Soft 'kill' doesn't kill it. So while it's useful for a Singleton unit to deflect a Missile, it's not very helpful if your in a Fleet situation. Ask Atlantic Conveyor. Deflect if you can't kill, but you might piss your neighbour off. What worries me is the increase in Anti-Ship Missile threats from...

Assuming that the 4*Tides and future 3*FSS ae required to support the two carriers and LRG(N) then I am in favour of (evntually) having a couple of ships like the current Waves or the afore mentioned BMT Aegir logistic support vessels, or even the previous initial version of BMT Ellida multi-role lo...

SW1 wrote: ↑17 Nov 2023, 14:32

This would be perfect for H&W Appledore and would increase the portfolio of UK ship designs that we could offer to potential export customers.

Shouldn’t we get some design indications for T83 in the next year or so? If the RAN take up BAE Australia's proposal for a Hunter Class Batch 2 AAW variant, then I would say that is a front-runner fot RN's T83 design. Although I would still like to see at least one more T26 ASW added to current Gov...

As the 1SL made clear dauntless was sent to the Caribbean at the direction of the armed forces minister as he wanted a major surface vessel in the region to support wider security tasks and a presence in the hurricane season. The tasks the general purpose frigates were supposed to undertake except ...

Why do we need constant operation? Why do we cry over capability gaps then? They are the same, at different scales. What I mean is readiness doesn't matter over ships actually being used. Capability gaps are not the same as constant operation. We have a capability gap on E3 Sentry AEW for example, ...

The Army has procured this for the moment: https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/06/game-changing-anti-drone-weapon-sight-for-army-s-close-combat-soldiers/#:~:text=The%20capability%20can%20recognise%20a,other%20in%2Dservice%20individual%20weapons. 225? What's that? One per platoon? I pr...

Great to see the building relationship between UK and Poland on GBAD.

If the Poles are to have 24 batteries, then I wonder how many we will have....

Some delayed but long awaited good news with standing up of 809 NAS:

here you go: According to BAE the up-armed, Batch II Hunter, maintains 85% commonality with the existing ships that are under construction at Osborne, South Australia. The most significant difference is the removal of the Thales Sonar 2087 towed array and various other unspecified Anti-Submarine Wa...

8ac625bbe4f906407be4bf8a83b7585e.jpeg That's a very angry looking T26! The Royal Navy has two good options for a future destroyer, and the time to study them. The improved Hunter is a great option with high commonality and industrial continuity. The more radical approaches sound more appealing if t...

donald_of_tokyo wrote: ↑06 Nov 2023, 15:13 HMS Cardiff under build is "covered" in ~50% of the area. Almost totally covered... Interesting, as a temporary measure.

Polystyrene as the new stealth coating??!!

Yes, I also left Barrow because it will be doing it's own thing, a.k.a all the subs. As for appledore I would turn it into a Tier 3 (MCMV, MROSS, GPV, OPV, e.c.t) maintenance place as babcock does more and more construction and submarine deconstruction. This has been demonstrated with the MCMV's to...

£1.2bn, across 3 yards. Babcock for smaller stuff, H&W for the large things, Glasgow for the fighty things. How would you split it? 1 ship per yard per year? £400m each? e.c.t. what is that, 1 large ship / support ship, 1 escort ship, 2 minor vessels per year. Making the assumption that you spl...

Whilst I like what you have proposed, I fear it is too ambitious this side of 2030. I don't know enough about your costings but am more interested in the differing crew requirements for the three ship designs that you proposed. Im not really proposing it, simply pointing out that the 6x MRSS plan i...

I can't see us ever having 4 Flattops it is just to much but buying one LPH would allow for two duty carriers to be active one in the Strike role and the other in LPH and this is the best we can hope for along side say 4 x 200 by 30 meter MRSS and 5 x 100 by 12 meter SLV's Im not sure about that, R...

Personal take - Italy will always find the money for a top end product. Always. Despite all of the ups and downs of Italian politics over the last 50 years Ferrari never went out of production, neither did Ducati, Riva, Benelli, Oto-Melara, Agusta, Fincantieri. It doesn't matter where they have to ...

Fine as far as it goes, however what happens when either the MRSS Role 3 or the LHA//LHD goes in for a deep re-fit (especially if it is an LHD)? One solution to the Role 3 problem might be to modularise it, so that it could then be available aboard any of the 4 x MRSS as and when required. The only...

Basically the above is advocating life extension over renewal. It's reasonable, and pushes the problem further down the road, running old ships harder for longer, like the Navy is struggling to do with the T23's. I'm not convinced this is better than selling off ships and building new ones, like th...

Scimitar54 wrote: ↑30 Oct 2023, 22:14 Just one reason why 8 x T26 is not an adequate number.

I agree - I would like at least one more T26.

For me what is needed is a mix of capabilities so starting with the LRG out at 80km's off the coast with say 2 escorts with 127mm main gun firing Volcano rounds out to 90+ Km's plus 2 x Amphibs with M270A2's with say GSDB firing out to 150Km's next up would be RM launching Hero 120 loiter weapon's ...

https://www.navylookout.com/bmt-develop-second-generation-ellida-multi-role-and-logistic-vessel-concept/ I really liked the original BMT ELLIDA design. Having say half of the planned 6*MRSS with logistics and refuelling would have been some even partial replacement of the capability offered by the ...

Intresting look on 2nd page at UK (and French and US) bases across the Indo-Pacific.
And also the 3rd page at interrelationships between:
Quad / AUKUS / FPDA / ASEAN

Chinook was one.

Some good news if St Albans getting ready for active service.
Another precious T23 ASW finishing LIFEX.