Read more here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-33077226The Royal Navy is trialling the use of drones to identify defects on its ships' vast exteriors.
It is hoped the remote-controlled aircraft could save money by cutting servicing times from weeks to hours and avoid the need for scaffolding, cherry-pickers and ladders.
The "unmanned aerial vehicle" can also reach inaccessible areas at sea.
The first trial took place on the Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond at Portsmouth Naval Base.
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Royal Navy uses HMS Diamond ship for drone trial
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Wow the royal navy copying easy jet! Whatever next, low cost, no frills, patrol vessels to deter Russian aggression??GibMariner wrote:Royal Navy uses HMS Diamond ship for drone trial
Read more here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-33077226
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This is not strictly about the 45 but more in line with capabilities ,but a recent article in the Nikkei Asian Review commented on the upgrade to the Aegis system that would give it the ability to engage high altitude ballistic missiles and low altitude anti ship missiles simultaneously ,currently ships protecting Japan from ballistic missiles would of been vulnerable to anti ship missiles and required another ship to provide protection in this scenario ,with this upgrade four ships are able to protect Japan allowing others to be deployed elsewhere ,the question I would ask is how the Daring class copes in this scenario
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Easily; no ABM? (as yet)
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Navy Warship and RAF Jets Flex Fighting Muscle
Two of the UK’s most technologically advanced fighting machines have paired up off the South West coast to practise working together in a spectacular display of capability.
Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender and Eurofighter Typhoons from the RAF’s II(AC) Squadron have been training off the coast of the UK for the past few days, honing their air-maritime skills.
Under the watchful eye of the Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) organisation, HMS Defender and II (AC) Sqn also put the Army’s 16 Air Defence regiment through their paces in a series of exercises where they had to defend the UK’s shore.
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Great photos! I think the T45 just looks great. Shame that it appears to have a small problem with the rudder in the last pics!
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Let's put the LCS in there, with the smaller size and the installed power of a cruiser
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Hope someone posts video of that maneuvering to YouTube, always enjoy seeing a crash turn (from a distance).
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RE:LCS
How's the follow-on class coming (ref: installed power of a cruiser, but armed like a corvette)?
How's the follow-on class coming (ref: installed power of a cruiser, but armed like a corvette)?
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Type 45 parliamentary Q&A
http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2015/06/h ... -answered/Lord West of Spithead
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to fit land-attack missiles to T45 destroyers to augment the planned number of F-35B Sea Lightnings available for initial air campaign operations.
Earl Howe
The Department does not have any plans, at this time, to fit land-attack missiles to the Type 45 destroyers.
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Let me fix that for you:
"The Department does not have any money to fit land-attack missiles to the Type 45 destroyers."
"The Department does not have any money to fit land-attack missiles to the Type 45 destroyers."
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Even if budget circumstances allowed are land attack missiles a priority for this vessel , there would be other weapons and systems that an air warfare destroyer escorting aircraft carriers could use .
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Halidon wrote:Hope someone posts video of that maneuvering to YouTube, always enjoy seeing a crash turn (from a distance).
Starts at around 5:05
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Has there been any mention that for the abm tests the Daring was tested for it had its radar upgraded to Smart-L EWC
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The radar doing the ballistic tracking was and is SAMPSON, in the Type 45's case. They've been working on exploiting its ABM potential for quite a while, and used the one at Cowes to track satellites back in 2012.seaspear wrote:Has there been any mention that for the abm tests the Daring was tested for it had its radar upgraded to Smart-L EWC
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I understood the Sampson is an developed version of the Dutch Smart radar and that the S1850M could be upgraded to Smart-l ewc giving an extended range
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SAMPSON is SAMPSON, the result of years of research and development in the UK. I don't think it has anything to do at all with the SMART. The S1850M is a modified Smart, and it could at some point be upgraded, sure. But for now, the focus has been on SAMPSON.seaspear wrote:I understood the Sampson is an developed version of the Dutch Smart radar and that the S1850M could be upgraded to Smart-l ewc giving an extended range
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Family trees for radars apart, the Dutch would only need to decide and BMD for their 4 ships would be plug and play, whereas I am not quite sure where we are at with this:
"Raytheon defense contractor
March 11/13: Datalink. Raytheon announces external link that they’ve moved to a more advanced testing stage with their company-funded dual-band datalink, linking SM-3 missiles to an X-band Thales Nederland Advanced Phased Array Radar (APAR) at a shore-based Dutch facility.
Dutch LCF ships have already participated in American missile defense tests as trackers, but they’d need this datalink if they wanted the full radar communication that’s needed to launch their own interceptors.
July 18/12: Netherlands. Thales announces external link that the Netherlands is upgrading the SMART-L radars on their 4 LCF/ De Zeven Provincien Class frigates to add the Extended Long Range module, which offers longer-range detection and exo-atmospheric tracking for ballistic missile defense.
