USMC F-35B from HMS Queen Elizabeth had to make an emergency landing on Ibiza. It was showing in ADS-B as a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35A on its approach... Left tyre appears to be flat but its not clear if this was the cause of the emergency or due to a rough landing due to other factors. https...

SW1 wrote:A case for such a ship made here

https://thinpinstripedline.blogspot.com ... p.html?m=1

Have to say I’m not that convinced

Used to enjoy a fair bit of his stuff....but he's gone a bit 'native' recently...wonder if he's reached a little higher in his career...

So HMS instead of HMY. Will they try the "she could be a useful hospital ship in a conflict" thing next?! To be fair everyone always knew that the hospital ship role was a load of nonsense, it was just a cover for its real role as a mobile seat of government in the event of WW3 (hence the...

Waste of money, IMHO. Better buy 2-3 more F-35s. Or even ASMs for escorts. Politically this is stupid. There is literally no upside. Anyone who actually wants a Royal Yacht built is already voting Conservative (and there aren't many out there who really want this). It won't attract any new votes an...

Howabout the 'corvettes' for Brunei? The dimensions had been adjusted for the local crewmen's height... but there were no 'local' crewmen to be found. The Bung Tomo Class were an even better deal...would have been ideal for the Gulf or Far East taskings that we're looking at now. But a larger crew ...

Has this been noted before? ex-HMS Clyde is already in the INDO-Pacific: River class, Batch 1, modified Builder: Vosper Thornycroft Shipbuilding, Portsmouth, Hampshire, U.K. STATUS: Awarded: 2005 Laid down: 2005 Launched: June 14, 2006 Commissioned: January 30, 2007 Decommissioned: December 20, 201...

Another 'Dazzled' River B.2 should be seen soon...HMS Spey now out of Dry Dock at Falmouth..

Seen this below that tweet. "Mbda’s maritime launch system for sea ceptor is shorter than that for camm er, so installing them on types 26/31/32 will impact on what is currently below the launcher" If they are resuing bits and bobs from the type 23 for the 31's camm er might not be possib...

I think we are going to get plenty of good pics from CSG21 Here's another decent set (see entire thread)...with bonus submarine (not an Astute though..) USS Mount Whitney leading the line next to QE. Sub is NRP Tridente from the Portuguese Navy (Type 214 sub). The CSG is the two lines on the right....

Thinking of our late friend desertswo who would have been 65 today. I’m sure he would have enjoyed seeing and discussing the recent happenings with the carriers. He would have loved this. He was a massive loss to a lot of communities. I though smoking was going to be banned from all RN warships? Th...

Looks like CAMM-ER for the British Army is a thing...great news.

Just need the RN to get onboard now as well...well done to Gabi for getting an answer..

CAMM-ER on the way for the Army...

I'll post this is the GBAD thread as well...CAMM-ER is on the way for the Army....Gabi asked the question of the Commander of 7 AD...

Possible implications for the RN, Type 26 and Type 31 to benefit?

andrew98 wrote:Any chance they could fit them in Bahrain on the way out?

Very unlikely. Why bother going to the effort of prepping and testing the munitions in the UK, having the personnel and equipment to load them here, then not bothering and leaving it to more ad hoc and costly arrangements elsewhere.

Don't forget the RN has 11 sets of 2087. 3 additional sets have been purchased for the first 3 T26. Otherwise they'd have had to cannibalise the 8 x T23 ASW's whilst they were still in service. Sometime the jumps, from clicking on a notification are random. And ended up with this old one. - when th...

What is interesting is that the commitment to three FSSS must be linked to the commitment to have two CVF deployed. That is surely linked to the to the need to go beyond 48 F35B (which would allow 24 normally on the single deployed CVF) to 60-80 which would allow two CVFs with 24 each? Don't forget...

MBDA Spear will look pretty much exactly the same as SDB2 when mounted in the F-35B...

NighthawkNZ wrote:Well the RFI is out and they want quite a capable vessel

Anything out there that fits the bill? The Canadian Harry De Wolf Class?

And a pretty good (and accurate) shot at naming them. USS The Sullivans appears to be the ship in the middle.

HMS Queen Elizabeth and USS Iwo Jima groups meet up...thats quite a group of ships...you could retake the Falklands with that...think the 2 SES off the QE and Iwo Jima are LCAC (I did post originally that I thought they were Norwegian Skjold Class but think I was wrong). Not sure if the Whidbey Isla...

The best thing would be to build a 5 ship B3 River class - effectively a B2 with a multipurpose Wildcat / UAV hanger which can act as a mission bay instead. This would allow three of the B2s take over from the B1s, and give the RN a core MHPC design. £800mn max. Thats the BAE Avenger design... Do n...

ASW, why fit S2087, surely that's best left to the T26 with its quiet and expensive HED propulsion system, T31/T32 diesels/gears are not silenced with rafts and enclosures, quiet hull not necessary for its primary AAW mission, if you do that will drive up costs, fit a HMS as with the T45 or a less ...

Jake1992 wrote:It may be dead in terms of the USMC but if the RN are looking at a new unmanned system for AEW then why not go for the V-247 ?

Cost of development....it would make buying V-22 look cheap, and we can't afford that.

Said it before and I’ll say it again why not go for this with all the different roles it can be used for it could give a better AEW and a reaper style capability to the carriers. https://www.naval-technology.com/projec ... ft-system/ V-247 is dead. Killed off when the USMC totally revised their MUX...

SW1 wrote:It’s the OSD for the entire Merlin fleet at present

Which is just a programmatic date based on a submitted and approved business case. It will of course be inevitably moved right once someone does the new case...