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HMS Defender moves in to her new home

 

The Royal Navy's newest Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, sailed in to her new home at Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth today

 

The ship's arrival at her new base brings Defender a step closer to her first deployment. She will now undergo sea trials before being declared ready for operations in 2013.

Armed with the world-leading Sea Viper missile defence system, the 7,500-tonne vessel is able to defend against multiple attacks from even the most sophisticated anti-ship missiles, approaching from any direction and at supersonic speeds.

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Segnalo questo link da dove è possibile vedere dei paper del Nationale Audit Office britannico sulle portaerei Carrier Strike: Supplementary Report

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"Supporto" privato per la nuke britannica MOD signs Trident support contract

 

The Ministry of Defence has today signed a 15-year contract with ABL Alliance to provide support of the Trident Strategic Weapon System at the Royal Naval Armament Depot (RNAD) Coulport and the Strategic Weapon Support Building (SWSB) Faslane, both of which are part of Her Majesty's (HM) Naval Base Clyde.

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In 2008 the MOD started looking at a range of options to ensure that the work of Coulport, and associated work at the SWSB, can continue to be carried out effectively in the long term, and in May 2011 we decided that the most effective way to sustain the workforce in the future was to use an experienced supplier within the private sector.

Following the conclusion of our commercial negotiations, we have signed a 15-year contract to outsource elements of support at Coulport and the SWSB. The contract is with an industrial alliance of contractors: AWE plc, Babcock and Lockheed Martin UK Strategic Systems (LMUKSS), known collectively as the ABL Alliance, under a prime and strategic sub-contractor arrangement, with AWE plc in the role of prime contractor. This will ensure that the highly skilled workforce at Coulport and in the SWSB can be maintained in the long term, delivering vital support to the Trident system.

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Attività di procurement New generation of unmanned sea drones 'could launch attacks on other vessels'

 

MoD seeks to develop a new generation of unmanned sea drones able to attack submarines and launch missile attacks on enemy vessels, it is claimed.

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The Royal Navy is already using unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to help stop Iran laying mines in shipping lanes and also being considered for deployment for the pirate-infested waters off Somalia.

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http://navy-matters.beedall.com/index.html

 

un aggiornamento sui programmi RN, con una interessante tabella (rapportata ai festeggiamenti, tempo per tempo, per la Regina Elisabetta) che mostra l'involuzione numerica della RN.

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HMS Sutherland relieves Westminster east of Suez

 

HMS Sutherland has relieved her sister ship HMS Westminster in the Indian Ocean after some final boarding party training in Crete and passage through the Suez Canal.

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Final Type 45 destroyer sets off on maiden voyage

 

Duncan, the Royal Navy's sixth and final powerful new Type 45 destroyer, has put to sea for the first time for trials where a blend of Royal Navy, Ministry of Defence and BAE Systems personnel will put her through her paces.

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Design unveiled of Royal Navy's future warships

 

Britain’s Future Frigates: Type 26 & 27 Global Combat Ships

 

 

The Ministry of Defence has released images showing the basic specification of the T26 GCS, which is a significant milestone in the development of this programme. The creation of the vessel will sustain thousands of jobs in the shipbuilding industry.

 

The multi-mission warship, which is due to come into service after 2020, will be used by the Royal Navy in combat and counter-piracy operations, and to support humanitarian and disaster relief work around the world.

 

Since 2010 the MOD has been working with BAE Systems to determine the ship's basic capabilities and baseline design.

 

Now that has been endorsed, the programme can progress to the next part of the assessment phase, which will examine the detailed specifications of the vessel.

 

With a displacement of around 5,400 tonnes, the T26 GCS will be around 148m in length (the equivalent of around 15 double-decker buses), and among the most advanced vessels in the Royal Navy's fleet.

 

The T26 GCS is expected to feature:

 

• vertical missile silos capable of housing a range of different weapons

 

• a medium-calibre gun

 

• a hangar to accommodate a Merlin or Wildcat helicopter, and a flexible mission space for unmanned air, surface and underwater vehicles, or additional boats

 

• the most advanced sensors available to the fleet.

