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- 27 Jun 2023, 21:06
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
With the rfa being under attack for days they must of noted the difference been first waves and second ones. Yes I’ve read a couple of Ewen southbay-Tailyour books on the Falklands and if you think bluff cove is all about air superiority it is not. It’s about the Swiss cheese of accidents, the fog ...
- 27 Jun 2023, 19:00
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: RN anti-ship missiles
- Replies: 1030
- Views: 248089
Re: RN anti-ship missiles
Interesting thought on stand alone box launchers, that maybe more useful than it being integrated into a vertical launch system.
- 27 Jun 2023, 13:01
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The price of dither and delay it’s where the money goes…
- 27 Jun 2023, 11:37
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
That's trying to do too much with the frigate form factor. Really don’t see where you’re coming from tbh. You’re looking at trying to make a frigate a lpd equivalent. A frigates is a frigate this design is offering flexibility as a frigate. My point is: If RN really wants to do the T32 concept prop...
- 27 Jun 2023, 11:08
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
I think operating UAVs and helicopters together will depend very much on which aircraft you’re thinking about and what the RN regulations are for there concurrent operation and black deck situations. No idea what they are but I think that would drive most of it rather than enlarging the already lar...
- 27 Jun 2023, 09:58
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
That isn’t a two spot flight deck that’s a UAV on a helicopter flight deck. I think it’s something like a 64m flight deck length for a two spot merlin flight deck for example I am not suggesting a 64m Albion sized flight deck! I am suggesting that it is possible to add a larger flight deck which al...
- 27 Jun 2023, 09:42
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The future form of the Army
- Replies: 665
- Views: 148980
- 27 Jun 2023, 08:35
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The RFA has been in every war for sure, but we are putting them increasingly in combat roles not in logistics What? When have the RFA been in a combat role? Exactly, never. It’s always been a logistical role, even for amphibious assault the RFA did not man the assault LPDs, but instead the Landing ...
- 27 Jun 2023, 07:55
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The future form of the Army
- Replies: 665
- Views: 148980
Re: The future form of the Army
Or more realistic countries like Norway, portugal, Holland Canada, Belgium who have less tanks than the U.K. maybe even the like of Australia. Yes, it is completely realistic that Norway, Portugal or Belgium should have same number or more tanks than UK. Of course. Just counting tanks is rather poi...
- 27 Jun 2023, 07:41
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The RFA has been in every war for sure, but we are putting them increasingly in combat roles not in logistics What? When have the RFA been in a combat role? Exactly, never. It’s always been a logistical role, even for amphibious assault the RFA did not man the assault LPDs, but instead the Landing ...
- 27 Jun 2023, 07:20
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Yes, the UK will have to pay for it, and I don't see why the US would have to buy into it. It's a metal box with an actuator and fire extinguisher, it's not complicated. The complicated bits are part of the missile canister, which I believe is unique to each missile type. 20230626_231252.jpg Unless...
- 27 Jun 2023, 07:17
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The future form of the Army
- Replies: 665
- Views: 148980
Re: The future form of the Army
Seems a strange thing to argue that it’s below critical mass when it’s still more tanks than at least 12 other NATO members who use tanks and a few other allies besides that. And how realistic that countries like Slovakia, Romania, Estonia ... has more or equal number of tanks as UK? Any NATO count...
- 26 Jun 2023, 22:27
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
I still remain baffled by the mk41 euphoria and the need for more. We don’t have anything currently, or are procuring anything at this time that goes in them and looking at publicly disclosed missile development programs can’t see anything there that is in mk41 either. The future Anglo/French cruis...
- 26 Jun 2023, 20:43
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
It show cases the options available to a customer who can choose what you want as an iterative design I see nothing wrong with that. Agreed, as said, it’s a shopping list. Your too small vls is the size most countries place on their ships especially across Europe. It’s part of the options available...
- 26 Jun 2023, 20:06
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
- 26 Jun 2023, 20:06
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
https://www.navylookout.com/babcock-showcases-stretched-arrowhead-140-multi-role-naval-platform-concept-with-view-to-type-32-frigate-competition/ Poor - at best it’s what the T31 should have been. What is so Poor about it I am not that impressed with it either. Really difficult to see what is tryin...
- 26 Jun 2023, 20:00
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
It isn’t a reduction it’s a change of configuration. The fisheries role has been taken over by other government departments and the mcm crews are now operating or planning to operate unmanned vessels either from shore or from RFA vessels fwd deployed on a Bay in the gulf or on newly acquired RFA sh...
- 26 Jun 2023, 18:00
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The future form of the Army
- Replies: 665
- Views: 148980
Re: The future form of the Army
Some of those sentences in the article are just baffling to me Senior figures in the MoD believe the war in Ukraine has exposed the vulnerability of tanks to shoulder-launched weapons such as Nlaws and Javelins, justifying the original decision in 2021 to upgrade only 148 Challenger 2s to Challenge...
- 26 Jun 2023, 14:59
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
- 26 Jun 2023, 13:35
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The future form of the Army
- Replies: 665
- Views: 148980
Re: The future form of the Army
1 Div HQ being made deployable and 16 AAB moving into it
- 26 Jun 2023, 12:24
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
It mean you have the assets to form two naval task groups but your attempting to form 4 instead.
- 26 Jun 2023, 11:18
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Therefore the thinking is that rather than getting 6 identical MRSS, that instead get 3 larger ships and 3 smaller. The 3 larger MRSS would be for the two LRG and would replace Argus and the 2 Albions, not to mention th previous loss of Hermes. I still think a wll deck would be udeful but otherwise...
- 26 Jun 2023, 11:07
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
No you are arguing for an imbalanced fleet we don't need more OPVs than we have already. No, I’m not. A few years back there were 8 OPVs and 16 MCMs who had a secondary patrol role. You are arguing that can come down to five and @SW1 down to zero. No other Navy in the world (I include the USCG alon...
- 25 Jun 2023, 21:08
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
I'm not so sure about that. An Archer class escorting Russian ships through the channel? Not a good look. MHC doesn't currently exist. There's a great deal of offshore energy / wind assets in home waters. Is it not the job of the fleet ready escort to escort foreign warships in the channel? No. The...
- 25 Jun 2023, 21:07
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19284
- Views: 9506804
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
So what you’re really arguing about now is not opvs or indeed their role which has now virtually gone in the RN but that minor warship roles eg the mine warfare vessels in the RN have become or are becoming containerised and no longer require a dedicated ship. So numbers of ships to count have and ...