Looks like this audience here has had a sneak preview of that (almost word for word :lol: ). Btw, we could outsource our GCHQ to Twitter "Twitter's use of cookies This use may include analytics, personalization" and then even Trump would be happy: " Following state visit news, Trump f...

in high intensity ops requires the SSS to be designed dedicated yep, add a fraction to the one (could be +1.0) as the SSS will also need topping up - and heavens know from how far would almost be like a merging of a bay with the old rover class + But that would be separate to a solid stores require...

But some further thoughts on how the "loadout" on the two carriers, with a lot! of capacity, could be better: When our carriers were mainly of WW2 design (if not of construction, because so many of them sprung back to life much later)... that led to some ingenious carrier a/c designs that ...

swoop wrote:It would be interesting to see how well the active stabilisers are performing

We know that from cruise ships (similar size; perhaps? a different hull form):
- at first they work well
- and past a "certain" sea state they stop working... so the change is a memorable experience for the PAX

Pseudo wrote:appealing to the centre-ground voters

You can make "it" to be the Leader by preaching to the converted.
But you cannot win for your party without getting converts.

Ha-hah; is the party already in a suicide mood? Or can they see where the battlegrounds have moved to?

spreading 20 helicopters across 5 platforms? This is the long standing comprise between distributing for additional resilience, or centralising for greater efficiency. Resilience 50-100% of the time (rqr'ed); TLC by support crews in deeper ways than refuelling/ rearming... say 10% of the time Now t...

sustaining the LiTM group over an extended period? A small well dock could be an extremely useful feature and take the pressure off the rest of the Amphibious logistic fleet. Why not a steel beach... a major difference in the structural design (demands)? We must remember that the FSS vessels are th...

Ocean worked as part of a group with the Albion’s, the Albion’s came in close ( built to higher standards for this ) Ocean her self sat further back A good doctrine, helping to move to STOMP (straight to objective manoeuvre...?) Canberra class for example they are based on the Spanish JC1 which is ...

Reading 100+ pages would have been a doddle between meals, over the long wk end, but now the progress is slow. The story is interspersed with factoids, to egg the story line on (which then is, of course, fiction)> here's a factoid, injected, that is missing an important element: Namely "with th...

Lord Jim wrote:and have to rename the programme the DD(X).

... straight to digging up such an Italian design (for their own navy) and contrasting to the FREMM proposal for the USN?

Like or not HMG / MOD have put them self in a corner with poor budgets and planning Yes, this is the real problem. More specifically the back-to-back renewal/ rebirth of carrier aviation and then Dreadnoughts - the former is a joint capability - the latter a sovereign capability. Rearranging the bu...

It has started already, the EPP declaring "we are the biggest grouping in the Europarliament and thus claim also the presidency of the executive. Others going "No way, Jose" as per the Independent: Other potential candidates include Frans Timmermans, the candidate for the centre-left,...

example of a ship operating 6 helicopters without being a big flat top Admittedly only two, rather than "three Tiger cruisers" were converted and "would in some way replace the anti-submarine warfare role provided in the past provided by Aircraft Carriers, in theory providing twelve ...

shark bait wrote: developments appear to be slowing while other press on.

Watch and learn... and shipbuilding (even w/o boats included) seems to be walking a tightrope between
- investment funds available (vs. pending mass obsolescense)
- and crewing

Everyone from the individual vehicles to the Regimental HQ need to be linked in and networked. There needed to be greater ISTAR resources available to locate and identify targets and this information needs to be got to the guns fast. I think this is the key for getting bang :) for the buck in the a...

For a long time I believed in the pork barrelling stories about the UKnization of the first batch of Phantoms (the ones meant for the carriers), which were slower than the original article (but had more capable handling in low-level engagements). The contributor "Riain" has collected the f...

p. 3 (post43) has excellent piccies of what a hangar on a 45 kt carrier allows for
- a link to the QEs of today, having been built "too big"

Pseudo wrote:the 1981 British Nationality Act

on the first reading I thought it was part of the fiction, not another Windrush'ques act.

rather preclude the Argentine invasion in the first place? Will need to read the 'stuff' but: The invasion was for in-country political reasons, and a job of the army+navy (which did have a small "FAA" of its own), i.e the folks on the Junta - the AF was not deemed reliable, was not part ...

are the goalposts just going to be moved to accommodate it? missions- threats -force mix (what kind of ships, fitted with what... and how many of them, within the budget and crewing constraints); that's all that matters - but I guess you said so, too, in your concluding sentence? as currently confi...

There's good people in there: Rory, the 'transformed' Gove, Raab (of course I would not let him anywhere near Brexit/ Europe matters )
- but I'm not a member, so will just have to stock up on popping corn... and enjoy the show

Pseudo wrote:a link to HMS Eagle in the Falklands.

... and now you tell me; when the long wk end is already in the past

then we took away most of the King's powers of patronage and if we hadn't, the Army would not have come out of the doldrums that the referred to system put it into between Waterloo and the Boer War, and we would not be here (in the form of gvmnt and other things that matter) -Crimea was already a w...

Pseudo wrote: the British parliamentary model isn't the only parliamentary model.

Also the often asserted "the oldest parliament in the world" is just tabloid propaganda:
Iceland, Isle of Man...

I'd go with a common gun module and different carrier vehicles, as appropriate (tracked or 8x8 armoured/ unarmoured). like the Germans will,,, we just don't have the armoured howitzer, just a very mobile AS-90 - so let's build from what we've got (as money will continue to be tight)? How far can a ...

Halidon wrote:indicating how much a larger hull (compared to LCS) is seen as essential to fit the USN requirements

and that's just for starters.

Tico/ Burke III successor next?