It’s a question of priorities: 1- More P8, ideally increase to 16 2- Maximise T31 and build 8 3- More SSN, aim for 12, start asap 4- More T26 only if HMG commits to 3% GDP 5- T32 but not before mid/late 2030s In that order IMO In a perfect world the optimum escort mix is: • 12x AAW Destroyers (T45/...

HMS Belfast is in the early stages of construction, and units are described as being in "three or four large chunks," with plans in place for her consolidation in the newly constructed shipbuilding facility, expected to be operational by August or September next year. This indicates Belfa...

donald_of_tokyo wrote: ↑02 Mar 2024, 15:36 What is this "64 major upgrades"? Curious.

New deep fat fryer in galley
Netflix
New chairs in officers mess
And so on

I know its the Daily Mail but... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13138221/Britains-cash-strapped-Navy-forced-sell-aircraft-carrier-HMS-Prince-Wales.html Last night, Mr Wallace said: 'For the last 20 years the UK's Armed Forces have not been able to deliver to Nato what they have claimed. M...

Well said. HMS Prince of Wales beat her 30-day notice to sail by 22 days. This is not a failure US carrier Eisenhower was a day later than expected, too. Everyone just calm down Two things 1) Big Elephant in the room. The crash deployment of POW wouldn't have been needed or at least would have been...

Speaking of PIP. https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1756276062386897195 With the way all the upgrades planned for the type 45's, you get the feeling at the end of the PIP we will have 6 different ships, some with only the PIP, some with Sea Cepter, some with ASTER 30 Block 1 and knowing us some...

If a carrier had vls and loaded the tubes using an onboard crane , the crane would be pitching and rolling with the tube., unlike the scenario of a ship being loaded
by a crane on an auxiliary pitching differently

topman wrote: ↑06 Feb 2024, 21:35 There were many issues, the biggest issue is arguable. Why were they put in one box?

What isn't is that there was a shortage of people.

The only plausible explanation for the sloppy procedures is its the natural consequence of allowing the light blue to have a straglehold over carrier aviation

There's nothing much available publicly but I'll say you can read the report about the F35 that went for a swim and the manpower stats for the year that happened and the latest one. Compare them and see if how likely it is the force is going to grow that quickly to support 24 aircraft on exercise a...

HS2 as originally planned was brilliant. Government fucked it all up. Which other areas have we heard that before? All of them? Brilliant ? £80bn to save 15 minutes on a journey from London to Birmingham. Thats not the word I would use. Meanwhile in the Telegraph today, Admiral West quoted as sayin...

T45 hulls should have ample life remaining, they haven't exactly been hard worked. The hulls may have ample life remaining but some of the kit will be near 40 years old. The ship systems (propulsion etc) haven't been hard worked, I agree regarding the fighting systems, hopefully each refit has upda...

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1751175348153151947 This decision needs to be reversed, to at least the original out of service date of 2043, otherwise we will have only 13 frigates with a 15+ miles Sea Ceptor missiles, without the necessary radar for longer range missiles and the gap in Typ...

It only works as long as we just need to drop a couple of bombs every few days, and Egypt allows us to do it. It can work as long as it needs to and there’s more options than thru Egypt we don’t know what route they took. This is an American show not ours A quick look at a map shows that Egypt woul...

Generous of her to share her ability to spew rambling nonsense with the Defence community. A new low. With so many contradictions and factual inaccuracies I’m amazed that the Telegraph published it. Clearly a hatchet job designed to shovel funding elsewhere but the big question is whether or not La...

Almost any vessel with a flight deck & hangar could ferry replacement aircraft and transfer them across to the carrier using VTOL It would melt the flight deck. I was kind of assuming that they would apply relevant coatings (and strengthening, where applicable), but maybe all posts should be ac...

Except that your statement at the minute is wildly inaccurate without serious technical work and expense that isn't going to happen. Yawn. Did you notice the word "could"? Used to indicate a possibility. Clearly not. 2 Flight decks were fitted to Canberra in 48 hours. Implies that there w...

Highly likely that a new administration would have a radically different view of UK industrial policy leading to a flurry of orders for the yards. The ultimate result would be boom and bust for UK Shipbuilding all over again. Who knows? Speculation based on historical president suggests it is likel...

Im rather thinking of, Rosyth and Belfast, joint venture for MRSS and Point replacement. Rosyth can (at least better) build the propulsion part, and Belfast doing the other hull, welding the two parts at either site. Oh, Cammel laird can also do the propulsion part. Block build in a few location is...

Our F35 pilots are starved of actual Carrier flying hours. We could and should put 20 jets on her. We're stuck in an endless Training rotation due to little Carrier experience. We could theoretically put 20 jets out of the 28 we presently have onto Queen Elizabeth, that would probably be every jet ...

So what have the RN sold second hand… Sold or given away for the cost of a refit in a UK yard? Some on the list were definitely surplus to requirements, some were sold as payback for a favour, some as you say for the cost of a refit, others though should never have been disposed of, the 4th Bay bei...

I have had a look through the majority of the 148 page report, the conclusion I reach is that the RAF has far too much control/influence over carrier aviation. Right from the start, 617 Squadron had many personnel who were not qualified to go on board resulting in a swap of personnel with 207, then ...

Forth is in long maintenance, still out of service, coming back soon. Medway is as FIGS. Tamar is at far east. Trent is back in service as Gib guard ship. Spey is also at far east. I guess Mewday will go into maintenance, next. Then, Tamar will get that maintenance where? Far east? I understand she...

But increased capacity! I doubt the capacity would be increased in any way with a dry dock, one of the primary objectives is to get all welding and painting undercover, the only way this would be possible with a dry dock is by either craning blocks in which makes a roof very difficult or by floatin...

Short but a worthy overview of IR23 https://www.navylookout.com/integrated-review-refresh-2023-a-pragmatic-strategy-for-a-maritime-nation/ In real terms HMG have cut defence spending again so something that is not currently under contract will have to go. Without further funding it is very likely t...

shark bait wrote: ↑01 Mar 2023, 10:42 'No portholes because they cost too much' says so much about the shit show of an MOD we have!

As a blank wall will be in place surely its the classic RN "Fitted for but not with"