Because of the press coverage of recent failures/accidents. Why do you think that press coverage of recent accidents, particularly the fire on board HMS QE, should cause red faces amongst the "Top Brass" Where is the open and transparent press release from MOD to cut this off at the pass?...

bobp wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 21:17 This is the resurrection of a old contract that was cancelled by the previous Defence Secretary as being too costly or unaffordable at the time. Been going on for a few years.

I know hence my question.

14 extended range chinooks on order... https://www.gov.uk/government/news/capability-boost-for-uks-global-military-operations-as-contract-confirmed-for-new-chinooks No cost for the 14 Chinooks quoted just a £300m discount and £150m of UK industrial gains. 2.3 billion before discount I believe. Yes ...

Jensy wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 15:36 I'm guessing from this that neither of the jets have been fitted with their military spec yet.... particularly the anti-jammimg and spoofing suite.

I suppose the anti-spoofing kit can't be fitted until Michael Green leaves office as defence secretary.

bobp wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 17:49 14 extended range chinooks on order...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/capa ... w-chinooks

No cost for the 14 Chinooks quoted just a £300m discount and £150m of UK industrial gains.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/03/singapore-cuts-steel-on-its-first-multirole-combat-vessel-mrcv/ Interesting concept. Not quite an amphib, not quite an escort. At 8,000t it's a fair bit bigger than the Absalon Class too. - Leonardo’s 76mm naval gun in the STRALES variant; - MBDA’s VL MI...

Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 14:28 Impressive

Does USS Paul Ignatius need an overhaul, seems a bit smoky.

But a Global Hawk is in no way comparable in size to a 737. The GH and the Triton both have a span of 39.9m versus c.36m for a Boeing 737 NG or MAX. I doubt he meant anything more specific than that. It's a quick way to give the committee a reference point for the size of an MQ-4C, rather than an i...

In fairness to the good professor. He makes 'some' good points: Justin Bronk: For example, the Iranians shot down a roughly $230-million RQ-4 maritime Global Hawk—something that is the size of a 737 airliner and is incredibly expensive—in the Gulf, and the reaction from the US was fairly minimal. I...

Jdam wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 14:44

Didn't we already have this conversation a few weeks ago when the RN website was redesigned. Seems Navylookout is slow to the game.

How many were fired to down the 2 drones? Five? It didn’t look like all those flashes and bangs were sea ceptor but not sure what they were It's difficult to tell as due to the darkness you can't se the cuts in the video. Richmond doesn't have anything else apart from Sea Ceptor, 4.5 and small arms...

Never dawned on me till now but because of the soft launch system it doesn't light up the night sky when fired like after system. Yes the contrast between Sea Ceptor on T23 and Aster on FREMM is interesting in the video\pictures released. Sea Ceptor looks like nothings happening apart from the nois...

I am led to believe there will be some of the naval architects from T31 switching to QE at the very least. To change a corroded shaft coupling? *Potentially corroded. Maybe they're looking at a completely new coupling. Stronger and easier to inspect. Be the smart thing to do. Different to the ones ...

I am led to believe there will be some of the naval architects from T31 switching to QE at the very least. To change a corroded shaft coupling? *Potentially corroded. Maybe they're looking at a completely new coupling. Stronger and easier to inspect. Be the smart thing to do. Different to the ones ...

I am led to believe there will be some of the naval architects from T31 switching to QE at the very least. To change a corroded shaft coupling? *Potentially corroded. Maybe they're looking at a completely new coupling. Stronger and easier to inspect. Be the smart thing to do. Different to the ones ...

jimthelad wrote: ↑06 Mar 2024, 22:35 I am led to believe there will be some of the naval architects from T31 switching to QE at the very least.

To change a corroded shaft coupling?

If H&W can keep on chipping away with small but profitable contracts…. H&W is much more than a purely shipbuilding enterprise which is a good thing but it may also tempt a future government to allow any drumbeat to slip if the rest of the business is doing well. The Belfast site is a sleepi...

So firstly POW went in for unforseen repair works and now QE how will this effect Type 31 as the workforce will need to move between the two What??? Wont the workforce required for QNLZ be specialist in propeller shaft repair and be completely separate from the various welder, fabricators and piper...

sol wrote: ↑04 Mar 2024, 20:39 Some nice images from HMS Prince of Wales

When does Martin Sheen and some replica Mitsubishi Zeros turn up?

FAA is cracking the whip may put the recent news in context. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/updates-boeing-737-9-max-aircraft The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s six-week audit of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, prompted by the January 5 incident involving a new, Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft, fou...

https://twitter.com/Gabriel64869839/status/1764321295942980031 Unless we see major progress with HMS Glasgow, I suspect we will have 2 sitting in the dry docks getting fitted out. (I seem to remember that is what happened with the type 45's) I found the comment by Gabriele a bit odd what would be w...

SW1 wrote: ↑02 Mar 2024, 08:38 Is this an upgrade to all the ship’s systems short of a refuel?

Surely they’re not going to attempt another refuelling after vanguard?

Well the Vanguard refurb and refuel has been estimated at costing over £500million so?

The plants in the UK and America are also heavily involved in defence programs that would not sit easily within airbus or Boeing. I cant see airbus wanting their business jet or nacelle business either as there not on airbus products. It could become complicated. The problem is that Spirit are losi...

Right so in an article whose two main themes seem to me to be a firstly concern about lack of co-operation due to the French\EU not wanting to be under US command so setting up there own separate Aspides operation and secondly the failure of Hessen's SM2 missile to work and that the SM2s can't be r...

A lot of info in the War Zone write up on the Western Navies in the Red Sea vs the Houthi and raises numerous questions It was confirmed the German Navy Type 124 Sachsen class frigate Hessen successfully shot down two drones, within 20 minutes of one another. Hessen intercepted the first drone usin...