In many cases the main reason for forward basing is diplomacy; sending the political message to friendly and not so friendly nations in the area that the UK is committed to the area and is prepared to backup UK interests with military force if necessary. It can be argued that this is why we have an ...

What we are talking about is the possibility of forward basing the T31, not operational availability. It would be a radical change and require most maintenance and ship training to be conducted at this forward location. It has been done for OPVs (Falklands) and MCMVs (Bahrain), but it would be a big...

if they get 5 2 forward deployed in barhain to cover east africa and gulf 1 Bermuda for wigs 1 falklands 1 UK for training If there are 6 Type 31s: a. 1 in Oman (Duqm) to cover Gulf and East Africa b. 1 in Singapore to have presence in far East c. 1 in Gibraltar to cover Mediterranean and link with...

The Defence Contracts Office web site has information on the FSS Industry Day. https://www.contracts.mod.uk/announcements/fleet-solid-support-industry-day/ The assessment phase is due to run until the main gate decision in Dec 2019. During the assessment phase DE&S is looking to place contracts ...