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July 4, 2011 at 12:25 am in reply to: PLAN News, Photos and Speculation #3 #1999937

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Agreed, also I think they will pull her back into dry dock to repaint her as well before she sails.

July 3, 2011 at 12:01 am in reply to: Russian Navy Thread #2000053

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6hN4xR22I0

From NPO Mars maker of fine Russian BIUS systems since 1961. This video kinda makes you wonder why the hell do they need the French?

They want to modernise their shipyards as they are inefficient in comparison to Western ones.

July 2, 2011 at 9:06 pm in reply to: PLAN News, Photos and Speculation #3 #2000060

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Its not unreasonable Wanshan, even totally new vessels will have a huge defects list build up when they start to switch systems on.

July 2, 2011 at 8:27 pm in reply to: Submarine school #2000063

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Good BBC series…of course its on Youtube:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Interesting the changes in sonar technology, this series has them hand cranking a little handle to adjust it and now they have computerised waterfall displays with trackballs.

I didn’t know there was a Perisher bit to the BBC series as well, found it on Youtube and will now watch!:)

July 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Submarine school #2000069

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I agree about the XO thing the program gave the impression that they were all off to captain a submarine. The reality is that it can be several years until that happens. Cmdr Jim Perks who was Teacher on the course went through Perisher in 1999 but didn’t get command of HMS Sceptre until 2005. Considering he later went onto FOST he is clearly a talented chap who was probably identified for greater things early on. One curio note he apparently entered the service as a Writer which is in effect an administrator or accountant.

Actually American Dan is the most likely to get a sub first, if you look at his record he is clearly a golden boy in the USN submarines service, considering they also have far more submarines then the RN: 71 in commission vs 11 there are more to go about.

From the History channel blurb:

Such is the reputation of Perisher, even the US Navy puts some of its finest young officers through the British Perisher Course it. Dan Reiss, who like many of his US Navy colleagues has a strong background in nuclear engineering, is up for the US Perisher Course on the road to command. But first he must prove he can cut it on a Royal Navy Submarine. He faces the additional challenge of relearning everything the British way, but will be shown no leniency from Teacher. Just like all the others he can fail the course at any time..

American Dan is a tactical man. Before Perisher he attended the US Naval War College where he earned a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies. He also was a research fellow in the Halsey Alfa Research Programme focused on analysing operational warfare in a denied environment with a peer competitor. The research depended heavily on wargaming at the operational and tactical level. LCDR Reiss’ subsequent tour was as head of C4I & Imaging department at the Tactical Analysis Group in Submarine Development Squadron TWELVE where his primary focus was on developing tactics for photonics systems. He also led a team which revised US submarine periscope employment doctrine.

July 2, 2011 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Submarine school #2000075

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I don’t mean to be rude, but only one of them seemed to be even half decent. You’ve also got to wonder how many from countries like Saudi just get through based on diplomatic relations. Hopefully those UK guys will have to go through a LOT more training and exercise before they are allowed to command for real. There is limited availability for exercise, and the submarine fleet is ever shrinking, so it’s understandable that it is hard to keep the standards and skills up.

Well it is difficult to judge considering Perisher takes 6 months I believe including four weeks at sea. Considering it was condensed down to four episodes based around the final part of the course it is fairly difficult to judge.

Despite his safety incident over the trawler “American” Dan seemed fairly sharp which seems logical the Americans are only going to send their brightest and best on the UK perisher course.

“English” Dan looked and behaved totally like someone right for the job.

“Filthy” Filtness seemed to be a bit of a bimbler and the telling off over what made the Submarine service famous (not evading all the time) was painful to watch.

Jeff Filmore seemed a bit of a worrier, when he wasn’t brooding over something he appeared ready to go to sleep.

Frankly I think there was something else going on with the youngest “Oily” Gareth Wragg that I don’t think we were allowed to see. I wasn’t surprised to see him go.

So out of all of them American and English dan were the two I could see in command but as I said before it is a very long course and what footage is chosen is often for dramatic reasons.

July 2, 2011 at 12:15 am in reply to: A new joined-wing unmanned scout at CAC, Chengdu #2380014

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Don’t tell Carlo Kopp that China is building an F111 copy:diablo:

He will either have a heart attack or decide to emigrate to China!

Actually the latter would probably be a welcome “NOTAM” to Australia’s airforce…

July 1, 2011 at 11:54 pm in reply to: Submarine school #2000136

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Oh I forgot to say there was also the embarrassment of having to borrow a Canadian CP-140 Aurora in one episode…

June 30, 2011 at 11:14 am in reply to: Japan to consider F/A-22 to replace its F-4s #2380786

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Well as far as I am aware the Japanese were planning to produce some further F2 as a stop gap measure replacement for some of the Phantoms. A sensible move to my mind.

