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The first Type 45 destroyer, HMS Daring, sets sail today, 11 January 2012, on her maiden deployment in a landmark event for the Royal Navy

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La HMS Daring è la prima di sei navi Type 45s (costo 1 miliaro di £ cadauna) ad entrate in servizio per la Marina britannica. Questo programma è destinato a sostutuire le Type 42.

Le altre navi previsto sono:

D32 HMS Daring

D33 HMS Dauntless

D34 HMS Diamond

D35 Dragon

D36 Defender

D37 Duncan

 

Le principali caratteristiche sono:

152.4m long

21.2m wide

standard displacement 7,350t

full displacement 7,800t

cruise 17 knots (electric propulsion)

top speed 27 knots

engines 2 WR-21 advanced cycle modular gas turbine (25MW per turbina)

 

armi

PAAMS air defense system, consciuto come “Sea Viper”

4.5-inch Mark 8 Mod 1 gun

un coppia di 30 mm guns integrated to an Electro-Optic Gun Control System

 

anti sommergibile

multi-function MFS-7000 bow sonar

Stingray anti-submarine torpedoes (lanciati da elicottero)

Surface Ship Torpedo Defence System

 

mezzi imbarcati

Lynx HMA Mark 8s eventualmente sostituiti da

EH101 Merlins o AW159 Lynx Wildcats

 

 

L'11 gennaio 2012 la HMS Daring ha lasciato la base di Portsmouth per navigare ad est di Suez per i prossimi sette mesi

 

 

HMS Southampton - Type 42

 

 

 

HMS Daring fires Sea Viper

 

 

 

Daring’s trials

 

 

 

 

ecco alcuni concept source

 

 

Modificato 12 Gennaio 2012 da Andrea75

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L'alleanza anglo francese per le portaerei deve decidere quale veivolo impiegare, considerato che non ha più Harrier: source

 

opzione 1 (secondo me poco probabile)

 

Feb 22/12: UK Rafales? French DGA head Lauren Collet-Billon tells a press conference that the extent of carrier cooperation with Britain will depend on Britain’s final plans and choices. With respect to fighter jets, Defense Aerospace quotes him saying that the F-35:

 

”...is an ambitious program, and like all ambitious programs it faces a number of challenges…. If one day we have to lend Rafale Ms to the Royal Navy, why not? Personally, I’d find that very pleasing.”

 

opzione 2

 

March 12/12: GBP 1.8 billion? The Telegraph reports that:

 

“Estimates for adapting HMS Prince of Wales so that it can be used by the Joint Strike Fighter are understood have risen from £500?million to £1.8?billion.”

 

That may be an unaffordable price, and force a shift back to F-35B jets. Fortunately for Britain, the F-35B has been taken off of its program probation already. Unfortunately for Britain, the sale of its recently-upgraded Harrier force to the USMC, at a bargain-basement price, for use as spares, will look especially bad if there’s a switch back to a STOBAR carrier design. The government’s response will likely be to cite Harrier operating & maintenance costs as too high to sustain.

 

March 1/12: Labour Party shadow defense minister Jim Murphy sends a letter to British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, asking if the government is considering abandoning the F-35C decision made in the October 2010 SDSR, and reverting to the F-35B. The letter telegraphs the growing pressure created by cost estimates of the carrier refit.

 

La ragione del ripensamento verso la versione B dell'F35 è source

 

The reason? It’s going to be damn expensive to outfit the Royal Navy’s two new Queen Elizabeth class supercarriers with the electromagnetic catapults and next-generation arresting gear that were going to launch and recover the Brits’ C-model JSFs. The estimated cost to refit the ships with catapults and arrestor wires has more than tripled since the 2010 decision to swap the Bs for Cs.

 

Considerato l'attuale periodo di austerità e l'aumento dei costi, è molto probabile che la decisione verrà presa guardando al portafogli source

 

The two carriers, originally priced at £3.5bn, are now estimated to cost £6.2bn. According to the Commons public accounts committee, the cost is likely to icrease to as much as £12bn.

