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- 18 Apr 2024, 15:12
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19328
- Views: 9710951
- 18 Apr 2024, 11:06
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Any coincidence that Australia's "Ghost Shark" XLUUV is pictured next to their Bay Class LSD?
The other purpose for docks on amphibious ships.
The other purpose for docks on amphibious ships.
- 15 Apr 2024, 15:22
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: AUKUS (in general)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1072
Re: AUKUS (in general)
they can of course, they're a rich and advanced nation. but do they feel any sense of urgency about a need to afford AUKUS entry? they a remote land power comfortably nestled in the embrace of the regional hegemon, they don't have to do anything except enable NORAD activity. for different reasons, ...
- 10 Apr 2024, 09:00
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
- Replies: 570
- Views: 148000
Re: Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
- 09 Apr 2024, 15:59
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: AUKUS (in general)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1072
Re: AUKUS (in general)
i wonder if Canada really fits into Aukus…. I wonder if Canada can afford to fit into AUKUS? they can of course, they're a rich and advanced nation. but do they feel any sense of urgency about a need to afford AUKUS entry? they a remote land power comfortably nestled in the embrace of the regional ...
- 09 Apr 2024, 15:11
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: AUKUS (in general)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1072
Re: AUKUS (in general)
i wonder if Canada really fits into Aukus:
if they feel the same sense of [urgency] that propels the cooperation of the other partners...?
if they feel the same sense of [urgency] that propels the cooperation of the other partners...?
- 31 Mar 2024, 19:43
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19328
- Views: 9710951
- 30 Mar 2024, 13:25
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19328
- Views: 9710951
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
there is the fact that the T31's are not intended to have a long service life (in the RN). A) is that a fact B) is that realistic ? A good life plan would be 20 years with a mid life upgrade at 10 years pretty much written into the NSS - that the purpose of the type31 is to reduce service life to g...
- 30 Mar 2024, 11:50
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19328
- Views: 9710951
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
there is the fact that the T31's are not intended to have a long service life (in the RN).
- 29 Mar 2024, 18:42
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Is the concept that different to the brigade reconnaissance forces that were formed to support the brigade’s that were sent to Afghanistan or indeed the long range reconnaissance group that deployed to Mali only configured to deploy from the sea in complex terrain against a high end enemy. They don...
- 29 Mar 2024, 15:51
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Secondly, can everything that 3Cdo and 16AAB needs (on land) be made air mobile by underslung Chinook? It’s essential IMO. [If] we've made the choice that the RM are out of the business of combined arms maneuvre under armour, then sure. [If] the game is now 72hr raids by company sized units of nava...
- 26 Mar 2024, 14:23
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
I think you are missing an important option that sits between those two extremes : a) Is it to launch brigade level amphibious operations? b) Is it to launch battlegroup level amphibious operations? * c) Is it a platform for reinforced SF operations? * the minimum scale at which combined arms maneu...
- 26 Mar 2024, 09:12
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Before dismissing such a group the consideration must be what can a modernised ARG actually achieve? We need to start with what is the requirement in a UK context, and then decide what it needs to do. Is it to launch brigade level amphibious operations? Is it to transport large formations or troops...
- 26 Mar 2024, 09:09
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
i'm not expecting a more peaceful Europe in the 21st century, but I do work to the following: 1. the scale of the threat from russia today is an order of magnitude smaller than was the case when britain was staring down the barrel of 15 soviet shock armies. 2. in consequence, the threat that russia...
- 25 Mar 2024, 13:01
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
The answer to your original question is No. That is an opinion that i do not share. The vast majority are not spending 2.0% nor will they for many years yet, outside of Greece and Poland no major country in Europe is spending 2.5% Accepted - my point was more that if the UK did respond to events by...
- 25 Mar 2024, 09:47
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
no. no more so than was true in the 19th century. more purple if you will - at the direction of a maritime strategy, yes. The maritime strategy was historically designed to firstly contain Spain then France in the 18th/19th centuries followed by Germany in the first half of the 20th century. The re...
- 25 Mar 2024, 07:47
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Before that, why does the U.K. need to continue with the post-war/cold-war funding paradigm that treats the army as primary source of security, rather than an expeditionary adjunct to a broader maritime power projection? Are you suggesting deleting the Army entirely and just rebuilding around a UKM...
- 24 Mar 2024, 15:20
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
….so people, please tell me more about how tragically expensive the carriers are to run, and how the magic solution is provided by cheap flat-top amphibs...? Before that, why does the U.K. require two active CVFs if only ~2.2% GDP is being spent on defence? It is gradually stripping out the rest of...
- 24 Mar 2024, 11:29
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 979704
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
We could see FCAS being more Tomcat size in which case it’s not hugely off the F22 or what we expect GCAP to be, and this gets me thinking with how long the QEs are expected to be in service and how this could see changes to CATOBAR at some point could we see down the line a carrier variant of GCAP...
- 24 Mar 2024, 11:13
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
in fact no one has come back with good reason as why a flat top LPD would be a bad move nothing wrong with a flattop, it is literally a zero cost option vis-a-vis any other configuiration of amphib - provided all other core tasks are accomodated. that is not to say that you can anything useful with...
- 18 Mar 2024, 12:43
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
can you point me to that, please? *curious*Tempest414 wrote: ↑18 Mar 2024, 12:40
It also has been said somewhere that the RM could go with 4 x LSU's of 500 instead of 8 x 250
- 05 Feb 2024, 15:13
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
- Replies: 193
- Views: 63026
Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
ooh, yes, i missed that:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=HMT+80 ... &ia=images
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=HMT+80 ... &ia=images
- 05 Feb 2024, 10:09
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
- Replies: 193
- Views: 63026
- 02 Feb 2024, 10:36
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
- Replies: 193
- Views: 63026
Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
new suspension and a windscreen?
not complaining, i like the vehicle, just curious if that is what constitutes the difference this 3rd gen brings...
not complaining, i like the vehicle, just curious if that is what constitutes the difference this 3rd gen brings...
- 30 Jan 2024, 19:19
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1860776
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
looks like a steel beach rather than a dock from the image.