I highly doubt any new purchase of Phalanx for the moment, the main reason that it hasn’t been installed is due to a number being converted into C-RAM for operation by 16RA.

The MOD has been incredibly cagey about C-RAM operations, now Iraq is over and A-Stan is winding down C-RAM mounts will free up for restoration to the navy. Also with the recent retirement of several T42 the RN can start looking at putting them on the T45 as they should be.

As for Harpoon, who knows. There is space for a couple of quad launchers aft of the VLS, I suppose you could take them off the four retiring Type 22 Batch 3. Still leaves you short of four quad launchers it you want all six T45 to have the capability unless the navy has some spare. Personally I think it would be more worthwhile adding a surface attack mode to Sea Viper, the Americans have done similar with SM-2 Standard as this video shows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkLK72fHqm4&feature=related

I’m sorry Village Idi but you are just going around making the same points over and over again along with links to the same articles in multiple threads on this forum. We all agree with you that dropping the Harriers and Ark Royal was a very bad thing that will cause serious difficulties standing up a new carrier at the end of the decade. The point has been made and we understand, you don’t need to keep on coming back to it over and over again!

As I have said before the decision has been made and the UK will now have to get on with it for better or for worse! What I won’t do is get caught into this general funk that it can’t be done at all!

As Badger had pointed out provisions are being made to move forward getting the correct skills into the navy ready for adoption of QE class at the end of the decade and as Stryker73 pointed out in his post in respect of 1SL ‘it is time to move on, stop dwelling on past decisions and concentrate all our efforts into the QE Class’ .

Please move on…

Haven’t we already covered that this guy has a bit of a F35 bias.

If Indian MOD actually did that the European nations still competing would go ballistic. Anyway EADS and Dassault must know that the Indian MOD would do this and ensure their bids were within the safety zone.

Well it would bring Chilean Type 23 into line with upgraded RN Type 23.

Further from previous post it appears to have a very similar setup to the older FLOLS system:

http://www.tpub.com/content/aviation2/P-1211/P-12110017.htm

http://www.tpub.com/content/construction/14027/css/14027_167.htm

Well an image I have been waiting for has been posted on the China defense blogspot, the landing sight!

So what do people think? Does it look like a Ukrainian one or indigenous?

Been trying to find a close up of the sight fitted to AK but so far except for some distant blurry shots I have found none.

Well if its for real its certainly an important development especially for Pakistan. The PAF were only interested in the J-10 with Chinese engines.

I was referring to the F-15A/B that were sent to the boneyard rather then being put through MSIP.