So did the 1998 UK SDR.

OSD for Merlin is 2040, will not be surprised if it is extended.

See directly above my edited post.

NSM needs to be fitted urgently, on the Royal Danish Navy's Frigates to replace Harpoon, the RN must be looking where to fit NSM on Type 31, hopefully in a box set admidship?

Apologies for not making this clearer.

It looks dreadful.

Thanks Tempest414

Is this rifle going to be adopted, by special forces and the rest of the UK armed forces?

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1751175348153151947 This decision needs to be reversed, to at least the original out of service date of 2043, otherwise we will have only 13 frigates with a 15+ miles Sea Ceptor missiles, without the necessary radar for longer range missiles and the gap in Type...

And adding to new guy, some of you are really obsessed by the topic, repeating with reams of previous submitted information, now on page 214, with 5342 posts.

We will be working with our allies and friends, to provide additional capability (Argus and Cardigan Bay) supported by their naval/air capability.

Political failure at the highest level, post 1997, which is uncomfortable to the Conservative and Labour parties as well as the Liberal Democrats (the two senior members in the quad) during the 2010 - 2015 coalition, compounded by being ill informed and not being interested in defence, this applies ...

The other alternative, is to bring forward Type 83.

I have several worries, one that if we have a gap in medium air defence if Type 45 is retired before at least two Type 83 are fully operational and another one is accepted from BAE. Building an extra three Type 26 would mean increasing the size of the Royal Navy total personnel, it would also allow ...

The three additional ships I mentioned, I should have made clear, in my opinion were Type 26, so we would end up with 11.

I was told by BAE, a year ago that there was more than a four year gap between the eighth Type 26 and the first type 83, makes sense to build another three frigates, with a medium air defence radar capability added and additional 24 VLS cells added for Aster 30 Block 1, if Type 45 are decommissioned...

Ben Wallace not Williamson/Williams is Secretary of State for Defence.

Eight box launchers, allows eight other missiles type on the Mk. 41's, useful if you have only 32 cells, like tactical Tomahawk Mk.5 (which could be replaced by hypersonic missiles), the rest medium range/anti-ballistic/anti-hypersonic glide surface to air missiles. The later would need upgraded rad...

Interesting article https://breakingdefense.com/2023/06/fcas-scaf-tempest-explaining-europes-sixth-generation-fighter-efforts/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=263160778&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--p8_AgzgSuoLJ2EGAijOQXyTinPLH2dVYAmxZOWZ0ZGCI-eUj4n7fnevdtHxelY2KlPqkC7ljsAY1AAa-ZgfLTg89ztg&utm_content=26316077...

Aviation Week 8-21 May 2023 article, the initial engine is the General Electric F110, used on Turkey's F-16s.

Going way off topic

This post is about Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest), we are way off topic, discussing India, which is unlikely to get involved.

This is the Type 45 thread, we are straying away from the topic, which should be in a Type 83 thread.

It is ExLS not EXcL launcher

There is also high inflation over the next couple of years.