Royal Navy frigates in the 70s

H_K said:
That is neither here nor there and probably not relevant to this SAM discussion.
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It is relevant to having the funding to buy what your CONOPS demands.


H_K said:
The real problem IMHO was that the UK developed 2 short range SAM systems (Rapier + Sea Wolf) neither of which was ideal - Rapier being too small and lacking a real warhead, and Sea Wolf not being suited to tube launch or automatic reloading.

The better answer would have been one joint army/navy system with a warhead, tube launch and automatic reloading like Crotale, Roland, or Aspide… ie. a less technologically advanced Mauler.
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Probably, but I'm not sure that would have been possible in the 1960s.
 
Missile side.
Assuming PT.428 instead of Rapier and Sea Wolf seems a valid starting point.
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Scott Kenny said:
The problem is, the UK no longer has the economy to be a Great Power once India gained independence.
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No fundamentally this is not true. Despite certain propaganda put out by various sources.

What rendered the UK down from Great Power status, was 'defeat' by the US over two World Wars.
 
zen said:
Missile side.
Assuming PT.428 instead of Rapier and Sea Wolf seems a valid starting point.
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Is there a thread here on PT.428?


zen said:
No fundamentally this is not true. Despite certain propaganda put out by various sources.

What rendered the UK down from Great Power status, was 'defeat' by the US over two World Wars.
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Disagree, but can we agree that the economic ability to pay for the gear people wanted was still pretty well gone by the mid 1950s?
 
The RNs strength bore only a vague connection to the money expended on it. If they put as much effort into good planning as they did wasting effort and making excuses the RN would have been much better equipped.
 

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