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by clinch
16 Aug 2018, 12:51
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Replies: 8470
Views: 2142856
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Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

I wonder if it will remain a competition or just transition into a single source program. Well you would have to suspect that if Cammell and BAe met the target in the tender and if the contract eventually goes to Babcock after subsequently scrapping the tender and moving the goalposts, Cammell and ...
by clinch
13 Aug 2018, 11:41
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7057399
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

How can the Government halt the tender process and start again because one of the contestants made a bollocks of its bid? Wouldn't the Leander team have a case for legal action?
by clinch
31 Jul 2018, 17:11
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Future Solid Support Ship
Replies: 1972
Views: 547483
United Kingdom

Re: Future Solid Support Ship

Francis Tusa of Defence Analysis put together a report for the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, pressing the case for building the ships in the UK. He puts the tax and national insurance return at 20 per cent. Building FSS in the UK would contribute to the nation’s prosperity. T...
by clinch
31 Jul 2018, 09:32
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Future Solid Support Ship
Replies: 1972
Views: 547483
United Kingdom

Re: Future Solid Support Ship

I understand the wider benefits to the UK but we should not be spending more than we have to of the Defence Budget to support jobs and industry. Other departments have funding to do just that. The alternative is for the MoD to charge every other department when its assets are used to provide suppor...
by clinch
30 Jul 2018, 07:29
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Future Solid Support Ship
Replies: 1972
Views: 547483
United Kingdom

Re: Future Solid Support Ship

I understand the wider benefits to the UK but we should not be spending more than we have to of the Defence Budget to support jobs and industry. Other departments have funding to do just that. The alternative is for the MoD to charge every other department when its assets are used to provide suppor...
by clinch
29 Jul 2018, 19:36
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7057399
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

The idea of an "OMR" has great appeal but no Politician is going to give such a body a remit to criticise an area they deem sensitive to national security. If something was set up it would be kept behind closed doors and at most briefing Parliament in confidence being covered by the Offic...
by clinch
29 Jul 2018, 19:28
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Future Solid Support Ship
Replies: 1972
Views: 547483
United Kingdom

Re: Future Solid Support Ship

I agree with the economic when looked at as a whole but that doesn't help the Defence Budget. If the ships cost 30" more to build in the UK then that is 30% that cannot be spent elsewhere. Now if that 30% was covered by a DTI subsidy for regional growth or similar then fine. That's the fault o...
by clinch
29 Jul 2018, 16:56
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Future Solid Support Ship
Replies: 1972
Views: 547483
United Kingdom

Re: Future Solid Support Ship

How about the Arrowheads being built in Denmark and fitted out in the UK. If you're looking to save money you might be better off building the blocks in the same Estonian and Lithuanian yards that the Iver Huitfeldt blocks were built in. If you are looking to save money, build them in the UK. A ver...
by clinch
26 Jul 2018, 20:35
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
Replies: 5411
Views: 1420597
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Re: River Class (OPV) (RN)

Caribbean wrote:
Ron5 wrote:Both heavily subsidized by their governments.
And here was me thinking that subsidies were contrary to EU rules
EU rules are just for us. Other member states have their cake and eat it.
by clinch
25 Jul 2018, 08:39
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Replies: 8470
Views: 2142856
United Kingdom

Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

...it is understood that officials at Defence Equipment and Support were starting to realise that a cheap warship, without the array of expensive radars, sensors and weapons, would struggle to operate in submarine-infested waters. STARTING to realise? Who are they even hiring? It was said then, it ...
by clinch
24 Jul 2018, 19:43
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Replies: 8470
Views: 2142856
United Kingdom

Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

Does anyone think we are moving to a 14-frigate fleet after all?
by clinch
23 Jul 2018, 16:42
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4067
Views: 950991
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Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)

Everyone seems to have missed this... Looks like Tempest is shaking things up... https://twitter.com/olivershah/status/1020941567283081216 Wasn't he trying to stick the boot in the UK the other week. So he takes over the UK business and post-Brexit tells us he has to move all manufacturing to Easte...
by clinch
10 Jul 2018, 09:03
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117522
United Kingdom

Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

This is a legal assessment of May's plan by a QC. It's not good.

http://lawyersforbritain.org/wp-content ... g-Memo.pdf
by clinch
09 Jul 2018, 14:04
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117522
United Kingdom

Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

Too many little children in Westminster getting into a hissy fit over not getting exactly what they wanted.... Hard Brexit was never on the table. We'd end up bankrupt if we went that route and no sensible human being would legitimately think it was a good idea. To be blunt. Define hard brexit I ca...
by clinch
09 Jul 2018, 12:31
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117522
United Kingdom

Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

Too many little children in Westminster getting into a hissy fit over not getting exactly what they wanted.... Hard Brexit was never on the table. We'd end up bankrupt if we went that route and no sensible human being would legitimately think it was a good idea. To be blunt. Define hard brexit I ca...
by clinch
07 Jul 2018, 12:15
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117522
United Kingdom

Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

Looks very much like the Cameron EU negotiation to me. Spend a while with UK and EU making it look like they are at each others' throats and negotiating hard. UK negotiator and devoted EU supporter Olly Robbins eventually tells MPs he is getting nowhere. May publishes plan to stay in single market, ...
by clinch
05 Jul 2018, 07:17
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fantasy T31 and Fantasy Fleet Builder [New]
Replies: 1811
Views: 76360
United Kingdom

Re: Fantasy T31 and Fantasy Fleet Builder [New]

Left of field, but what if the Leander team offered six hulls for the price the Treasury has set? Would the politicians be tempted by the opportunity to say, "Look, we are growing the fleet"?
by clinch
03 Jul 2018, 06:15
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117522
United Kingdom

Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

Today's Huffpost has put two key sources side by side: "The Times reports that Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins has told ministers there’s no chance of a bespoke EU-UK trade deal. Ministers left a meeting [there is a comma missing here :) ] with him thinking ‘we were even more screwed than we we...
by clinch
28 Jun 2018, 15:34
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1464985
United Kingdom

Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

Very good news for BAe Systems. Just need the UK to order more and the Canadians to join the party.
by clinch
21 Jun 2018, 18:29
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mid-term review for the Strategic review?
Replies: 703
Views: 28051
United Kingdom

Re: Mid-term review for the Strategic review?

Well if this is an exercise to concentrate the minds of the Defence Chiefs on what the UK's core capabilities should be then I do not think it is that bad. For too long they have tried to match the US and jumped on whatever the latest fad is from the them, simply look how the US Army's FCS caused t...
by clinch
21 Jun 2018, 16:02
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mid-term review for the Strategic review?
Replies: 703
Views: 28051
United Kingdom

Re: Mid-term review for the Strategic review?

Well, the PM is right, the UK isn't first tier power since at least 1945, so it was high time for someone to cut the MoD crap about being one... At least, less money will be thrown into bottomless pit of BAE & Co. Given that the chiefs are desperately battling to simply lose as little as possib...
by clinch
21 Jun 2018, 10:25
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mid-term review for the Strategic review?
Replies: 703
Views: 28051
United Kingdom

Re: Mid-term review for the Strategic review?

Well, the PM is right, the UK isn't first tier power since at least 1945, so it was high time for someone to cut the MoD crap about being one... At least, less money will be thrown into bottomless pit of BAE & Co. Given that the chiefs are desperately battling to simply lose as little as possib...
by clinch
21 Jun 2018, 08:04
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mid-term review for the Strategic review?
Replies: 703
Views: 28051
United Kingdom

Re: Mid-term review for the Strategic review?

It's not looking good. This is from the Financial Times. Theresa May has asked Gavin Williamson, the defence secretary, to justify Britain's role as a “tier one” military power, throwing the Ministry of Defence's armed forces modernisation plan into disarray just weeks before a crucial Nato summit. ...
by clinch
21 Jun 2018, 06:42
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 5461
Views: 1464985
United Kingdom

Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]

Israel’s armor specialist Plasan was selected to design and produce armor protection for Britain’s new Type 26 frigate. Plasan’s advanced armor technology has been implemented to protect armored vehicles and personnel, transport aircraft and helicopters as well as naval vessels. full article https:...