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HMS Astute said:

That's what Astute SSNs are for.

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Scyth said:

Comparing a sub to a fighter? I thought sinodefenceforum.com was way above this? apples and oranges maybe?

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Naval Today said:

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon visited Scotland to see the progress being made in building the UK’s Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers.

While visiting the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, in Rosyth, Mr Fallon met with the project team to discuss the build progress of the second carrier, HMS Prince of Wales.

HMS Queen Elizabeth, which was formally named by Her Majesty the Queen in July this year, is currently being fitted out in Rosyth dockyard before arriving in Portsmouth.

Assembly of HMS Prince of Wales is also well underway.

Speaking from the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth, Mr Fallon said:

“I came here to see for myself that the project is on track and on time to give Britain carrier strike capability, with HMS Queen Elizabeth operating with new F-35 planes by 2020.

Work on the QEC carriers has created or sustained around 8,000 highly skilled jobs.

In Scotland alone, the QEC work has helped to directly support some 4,000 jobs and hundreds of apprentices at the Rosyth and Clyde shipyards.

With the MOD having invested some £2.66 billion in the programme at these shipyards so far – it is clear that Defence is making an unequivocal and continuing commitment to Scottish industry.

Ian Booth, Managing Director of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, said:

“HMS Queen Elizabeth has now reached an important engineering milestone which allows us to bring all her systems to life."

"HMS Prince of Wales, which only started assembly in September here in Rosyth, is now more than 40% complete."

HMS Queen Elizabeth will be handed over to the Royal Navy in 2017 and are expected to enter service by 2020.

With an expected service life of up to 50 years, the QEC carriers will be highly versatile and powerful joint Defence assets, able to meet the widest range of tasks around the world.

They are the largest, most capable and effective surface warships ever constructed in the UK.

The Defence Secretary also reiterated that there has been no change in the delivery programme for the F-35B strike aircraft which will fly from the carriers.

The phased approach to ordering F35 is working, with the first batch on track to enter initial maritime operating capability alongside HMS Queen Elizabeth in December 2020 as planned.

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Guy's.

Food = Good. I enjoyed it.

CIWS. CIC WNC says that they have taken the measurements etc. Then another source said that Kasthan is old technology and hence not in Vik. CIWS from Israel, Russia etc are being evaluated.

All MiG-29K pilots are sent to US for basic courses. They gat a lot of flying hours including 10 landings on US Carriers.

Lightening pod begins integration. But it depends on Russian Mission Computer.

EW suite is ELTA suppression pod. Then they have Tarang Mk 1b. M2 to be installed after being proved.

Sorties number in war time is same as given. However, they feel that not more than 8 aircraft's will be required to be in air.

Shore Based STOBAR is on with construction. However, the landings with arrester bar is already in operation. NLCA has performed arrester trials with success. NLCA is too pre mature to be talked about.


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