I’ve hit a snag in my line of thinking guys and girls and was wondering if any of you out there in the lovely land of Cyber could help me.
The RFA (Royal Fleet Auxillery), do they draw on the RN’s budget for their ops and ships or do they get a slice of the MoD’s pie so to speak?
The answer of this would tie in with the next part of the question being:
Who issues the requirements for the new ships? RFA is a civvy organisation where as the RN are the end users thus I would assume that the RN would issue the requirements for the new RFA ships with the details consulted over with the civvies who run the ships. Sound about right?
By: Lamps - 21st January 2007 at 12:41
Every days a school day. Never knew that, very interesting. cheers Si
By: Ja Worsley - 18th January 2007 at 01:14
Mate that is the most help anyone has been able to give me, it is logical makes heaps of sence and is so practicle that if you were a woman sitting next to me I’d kiss you! Thanks a heap.
By: Si Jones - 16th January 2007 at 18:55
Hi,
The money comes from to fast dwindling pot of gold at the end of the rainbow….no really it is a combined budget with the various arms of the forces bidding for money to pay for upkeep, new equipment etc. They usually are allocated a certain amount of dosh to do everything for the financial year and how the individual arms divi it up again depends on the requiremet at the time. The need for say an RFA comes from a decsion based on the requiremt of the forces. It is usually based on future rather than current tasking. For instance the Type 23 was designed for blue water asw ops so the requirement for the RFA was to design and build a ship that would support the 23 for up to xxx days, including ammunition, food, general stores and a facility to support the Merlin helicopter……as so the AOR was born (Fort Victoria / George). Today the requirement has change and we have moved from blue water ops to littoral, and provide a greater support to our troops ashore (amphibious role) and so to optimise the reqirement we need to build ships that can operate in hot/cold regions, accomodate, deploy, support and sustain, provide other roles such as mass evacuation etc, and so LSD(A) was born, and so on.
Hope this helps in some way
Regards.
By: Ja Worsley - 16th January 2007 at 02:30
hahahahaha I like it, goes back to my battle tanker idea, good one 😀
By: Super Nimrod - 15th January 2007 at 17:54
Perhaps they are turning the RFA’s into a shadow navy to make up for the other one that is disappearing :diablo: 😮 Hidden capability etc 😉
By: Ja Worsley - 15th January 2007 at 15:11
Thanks Swerve I did that ages ago even asked some RN gits about it via that site but no one could give me a straight answer, seems like the RFA is a ghost entity :dev2:
By: swerve - 15th January 2007 at 14:28
I’ve hit a snag in my line of thinking guys and girls and was wondering if any of you out there in the lovely land of Cyber could help me.
The RFA (Royal Fleet Auxillery), do they draw on the RN’s budget for their ops and ships or do they get a slice of the MoD’s pie so to speak?
The answer of this would tie in with the next part of the question being:
Who issues the requirements for the new ships? RFA is a civvy organisation where as the RN are the end users thus I would assume that the RN would issue the requirements for the new RFA ships with the details consulted over with the civvies who run the ships. Sound about right?
Strictly speaking, there’s no such thing as an RN budget. British military spending doesn’t work like that. You have to add together a few different MoD budgets to get navy spending. Do a bit of googling, & hunt through some .gov.uk & .mod.uk sites & all the figures are there somewhere.
BTW, the RFA website is under the Royal Navy website. Read carefully, & I think you’ll be able to deduce answers to some of your questions.
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January 15, 2007 at 1:24 pm