My gut feeling is they will eventually replace the remainder of the F4 with an F35 variant (however much I would love to see Typhoon). In the future I get a feeling that there is a momentum towards building an indigenous twin engine stealth air superiority fighter to replace the F15. Considering the amount they were prepared to spend on F22 this isn’t unreasonable, they have learned plenty from the process of developing the F2 and they appear to be putting forward ground work in the area of stealth materials and engines. An American manufacturer might well act as a development consultant which isn’t unreasonable considering its hard cash to them and whatever fighter is developed will be no export threat to American aircraft.

June 29, 2011 at 11:55 am in reply to: British Harriers sold to US Marines #2381321

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That presumes the Marines have AV8B to swap, also why would the Marines be interested in giving up some of their limited number of Harriers just to cross deck with the RN?

People have to accept that Harriers are gone from UK service and there is no back door way of getting them back. The Royal Navy have already shifted as many of their Harrier pilots over to the France or US as they can to allow them to operate Rafale and Super Hornet. Actually the deal to send thirty FAA pilots to train and operate off the CdG is a major coup for the RN and certainly for the partisan among you very much a win over the RAF. I have a hunch the RAF were rather keen to have FAA fixed wing pilot numbers rapidly dwindle after SDSR, I’m not sure how many pilots are operating with the USN but certainly with those in France we are talking about the FAA retaining about forty to fifty fixed wing pilots. With the navy retaining a significant cadre of pilots qualified for CATOBAR ops it certainly puts them in the driving seat when it comes to F35C allocation.

June 28, 2011 at 6:05 pm in reply to: British Harriers sold to US Marines #2381873

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The country that could really do with these Harriers is Thailand! The Chakri Naruebet is a bit small for F35B operations (not that they could afford them) and the British GR7/9 are the freshest and only Harriers available on the market.

June 28, 2011 at 5:40 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2000357

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Unless you want to land troops and armored vehicles.

Your forgetting that the UK has two Albion and three Bay class that all have a significant troop and vehicle offload capability. Throw in RFA Argus with its big helicopter deck as well.

June 27, 2011 at 11:05 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2000421

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To be honest I get the impression that General Houghton and Bernard Grey are plucking ideas out of thin air.

At the moment its QE listed to be fitted out with Cats and traps, whilst PoW won’t have any proper decisions made until the next SDSR during 2015. As for EMALS costs they are certainly plucking values out of thin air. We can presume that UK gov and the Carrier alliance are in negotiations with US DOD and General Atomics over the matter but nothing has been made public. It will more then likely be an FMS sale off the US DOD managed by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency means there is scope to come to some interesting cost agreements.

As for the issue about the F35C not being able to make full load landings on CdG is hardly a big deal if we intend to just train off her.

June 26, 2011 at 9:34 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2000442

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Hi Fedaykin,

Thanks for the input, I didn’t know about the Gannet COD/MXU, really interesting actually. The purpose of the post was just to simply see what aircraft do you think would be QE COD contenders, in a hypathetical way if there was a need and for a bit of fun. I know we’ve used helicopters with great success but they obviously don’t have the legs. What other forums are saying is there is serious interest in using the V22 for COD purposes (in the US) however there is a concern that they need to be modified due to the heat produced by the engines and decks needing to be upgraded at great cost to accomodate the massive amount of heat produced.

Don’t worry I could see you were thinking speculatively Cockneyjock1974.

Gannet COD was used on our old fleet carriers up to the retirement of the old Ark Royal in 78. They were operated in the ASW and the AEW role as well as COD. In the COD role it was more a mail plane then anything, it didn’t have the capability to carry bulky items like the C2. It was also useful ferrying personnel on to the carrier or back ashore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhZRVc9SS0M

As for the Cobham MXU cargo pod its used on some American fighters to help deployment to austere locations. If it could be carrier qualified on the F35C it could be useful as an emergency mail carrier but as I have said before the RN has got used to going without.

https://www.cobham.com/media/75413/MXU_NGCP%20ADV10595.pdf

June 26, 2011 at 7:03 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2000453

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There will be no dedicated COD for the QE class, the Americans have them due to the number of carriers they operate and intensity of operations off them.

Since the Gannet COD were retired the UK has got on perfectly well using helicopters. I would also say with the advent of Electronic mail the need to get physical mail to the crew is reduced. Qualifying the Cobham MXU cargo pod for the F35C might be an interesting idea but that has to be balanced against what we are already using helicopters for in the role.

If we really are in a situation where we need to shift a big heavy item like an engine quickly then we might as well just ask the Americans to send one of their C2.
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