UK Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

ACuriousPLAFan said:

"China-Has-Done-It-So-Can-We", EMCATs-On-Any-Flatdecks Edition.

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The ship is the Izumo DDH from the JMSDF, but the system is proposed by General Atomics.

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Costco EMCATS

gelgoog said:

How did they allow the fleet to come to a state where none of their attack submarines are operational? Just pathetic.
Also how come the oldest ships in that chart, the Type 23 frigates, have better availability than the way more modern Type 45 destroyer?

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It is due to the more modern integrated electric propulsion.

Remember the Sabre from ? It a few days ago. When I first read about that engine many years ago, it was supposed to be a hypersonic engine that would power both space planes and hypersonic missiles. Now I am not sure if there are any non-MIC companies doing the same type of development.

Royal Navy dual carrier exercises on Nov 16th in the North Sea.


The French are not impressed.

I think the UK have like a whole set of F-35Bs for a single carrier. Their thought was they would only have one carrier at sea at any one time and they would share the aircraft. So they bought 36 aircraft, of which one crashed, another three are in the US for training. So they have 30.

So what happens when those aircraft need maintenance? You do not have enough even to fill a single carrier anymore. Oops.