The problem is that your lo end ship is not that lo end as soon as you add CAMM you need to 3D radar and mid range CMS which drives up the price Also the 3 extra T-31's would be stop gaps with the first 2 or 3 being sold on as T-26 and T-83 come on line also until we know for sure what we are getti...

Really? I see future on it. 100 nm in 30 knots means a bit more than 3 hours on ride. It is a ship to shore connector very different from an LCVP. Speed and sea worthiness are very important and cargo carriage is not a priority. LCVP is more near the mexefloat than this CIC. Any cargo can be carrie...

I was thinking however about any Norway deal and how the RN could win so here is my thinking Norway commit to 5 ships meaning the build plan goes to 10 ships the RN agrees to giving up ships to Norway as long as they get 6 for the price of 5 from a build plan of 14 ships Norway would get ships 3,5,...

Sunak expected to announce that UK will commit to 2.5% on Defence by 2030 - telegraph.

Even if we presume that Sunak won't be in post to honour the commitment, it likely ratchets up pressure on Labour to look 'sensible' to the middle england they're wooing.

would it be absurd to suggest that this F16 move is entirely coordinated by the US as part of a move to lever away Argentina from Russia/China influence? in which case; best not to look at the F16 sale in isolation - using only the [potential] threat to the falklands as the lens through which we con...

Ron5 wrote: ↑18 Apr 2024, 15:05 Basically defending a patch of ocean that wouldn't need defending if nothing was there.

agreed.

Any coincidence that Australia's "Ghost Shark" XLUUV is pictured next to their Bay Class LSD?



The other purpose for docks on amphibious ships.

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, ...

new guy wrote: ↑09 Apr 2024, 16:35

Markam wrote: ↑09 Apr 2024, 13:21 https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/when-wi ... r-service/

they posted this article 9 days too late

can you explain this, please?

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 ...

i wonder if Canada really fits into Aukus:

if they feel the same sense of [urgency] that propels the cooperation of the other partners...?

Ron5 wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024, 15:03

I don't think either are correct. The Navy intends the T31's to have a regular service life and the NSS doesn't mention Parker's idea of selling on "young" ships. Not all of his recommendations were adopted.

cheers, hadn't spotted that.

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...

there is the fact that the T31's are not intended to have a long service life (in the RN).

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

….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...

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...

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...