I’ve been looking through Royal navy equipment on the web and there is some interesting stuff i never new they had. If anyone has info on them or has any other equipment that is different from the usual stuff please reply.

Here is a RM hovercraft. How many they have, what ships they operate off or if there are any other types i don’t know

The navy also operates the BV206 that the viking was developed from. I never new this and its not listed on the RN site. How many and for how long i don’t know. They also have a few leopard 1 tanks that have been converted into beach vehicles. It seems an odd chassis to use.

When reading about history and the Falklands i saw that HMS Onyx had sank one of the Round table class after it had been destroyed by fire and bombs. Does anyone know anything about the role this submarine played in the war. All i’ve seen so far is that it played quite and important part with SBS and had other roles. It was because it was small and non nuclear that it got the special forces role. That got me thinking, did the UK do the right thing retiring all there non nuclear submarines? Maybe they should of kept what are now Canada’s Victoria class. Conventional subs seem to be good for some roles. I would still keep the nuclear for the big roles like out in the ocean chasing other boats but there would be role for a very quiet and smaller submarine where speed isn’t a main factor. The USN seems to keep a sub or 2 for special missions etc. Does the RN have a sub that has some different equipment on it that it uses for special missions? There used to be one of the Swiftsure class i think HMS Spartan that had a dry deck shelter but i was under the impression that when this was retired the capability was lost.