Say what?

Yeah seconded :confused:

They’re not ugly … 😉

Yeah I think the correct term is fugly 😉

With this in mind should the UK look to build 8 new cheap corvettes. If we were to start with a off the shelf design like the Fassmer OPV-90 fit it with a standard British naval gun and 2×*30mm DS30M automated guns, then remove the 2 front boat houses and replace them with 20 surface to air vertical launch systems and maybe 4 to 8 Harpoon missiles these 8 ship could take over the home waters defence , safeguarding the Caribbean and anti-piracy leaving the new type 26 & 45’s to undertake there main tasks

We know that the Fassmer OPV-80 costs $38 million so if we add $22 million to make each ship $60 million this would mean the 8 ships would cost the UK £320 million [ATTACH=CONFIG]218689[/ATTACH]

+1 to these being too well armed.

To do what you’re asking you need a cheap and cheerful OPV with decent endurance, no missile armament, just some 30/20mm cannons and a decent sized hanger.

You could make these even cheaper to run by purchasing some Schiebel S-100 Camcoptors for them

So whilst the Telemos based project has stalled in favour of something multinational, the Anglo/French UCAV is still going strong and seems to have weathered calls to widen the participation for now:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/paris-dassault-bae-look-to-advance-joint-ucas-study-387277/

I think it’s more reasonable to say Telemos stalled because of a lack of Government commitment to timetables/funding, I think so called multinational effort is just Dassault getting in bed with EADS and Alenia, the lack of Government/procreastination backing still appears to be still the issue.

My neck of the woods and I never heard a thing (loud music).

I think the future RAF fleet, with several C-17s & a larger number of A400M, will be an excellent mix. I wouldn’t mind seeing a few smaller aircraft as well, for small intra-theatre loads for which it would be a waste to use an A400M, but apart from that I can’t criticise it.

Quite, I think the only thing wrong with the RAF future transport fleet will be a lack of booms on our tankers. As for the smaller aircraft: retain the 146s? Maybe look to buy a few more on the cheap?

Regardless of the threat, there aren’t any Harriers to buy. The USMC just bought the RAF’s entire stock for spares. They’re needed to keep the fleet in the air: they won’t be sold on, & the fact that they were bought shows how improbable it is that any of the existing fleet will be considered surplus.

Nor does anyone else have any for sale.

Get over it, mate. These childish fantasies are a waste of bandwidth. All they achieve is to make you look like a fool – and maybe a troll.

BTW, the radar on those Skyhawks is reported to be a downgraded version of the AN/APG-66v2. It’s not exactly state of the art nowadays.

You could flog the Sea Harriers that have been kept in storage for yonks/used for deck handling training etc by the FAA, they will be knackered and not airworthy, would take several kings ransoms to put into service again, probably wouldn’t be sold with Blue Vixen either so would need to buy another radar for them and spend some money on weapons integration too.

It would be hellishly expensive for what would be a very marginal capability but it would be in keeping with the idea of buying an expensive to run ship in desperate need of a refit…………..

I’ve definitely seen that the yellow model aircraft before, maybe not in model form though, although I can’t remember where?