It might be the case of the R.N if wanting this capacity has to design and build some monitor class vessel for use against fixed position targets

or when she gets her f35,s

The Daring class destroyers are as I understand being assessed for anti ballistic missile capabilities as part of a number of international destroyers ,wouldn't this capability be better if land based ,I understand that Russia has opposed further cuts in nuclear weapons and has aims of increasing it...

The various navies operate under legal restraints and not to end the profitable people smuggling but to rescue and bring back to European ports those they find creating a hope or belief in some countries that it was worth the risk ,I have some sympathies for those fleeing war torn areas but there wi...

Does the U.K have anti ballistic missile capabilities that are ground based Im not aware if the U.K is precluded from this by previous treaties

There is work being done on developing satellite and aircraft based laser detection of submarines ,The Australian C.S.I.R.O in conjunction with the D.S.T.O have been working on Magsafe a further development of the magnetic anomaly detection used but this is different on taking twelve different readi...

This may be provocative but a question to the members here, is with a budget effecting the size and capability, governments more often because of political reasons cut back on the weapons platforms numbers or their capabilities would members here consider that if increased numbers and capabilities c...

Perhaps these fleets could be afforded if they were built in South Korea ,

There may be pros and cons of the rail gun compared to the present available weapons ,for instance how many of the present functions performed by a naval gun and specialised ammunition can be performed by the railgun

Thanks for the reply

And just for curiosity is there any information as to the types of ships that could fit a railgun, how much power generation required extra to the normal ships use and how much space required there might be some feasibility study somewhere .

The price of the ship is kept down because of reuse of current systems from operating ships could the sale overseas of these ships be without systems so these navies may also reuse their current systems and upgrade as budgets allow

But then how many merlins would be required for anti submarine patrols and aew would the number be automatically doubled for two carriers operating together and would these helicopters operate a 24/7 coverage

It is my understanding of submarines that nearly all with exception of the Seawolf class have an increased noise signature the faster they go ,I have not read and would not expect to if this was the case with the Astute class a question might be if the vessel was acting as escort with the carrier at...

It would be a waste of resources to over capitalise on ships whose duties were only drug smugglers and piracy ,a number of small effective ships could patrol on various stations more effectively and cheaper than one expensive warship

Is there information on how portable this matting is could it be delivered by Chinook for instance if road access unavailable or even how many engineers are required to assemble a usable take off/landing strip for the f35 and the time required

If the matting is acceptable for the f35 lets hope it wasn't sold off with the Harriers as surplus , would though an f35 landing vertically on a surface that may break up from the jet blast incur fragments flying up from such surface causing damage to its stealth coating .

Has the matting for forward bases been ordered then of a type used by the USMC and could a ramp be assembled with such for increased range of the f35 as believed the advantage of on the carriers

Has the matting for forward bases been ordered then of a type used by the USMC and could a ramp be assembled with such for increased range of the f35 as believed the advantage of on the carriers

Is it correct that the UK f35b is only envisioned operating off the carriers ,could they be used in forward bases as the U.S marines used their Harriers in Afghanistan and before that R.A.F harriers in the days of the Warsaw pact being deployed to roadsides in practice of runway denial

These type of vehicles with the V shape bottom have come a long way since the concept was developed to protect South African forces during the Apartheid conflict the designer of these went on to design the Australian Bushmaster which was successful in Iraq and impressed other countries to make simil...

Sounds like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan

The type 26 envisioned as a frigate seems to be coming to a size in most navies considered as a destroyer and perhaps it could be interesting to compare it to similar sized vessels in abilities .

Cant always believe newspapers as some of the stories about the new carrier has shown ,

Both the lrasm and jsm look promising and not second rate ,would also the type 26 because of its smaller radar in comparison to the Daring class have more potency in its use of its missiles in the use of cec using a Daring class radar to guide its missiles.