my thoughts and best wishes to all involved with the search and those lads and lasses onboard the sub ,must be very frightening for those poor souls down there folks

what makes you say that james k ,have you seen something ?

well done the French, putting in the cash and showing up our guv how to get a proper ship designed think naval group are going to get a few exports with this design and laugh at our efforts/export drive unless someone up for just cheap opv

well r686 if its true another great chance for Australia to bag 2 more great ships for a couple of million never mind brazil, you would truly have a fantastic amphib force then with what you already have

whats the real % chances of mod cutting our amphib ships ? ocean ,bulwark and albion or is it a case of ocean going and only one albion class , so the spin is its not as bad as it could be and we have a carrier (pow) instead .yep not ideal :? or just mod hype to try get more money ? think im going f...

Well just listened to the Andrew mar show he asked the question to the chief of defence staff about Albion ,bulwark cut and he didn't say no , we need to change our priorities to a changing threat world like cyber ,even when mar asked about our amphibious capability was highly regarded as one of the...

do we know who will be getting the river b1 ships ? maybe brazil again

aye nice one ron5 ,a 5th gen super stealth carrier with lazer beams go dam it ,lol im only kidding ,suppose it is, it carries and supports 5th gen planes anyway

just had a thought since posted ,think it winds me up because when usa or china or even india future carriers sail past or even possibly future Russian designs {if they can afford them} get built and we call qe class a supercarrier what do we call these future ships ? mega supercarriers think that's...

so jake are you telling me that pow is about 73-74k tons now as already had the amphibious mods incorporated ? think I missed that bit of news/rumours and thanks for your info ,and thanks whitewhale yes maybe strike carrier better but still going to annoy me everytime I hear supercarrier tho lol :D

it might just be me folks but it winds me up when people or sites/papers call qe class a supercarrier and not just a carrier ,I admit its larger than what we had but they were small thru deck carriers ,and I agree usn Nimitz class a large/supercarriers ,is it just me and im wrong or does it wind any...

I keep thinking of father ted sketch and father ted explaining these cows are small but far away ,when comparing American carriers and qe class ,like in that pic

Mmh yes maybe there is a load of cuts coming up as reported and he not sticking around as someone has already suggested ,I tend to agree it just doesn't add up going for touching leg incident ,not looking good folks

maybe their thinking scrap our amphib ships (ocean ,albion and bulkwalk) and a few thousand marines ,oh and 2 type 23 frigates just leave the 10 active with the other laid up also ,save a load and ask the French with there ample resources/ships to take up the slack and we help them out with a c17 li...

well I am not surprised Australia not going for type26 ,I said that mts ago that there was no chance and I think its going to be the Hobart derivative over the fremm for commonality that's just my take but no way the type26. either way ,think people were just hoping for a miracle/good news story but...

Your def right there what do they know? ,a bunch of speculator's guessing for the worst just like the rest except adding to the negativity problem by affecting the interest rate ,then changing it again at some point cos hey its allright now folks false allarm but in reality have no clue like the res...

just been looking at the dutch ship karel doorman(hurricane disaster relief) ,what a great ship pity they didn't let us have it for a song a while back before they sensibly decided to keep hold

Another doom monger ,personally I think we would do just fine in time once brexit happens ,well it would do apart from all the leftist media and anti brexit talk by the literati establishment rubbish ,( sorry for rant just get fed up hearing people doom monger all the time ) ,yes I think the type 26...

Its OK we will be asking France to do our asw because we don't have enough capability spare with escorting the carriers and all and we lend them the c17 for a bit

in fact if I was the head of the usn id be calling the 1sl and saying why you cutting your credible fleet for opv fleet whats going on ?

I agree it should be reported that the navy is losing 5 frigates full stop and I just don't understand why the 1st sea lord is not standing up and saying so ,not spinning the guv line about having another 5 opv and calling them frigates ,it really is a joke and the national newspapers should be repo...

well the batch 3 Incheon frigate is the perfect type 31 vessel in my eyes ,shame south korea did it years ago and we over here are just trying to reinvent whats already gone and exported ,they must be in dream land if they think that which ever design is chosen that they are going to export any .rn ...

so is she 3000t heavier? or that just another day dream on the reporters side lol

Cheers pymes75,are the american weapons lifts separate in an American carrier ,is not incorporated into tower ?and last question the last american conventional powered carrier was the exhaust stack incorporated in their tower ?thanks

Does anybody know why the two islands are so big ?,compared to an american carrier ,I know they have the exhaust stacks thru them but they are huge ,what are the American carriers missing in there towers that we are not or are we just being greedy ?