Looks like this site's hive mind was working in the right direction: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoEnW0LXcAYsR6I?format=jpg&name=medium (From Twitter: @TheBrit96) Specific mention of ASW and Minehunting roles is interesting. Goes a long way to explain why the Type 31 might not be the basis, at l...

showing the potential derivatives from their LPD Flight II hull. I like their campaign, but the screen says just 'Image' in your post - without displaying it? Odd. It's just a .PNG. shouldn't have any accessibility issues on mobile or pc... Unless you have some industrial grade ad blocking software...

https://s0.2mdn.net/9579656/11052020-082807311-970X250.png Far beyond the scope of the (seemingly dead) LSS concept however I thought this advert from Huntington Ingalls was rather good, showing the potential derivatives from their LPD Flight II hull. Edit link below for image: https://s0.2mdn.net/...

The Atlantic Multi-Purpose Helicopter Carrier - A140 is renamed Atlantic Multi-Purpose Aerodrome Ship https://cdn-defesaaereanaval.nuneshost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NAM-Atl%C3%A2ntico-.jpg Atlantic Helicopter Carrier is now Multi-Purpose Aerodrome Ship November 26, 2020 7211 266 The Atlantic...

Nothing wrong with that idea, but I would still prefer to see a second Squadron of P8 at RNAS Culdrose in addition to the one at Lossiemouth. It would have to be RAF St Mawgan. A lot of the facilities are still there, especially the munitions area, with far more hardstanding and dispersal. Culdrose...

I count 7 Bob's. Pulling out all the stops. Probably a composite image of the entire week's workforce. One Bob per day to maintain social distancing.... (I can't decide if the BAE press team is putting these photos out without appreciating how glacial the progress appears to the casual viewer, or e...

An interesting aside by Ben Wallace at the Defence Committee when discussing the 'shipbuilding renaissance' and capacity he moaned that he had been overseas and secured an order for a UK shipyard and they now didn't want to build it. BAE and the Barzan class for Ukraine I assume.? :crazy: Reckon th...

So what the heck is this (from the twitter above) .. ? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnmRerXXcAAj9hb?format=jpg&name=small Got a RN ensign but a weird looking config. It's the original CG model of the Arrowhead 140, from the front of the 2018 Team 31 brochure: https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/12k...

Bigger than Absalon, but not quite this https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/US_Navy_030606-N-0000X-003_Artist%5Ersquos_concept_of_the_San_Antonio_Class_amphibious_transport_dock_ships.jpg big? With all this talk of a modern, auxiliary crusier once again my mind drifts towards... https:...

With the 2035(+) horizon the Pumas are a headache (and they are truly a medium helicopter, too) -whereas the Bell 212s and Griffins I think are leased and support is contracted out, too - and as for the Gazelles you already had a solution in mind You're quite correct, the Cyprus flight is managed/o...

I think if your looking at Yeovil either the aw169m or 149 both of which have component manufacture at Yeovil and there has been expressions of desire for final assembly. The point is probably more that I don’t think we should see it as a stop gap it needs to be seen as the the first step in a mult...

it may be a copy of whatever is pitched to the polish I think you guessed it. T32 is an export version! According to STRN twitter feed: NavyLookout "@NavyLookout Can confirm the Type 32 frigate mentioned by the Defence Secretary is an export version of Type 31. RN hopeful of additional a secon...

Great stuff - but what the hell is a Type 32, and how many will we get? Surely the first priority is to properly fit out the T31 (and T26)....or d we think the T32 is going to be a fully kitted out T31? Or maybe it's another bargain basement Patrol Frigate (River batch 3? What was BAE pitching for ...

I've seen it in all the stories I've read this quarter that T31 in uk service will have 24 camm. I'll admit, not the most conclusive evidence but: The rather impressive, large scale Amalgam model had every permutation of VLS but a 12-cell launcher. Seems odd that they would ignore such an module if...

When will the UK need to replace them, and how many are we talking about? (wasn't there some chatter of also needing to replace the Red Arrows not so long ago) Now that's a question that I'm not sure an answer exists for. Although all currently Hawks, there are four fairly distinct requirements tha...

You are assuming it’s all about a single platform. It is not. An aircraft only exists within a whole force structure/system. I'm afraid assumption is all that those not intimately involved with the programme have. We do not know their exact requirements; the parameters by which they seek to make th...

Saab offering a few Globaleye AEW&C, and Boeing reportedly including some Growlers with their Super Hornets. Those were not thrown in as a splurge ('buy all of our range') but rather to get 'full points' for being able to complete three mission scenarios - which have not been published - but mo...

Good stuff, still hoping for another order for UK build though.... The Finnish H-X programme is probably (Saudi aside) the best hope to keep the Warton assembly line(s) running till the late 2020s. More than 60 aircraft to be built. There's been some suggestion that other competitors are bundling p...

I think by far the best low cost / risk option to get the required hulls is to build another batch of “B3 Rivers” with evolved facilities to support a mothership (for drones and possibly RMs) - would be an idea gift to Appledore. 2 Echos + 5 B2s + 5 B3s (replacing the B1s) would be a solid capabili...

Has the RAF ever had a dedicated EW aircraft? Short answer: nope not since 100 Squadron stood down their Lancasters, Liberators and Mosquitos at the end of the War. Slightly longer answer: some Vickers Valiants were designated ECM aircraft and carried "American APT-16A and ALT-7 jamming transm...

a cheap hull to enable the base load of simple mine clearance tasks. The Hunt/Sandown replacement should be the pickup truck of the Navy to fulfill the simple tasks without costing too much. For more demanding roles any other vessel of opportunity could be used, such as a Frigate or LPD. Dare I say...

First Sa'ar 6 Corvettes to Join the Israeli Navy in December: https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_Article2016_ControlFaceDetect/466020 ^ INS Magen (shield) still at ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Several of the ships will be deployed to protect the gas fields, leaving one or two to...

Also that crane behind the MK 56 ESSM VLS looks interesting.... The cranes are fitted to the Iver Huitfeldt class. Its used for reloading the amidships Stanflex modules. Curious how often/if ever it's been used? The USN stopped reloading at sea, with their deck mounted VLS. Doing so on top of the s...

I like the lack of any 12-cell CAMM launcher in sight!

Also that crane behind the MK 56 ESSM VLS looks interesting....

dmereifield wrote:

Tempest414 wrote:This could lead the Saudi's to replace there Tornado's with F-35

And/or press them into ordering more Typhoons?

The main sticking point there (unless I've missed something) remains a certain Angela Merkel..