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- 18 Dec 2023, 11:31
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
In the future, I would want to see a common ASRAAM & CAMM, maybe even CAMM-ER. One common missile. Add in much bigger production to build up big stocks and used multi-purposely, CAMM will still live with the next generation of missiles that replace aster . I suspect that the different launch re...
- 13 Dec 2023, 09:23
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Does anyone know if the RN has trialled the 40mm "upgrade kit" for the DS30M? It seems that that might be an interim solution, particularly for vessels where a larger change might require an element of re-design (T45/ T26), or where life is limited (T23). Once the BAE 40mm has been adopted...
- 11 Dec 2023, 11:01
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Indeed, speaking as someone who has long been of the opinion that the T26 could be a good basis for the T83 The T26 is far too an expensive platform to form the for basis of a T83 if you want to fund more than a token number. So you know what the T83 budget is? Maybe this is the point at which I no...
- 10 Dec 2023, 23:10
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
It’s amazing how minority opinions come to pass, time will tell. Indeed, speaking as someone who has long been of the opinion that the T26 could be a good basis for the T83 Also being of the opinion that the T31 was a good hull that could easily accomodate additional weapons system, like Mk41 VLS a...
- 06 Dec 2023, 11:39
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
BAE are already doing this for the Australians. Yup! Our naval designers ARE being kept busy! The important thing is not so much that we export hulls (we are only ever going to do that in limited numbers as more and more countries develop their own shipbuilding base), it's that we retain design exp...
- 06 Dec 2023, 09:44
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The issue with going this way for the T83 is you run the real risk of killing off your escort design capability and we can see this in the USN, they stuck with the AB design and when time came to replace they ended up with the like if the LCS and Zumwalt neither much good and in the end had to buy ...
- 02 Dec 2023, 12:09
- Forum: Deployments
- Topic: Caribbean
- Replies: 94
- Views: 10188
Re: Caribbean
Possibly more effective to put on a public display of support by moving ground troops to Guyana by air (not neccessarily British - there are other regional Commonwealth countries, like Jamaica, who could contribute). There are British forces in Belize & US Marines in a number of Central American...
- 02 Dec 2023, 11:47
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The costs of building OPVs is not comparable with building credible Frigates. Some years ago I tried to figure out approximate costs for building OPVs vs frigates by looking at as many published costs as I could find My rough estimate was around £26,000 per tonne for a basic OPV and £66,000 per ton...
- 18 Nov 2023, 15:47
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
I think my personal idea of a balanced fleet would be more like 18 Carrier escorts 8 x AAW Destroyers 10 x ASW Frigates 6 General escorts 6 x GP frigates for higher-threat patrol areas, or general escort duties 10 Offshore Patrol 5 x larger Offshore Patrol Ships (outside reach of shore-based UK heli...
- 17 Nov 2023, 13:56
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
If we are going to build a new class of small vessels then as a minimum and benchmark they would need to have all the capabilities that the Dutch Holland class has for the roles we need them to undertake. Anything less than that is simply wasting our time. The Hollands replaced 4 Karel Doorman frig...
- 17 Nov 2023, 12:26
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4441662
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Possibly less, if a lightweight catapult/ arrestor gear was installed as has been hinted at.Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑17 Nov 2023, 11:48 Impressive.
Now it needs to do it again fully loaded and at night to confirm but a 200m LPH looks like more than enough to handle that.
As expected the game just changed.
- 17 Nov 2023, 10:08
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The simplest option would be to license another VARD design (using the the VARD 7/100 as an example), just like the Irish did. I based my costs on the Irish vessels, upgraded for additional displacement & complexity plus an additional percentage for inflation. BAM? Apples & oranges comparison.
- 17 Nov 2023, 09:38
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: River Class (OPV) (RN)
- Replies: 5477
- Views: 1541346
- 17 Nov 2023, 02:40
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Batch 2s were only "£130m each" (actually more than that, I think) because of TOBA
The Irish OPVs built at Appledore were EUR 71.9m each. A River B3 would probably be around 2500t and £90-95m, allowing for recent inflation
The Irish OPVs built at Appledore were EUR 71.9m each. A River B3 would probably be around 2500t and £90-95m, allowing for recent inflation
- 14 Nov 2023, 14:11
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Ground Based Air Defence
- Replies: 695
- Views: 194457
Re: Ground Based Air Defence
225? What's that? One per platoon?Pte. James Frazer wrote: ↑14 Nov 2023, 09:56 The Army has procured this for the moment:
https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events ... %20weapons.
- 13 Nov 2023, 21:31
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Ground Based Air Defence
- Replies: 695
- Views: 194457
Re: Ground Based Air Defence
This is where systems like the 30mm Venom could come into their own. Relatively cheap & mountable on pretty much any vehicle
- 13 Nov 2023, 11:39
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Future ASW
- Replies: 560
- Views: 179363
Re: Future ASW
Where could AI make a difference to ASW? I think the answer to that lies in the fact that we aren't actually seeing anything that exhibits genuine AI yet. What we see today really falls under the mantle of Machine Learning, which itself is just advanced pattern recognition, using massive libraries o...
- 09 Nov 2023, 21:50
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Warrior Armoured Vehicles (British Army)
- Replies: 1041
- Views: 325327
Re: Warrior Armoured Vehicles (British Army)
What about this: https://aei-systems.com/venom_lr_30mm_gun/ The Venom is probably better suited to light vehicles, as a drop-in replacment for 12.7mm, where more firepower is needed For heavier vehicles, I think full-fat 30 x 173 would be more desirable (and could also be mounted in a RWS) My perso...
- 09 Nov 2023, 21:36
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Australian Defence Force
- Replies: 2630
- Views: 746031
Re: Australian Defence Force
I don't think they removed the towed array to save topweight, more likely to save money, along with all the other ASW "detuning"
- 08 Nov 2023, 21:47
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
To support 4 carriers then 4 to,support 2 carriers and ended at 1 a lesson there. The lesson being that we didn't have enough money for 4 large carriers Apologies - tried to edit my original post to include this, but too slow Each deployed carrier would have had 4 T82 as outer defence & 4 T12i ...
- 08 Nov 2023, 21:30
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19310
- Views: 9662083
- 08 Nov 2023, 10:44
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1013
- Views: 433189
Re: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]
Good photo - easy to see the similarities with Commander SL that was one of the systems that it was based on
- 07 Nov 2023, 14:26
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Israel
- Replies: 143
- Views: 15139
Re: Israel
Re: the clock sync issue - I phrased that poorly, the issue was the software clock drifting out of sync with the real-time (hardware) clock. Not by much, but sufficient for the software to miscalculate trajectories & intercept points by as much as many metres. The issue only became apparent (IIR...
- 06 Nov 2023, 17:02
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Israel
- Replies: 143
- Views: 15139
Re: Israel
That happened with a Patriot during the Gulf War. Fired too late & it tracked the incoming Scud into the ground was the official line IIRC. They were having problems with the real-time clock drifting out of sync as well, which was causing problems with calculating the optimum intercept point acc...
- 06 Nov 2023, 16:41
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6128
- Views: 1853345
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
How about this? The Osumi class/ enlarged San Giorgio is very much what I was thinking of. A hull of approx. 160m x 25m & displacement in region of 12,000/14,000t light Add a Merlin capable lift (deck edge?) from flight deck to a shared hangar/ vehicle deck and a steel beach to allow large LCAC...