired a heavy weight Anti ship missile in combat ever, from air, submarines, land or ships. Despite many thousands of Martel, Exocet, Sea Eagle, Sub-Harpoon and Harpoon having been in the inventory...

Don't count your chicken yet, with a non deck penetrating 76mm available they might still! Thats true. It might be bonkers but I was actually thinking it would make a lot of sense for the RN to make them a little more 'fighty'. If it can carry a Merlin, and stream a decent towed array it would make...

That may make the UK happy but certainly not the French, who are the ones wanting a supersonic weapon system. Such a move could finish FC/ASW as a joint project. This is the actual problem at present. Both sides want different things....I think the UK is right. A stealthy, subsonic, long range (100...

Are there effective defense measure against hypersonic missile in cheap? If so, why an anti-ship ballistic missile is an issue? PrSM is exactly an anti-ship ballistic missile. A high supersonic high diver is actually the threat that Aegis was designed to deal with 40 years ago...Patriot was shootin...

Might be a template for what the RN are looking for...due for delivery in 2025. Disappointingly for the Italian's though there is no 76mm guns all over...they must be losing their touch.. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/06/t-mariotti-shipyard-to-build-italian-navy-special-diving-operations...

As far as I am aware there is zero effort going on to fit this missile into any kind of VLS for shipborne use. Nor will there be, the missile is unsuitable. Speculation that it will become a RN weapon is therefore totally absurd. It would also make a terrible anti-ship missile as against any capabl...

Ron5 wrote:Hard to believe given @ACC's repeated insistence that it's Babcock's providing the help to DSME.

Just teasing.

I suspect RR are nailed on for propulsion as the South Korean's already use MT-30, and the Trieste is MT-30 powered.

2HeadsBetter wrote:Hyundai are trying to cram an awful lot into 30000 T.

Hyundai's is 60,000 tonnes

Just posted this in the SK thread. Just superficial similarities (look at elevator positioning, island positioning and VL farm). To be honest I suspect that this is a fair bit less efficient than the QE design, bit fightier though... https://twitter.com/TheSubHunter1/status/1402625474623246338?ref_s...

Hyundai's model for the South Korean Aircraft Carrier has broken cover...

I know they can design and build ships...but there comes a point where they might as well buy the QE design...

RAF don't like working at the weekends Fear of working at weekends would be vastly overshadowed by a trip to Ibiza.... It could just be as simple as the USMC maintenance guys stayed with the Carrier and they needed to fly some maintainers in from the US or Marham to do the work. From the time to ge...

A C-17 from Brize Norton flew out to Ibiza on the 7th with spares. The USMC aircraft was repaired and flew out to the CSG yesterday. Bit concerning that it look 6 days for the spares to materialise...only 1 day to get them fitted, which indicates it wasn't a serious problem. https://twitter.com/smrm...

Unlikely, it would have been seen being trucked through Portsmouth and craned on. Also we've only got 4, they're all at Culdrose, the training value we get from them is done there. You wouldn't get a huge amount more from craning one onto the carrier. But you know what....I might be completely wron...

Much like ground-launched SDB2? No. It's powered for one. Some sort of MMW or IR seeker head and targeting algorithm and much greater range. Presumably the ability to loiter for a period as well (although realistically thats going to be dependent on range and not likely to be more than a maximum of...

Joint Fire Support Missile (JFS-M) concept from MBDA Germany. 3 missiles per MLRS missile pod. 499+km range https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJMGtMIhCk Text from Soldier Und Technik With the Joint Fire Support Missile, MBDA has only recently presented a concept that meets both the army's demands for...

SKB wrote:Amd oh yes, she sailed on 6th June...

Any rumours on what delayed her?

Has the shoreside power situation been resolved now?