Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

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Jdam wrote: 24 Apr 2023, 19:35 https://www.navylookout.com/repairs-to- ... is-summer/
HMS Prince of Wales will return to Portsmouth in the next few months for some final maintenance work and the RN is confident she will be ready to begin her programme in August.
Someones confident.
ok, well we shall see I guess. The next few months is very vague, and could be August, which is technically summer I guess.

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Happy to be proven wrong here but wouldn't she need to be out of dry dock and back down to Portsmouth for at least a few weeks before deploying in August?
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Jdam wrote: 24 Apr 2023, 23:23 Happy to be proven wrong here but wouldn't she need to be out of dry dock and back down to Portsmouth for at least a few weeks before deploying in August?
She is due out at sea for about 4 weeks, once she has left Rosyth, before heading back to Pompey. I very much doubt she will deploy this year, but who knows?
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QNLZ off out on Sunday evening.
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Britain to send an aircraft carrier to the Indo-Pacific in 2025

https://www.defensenews.com/global/euro ... c-in-2025/

QE or POW?

If the POW is ready for it, it would be a good confidence boaster after the last few years to shake off some of the negative press.
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Jdam wrote: 19 May 2023, 10:06 Britain to send an aircraft carrier to the Indo-Pacific in 2025

https://www.defensenews.com/global/euro ... c-in-2025/

QE or POW?

If the POW is ready for it, it would be a good confidence boaster after the last few years to shake off some of the negative press.
Interesting that’s when the Tailsman Saber Ex is supposed to run. Wonder if she will make it to OZ

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Some questions on CSG 2025 of note.

Will the first FSS ship be ready? If not, can fort Victoria be relied upon?

Will Crowsnest be up and running?

Which new weapons will be integrated into F35?

Will any drones be operational or in trials by 2025?

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Dobbo wrote: 19 May 2023, 12:38 Some questions on CSG 2025 of note.
Will the first FSS ship be ready?
Absolutely no chance whatsoever.
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Dobbo wrote: 19 May 2023, 12:38 Will Crowsnest be up and running?
That's been soooo quiet. Not good.
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Which new weapons will be integrated into F35?
I think we can answer question 3 as well, with none.
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Dobbo wrote: 19 May 2023, 12:38 Some questions on CSG 2025 of note.

Will the first FSS ship be ready? If not, can fort Victoria be relied upon?

Will Crowsnest be up and running?

Which new weapons will be integrated into F35?

Will any drones be operational or in trials by 2025?
FSS? 2028 earliest.
Crowsnest? achevied FOC
F-35? 2028 for new weapons. 2028-30 is a has a lot happening. Block 4. New weapons of spear 3, FOSW, meteor, if we order new F-35B's now first will arrive then, First and second T26, T31, FSS.

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And this one isn’t April Fools!

Massive.

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Jdam wrote: 19 May 2023, 10:06 Britain to send an aircraft carrier to the Indo-Pacific in 2025

https://www.defensenews.com/global/euro ... c-in-2025/

QE or POW?

If the POW is ready for it, it would be a good confidence boaster after the last few years to shake off some of the negative press.
Well PWLS not ready at the moment, she cannot sail, even after the fixes, with one of her lifts stuck at the hangar deck level!

Hopefully she'll have a good 2024, which will build up confidence to send her to the Pacific in 2025, but she still has to go through F35b full integration I guess.

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CSG2030 (Or a bit earlier) is probably the one with the most exciting one in my eyes. Most likely for FOC of 24, more drones by then, T26, T31, FSS!
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:D nice to see RN on a fixed wing aircraft :D hope the future drones are not a joint force.....maybe the F35 will be transfered when tempest delivers & the raf want more shiney new toys :mrgreen:
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serge750 wrote: 19 May 2023, 21:25 :D nice to see RN on a fixed wing aircraft :D hope the future drones are not a joint force.....maybe the F35 will be transfered when tempest delivers & the raf want more shiney new toys :mrgreen:
...are you lighting the touch paper again. 🤔😜🤣
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It was a bit of a giveaway….

