My understanding Hunter has a six sided deckhouse so as able accommodate all the flat panel GaN radar array panels, CEA Technologies mentioned in 2017 its Hunter CEAFAR radar would be approx 20 panels in choice of S-, X-, L- or C-band, not sure what the final choice of radar bands and number of pane...

I agree Sea Ceptor should be tested against more types of targets with live firings, but modern computer modelling is now very advanced and will give accurate data on the effectiveness of the systems against a variety of targets as long as the performance data on the various AShMs is accurate. If c...

The government should have committed to 9 T26s (for the price of 8) and BAE would have a business case for investment. Why when the Admiralty made the decision to cut buy from 13 to 8 was based on genuine operational analysis not cost and that the requirement for was for 8 not 13 and no reason to p...

I'm sorry but Eurosam is a JV between MBDA (France and Italy) and Thales and Europaams, the company which supplies the 'Naval' version is a JV between Eurosam and MBDA (UK). To say that Aster missile isn't an MBDA missile is stretching to say the least. MBDA is owned by Airbus 37.5%, BAE 37.5% and ...

Trying to judge the effectiveness or otherwise of Sea Ceptor on the kinetic energy of a drone it was fired against in a trial is nonsense. The trial is there to validate the modelling the weapons designers have created not to prove the ultimate effectiveness of the missile. What we do know is that ...

Amongst the many lessons to be learned from the sinking of the Moskva by the two Ukrainian Neptune ski-skimming anti-ship missiles, looks like deja vu of the Falklands in respect to the vulnerability of the ships, two thoughts. Overall impression is that Moskva was a forty year old ship from the 198...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10717065/Go-f-Russian-warship-BLOWN-Cruiser-Moskva-hit-Ukrainian-missile.html Daily Mail reporting Ukrainian claims to have attacked and badly damaged the Slava-class cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea, using two Neptune anti-ship missiles. It seems that Russia...

Though we may not like India's stance visa Russia/Ukraine India is too important to ignore in the context of future possible conflict with China, only on Monday India and US signed a bilateral space situational awareness arrangement Would say India's growth over the last few decades due to their own...

My understanding CIWS Starstreak uses a SACLOS guidance system, Semi-Automatic Command to Line Of Sight, the operator has to continually point an optically stabilized sight at the target aided by an automatic target tracking lock on while the missile is in flight, the aiming unit projects two encode...

10th April write up on Poland’s AH140PL Frigate by Naval News, of interest mentions 7,000t ship, RN quotes the T31 OPV as 5,600t :roll:, re the image as posted above shows other highlights, four panel SM-400 GaN AESA S-band VSR with NS50 GaN X-band rotating MFCR on top plus mention of a sonar, 16 RB...

Any thoughts on which type of hypersonic missile Australia, UK and US thinking of. DARPA April 5th reporting successful test flights with both variants of its HAWC, Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, a big step forward in proving scramjets viable (two teams Lockheed Martin-Aerojet Rocketdyne a...

Lord Jim wrote: ↑05 Apr 2022, 15:56 Well the Rheinmetall/Oerlikon weapon system has been both mounted and fired successfully on both the Boxer and the MAN HX truck

Thanks, any thoughts on cost, think Boxer variant ~£10 million each, expect MAN HX ~£7 million?

Personally think the Rheinmetall Millennium 35 mm is too big/expensive for use with armoured column, more suited as part of stationary air defence system as used in the UAE, IIRC they bought 100 systems, Millennium would be my preference to use on ships instead of either the Phalanx or Bofors 40 as ...

10th February Naval News " US Navy Looks Again at VDS Options for New [Constellation] Frigate" Why the DART AN/SQS-62 VDS eventually cancelled, presuming one reason the inability to meet the hydrodynamic stability spec to be towed at 40+ knots in sprint mode by the Freedom class LCS was mo...

March 31, 2022 BAE Inc PR "BAE Systems breaks new ground with successful test of its Multiple Object Tracking Radar - BAE Systems successfully completed prototype tests of its Multiple Object Tracking [interferometry] Radar (iMOTR), a mobile instrumentation radar that provides precise radar dat...

Coastal defence weapons?!? I don't think we have any anti-ship missiles to give Ukraine that could make a dent in what they are facing. [sarcasm]If only our pathetic anti-ship missile situation have been noted sooner we could have been able to do something about it.[/sarcasm] This might be a situat...

Not according to Moose on Secret Projects UK ?

"No, you can see the missile's motor burning in the frame before impact, which you wouldn't see from Starstreak's darts. This particular hit was a conventional MANPAD"

Breaking News write up on RN MAPLE 5, C2 architecture for drones, future variant "could include assessing it in a defensive surface warfare or anti-ship missile defense context and from that then building apps and vehicles to test those concepts using MAPLE" a ship CMS?, similar attributes...

For all the money that was poured into developing CTA I would expect Ajax to be able to engage UAVs with airburst rounds. Not seen any recent updates on the qualification of the Airburst fuze round. That was the original for ground targets, there's also been publicity for an anti-air Airburst round...

For me I still think the best way forward is a updated version of Stormer HVM on Boxer and Rapid Ranger HVM on Bushmaster & Jackal Not disagreeing plus the Sky Sabre, but do you think an additional similar 'low' cost system to the US Army 50mm EAPS needed to protect the troops when under attack...

Steering away from missiles for a second how accurate ar range is the chain gun on the likes of the Apache? Given the huge increase in drones is it not a future prerequisite to have as many vehicles as possible able to detect & engage UAVs. Something like dedicated guided 50cal or bigger on as ...

Lasers - Light and other electromagnetic radiation is subject to the Inverse Square Law (the major physics barrier) which explains the drastic laser light fall-off in power with increasing distance of the target eg at 2 km only able to deliver 1/4 of the power at 1 km, at 3 km its down to 1/9th, at...

US Navy planning to reduce its ship fleet numbers from current 297 to 280 in FY2027, Congress passed act in 2017/8 to say Navy should increase fleet to 355 ships, did not specify a timeline. https://news.usni.org/2022/03/28/fy-23-budget-navy-wants-to-shed-24-ships-for-3-6b-in-savings-over-next-five-...

Israeli press reporting that Germany interested in the Arrow 3 long range anti-ballistic system for 2 billion plus euros comes with exo-atmospheric ability to intercept of IRBM at a reported flight range of up to 2,400 km (1,500 miles) at altitudes of over 100 km (62 miles) and ~ Mach 8+ with a clai...

The old joke in the US R&D community comes to mind "lasers are the weapons of the future ... and always will be". The problem with this sort of 'joke' is that it denies the possibility of major technological advances. Look at what the advent of REBCO magnets has done for the prospects...