 

 

 

 

 

e inoltre

 

Flagship aircraft carrier Ark Royal to be sold for scrap

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Royal Navy's newest attack submarine ready for sea trials

 

Ambush, the second of the Royal Navy's Astute Class attack submarines, is today preparing to leave her builder's yard to begin sea trials.

In the next few days, the 7,400-tonne submarine will leave the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, where she was built, and sail to Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde in Scotland.

The seven Astute Class boats planned for the Royal Navy are the most advanced and powerful attack submarines Britain has ever sent to sea.

They feature the latest nuclear-powered technology, which means they never need to be refuelled and can circumnavigate the world submerged, manufacturing the crew's oxygen from seawater as they go.

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Royal Navy unveils carrier training facility

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Royal Navy takes key role in international minehunting exercise

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First Royal Navy crew join HMS Queen Elizabeth

 

The first sailors to join the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth have arrived in Rosyth to become the key members of the team building the UK's most powerful warship.

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E' sempre un passaggio chiave nella vita di una nave, tanto più se è una portaerei di queste dimensioni.

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Intercettazione simulata di F-15 da parte dell'HMS Diamond durante l'esercitazione IMCMEX12 con il sistema Sea Viper

 

http://www.asdnews.com/news-45370/HMS_Diamond_foils_F-15__attack_.htm

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Upgraded ship simulator aids Royal Navy training

 

The most advanced ship simulator in the Navy has been installed at Dartmouth, featuring photo-realistic recreations of key harbours to train bridge teams.

The upgrade to the replica bridge at Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) features photo-realistic recreations of key harbours such as Portsmouth and Plymouth, immersing trainee naval officers, budding navigators and experienced ship's teams in an almost-real world as they hone their ship piloting skills safely on dry land.

There are four bridge simulators to train navigators and bridge teams - two at HMS Collingwood and one each at Dartmouth and Faslane, all of which have been in use for several years.

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Prime Minister inspects new carrier construction

 

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, visited Rosyth dockyard yesterday to see the work taking place to build the first of the two new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers.

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Mr Cameron's visit coincided with the moving of the aft - or back - section of the hull onto one of the two largest barges in the world at Govan shipyard, ready for its move to Rosyth on 3 November.

This will be the final hull section of HMS Queen Elizabeth to arrive at the dockyard where BAE Systems and Babcock are working together to put all the sections together.

Production of the second carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, has also started at Govan and Portsmouth dockyards.

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HMS Monmouth deploys to the Gulf

 

The Royal Navy frigate HMS Monmouth left Plymouth yesterday on a seven-month maritime security deployment to the Gulf.

The ship has two main missions: to protect the trade routes the UK economy depends on and to maintain security on the high seas, which will be achieved through surveillance and deterring and defeating piracy and terrorism at sea.

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Britain’s Future CVF Carriers: the Queen Elizabeth Class

 

video della costruzione http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ctkY391dEYQ e assemblaggio http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ctkY391dEYQ

 

 

inoltre Bids invited for £60m Pompey new aircraft carrier dock

 

The MoD’s procurement arm plans to build a new berth and jetty in Portsmouth for the new Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers being built.

Firms are being invited to prequalifty to bid for a £60m contract that includes dredging the existing channel to make it deeper and wider for the bigger QE Class carriers.

The jetties will also be extensively refurbished to boost electricity supply to the carriers via a new substation located near the jetty.

The QE Class will be the centre piece of Britain’s military capability. Each of the two 65,000-tonne carriers will provide the armed forces with a four-acre military operating base which can be deployed worldwide.

 

intanto il 16/10 è stato ultimato il blocco 4

 

Oct 16/12: CVF01. The 11,000-tonne Lower Block 04 (LB04) is rolled out of BAE’s Govan facility. It houses 2 main engine rooms, a hospital complex, a dentist, the galley, and accommodations including 242 berths. It was loaded onto a huge sea-going barge for its 5-day, 600-mile journey to Rosyth, where the carrier sections will be assembled.

