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- 24 Apr 2024, 15:04
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1499038
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/04/first-type-26-frigate-progresses-towards-completion/ Glasgow is due to be formally named during 2025. Sea trials are planned to start in early 2026, with handover to follow later that same year. Following handover, the RN will undertake a period of train...
- 22 Apr 2024, 11:04
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9753351
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
In very high end situations why not use type 31 as a missile barge? If they do end up fitting mk41 at some point fill it with sm3. If it’s within a task group a type 45 or a usn destroyer can do the tracking and sensing. Or if it’s around nato/uk territories let the assure systems do the hard bit. ...
- 09 Apr 2024, 15:37
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: JAPAN / 日本
- Replies: 460
- Views: 51750
Re: JAPAN / 日本
IMHO, Japan dosn't need SSNs, their SSks with AIP/Batteries are good enough.
- 30 Mar 2024, 13:38
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
- Replies: 6102
- Views: 1774951
Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Didn’t the Joint Harrier Force have 70 a/c with 4 front-line squadrons, each with 9 a/c? Would be sensible IMO to copy that model - allows for one FAA squadron to be regularly deployed on the active carrier in a hybrid LHA role, and another RAF one to be deployed also on the carrier or land base, s...
- 30 Mar 2024, 13:32
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9753351
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 If you need it after only 10 years, than you are doing something very much wrong in construction...
- 22 Mar 2024, 15:51
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Swedish Armed Forces
- Replies: 238
- Views: 25193
Re: Swedish Armed Forces
Meh, way better to pay everything 3x over...tomuk wrote: ↑22 Mar 2024, 08:55Somebody should tell MOD\DE&S about this value for money purchase.sol wrote: ↑20 Mar 2024, 13:31 Sweden purchases 321 6x6 Patria vehicles
https://www.patriagroup.com/newsroom/ne ... rom-patria
- 11 Mar 2024, 16:11
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4471099
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
What is missing, which is a problem throughout UK defence establishment, is a lack of transparency. Everything is hidden behind all too convenient a veil of operational or worse commercial sensitivity. US senators and reps would be banging on the doors of the Pentagon\White House if a similar lack ...
- 01 Mar 2024, 14:58
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1499038
- 28 Feb 2024, 14:33
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Argentina
- Replies: 256
- Views: 17057
Re: Argentina
So will they take the F-16s or what?
- 27 Feb 2024, 15:21
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Italian Armed Forces
- Replies: 936
- Views: 63900
- 27 Feb 2024, 15:17
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4471099
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Perhaps you would have preferred for to “sit out” the biggest NATO exercise in years and remain in Portsmouth harbour until such time as her 3 x Phalanx are re-installed? Ark Royal IV, during the Cold War even involved in a collision with a Russian Kotlin Class destroyer, which had crossed under he...
- 26 Feb 2024, 14:06
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4471099
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Perhaps you would have preferred for to “sit out” the biggest NATO exercise in years and remain in Portsmouth harbour until such time as her 3 x Phalanx are re-installed? Ark Royal IV, during the Cold War even involved in a collision with a Russian Kotlin Class destroyer, which had crossed under he...
- 26 Feb 2024, 14:05
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4471099
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Rather concerning that neither TIDESURGE nor PWLS have Phalanx or any other form of self-protection.....so if something unexpected occurs (history shows that it often does) they are completely undefended against any 'leakers' that might get past the escorts. Even more worryng is the lack of RNs esc...
- 25 Feb 2024, 19:33
- Forum: Conflicts
- Topic: RED SEA - Houthi attacks
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3251
- 21 Feb 2024, 20:27
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
- Replies: 159
- Views: 85238
- 21 Feb 2024, 16:47
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
- Replies: 159
- Views: 85238
Re: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
MOD quote however we are confident that the anomaly was event specific, and therefore there are no implications for the reliability of the wider Trident missile systems and stockpile If this is a 2nd failure of the system and given current world events, is this really a good enough response? :eh: T...
- 21 Feb 2024, 13:51
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9753351
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
How many times. OPV 80m, River B2 or you unicorn OPV+ do not add meaningful mass. Completely disagree. The non-combatants allow the combatants to focus fully on the areas where they are most required. Anti-narcotics patrols do not require Frigates or Destroyers but they do require a Wildcat with a ...
- 20 Feb 2024, 14:50
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Australian Defence Force
- Replies: 2630
- Views: 755121
- 15 Feb 2024, 17:01
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4471099
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
You got to admit it really is embarrassing David Cameron saying anything about UK forces at all ,the main reason for swaging cuts to manpower and equipment ,17k if memory serves me right and 40% tank forces cut , carriers, harriers cut ,etc etc , just crazy , think everyone is going to throw that i...
- 15 Feb 2024, 17:00
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4471099
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Any info on how many F-35s are aboard PoW? Hopefully this year’s work ups and next year’s CSG25 will help turn things around and put an end to all this bad press. A few solid deployments can do wonders - see Ford and Charles de Gaulle, which also faced PR nightmares in their early years. Leaving yo...
- 15 Feb 2024, 14:27
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4471099
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
I find the absence of Phalanx on PWLS to be humiliating. The sight of such a large, magnificent and expensive ship proudly sailing out of Portsmouth virtually defenceless at a time of rising world tension and risk of conflict is deeply concerning. There is the fact that our carriers are virtually u...
- 14 Feb 2024, 13:59
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
- Replies: 570
- Views: 150798
Re: Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
The T31 are not pointless they will provide a lot more utility going forward than another batch of OPVs. They absolutely are if all we are doing is defaulting to a solution without defining the question and ensuring it’s a priority. We cannot afford the crew to forward base the existing T31s, so we...
- 13 Feb 2024, 16:22
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
- Replies: 570
- Views: 150798
Re: Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
IMHO, the best option for the RN would be to buy 5-6 MCM motherships like that Dutch/Belgian/French project, and just name it Type 32 frigates... With maybe better range and speed than tipical MCM ship. After all, the Hunts are really long in the teeths... That's what the LSV programme is. Yes, but...
- 13 Feb 2024, 16:21
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Project Crowsnest (RN)
- Replies: 220
- Views: 81367
Re: Project Crowsnest (RN)
jonas wrote: ↑13 Feb 2024, 14:02 Crowsnest OSD 2029 !!
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/crowsne ... vice-2029/
OMFG
- 13 Feb 2024, 16:16
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
- Replies: 570
- Views: 150798
Re: Type 32 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]
IMHO, the best option for the RN would be to buy 5-6 MCM motherships like that Dutch/Belgian/French project, and just name it Type 32 frigates... With maybe better range and speed than tipical MCM ship. After all, the Hunts are really long in the teeths... That's what the LSV programme is. Yes, but...