Future Carrier (Including Costs)
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And UAV continue to dominate the battlespace….
Royal Navy's intention to put Heavy Lift drones on all ships; and the ability of said drones to deploy STINGRAY / its successor. It is a compelling vision. It answers need to deploy ASW torpedoes at relevant range (which ship tubes can't do) without using a MK41 cell for an ASROC.
You've seen drones before, but not like this.
In partnership with Malloy Aeronautics, we recently demonstrated the T-600 heavy lift, all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) demonstrator aircraft, at a recent NATO event in Portugal. 👇
http://baes.co/8SJ050PQ5HM
Royal Navy's intention to put Heavy Lift drones on all ships; and the ability of said drones to deploy STINGRAY / its successor. It is a compelling vision. It answers need to deploy ASW torpedoes at relevant range (which ship tubes can't do) without using a MK41 cell for an ASROC.
You've seen drones before, but not like this.
In partnership with Malloy Aeronautics, we recently demonstrated the T-600 heavy lift, all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) demonstrator aircraft, at a recent NATO event in Portugal. 👇
http://baes.co/8SJ050PQ5HM
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Emphasis is on 'pushing the limits' : Britain’s Largest Warship HMS Prince Of Wales Makes Virginia Temporary Homeport During East Coast Deployment - Seapower (seapowermagazine.org)
Emphasis is on 'pushing the limits' : Britain’s Largest Warship HMS Prince Of Wales Makes Virginia Temporary Homeport During East Coast Deployment - Seapower (seapowermagazine.org)
Duty Pedant.
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Please let's drop this grammatical wrangling!
The ancient weather-guesser was making the pedantic point that a comparative adjective is appropriate where two items are under consideration, whereas the original article used a superlative.
Back to discussions of the RN's brace of aircraft carriers now please!
The ancient weather-guesser was making the pedantic point that a comparative adjective is appropriate where two items are under consideration, whereas the original article used a superlative.
Back to discussions of the RN's brace of aircraft carriers now please!
I would prefer couple of carriers (as in beagles) 
as I prefer to the think of them as hunters rather than prey/targets.
as I prefer to the think of them as hunters rather than prey/targets.
.... what could have been - Ospreys landing on HMSQNLZ 26 Feb 2023 and HMSPWLS the following day (From ships' Tw@tter/X feeds)
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maybe we could lease 4 of them....................
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Please let's drop this grammatical wrangling!
The ancient weather-guesser was making the pedantic point that a comparative adjective is appropriate where two items are under consideration, whereas the original article used a superlative.
Back to discussions of the RN's brace of aircraft carriers now please!
The ancient weather-guesser was making the pedantic point that a comparative adjective is appropriate where two items are under consideration, whereas the original article used a superlative.
Back to discussions of the RN's brace of aircraft carriers now please!
one and a half couple
Back to RN ships - have there been any further COD proposals using the V-22 or similar?
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Photo essay: UK Carrier Strike Group completes first phase of 2023 deployment | Navy Lookout
Jets on deck - flying operations from HMS Queen Elizabeth
06 Oct 2023
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Wasn’t sure if this should be here or the European army thread - but since it’s about a ship…..
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/seni...craft-carrier/
Senior EU official pushes for European aircraft carrier
As first reported by Joshua Posaner and Laura Kayali at Politico, EU Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, has stressed the importance of Europe bolstering its defence.
His propositions include the creation of an aircraft carrier and a missile defense shield.
During his speech at the European Defence and Security Conference, Breton accentuated the European Commission’s need to launch an “ambitious European defence investment program”.
Amid anticipation for an imminent European defence industrial strategy, set to be unveiled on November 8, Breton advanced the conversation on the building of an aircraft carrier, a “Eurodome air defense system”, and a space-focused “European threat detection and identification capability”.
Breton was quoted as saying, “With the return of high-intensity conflict on the European continent, we have no other choice,” while addressing defence industry magnates in Brussels.
Germany previously wanted a European aircraft carrier
Back in 2019, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel endorsed the idea of a joint European aircraft carrier. The idea was suggested by her party’s leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
“The next step could be to start on the symbolic project of building a common European aircraft carrier” to underline what the EU calls its global security role.
Merkel said in March this year, according to Reuters, that “it’s right and good that we have such equipment on the European side, and I’m happy to work on it”.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/seni...craft-carrier/
Senior EU official pushes for European aircraft carrier
As first reported by Joshua Posaner and Laura Kayali at Politico, EU Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, has stressed the importance of Europe bolstering its defence.
His propositions include the creation of an aircraft carrier and a missile defense shield.
During his speech at the European Defence and Security Conference, Breton accentuated the European Commission’s need to launch an “ambitious European defence investment program”.
Amid anticipation for an imminent European defence industrial strategy, set to be unveiled on November 8, Breton advanced the conversation on the building of an aircraft carrier, a “Eurodome air defense system”, and a space-focused “European threat detection and identification capability”.
Breton was quoted as saying, “With the return of high-intensity conflict on the European continent, we have no other choice,” while addressing defence industry magnates in Brussels.
Germany previously wanted a European aircraft carrier
Back in 2019, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel endorsed the idea of a joint European aircraft carrier. The idea was suggested by her party’s leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
“The next step could be to start on the symbolic project of building a common European aircraft carrier” to underline what the EU calls its global security role.
Merkel said in March this year, according to Reuters, that “it’s right and good that we have such equipment on the European side, and I’m happy to work on it”.
And UAV continue to dominate the battlespace….
Royal Navy's intention to put Heavy Lift drones on all ships; and the ability of said drones to deploy STINGRAY / its successor. It is a compelling vision. It answers need to deploy ASW torpedoes at relevant range (which ship tubes can't do) without using a MK41 cell for an ASROC.
You've seen drones before, but not like this.
In partnership with Malloy Aeronautics, we recently demonstrated the T-600 heavy lift, all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) demonstrator aircraft, at a recent NATO event in Portugal. 👇
http://baes.co/8SJ050PQ5HM
Royal Navy's intention to put Heavy Lift drones on all ships; and the ability of said drones to deploy STINGRAY / its successor. It is a compelling vision. It answers need to deploy ASW torpedoes at relevant range (which ship tubes can't do) without using a MK41 cell for an ASROC.
You've seen drones before, but not like this.
In partnership with Malloy Aeronautics, we recently demonstrated the T-600 heavy lift, all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) demonstrator aircraft, at a recent NATO event in Portugal. 👇
http://baes.co/8SJ050PQ5HM
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
🚨 JUST IN: The UK Ministry of Defence has placed the UK Carrier Strike group (including Europe’s most advanced aircraft carrier: HMS Queen Elizabeth) on alert for potential deployment to the Mediterranean.
Unsure if it will be deployed to the region but the UK fleet is cutting short a training exercise with the Norwegian Army.
Unsure if it will be deployed to the region but the UK fleet is cutting short a training exercise with the Norwegian Army.
Not sure what deploying an underequipped UK carrier is going to add to the capabilities of the Ford and potentially Ike Politico Pro: U.S. may send second aircraft carrier toward Israel except flag the UK as another country that can't be an 'honest broker' in any de-escalation talks and that Rish! is hoping to be Biden's poodle.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
I would suggest a large empty deck and accommodation for any required evacuation - whether from Israel, Gaza or elsewhere depending on events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_...rew_facilities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_...rew_facilities
A good point but I think an evacuation highly unlikely, however wouldn't Argus and an LPD (oh sorry we don't currently have an active one) make more sense. Are you meaning evacuation of non-residents and/or UK citizens?