Sept 13/11: Raytheon announces that they’ve completed design and testing of a prototype dual-band (S-band and X-band) datalink that will enable interoperability between the Standard Missile family of interceptors and a wider variety of radars and ships.
2009: A joint U.S.-Netherlands study concluded that SM-3 missiles could be integrated with the De Zeven Provincien Class air defense ships’ advanced SMART-L/APAR radars, giving those ships independent missile defense capabilities"
"Raytheon defense contractor
March 11/13: Datalink. Raytheon announces external link that they’ve moved to a more advanced testing stage with their company-funded dual-band datalink, linking SM-3 missiles to an X-band Thales Nederland Advanced Phased Array Radar (APAR) at a shore-based Dutch facility.
Dutch LCF ships have already participated in American missile defense tests as trackers, but they’d need this datalink if they wanted the full radar communication that’s needed to launch their own interceptors.
July 18/12: Netherlands. Thales announces external link that the Netherlands is upgrading the SMART-L radars on their 4 LCF/ De Zeven Provincien Class frigates to add the Extended Long Range module, which offers longer-range detection and exo-atmospheric tracking for ballistic missile defense.
Sept 13/11: Raytheon announces that they’ve completed design and testing of a prototype dual-band (S-band and X-band) datalink that will enable interoperability between the Standard Missile family of interceptors and a wider variety of radars and ships.
2009: A joint U.S.-Netherlands study concluded that SM-3 missiles could be integrated with the De Zeven Provincien Class air defense ships’ advanced SMART-L/APAR radars, giving those ships independent missile defense capabilities"
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If at some stage the S1850M was upgraded to SMART-L ecw then the capability of the Daring would also with extended range of its radar and able to use a wider range of missiles
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We don't know if there is any gap in the radar performance. What we do know is that
- the two-way link with a BDM capable missile has not been tested
- there might be incompatibililty between the current silos and the chosen missile (silo swap, or potentially an adapter kit)
BDM is such a specialist capability that we are either seriously talking about working within an alliance, or if we choose to go-it-alone with all such capabilities, the overall size of the forces will have to shrink dramatically, to be able to pay for it all.
- the two-way link with a BDM capable missile has not been tested
- there might be incompatibililty between the current silos and the chosen missile (silo swap, or potentially an adapter kit)
BDM is such a specialist capability that we are either seriously talking about working within an alliance, or if we choose to go-it-alone with all such capabilities, the overall size of the forces will have to shrink dramatically, to be able to pay for it all.
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No need to get any different missile. Aster-30's future versions are fully capable of it. Block 1 on the SAMP/T system is already capable of performing ABM, with Block 2 vastly increasing it. Those are almost certainly the ones intended for any BMD concept.ArmChairCivvy wrote:We don't know if there is any gap in the radar performance. What we do know is that
- the two-way link with a BDM capable missile has not been tested
- there might be incompatibililty between the current silos and the chosen missile (silo swap, or potentially an adapter kit)
BDM is such a specialist capability that we are either seriously talking about working within an alliance, or if we choose to go-it-alone with all such capabilities, the overall size of the forces will have to shrink dramatically, to be able to pay for it all.
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Would there be any advantage in having quad packed essm,s instead of aster 15 to increase numbers available
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Haven't seen much detail about Block 2, but my reading is that it is being developed exactly for the Aster 30 to become BMD capable.
If you look at the T45 status specifically, some people go out of their way to point out that the T45's/Aster 30 combo lacks, as for now, two important components of theatre BMD, namely range and remote engagement through CEC. The latter could correct for the lack of range (which will be corrected by Block 2).
To state that the T45's are BMD capable, at this stage of their development, is incorrect. I think the RN has said as much?
It was against this background that I stated that all the Dutch would need to do is to decide, as all components that would go onboard have been tested. Not that I have seen any statement of intent on their part.
If you look at the T45 status specifically, some people go out of their way to point out that the T45's/Aster 30 combo lacks, as for now, two important components of theatre BMD, namely range and remote engagement through CEC. The latter could correct for the lack of range (which will be corrected by Block 2).
To state that the T45's are BMD capable, at this stage of their development, is incorrect. I think the RN has said as much?
It was against this background that I stated that all the Dutch would need to do is to decide, as all components that would go onboard have been tested. Not that I have seen any statement of intent on their part.
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Not particularly. For one, ESSM isn't enabled on Sylver silos (really, all Sylver silos can take is Aster and SCALP) and even if it was, it'd make more sense, I think, for us to use CAMM.seaspear wrote:Would there be any advantage in having quad packed essm,s instead of aster 15 to increase numbers available