Why does the UK need to do littoral ASW? Surely everything that needs doing can be done from a CVF a few hundred miles offshore.

By the way, the person who said the RN doesn't have UAV's and isn't interested in them, is talking nonsense.

R686 wrote:Will a future RN have CEC, T26 will be able to cue the shot for T31, just a thought

First candidates for CEC or analogous function would be carriers & T45's. T31s would be about 20th on the list.

No plans to get it either.

The UK wouldn't directly try to intervene in a military coupe in Nigeria. So you could substitute the Battlestar Galactica for a T31. It's still not going to happen. UK Intervention in Sierra Leonne in 2000 enabled us to put boots on the ground, with naval support (which included Ocean and Illustio...

So matching you r#1 ally, the one country you are most likely to go to war with, is a worse option than matching your #1 likely enemies???? Ah Ron5 thanks I am bit slow, now I understand why we kept using 60Hz, it's actually a cunning defensive feature to stop the good guys from shooting at us. :lo...

sea_eagle wrote:better option

So matching you r#1 ally, the one country you are most likely to go to war with, is a worse option than matching your #1 likely enemies????

Oh OK.

Current plan is to place contracts in 2020. So four years to figure out who to design & build. Who knows when the ships will actually start building.

Seems a tad slow.

GibMariner wrote:More photos of HMS Forth under construction: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/picture ... completion

Looks like they're being built in the municipal dump.

Huh? You supplied the quote. Obviously all your fault.

All T45's are at their home port. http://news.sky.com/story/all-royal-navys-advanced-destroyers-in-port-10516991 Reasons why. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/despite-issues-majority-of-type-45-destroyer-fleet-remains-operational/ The Type 45 is the most advanced BMD platform in the world ?????? Giv...

All T45's are at their home port. http://news.sky.com/story/all-royal-navys-advanced-destroyers-in-port-10516991 Reasons why. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/despite-issues-majority-of-type-45-destroyer-fleet-remains-operational/ The Type 45 is the most advanced BMD platform in the world ?????? Giv...

Don't know if you can all read this but here goes anyway ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07 ... y-engines/

Ian Booth's latest blog is available here: http://www.aircraftcarrieralliance.co.uk/delivering-the-nations-flagships/programme-director-blog/yr-2016/july-16/july-blog.aspx I'm sure some F-35 hater will soon pick up on the QE tracking F-35's on it's Long Range Radar....and in the next paragraph ment...

I wonder what they have planned for that dock now or is it prep work to disassemble the SSBN and SSN hulls It is yes, that is the future for Rosyth Why don't they have a go at bidding for the FSS contract. Would they be so much more uncompetitive than South Korea when you take into account all the ...

Dispersion is nothing new and cannot be eliminated. The requirement is 5 milliradians, 80% circle. A-10 levels of accuracy, on a faster, nimbler firing platform. That still means that the rounds get spread on several meters... and that up to 20% of the rounds go even further out of target. The gun ...

We forgot to celebrate breaking through the 1000 member number barrier (was it yesterday), but let's celebrate that Ron, marktigger and myself are in a three-way agreement... does not happen every day :o :shock: :D I agree with the general sentiment *unprecedented consensus intensifies* Double shoot!

5" gun deliveries from 2020... http://www.baesystems.com/en/article/bae-systems-awarded--245-million-contract-for-uk-type-26-gun-system IMHO, that price ( 245 mil. ) for just 3 guns is a bloody robbery... Come on, automation and qualified ammunition or not, 80 bloody millions per gun ( allmost...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:We forgot to celebrate breaking through the 1000 member number barrier (was it yesterday), but let's celebrate that Ron, marktigger and myself are in a three-way agreement... does not happen every day

Holy shoot, I need go lie down!!

i still don't think that lets BaE fully of the hook yes the customer chose the WR21 they BaE should have made it work and as reliably I think you mean Rolls Royce, they had the contract for the WR21. Anyhow, it's been admitted that running the engine for longer in the shore establishment (the only ...

Seeing that we don't know what's included in the contract it's a bit daft to get excited about the cost. But if I was a Brit I'd be really upset by the Baldwin woman claiming that the UK defense budget is increasing when it's been going downhill for years. That's a bare faced, blatant lie. Every yea...

5" gun deliveries from 2020... http://www.baesystems.com/en/article/bae-systems-awarded--245-million-contract-for-uk-type-26-gun-system IMHO, that price ( 245 mil. ) for just 3 guns is a bloody robbery... Come on, automation and qualified ammunition or not, 80 bloody millions per gun ( allmost...

I was amused by the comment from the MoD lady that the ships were effectively out of warranty and that is why industry would not have to pay. They really need to coordinate their "everything is rosy at the MoD" stories because the last one said that the then Minister of Defense Hoon had a...

To state the obvious, a growing percentage of world trade is now based in SE/E Asia with a large proportion passing through the Straits of Malacca. This has a direct link to the UK economy. At the same time there is a growing instability in the region and increasing militarisation - leading to a ce...

marktigger wrote:on the 847 video what is below the Optronics package on the underside of the nose?

Wire cutter.

FuNsTeR wrote:ASCOD developed roughly at the same time as the Warrior

mmm I don't think so

Dispersion looks crap. No doubt due to the wibbly wobbly pod mounting.