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Rob		#41	[-]
Posts: 573 (28-Mar-2008 22:40:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A small update from the Royal Navy website. 1) HMS Ocean in dry dock ---> 15 years or more service life mentioned, so OSD 2022 at the earliest it would seem Link. http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.12215/changeNav/6568 2) TLAM Block 4 in service with the Royal Navy Link. http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.12161/changeNav/6568 3) RAF Harrier GR9s on HMS Illustrious Link. http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.11999/changeNav/6568
perfectgeneral		#42	[-]
Posts: 324 (29-Mar-2008 08:55:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Rob wrote: A small update from the Royal Navy website. 1) HMS Ocean in dry dock ---> 15 years or more service life mentioned, so OSD 2022 at the earliest it would seem I'm glad to read that HMS Ocean has a future, but will there be a case and funding for a replacement by 2022? http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Want10Destroyers/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/4Subs88Months/
Jim WH		#43	[-]
Posts: 860 (31-Mar-2008 00:21:05) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That's good news re: Ocean. The fear was always that she'd only last till c.2018, and that a replacement program would need to be started during the end of the big funding lump associated with CVF/JSF/MASC/FRES/Typhoon/etc.. A service life to 2022 means that (plausibly) a replacement program could actually wait until CVF01 is in the water, and that the RN can make the case to government that it needs both CVF ('strike carriers') and LPH/LHD ('amphibious carriers') since this is the status quo (a 2018 decommissioning for Ocean would have been far too close to CVF02 commissioning for comfort). The real trick will be to capitalise on the success of the CVF program (real or percieved) to convince government of the merits of large ships in the RN. Images of a lean manned 35-40kton RN LHD are suddenly dancing through my head.
Sunk at Narvik		#44	[-]
Posts: 2231 ( 2-Apr-2008 11:05:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	"Images of a lean manned 35-40kton RN LHD are suddenly dancing through my head." Looking not unlike the Navantia design for the RAN??! If we are dreaming, lets think of either a third CVF to perform an LPH role, or a couple of Canberra type ships with ski-jumps..I'd prefer two Canberras' personally (more ships, more redundency and fewer eggs in one basket). Bearing in mind both the current fleet (four small carriers) and the RN's desire from the mid 80's for two dedicated commando carriers, this wouldn't be an unreasonable aspiration.
hulahoop7	Plus	#45	[-]
Posts: 1078 ( 2-Apr-2008 17:01:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Also, the RM had 3 ships Ocean, Albion and Bulwark.. 1 for each formation. It now as a fourth with 1 rifles, so surely it needs another ship! Somehow the RN have to keep Ark going till 2020.
operator500	Richard Beedall has updated his website.	#46	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 1 ( 5-Apr-2008 00:52:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Apologies if this has been mentioned before somewhere. Richard Beedall updated his site on the 30th march with his views on the current state of the Royal Navy. http://navy-matters.beedall.com/ Well worth a read.
Alexius55		#47	[-]
Posts: 254 ( 5-Apr-2008 20:48:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just found this video of Daring's sea trials: Youtube link Looking good, and I didn't know that ships on trials flew the RMAS ensign... Other bits- Phalanx is not fitted yet, but we see the other guns firing. A good look at a lot of areas of the ship, especially the bridge An insight into where the ship's boats go! That space it is hoisted into can be shuttered for stealth, thus the "close up" order.
Rob		#48	[-]
Posts: 587 ( 6-Apr-2008 13:15:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks a lot, that is one great video. :-)
Anthony58		#49	[-]
Posts: 2375 (26-Apr-2008 23:01:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	RAF Reaper may be armed 'within weeks' Armed combat operations by the UK Royal Air Force's newly acquired General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are imminent, Jane's has learned. Jonathan Barratt, team leader for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) strategic unmanned air vehicles experiment integrated project team, told Jane's : "The aircraft will be armed within a matter of weeks, with AGM-114P Hellfire missiles and GBU-12 Paveway bombs that we have acquired under a separate United States Foreign Military Sales [FMS] contract." Barratt was a speaker at a briefing on the wider UK Reaper procurement and operations programme hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London on 9 April first posted to http://jdw.janes.com - 18 April 2008
F35B		#50	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 55 (14-May-2008 14:55:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	HMS Westminster heads for Burma HMS Westminster has been deployed towards Burma (Myanmar) at the request of the Department for International Development. The Royal Navy Frigate, with a crew of 198 men and women has been deployed to waters offshore Burma as a contingency measure. She has not yet been formally tasked, but will be in a position to assist aid efforts if required. Her onboard facilities which could be of use include communications equipment, a medical officer and medical facilities, a Merlin helicopter which could be used for reconnaissance or to transport personnel and equipment, two sea boats and a ship's company who are all trained in disaster relief. She has recently been on exercises in the Bay of Bengal with the French and Indian Navies. About time to i thought lusty would have been 12 miles off shore about a week ago.

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