 

Carrier's largest puzzle piece rolls out on the Clyde

 

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Low Risk, Flexibility Drive Type 26 Design

 

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Britain Awards £350M Of Sub Design Work

 

Britain's Ministry of Defence has awarded an additional 353 million pounds of work to continue design of a new generation of nuclear-armed submarines for the Royal Navy.

BAE Systems gets the lion's share of the work with a 318-million-pound deal. The remainder of the work goes to Babcock.

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HMS Dauntless returns from maiden deployment

 

HMS Dauntless returned home to Portsmouth yesterday, Tuesday 30 October, from her maiden deployment circumnavigating the Atlantic Ocean.

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Hammond: Keep Both Carriers in Royal Navy Service

 

British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has thrown his weight behind the Royal Navy operating both of the new aircraft carriers once the new Queen Elizabeth class warships enter service starting late this decade.

 

Hammond said no decision would be taken before the 2015 strategic defense review on whether the second carrier would be retained for use by the Royal Navy, but the “relatively modest” additional £70 million pounds ($112.7 million) annual cost of having the two warships available is an “extremely good investment,” he told the Royal United Services Institute annual air power conference in London Nov 1.

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Huge section of HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves shipyard

 

The largest section of future carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is now complete and on its way to join the rest of the ship. This gigantic segment - officially known as Lower Block 04 and weighing 11,300 tonnes - was towed on a barge down the Clyde on Sunday to begin a 1,230-nautical-mile (2,278km) journey around the south of England to Rosyth.

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Slow, leaky, rusty: Britain's £10bn submarine beset by design flaws

 

The Royal Navy's new multibillion pound hunter-killer submarine, HMS Astute, has been beset by design and construction flaws that have raised doubts about its performance and potential safety.

 

The Guardian can reveal that Astute, the first of seven new submarines costing £9.75bn, has been unable to reach its intended top speed.

 

At the moment, the boat, heralded as the most sophisticated submarine ever built for the navy, cannot sprint to emergencies or away from an attack – an essential requirement for a hunter-killer boat.

 

It would also be incapable of keeping pace with the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers, which will be able to travel at more than 30 knots and need the submarines to protect them. One source told the Guardian the boat had a "V8 engine with a Morris Minor gearbox".

 

Other problems that have affected the boat in recent months include:

 

• Flooding during a routine dive that led to Astute performing an emergency surfacing.

 

• Corrosion even though the boat is essentially new.

 

• The replacement or moving of computer circuit boards because they did not meet safety standards.

 

• Concern over the instruments monitoring the nuclear reactor because the wrong type of lead was used.

 

• Questions being raised about the quality and installation of other pieces of equipment.

 

• Concern reported among some crew members about the Astute's pioneering periscope, that does not allow officers to look at the surface "live".

 

The MoD confirmed Astute had suffered some "teething problems" during sea trials. "It is normal for first of class trials to identify areas where modifications are required and these are then incorporated into later vessels of the class," a spokesman said.

 

Though the MoD said it cannot discuss the speed of submarines, the spokesman said Astute would "provide an outstanding capability for decades to come".

 

However, if the propulsion problems persist, they would represent one of the biggest procurement disasters the MoD has ever had to deal with, and potentially leave the Astute fleet struggling to perform all the duties it was built for.

 

John Large, an independent nuclear safety analyst and specialist engineer, said: "These problems are much more significant than the niggles and glitches expected to arise during working up of a new class of nuclear-powered submarine. Particularly disturbing is the apparent mismatch between the nuclear reactor plant and the steam turbine sets, putting the submarine speed below par and making her susceptible in the anti-submarine warfare theatre."

 

The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said ministers "must be clear over the impact of any problems with this essential programme on timing and cost".

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La replica HMS Astute

 

Commander Ian Breckenridge, who was the Commanding Officer of HMS Astute between November 2010 and September 2012, said:

"Astute is the most capable submarine I have served in during my 25 years in service. She is a step forward from her predecessors but her new design and first of class status mean that during sea trials she must prove not only the build but also the design - hence sea trials take time. I spent almost 200 days at sea in Astute and no submariner would ever think of going to sea in anything other than a safe submarine."