Swerve, yeah fair point we did have hull’s but compared to what we have currently they are miles apart. I’ve always though we could have done with more Bay class as we were meant to get 6 of them not 4, many people online point to them being the most relevant ships in a modern navy.

I wouldn’t be adverse to more Bay class, but having fewer and much larger ones does make a certain kind of sense for Amphibs, certainly more than it does for Escorts anyway.

I wouldn’t be adverse to a modified bay class as as a Joint casualty Treatment ship with more substantial hanger facilities along similar lines to the Rotterdam.

About the most most relevant ships point; it’s certainly true that they are one of the more useful ship types in peacetime, great for disaster relief and evacuations and so forth, there are reasons why there are lots of them being built around the world.

Sorry to say this lads abut i meant the Camberra ocean liner!

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Nick

I suspected as much but couldn’t remember the name of the ship:p

yep

I’ll be happy to chuck a tenner in the whip.

You forgot Brazil.

Ahhh! ok just me with a lack of humour etc, typical MoD trying to pinch some pennies hopefully it somehow bites them in the arrse. Ideally since we have so few Phalanx mounts we would replace them with something else for when we get all the new frigates as i would like both C1 and C2 to have CIWS’s. If the RN is very very very very lucky they might just get 16 C1/C2 so for that you need 32 CIWS mounts add into that all the larger fleet units Carriers etc then numbers should justify getting a more modern system. If we need a land based system as well which i think we do then the 35mm Millenium Gun should cover both sea and land based operations.

I still prefer gun based systems for last ditch defense as they can also be used against small boat threats and are a tad faster and easier to reload. A simple upgrade route would be to change to Sea Ram which has commonality with Phalanx.

The numbers being talked about are 10 C1 and 8 C2, not that that really means much of course.

Kev i doubt they deployed all the Phalanx mounts on trailers to Afghanistan, there will still be a few hopefully somewhere. There are currently 5 T42 in service with another in extended readiness, there are 2 of the batch 2’s that got the chop this year so thats 4 mounts released. There was a few that got binned last year so thats a few more mounts and they are the mounts that would have been shipped to Afghanistan i would hope.

I was being facetious, there’s an upgrade programme (to block 1b) going as well, although typically for the MOD they’ve decided not to upgrade all of them:confused:

There’s a guy on the Warships1 forum who has had a look around the T45 and states that the space for other vls is definitely in the middle of those existing and it would require some rearrangement of the deckhouse to do, the space between the deckhouse and bridge superstructure is where Harpoon launchers would go if a decision was made to fit them.