At last - Navy orders three Type 26's
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"Great to see real ships being built on the Clyde again. Stupid attitudes of both owners and unions wrecked the industry there in the 70s"
Think you have confused merchant ship construction with warship building. The former remains just about dead in the UK. Yarrows, as was, was nothing to do with John Brown/UCS. Since the sixties it has built County Class Destroyers, Leanders, Type 22 and 23 Frigates and the Type 45 Destroyer. By the time of the latter it had been Nationalised, Privatised and eventually taken over by BAe. That it has become the sole remaining Yard able to build Surface Warships is due to the fact that we are not as yet prepared to order enough to justify the creation of further capacity. It is true that BAe now builds under cover on what was once part Fairfields in Govan.
Think you have confused merchant ship construction with warship building. The former remains just about dead in the UK. Yarrows, as was, was nothing to do with John Brown/UCS. Since the sixties it has built County Class Destroyers, Leanders, Type 22 and 23 Frigates and the Type 45 Destroyer. By the time of the latter it had been Nationalised, Privatised and eventually taken over by BAe. That it has become the sole remaining Yard able to build Surface Warships is due to the fact that we are not as yet prepared to order enough to justify the creation of further capacity. It is true that BAe now builds under cover on what was once part Fairfields in Govan.
For a large part of the 1990s, the main UK military effort was in Bosnia. A carrier was deployed continuously in the Adriatic for those years, with both Sea Harriers and Sea Kings doing all sorts of stuff, including enforcing the no fly zone over Bosnia, doing reece, and ground attack - the Sea Harrier participated in NATO air attacks against the Bosnian Serbs in 1995. On here, many have been dismissive of the small number of aircraft (six Sea Jets) embarked, but turn a blind eye to the fact that the RAF contributions ashore had similar numbers of aircraft, but without the mobility or swing role.
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"Stupid attitudes of both owners and unions wrecked the industry there in the 70s"
Not just on the Clyde - the whole industry was wrecked by idiot unions and truly stupid management
and not even just shipbuilding - almost the whole of UK Industry went the same way
Not just on the Clyde - the whole industry was wrecked by idiot unions and truly stupid management
and not even just shipbuilding - almost the whole of UK Industry went the same way
