Head contract has been signed for the Australian Hunter class Type 26 frigates: "BAE Systems’ ASC Shipbuilding secures contract for Australian Hunter-class frigates"

https://navaltoday.com/2018/12/14/bae-s ... -frigates/

How much of a difference would a load of excellent and cheap recycled equipment make to the T31? The answer is that the difference would be massive: Artisan radar, Sea Ceptor, CMS-1, BAE Shared Infrastructure equipment, Type 2050 sonar. If the assumption is correct, all the contractor would have to...

Can we really see Japan getting anything but American either off the shelf aircraft or a joint development of a new fighter ,in my modest unknowing opinion UK or typhoon /tempest project has less than zero chance of anything more than joint missiles or tech but Japan will definitely not go for a ac...

Asahi Shimbun interviewed with Mr.Nigel Whitehead BAE Systems Chief Technology Officer about the F-2 successor programme. Q. What did BAE systems offer to the Japanese government? A. We are making four proposals for the Japanese government. We are considering international joint development, suppor...

Article on Japan's defence industry and challenges with foreign exports as well as partnerships on future projects: " Japan at a crossroads: What’s keeping its defense industry from growing? " https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2018/11/26/japan-at-a-crossroads-whats-keeping-its-defense-i...

Well I think that this conversation of knocking out satellites is all well and good but I think the news here is important and that is that the UK will develop its own navigation satellite system. The question is will the UK truly go it alone or join up with other like-mined countries wishing to pur...

For some reason the news of UK's exit from the Galileo programme hasn't been picked up by the media - perhaps not important enough? As there's no credible news report for this yet, I've managed to trawl through the parliamentary session video and transcribed the relevant statements on Galileo below:...

HMS Liverpool for me. Liverpool's role in the Battle of the Atlantic was huge, even though the cruiser with the same name didn't have a service life long enough to gain an Atlantic battle honor. I too thought it might be HMS Liverpool then I remembered that Liverpool is the affiliated city of HMS P...

Am I correct in thinking cvn about 78+ deck width and 70 m qe class, it definitely looks 8meter or more wider in the overhead pic I think Nimitz is 75m and ford is 78m The QEs as mentioned above Iv found 70m and 73m so not sure which it is My understanding is that QE is 74m but the source for that ...

I was just watching live the parliamentary debate on the future relationship with the EU and was surprised the PM state that the UK was not getting the access to Galileo it needed and would go it alone on a rival system. I have to say I wasn't following this development and assumed that access would...

There's an article on the French/German FCAS project where the French "must have" capabilities are stated as firing nuclear weapons and to conduct carrier operations. There's also a comment about the possibility of on-boarding the Tempest project at a later date. However, if you add into t...

When I asked if there were any takers for Edinburgh, Swansea & Londonderry for the last three, The theme behind the names used so far seemed likely be extrapolated for Scotland, Wales and NI. Namely the "First" and "Second" cities of each country in the United Kingdom. But t...

Scimitar54 wrote:Any takers for Edinburgh, Swansea & Londonderry for the last three?

Londonderry would be a political no no. Newcastle, Leeds/Sheffield, Manchester/Liverpool would be my approximation.

PM Teresa May to announce the name of a T26 as HMS London in a speech today:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ei-skripal

HMS Glasgow
HMS Cardiff
HMS Belfast
HMS Birmingham
HMS London

Short article on the future combat aircraft programme listing the technologies being investigated: https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/11/future-of-war-part-three-aerial-combat-take-to-the-skies/ A lot of coded messages there, like automated weapon release "Trusted reasoning: Future...

Short article on the future combat aircraft programme listing the technologies being investigated: https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/11/future-of-war-part-three-aerial-combat-take-to-the-skies/ What, no stealth? Good point, though as this is about developing new technologies I guess st...

Short article on the future combat aircraft programme listing the technologies being investigated:

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articl ... the-skies/

Teresa May calls Justin Trudeau on Type 26 selection (and other things) for Canadian Royal Navy:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/read ... ember-2018

Interesting article on CMS developments and a new BAES programme to develop new technologies to integrate into CMS e.g augmented reality.

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articl ... the-waves/

I don’t have a clear picture I’m afraid, but it looks like it’s 4 x 8 cell modules on the model at Euronaval 2018. So, 32 Mk.41 silos in all. Although you’re right, the configuration seems to differ depending in which model/graphic you are viewing. EDIT: The Mk. 41 silos are quite clearly visible a...

No chance of that, or putting aircraft on deck. But one would be in maintenance/mothballs at all times, just rotated in and out of service. Which wouldn't have been a bad thing in my view. It would have enabled 2 carriers close to 100% availability set up for different operational modes whilst the ...

Will be interesting to see which radar LM has chosen, nothing obvious in their stable of radars, might use the volume search Spanish Indra S-band radar, LM are assisting in development and assuming supplying their new generation of polarised GaN T/R Ms. Unknown is if the Canadians also requiring a ...

Could it be because the T26 is the preferred bidder & is not yet a 100% done deal ? obviously I do hope the contract is signed soon. The preferred bidder status is the same case as for Australia. Its normal in procurement for the competition winner to go through a rigorous technical and financi...

Think bae should pitch a type26 derivative at the Germans for there future180mks frigate program, it can't hurt to try ,might get cheaper with more on board ,and it's got to be as good as they would have designed I'm sure The Type 26 design is actually one of the final 2 competitors in the running ...

BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have already submitted their Type 26 final 'cured' bid for the Candadian CSC frigate program. The other two bidders have until tomorow to submit theirs - " Design, systems bids for national shipbuilding strategy due Friday ". http://thechronicleherald.ca/nov...