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At the time, the ship's then commanding officer Captain Steve Moorhouse said it was safe and that in his experience leaks were a 'weekly' problem for warships.

Thats a yikes from me, speaks to either poor design or poor maintenance...

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What the hell is going on with these two? Are they going to come to asia or what?

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I'm sure you're fully aware that HMS Queen Elizabeth is going to the Far East next year, not HMS Prince of Wales. HMS PoW isn't entering service before 2023.

silentlurker said:

At the time, the ship's then commanding officer Captain Steve Moorhouse said it was safe and that in his experience leaks were a 'weekly' problem for warships.

Thats a yikes from me, speaks to either poor design or poor maintenance...

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Or a third option - a faulty part/installation that doesn't say anything about the design or maintenance.

The larger the ship, the more complex and more opportunities for something to go wrong. Charles de Gualle took over a decade to commission and had a broken prop during sea trials. I think it was Admiral Kuznetsov had problems in that the water kept freezing that meant blocked toilets for half the crew. Varyag/Liaoning went into drydock in 2005 and was "commissioned" in 2012, but officially classed as a training ship until a few years ago. We've got no idea what might have gone wrong in those years.

@Mr T oops u right wrong thread

I'm getting increasingly sold on SPEAR 3 for the F-35. Being able to carry eight internally and more on the wings means that a single F-35 can deliver a lot of firepower.

More army cuts incoming(?). British ground forces will have 70k soldiers and 150 updated Challenger 2 tanks if things go as planned.

A cut in the number of troops is expected in a defence review, due to be published next month.
Options include losing up to 10,000 soldiers from the regular Army's notional strength of 82,000 in order to help fund its modernisation.

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In practice that means around 30k frontline soldiers?

Hoping spear 3 becomes a reality, makes sense

The Telegraph is reporting the cut in buy of F-35B to the 48 . Also reporting that the MOD has been re looking at Cats and Traps

stan hyd said:

The Telegraph is reporting the cut in buy of F-35B to the 48 . Also reporting that the MOD has been re looking at Cats and Traps

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How reputable is the Telegraph out of the UK newspapers?

silentlurker said:

How reputable is the Telegraph out of the UK newspapers?

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For this stuff, pretty high. It’s now being reported by the Times as well:

It’s pretty awful news, especially with the reduction of Typhoons as well, the number of available front line fighters is getting very low. I would like the F-35B’s to be solely Navy but doubt that will happen.