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- 15 Apr 2024, 19:57
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
BAE are already planning on significantly compressing build time once they move into the new shed. Incorrect. Lister is on record as saying the increased efficiency is to get the ships back on the original schedule. He intimated that the one off delays Covid etc would be recovered by boat 5 and aft...
- 15 Apr 2024, 19:38
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
We've already lost Westminster of the T23ASW, and Monmouth, Montrose and v likely Argyll of the T23GPs. All before delivery of any T26 or T31. True. But would they be crewed if they hadn't been lost? The 3 x GPs will be covered by T31, all of which are scheduled to be delivered by 2030. If we've al...
- 15 Apr 2024, 18:07
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/15/bae-pushes-to-delay-royal-navy-frigate-to-prioritise-norway/ BAE pushes to delay Royal Navy frigate to prioritise Norway deal Bid to sell submarine-hunting warships to Norway hinges on Royal Navy accepting delays This is completely impossible the T23 ...
- 15 Apr 2024, 11:48
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Does it really matter? Those two type 26s will still be operating, in the same area, hunting the same enemy. The RNs CAPEX gets pushed to the right and the UK wins its largest naval export orderin decades. Also - do the Norwegians need a barely used tanker by any chance? Difficult one, but based on...
- 15 Apr 2024, 11:08
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Never thought of it that way. True! We've gone all around the houses to get back to where we should have been from day 1 with a modernised frigate factory pumping out 13 x T26s.Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024, 10:56
Effectively Norway would be funding the 5x T26 that HMG refused to fund.
Jeez we make life hard for ourselves
- 15 Apr 2024, 10:35
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Bloody hell, what a choice to make. Nice to see the UK government ham fisted approach to the Type 26 coming back to kick us in the ass again. That positive note I had yesterday lasted less than 24 hours. A British bid to sell submarine-hunting warships to Norway cannot go ahead unless the Royal Nav...
- 15 Apr 2024, 09:29
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Does it really matter? Those two type 26s will still be operating, in the same area, hunting the same enemy.
The RNs CAPEX gets pushed to the right and the UK wins its largest naval export orderin decades.
Also - do the Norwegians need a barely used tanker by any chance?
The RNs CAPEX gets pushed to the right and the UK wins its largest naval export orderin decades.
Also - do the Norwegians need a barely used tanker by any chance?
- 12 Apr 2024, 21:20
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/glasgow-frigate-shipyard-keen-for-international-orders/ Sir Simon stating,(in respect of Govan) “We’ve got eight to nine years of steelwork ahead of us. If there’s no prospect of another class of ship, we’ll need to slow down a bit to bridge the gap. However, we are a...
- 12 Apr 2024, 16:13
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/bae-target-dramatic-reduction-in-frigate-build-time/ We aim to reduce the build duration from the first of class being 96 months to the eighth being 60 months. More than that, we intend to compress the interval between ships from 18 months to 12 Now that’s an opportu...
- 11 Apr 2024, 21:54
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 5715
- Views: 1501042
Re: Type 26 Frigate (City Class) (RN) [News Only]
Report in the Torygraph that Bae at Govan have now deployed the radical unheard of innovation called Robotic Welding to “recover lost time on batch 1 of T26 and make up for a shortage of welders” Personally, were I a welder with a choice between working outside under a tarp in the Scottish winter, o...
- 10 Apr 2024, 13:05
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Multi-Role Support Ships (MRSS)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 15357
Re: Multi-Role Support Ships (MRSS)
Maybe something got lost in translation, this makes little sense. Since when are we planning to do single ship amphib deployments - that’s the opposite of the LRG concept.
Sounds like the RN program has been pushed to the right, cue 5 years of concepts and studies…
Sounds like the RN program has been pushed to the right, cue 5 years of concepts and studies…
- 09 Apr 2024, 10:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: SSN-AUKUS Future Astute Replacement (2030s) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 249
- Views: 94411
Re: SSN-AUKUS Future Astute Replacement (2030s) (RN) [News Only]
Another member? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/08/canada-justin-trudeau/. Canada could join Aukus defence pact as Trudeau considers nuclear sub patrols in Arctic waters…….The Canadian prime minister says he has already held ‘excellent conversations’ with the US, UK and Australia ove...
