It suggest Aegis target tracking works well only when there is a number of these ships which can coordinate with each other somehow. This is strange: before the Burke class, carrier escort depended on 1 or 2 Ticonderoga’s (these being the only AEGIS ships at the time) and it suggests a lone AEGIS ship is ineffective (which is silly)

However you turn it, the bolded parts are inconsistent: you either jam the radar (in which case the algorithm is already loaded) or you prevent the algorithm from loading (in which case there is nothing to jam).

More importantly it gives information which could only have come from someone on board the ship, the bit about the 27 crew members being traumatised is clearly very silly.

I’d say this report is as accurate as the one from a couple of weeks ago that stated Russia had downed an RQ-180 over it’s Northern Fleet base.

Could a Triton take off from QE carrier? (no pun intended, i really do not know the program, or so little…)

Not a hope.

I guess the other question i wondered about was if we had them would we have actually offered/sent them to a situation happening so far away?

MH

Since HMS Echo is being sent to survey the area, then I would imagine the answer to this question is yes we would of sent them if they were in service.

Strange: the article about the future British frigates makes the impression that still Type 22 frigates are in service!?

I read this a couple of days ago and couldn’t believe how much out of date information it contained, plus I think this is the only place I’ve ever heard of a Type 27 Frigate.

In all likelihood there won’t be a standard peace time deployment number, it has been suggested that a carrier won’t be deployed with fewer than 12 F35s but then I’m not totally convinced about that number, I suspect 9 will be a more realistic minimum deployment number.

Well this makes it of interest to the US potentially doesn’t it? Can that happen?

Can’t see any chance of that happening, the US will buy something from the US and I don’t really see France as being interested in anything that wasn’t at least 50% designed and built in France, accept for very small scale puchases like Hawkeye’s.

Russia Begins Nuclear-Powered Missile Cruiser Overhaul

I love this bit:

The refit will build on the shipyard’s success of overhauling the Kiev-class aircraft carrier Baku, re-commissioned for India as the Vikramaditya in November.