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Royal Navy trials new combat uniform

 

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U.K. Reverting to STOVL JSF for its Carriers

 

Britain’s military chiefs have unanimously backed a plan to switch back to the short take-off, vertical-landing (STOVL) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to equip its aircraft carriers, a report in The Times newspaper said April 16.

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Royal Navy: a global force 2011/12

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Il Ministero della Difesa Inglese ha scelto la proposta dei cantieri sudcoreani Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineer per la realizzzione dei 4 rifornitori a doppio scafo da 37.000 t.

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HMS Diamond fires Sea Viper missile for first time

 

The third of the Royal Navy’s cutting-edge Type 45 destroyers blasted a Sea Viper missile out of her silo at three times the speed of sound, obliterating the jet drone target in the sky above.

The successful firing of Sea Viper means that HMS Diamond is now ready to take her place as a fully operational warship, capable of deploying anywhere across the world.

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In this case, HMS Diamond’s prey was a Mirach drone – a 13-foot (4m) remote-controlled jet that can fly at speeds of up to 600mph (966km/h) at altitudes as low as 10ft (3m) or as high as 14,000ft (4km) for 90 minutes.

 

Ecco il video

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RfhoGKmD68g

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U.K. May Overhaul Management of Carrier Program

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Ministers approve £350 million contract for Trident replacement

 

The Ministry of Defence will announce this week that it has placed £350 million of contracts for the design of new nuclear-armed submarines.

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Donne al comando The first female commander of a major Royal Navy warship takes up her post today

 

Commander Sarah West, 40, will join the Type 23 frigate HMS Portland in Rosyth, Fife.

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The ''largest and most powerful warship'' ever built for the Royal Navy has achieved another milestone as a massive section of HMS Queen Elizabeth left port.

A large seagoing barge carrying the 6,000 tonne forward section of hull, known as Lower Block 02, left Portsmouth on Monday night bound for Scotland.

 

It is now being towed over the coming four days from its previous Naval Base home to Rosyth, on the Scottish east coast, where it will arrive on Friday.

 

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£500m jump jets may melt the decks of aircraft carriers: Latest MoD plan shambles

 

Tests found the fumes which blast out of the £500million Joint Strike Fighters when they land damage the ships’ decks.

Now the UK will have to go cap in hand to the Americans, who are developing a new super-tough, heat resistant deck coating to deal with the problem.

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Navy minehunters sail for Gulf

 

Royal Navy minehunters HMS Shoreham and HMS Atherstone set sail this week for three-year deployments to the Gulf region.

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Donne al comando The first female commander of a major Royal Navy warship takes up her post today

 

 

Credits: Spinoza.it

Modificato 4 Giugno 2012 da Scagnetti

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A proposito di "Donne al comando" .... anche nell' USAF non stanno con le mani in mano ....

 

http://www.seymourjohnson.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123304401

 

 

 

 

Si, si .... lo so .... avete ragione .... questo con la Royal Navy non c'entra niente ....

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Spionaggio ... Submariner accused of passing encryption data to 'enemy'

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HMS Diamond set sail from Portsmouth for the Middle East

 

The Type 45 destroyer, which recently launched the Jubilee weekend with a spectacular ceremonial entry into Portsmouth on 1 June, will spend six months carrying out maritime security patrols in the Indian Ocean, Gulf of Aden and the Gulf, replacing her sister ship HMS Daring.

The ship will be acting as part of the Navy's standing commitment in the Middle East, providing a range of capabilities from counter piracy to reassurance of the UK's allies in the region.

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Philip Hammond unveils £1bn deal to pave way for Trident replacement

 

Britain is to forge ahead with a new generation of nuclear weapons with a £1bn contract to be unveiled this week.

