hill helicopters have a nice series on you-tube to.

Apparently real damen MRSS proposal Looks like the Damen Enforcer reference design we've known about for years. It looks like a modern iteration of the Bay Class, which is no bad thing. Can't really tell if there is anything new until Naval news publishes. At most, a few minor design changes, but I...

BAE LPX / MRSS design then https://twitter.com/xaviervav/status/1730942587702304768/photo/2 designed to operate as a littoral pack with ASF. For more info we will have to wait on naval news article and video, which will not come for a few days as they have a lot to cover at the expo and have only ju...

Shit is going down in the gulf https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1731430823084081369 USS Carney is still being attacked too. It seems more and more likely that not only will HMS Diamond shoot in anger, but she may even be forced to mag dump. We are looking at up to £100m in ammo should there be...

Yes the point stands though, that the requirement to integrate Stingray should have been specified and costed into the original PIN / ITT. Except that there never was a Tender because for about the 300th time Boeing were handed a juicy contract without a competition. But hey it's progress, fair pla...

Timmymagic wrote: ↑03 Dec 2023, 10:55

tomuk wrote: ↑01 Dec 2023, 20:40 On P8 because it flies higher than Nimrod you can't just drop the torpedo it needs wings.

And yet 10 years after P-8's IOC it still does not have that capability...

It does with MK54.

@SW1, I saw you replied to my post but it’s gone? It is couldn’t be bothered going round this you on this any longer. If you think this extremely limited vessel 3 of which the French built and transferred the one already built for €398m to Argentina could be built in the uk for £100m for the RN and...

Thanks, but did you accidentally put on wrong thread?

I called it when BAE parcially unveiled it earlier this year.

Apparently real damen MRSS proposal


Adding to damen general range,
BMT ellida range,
And the BAE option.

With all the recent investment in U.K. yards combined with the rising experience levels as the programs proceed there is no reason why building naval vessels in the U.K. is going to be automatically more expensive than other advanced European economies with comparable labour costs. One costs £100m ...

LRG/N will probably always be with JEF, because, well, what else is there.
Just like LSG/S will be EoS

1) Neither QNLZ or PWLS would be sailing at 15 knots, most likely their maximum sustained speed. 2) A 72 hour readiness period for PWLS would not be required, because it would be included within the transit time (unless the requirements, as at 3) were to be supplied via a USN naval base. 3) The maj...

1) Humanitarian aid importance will be dictated by future government and its priorities. 2) Wouldn't say that MMD is a 'outrageous luxury', just some features of it. Though I do amit that a bit of it's value came from also being a GP frigate at the time of it's inception, you would be surprised how...

1) HMS PoW is much closer.

2) It is about a 10 or 11 day sail at 15 knots, add 3 days on because the rediness requirement is for 72 hours, then it could be a two week voyage there.

3) We won't do anything.

mk54 was always planned as the intermediary.

This has and always was separate to NMH, these FOST helicopters are owned by a contractor, like the aggressor aircraft we also have on contract. Completely unrelated to NMH. Yes, but with the MoD stating what aircraft they would prefer, there has to be a link in their thinking. At least, I hope som...

Interesting post from Gabriel, is this a sign that the AW149 has won NMH (as we all expected it probably would) or if something else wins, is it a sign that the MoD is going to add yet another type to the inventory instead of using some joined-up thinking (and we all probably expect this too :lol: ...

I think it's time to start looking at the delivery times of F-35 vs tempest. Tempest with deliveries starting 2035, how quickly will our F-35B Batch 2 order arrive? Is the +27 jets worth it? Used as delay overlap? Batch 3? Larger Batch 2? All important questions. I don't put this against tempest, ju...

Scimitar54 wrote: ↑28 Nov 2023, 00:28 Diego Garcia?

British Indian Ocean Territory



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia

Hey, that sounds an awful lot like the BAE leander...
which costs the same as a AH140...

used for mainland french patrol and nuclear deterrence missions.

Further to recent OPV discussions. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/11/frances-dga-orders-7-new-opv-for-the-french-navy/ 7 new French 2400t OPVs for €900m or £112m unit. A stretched River to 115m LOA and around 2500t at £125m unit certainly looks plausible in comparison. Did a large post a...

The French navy has ordered 7 new larger OPV's. A bit over £100m each. Initial 7, +3 in the future around ~2030 The Patrouilleurs Hauturiers OPVs will have a displacement of about 2,400 tons. The vessels can accommodate up to 84 personnel (crew + passengers) and have a range of 6,000 nautical miles....