It is well known that apart from HMS Bristol no RN ships equipped with Ikara deployed to the Falklands in 1982.
I have two questions arising from this.
Did the RN consider and reject sending Ikara Leanders south?
Did Bristol use its Ikara against Argentine subs?
The saga of HMS Hermes is well known. But it might have been different if the RN had followed the US example and kept her as an ASW carrier or interim Sea Control Ship.
The US were introducing the S3 Viking on to their attack carriers but were keen to get as many to sea as possible.
HMS Hermes...
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The Ministry of Defence has awarded a £60 million contract to Leonardo to design and develop a 3-tonne helicopter UAV demonstrator. One of trials will be to drop sonobouys from the UAV. First flight is due in 2025...
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White there is information about the missile itself:
https://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-84.html
https://www.docdroid.com/WbANE9i/agm-84-harpoon-missile-block-1d-brochure-pdf#page=2
There are mentions that, one of the reason it wasn't produced, was that the missiles were too big for...
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Wiki has quite a good summary of the abortive attempt in the 1980s to design a common escort ship for NATO navies
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFR-90
The thread about the Kidds for the RN reminded me of this programme.
It ought to have been possible to design a ship flexible enough to...
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A friend of mine has asked me to check out a rumour that HMS Cockade sank a suspected Soviet sub while serving with a US force in the Korean War. He thinks the papers are embargoed until at least 2050.
Didn't really see a thread on this so here we go!
I guess its not so popular because only Canada operates it..
but why they chose this instead of more Merlins is beyond me...
82% grounded due to cracks :eek...
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Whenever I look at my little model of the USS Long Beach nuclear missile cruiser I find myself musing what a 21st Century version for Western navies could look like?
Such a ship would replace the Ticonderoga class in the US Navy and perhaps provide Task Force escorts for the RN and MN instead...
This guy (goes by the name "Jive Turkey" of all things) and does analysis of sonar acoustic recordings including ASW sonar pings. He also does analysis of various sub types.
Acoustic analysis of sonar pulses
ASW sonar pulses off Bahamas
Borei sub analysis
Something different for today ... a collaborative project between Grumman and Shin Meiwa in Japan.
Note wing engines can tilt up a few degrees (it's described on another page). Also, there is heavy reliance on active boundary layer control via twin turbines behind the rear pressure bulkhead...
ABC News: "Hunter class frigates will be built by BAE in Australia — but what can the warships do and why do we need them?"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-29/hunter-frigate-build-bae-what-you-need-to-know/9923912
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1983, rather than 1982 is a key date for decisions for the RN and UK defence as a whole, in the light of the Falklands and it's effect not just on defence thinking but on the UK populace's attitude to their country. As surely as it was to the political establishment.
But in terms of changes a...
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I am utterly confused about the original French plans for the deployment of this missile, the wiki page for the Suffren class destroyers states that six ships were originally planned and that this became two batches of three (the second tentative?) then just two ships when the money for the...
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Anyone have any more information about dimensions and speed of this 1937 Italian sub hunter of 1300 tons with anti-submarine float plane? Love to know more about the floatplane. 3x1 120mm; 4x1 20mm; 2x2 torpedo tubes; 4 depth charge throwers, and sonar...
From Ronnie Serrano on the "Project Terminated" page on Facebook:
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=876967599032670&set=gm.646696872124265&type=1&theater
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The usual crew of retired military and political types are warning that the UK is not able to meet its defence requirements with the present budget and kit.
Given the collective expertise on this board what advice would you give the Prime Minister who takes over in May after the election?
I...
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