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Britain’s Next-Gen Missile Submarines

 

“We are committed to working towards a safer world in which there is no requirement for nuclear weapons…. However, the continuing risk from the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the certainty that a number of other countries will retain substantial nuclear arsenals, mean that our minimum nuclear deterrent capability, currently represented by Trident, is likely to remain a necessary element of our security.” —UK SDSR, 1998

 

Reactors. Britain’s Ministry of Defense signs a GBP 1.1 billion contract with Rolls Royce for submarine nuclear reactor cores, (GBP 600 million) and industrial investment in the Raynesway plant that manufactures them (GBP 500 million). The contracts will secure 300 jobs at Rolls-Royce.

The nuclear reactor cores will be used to power the 7th and final SSN Astute Class fast attack submarine, and the 1st of the Royal Navy’s next generation of SSBN nuclear deterrent submarines, currently known as the Successor Class.

 

Royal Navy submarine contract awarded

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presentazione interattiva della portaerei source

 

 

e un'analisi U.K. Muddies Waters With Its Carrier Decision

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Nuclear submarines hit by more than 200 fires in the past 25 years

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DAVID Cameron could be forced into a SECOND multi-billion pound U-turn on the design of Britain’s new aircraft carriers

 

The PM will have to dump his revised plan for jump-jets to fly off the two giant ships if there is no quick resolution to the US budget crisis.

Chopping of the American-led programme to build the F35B Joint Strike Fighter is “likely” under automatic spending cuts, a US Congress report has revealed.

That would push the MoD into a third complete redesign for the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales.

The ships’ decks would have to be torn up again to fit catapults and traps so conventional jets that don’t hover could take off and land.

That could delay the vessels’ arrival by years. And the cost, topping £2billion, would leave the newly-balanced defence budget in tatters.

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HMS Dragon celebrates successful Sea Viper trials

 

HMS Dragon has successfully tested her Sea Viper weapon system by knocking a target out of the sky at the Outer Hebrides missile range off Scotland.

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A target missile was launched which increased the working tension, as sensors and communications circuits were tested to make sure they were functioning properly.

The missile was coming in towards the vicinity of the ship and the command order to 'take' the target (the executive order to engage with Sea Viper) was made by Lieutenant Commander MacRae.

 

 

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Austerità Lib Dems push for 'stand-by' Trident replacement deal

 

proposal not to replace Vanguard subs would save billions

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The future of Britain's nuclear deterrent looks likely to be an issue at the 2015 election as the Liberal Democrats prepare to endorse a scaled-down version of the £25bn programme to replace the Trident system.

An internal review by the Ministry of Defence is expected to produce a "menu of options" including putting the UK's nuclear weapons on "standby" so they could be reactivated at short notice.

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Nuclear weapons: The alternatives

1. "Like for like" replacement of existing submarine-launched Trident from 2028 at a cost of £25bn. Favoured by Conservatives and, for now, by Labour.

2. Scaled down version of Trident with warheads launched with Cruise missiles from Astute class submarines. Much cheaper. Likely to feature in 2015 Lib Dem manifesto.

3. Air-launched nuclear deterrent. Was considered by previous Labour Government. Critics say it would be expensive to build a new fleet.

4. Scrapping the nuclear deterrent. Favoured by CND, the SNP and the Green Party.

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Procurement UK to trial rotary-wing UAS for navy applications

 

The UK Ministry of Defence plans to complete a capability concept demonstrator (CCD) programme by March 2015 to investigate the utility of equipping the Royal Navy with a rotary-wing unmanned air system (RWUAS) post-2020.

Outlining its interest, in a 24 July contract notification, the MoD says: "Head of Capability Above Water has a requirement to understand whether a multi-role RWUAS can provide utility in the mine countermeasures, hydrography and meteorology, offensive surface warfare and general situational awareness capability areas." Its planned demonstration "will inform future maritime UAS requirements, potentially leading to an acquisition programme in the second decade", it adds.