To rebuild the RN you need to have a joined up battlegroup strategy, since we’re entering a period of near total naval reprocurement this is actually quite easy, we’re building 2 CVF and have 2 faily new amphib vessel so these will form the core of the RN along with 2 replacements for HMS ocean (as at the moment it is being alternated in service with the invincible class, which will not be available) I’d go with license built Cavour class carriers without the ski jump to allow conversion to a light STOVL carrier should the need arise, giving 6 major surface combatants, each needs 2 air defence destroyers, which means a 2nd batch of 6 T45s, fitted with the new 155mm gun and all 40mm CIWS (replacing the 20mm Phalanx and 30 mm KCBs) plus more VLS cells, also funding for a quad packed aster 15 missile in the mould of the ESSM.

The RN’s short range SAM will be CAMM once it becomes available, according to MBDA its going to be quad packable, rumour has it the RN are only buying Aster 30s not 15s.

It might of been 96% complete when the building stopped but she looks a mess now.

Some people should stop reading fiction dressed up as history.

That’s quite and upgrade for the RN Steve:eek:

Heck, even scaling it back a bit, we could still be pretty well prepared. Build the final pair of Type 45s, for eight total, and a further eight C-1s. This still allows for four well protected battlegroups. Add in C-2s to patrol GIUK, and C-3s for lower priority/threat taskings, and we can probably cope with pretty much anything we are likely to need to deal with.

The RAF would probably push for far more fighters, conjuring up visions of Blackjacks flying off Grimsby to scare people…. Ahh, hold on, too late! :diablo:

But then the RAF are getting all the Typhoons it needs and more, the question is whether they will get the extra squadrons it needs to fly them, of course that question boils down to funding and the rather obvious fact that all 3 forces are suffering right now.

Swerve’s list plus a small increase in the number of Escorts, as Jonesy says more Darings and C1s, maybe just a couple of each.

Also I’d imagine that the 12ft stretch and additional 500 tons displacement that Vospers put on their C3 concept modified-Khareef would be something to do with expanded fuel bunkerage amongst other things!.

Seems to fit the bill.

On the flip side of that though….if the RN cant sell a scheme to replace, in full or in part, 8 seperate classes of vessel (Hunt, Sandown, River, Clyde, Echo, Roebuck, T22B3 and non-2087 T23) with two long-run batches of a single circa 3000ton hull then there is something deeply wrong with the way that HM forces approach procurement!.

The past 3 decades are littered with examples that suggest that very thing.