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Poiuytrewq wrote: 19 May 2023, 22:01 It was a bit of a giveaway….

Some on here have insisted that such a uav will never be on an aircraft carrier

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Poiuytrewq wrote: 19 May 2023, 22:01 It was a bit of a giveaway….

Some on here have insisted that such a uav will never be on an aircraft carrier

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You heard it here from GA-ASI spokesperson.

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https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british ... er-drones/
SW1 wrote: 19 May 2023, 22:39 Some on here have insisted that such a uav will never be on an aircraft carrier
Trial is essential. Try and then say yes or no.

One thing to note is, RN at least found some "aspects" worth trying it. I think there are many good things, especially RN cannot foresee filling the 2 CVF's deck with F35Bs. The deck will be relatively empty, and the UAVs can stay in the sky for 12-24 hours (= plenty of time), so the landing collision avoidance (e.g., clearing the port-side of the flight-deck) will be surely doable, if not easy.

Personally, I think a simplish "crash barrier" (nilon nets) to provide a backup fence to keep the precious F35B from possible accidents can be added. UAVs are not so heavy and slow. As kinetic energy is 1/2 * M * v**2, the strength needed for the "net" is only 1/10 or 1/100 of the "net barrier" for fighters (like https://scama.se/aircraft-arresting-sys ... t-barrier/).

Just simply physics.
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donald_of_tokyo wrote: 20 May 2023, 03:24 https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british ... er-drones/
SW1 wrote: 19 May 2023, 22:39 Some on here have insisted that such a uav will never be on an aircraft carrier
Trial is essential. Try and then say yes or no.

One thing to note is, RN at least found some "aspects" worth trying it. I think there are many good things, especially RN cannot foresee filling the 2 CVF's deck with F35Bs. The deck will be relatively empty, and the UAVs can stay in the sky for 12-24 hours (= plenty of time), so the landing collision avoidance (e.g., clearing the port-side of the flight-deck) will be surely doable, if not easy.

Personally, I think a simplish "crash barrier" (nilon nets) to provide a backup fence to keep the precious F35B from possible accidents can be added. UAVs are not so heavy and slow. As kinetic energy is 1/2 * M * v**2, the strength needed for the "net" is only 1/10 or 1/100 of the "net barrier" for fighters (like https://scama.se/aircraft-arresting-sys ... t-barrier/).

Just simply physics.
Another pusher in the STOL military area is turkey. I believe for their ideas they also thought of a crash barrier. Also F-35B doing STRL will have a lot less kinetic energy compared to anything on a USN carrier. I will be keen to watch their TB-3 and Bayraktar KIZILELMA Fighter UAV

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new guy wrote: 20 May 2023, 06:59 Another pusher in the STOL military area is turkey. I believe for their ideas they also thought of a crash barrier. Also F-35B doing STRL will have a lot less kinetic energy compared to anything on a USN carrier. I will be keen to watch their TB-3 and Bayraktar KIZILELMA Fighter UAV
The Turkish plans are.....rather vague. They're coming up with some CGI and a lot of 'solutions' for the launch and landing issue (the Juan Carlos I design is obviously a lot more space constrained than QE...). TB-3 might have a chance of getting onboard....but Kizilelma? Not a hope....at least without such a significant rebuild that they may as well have built a new ship....they'd need to source catapult and arrestor gear to make it practicable....and the US ain't selling...

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SW1 wrote: 19 May 2023, 22:39
Poiuytrewq wrote: 19 May 2023, 22:01 It was a bit of a giveaway….

Some on here have insisted that such a uav will never be on an aircraft carrier
I insisted THIS uav would never deploy. Not quite the same thing. I still think that. With a Navy investment of 1.5 million (to paint FLY NAVY on its side?) this is merely a suck it and see trial.

Of course RAF twisting words isn't new.
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