- 06 Apr 2024, 16:52
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: Airlander Airship
- Replies: 73
- Views: 11116
Re: Airlander Airship
They have a reservation backlog of £1 billion - interestingly many seem to be from operators based in the Med. Which kind of makes sense - good weather, twice as fast as a boat, major airport infrastructure not needed. Could carve out a niche in Island hopping
- 06 Apr 2024, 15:52
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9757061
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Not sure where to put this https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/01/norway-seeks-international-partners-for-future-frigate/ Norway looking to buy 5 new frigates “from a close ally”with build to start asap. Looking for a top end ASW ship and the responsible Officer specifically name checks the va...
- 05 Apr 2024, 16:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9757061
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Not quite he was born in Tottenham...Scimitar54 wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 16:14 SD67
Of Guyanese descent maybe, but NOT Guyanese as he was born in the UK.
- 05 Apr 2024, 16:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9757061
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
But they are still in the ground they aren't preventing access to any one. The shocks to the economy due to Ukraine have been due to a lack of Russian Gas and Oil not Ukrainian. I suggest you read up on the subject a bit more. Putin and the oligarchs are obsessed with acquiring wealth. The oil, gas...
- 05 Apr 2024, 15:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9757061
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
But they are still in the ground they aren't preventing access to any one. The shocks to the economy due to Ukraine have been due to a lack of Russian Gas and Oil not Ukrainian. I suggest you read up on the subject a bit more. Putin and the oligarchs are obsessed with acquiring wealth. The oil, gas...
- 05 Apr 2024, 12:15
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3578
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
Ah the what ifs. Joined up government thinking and no service silos. I fear we may be repeating the same mistakes with drones but time will tell
Right now some new build AV8Bs would be useful to lob LGBs at Houthis
Right now some new build AV8Bs would be useful to lob LGBs at Houthis
- 02 Apr 2024, 21:58
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9757061
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The global meltdown that will ensue if we give the CCP control of 80% of the microchips on which our economy is dependent would be far worse. Frankly it would be the end of the western world as we know it. From that point on Japan would be effectively Finlandised and Australia would be next - with h...
- 02 Apr 2024, 13:57
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9757061
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
IMHO we're in the grey zone already. China is a massive customer for Iranian Oil, I struggle to think those attacks are happening spontaneously. If China continue to ratchet up the pressure on Taiwan then some sort of confrontation with the USN is inevitable. In that case we can assume the USN will ...
- 31 Mar 2024, 19:52
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9757061
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Whilst I do not buy the idea that Russia will be in a position to launch a major ground attack on NATO countries anytime soon, I can see a conflict in the far east having an knock on impact to the European region (and possibly Gulf, South America and Africa through proxy wars). One plausible scenar...
- 27 Mar 2024, 19:11
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Project Mosquito / Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA)
- Replies: 128
- Views: 40138
Re: Project Mosquito / Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA)
Really good document, thanks for posting.
Interesting, the graphic is cross-domain - Land Sea Air, specifically mentions carrier strike and ASW. Surely this should all be joint, or at least RN + RAF
Interesting, the graphic is cross-domain - Land Sea Air, specifically mentions carrier strike and ASW. Surely this should all be joint, or at least RN + RAF
- 27 Mar 2024, 15:00
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3578
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
That must have been a wrenching painful decision for those chaps, having to start a new life in 1960s California.
- 27 Mar 2024, 14:42
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 1002255
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
" A fixed-price contract for the program’s development has additionally forced Boeing to absorb approximately $1.3 billion in losses to date. "
Read that and weep, it would never happen here. Not with Boeing, not with BAE (Nimrod), not with GDUK Land Systems.
Read that and weep, it would never happen here. Not with Boeing, not with BAE (Nimrod), not with GDUK Land Systems.
- 26 Mar 2024, 11:38
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3578
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
avbucc_6.png Here's the aircraft that should have been developed post TSR2, the Blackburn P150. It was a realistic project, a long range strike aircraft using the Buccaneer as a starting point, stretching it, applying area ruling and using the already developed Spey with reheat combination from the...