I would imagine that our subs tend to take very few with them to sea? Maybe 5 at a time or less.
I would be really interested to know what a burke/tico go to sea with in terms of tomahawks
as with everything, just tooling around.
I would add some light machine guns to the design
for you

Ok so it turns out we dont have oil in the kind of numbers we wished. The Navy has got its C1 and C2 but its lacking some land attack punch, one positive is that the Fleet has intigrated the Cooperative Engagement Capability. Basically a class of 4 this ship can be sent out to attach itself with a group that might need a land attack option.
BAE announce a new class of ship. The Arsenal Corvette – basically a frigate sized hull with a 48 cell launcher (A-70) 4 cells quad packed with CAMM and 44 cells packed with Tomahawks.

ok added another 48 cells. 96 cells isn’t too bad.

48 cell A-70 being used. It would be interesting to know if the sampson could be updated to track ABM’s
IIts pretty much the same loadout as a type 45. I just think we needed something wiht a little more kick to it.
We’ve got tomahawks in there and the two 155 mm Advanced Gun System and phalanx is added
another stab.

Displacement: 16,000 tons[2]
Length: 656 ft (210 m)
Beam: 75.4 ft (23 m)
Draft: 27.6 ft (8.4 m)
the ags is only a varient of the 155mm. which is set to go on the new DDX – this is a 200 memter cruiser hull with a 18m beam. coming in around 11,500 tons
look how forward the ags is on the pic here http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Uss_Zumwalt.jpg
It’s happened.
We’ve struck oil off the coast of The Isle of Wight more oil than Saudi Arabia.
We’ve built 14 Type 45
We have the C series off and running.
Now comes to frosting
I would like 4 of these please!

ok this was a silly little drawing.
I wondered based on what they cut away if they were simply going to install the systems of the DDG Type 956E, just slapping it on there to get her out as a training carrier.
Wasnt a million miles off with this. Cant wait to see the finnished article and the planes they plan to fly of the deck
I had a look at it looking at the scale of the mk8 on the front. its coming out at around 160-175 which is odd. Probably looking at type 45 size hull. But looking at the room it has at the front would indicate something rather large
There really can be no debate now. This Carrier is going to sea. Late 2010 or early 2011 is my thought.
They keep talking about the chinooks being for Afghanistan. They wont be there in time to see action. I am sure we will be out of there by 2015 by which time most of these wont be with us. Its rediculous stuff. We need them now, only way we get them now is by talking to those who operate them and trying to do something similar to the Danish EH101.
The only thing we will learn from the defence review is that we will end up being with an Armed forces who can never conduct serious operations in more than 1 theatre (we already knew this) and that we have a Navy that but for the grace of god could be sunk by a torpedoe bomber of wwII vintage
I want a full and independent review stacked with naval officers please.