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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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…

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...

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

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...

Scimitar54 wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 16:14 SD67

Of Guyanese descent maybe, but NOT Guyanese as he was born in the UK.

Not quite he was born in Tottenham...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

That must have been a wrenching painful decision for those chaps, having to start a new life in 1960s California.

" 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.

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...

If I could have given that comment 10 thumbs up, I would have :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Bring it on! IMHO we needed two aircraft - an evolved supersonic Buccaneer and an evolved supersonic Hunter ie P1121. And then continue spiral deve...

Just flapping his arms in hope of a bigger work share. One line had me scratching my head: If participating nations just want a next-gen platform, he said, that “already exists — it is called F-35 and can be modified easily.” I kind of agree. Sounds like lastminute workshare negotiations, let's fac...

We should just cut Boeing a cheque for a billion a year as a xmas present and save all this mucking around.

The Chairman of Boeing UK is a former top Civil Servant

“Thank you sir may I have another!”

2 billion GBP for 14 chinooks

Sheesh

Well at least they won’t have a door to blow out mid flight.

And this is the day after a Boeing whistleblower “suicided”…