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JohninMK wrote:Posted the link Godric.

i don't have a gripe with the English my gripe is with the UK establishment ... England is a great country with great people and great culture... i personally think England is going down a different political path from Scotland and i don't like the fact the UK establishment is trying to rewrite my country's history and culture ... they have spent 3 centuries to wipe out our language and it's rich culture that is over 1600 years old 3 centuries ago 1/2 the population of Scotland spoke Gàidhlig nowadays it is spoken by less than 75,000 .. i will be glad when all nuclear technology is removed from Scotland

my personal hope is that we can be better neighbours than we are as partners within the same union

The aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth formally joined the British Navy















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Second British aircraft carrier on water







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Aircraft carrier Prince of Wales in the completion of the shipbuilding company Vabcock Marine in Rosayte

As previously reported by a colleague of bmpd, the construction for the Royal Navy of two large aircraft carriers Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales of the CVF program is carried out by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance consortium with the assembly of ships from sections in the dry construction dock of the company Vabcock Marine in Rosait (former naval shipyard Rosyth Dockyard, privatized in 1997). The Aircraft Carrier Alliance also includes Thales (designer), BAE Systems Surface Ships, A & P Group and Cammell Laird (these three companies, along with Vabcock Marine, manufacture hull sections, Liam Fox also participated in construction of sections).

The manufacture of the sections of the second ship Prince of Wales was started in May 2011, the assembly of the ship is being carried out at the construction dock of Vabcock Marine in Rosait from the end of 2014. The withdrawal of the aircraft carrier Prince of Wales for testing is scheduled for 2019. In 2010, it was officially announced plans to immediately withdraw Prince of Wales from the reserve or even sell it abroad, but the worsening of the situation in Europe "saved" the aircraft carrier and in 2014 it was decided to put it into operation by the British Navy.

The construction of the head queen Queen Elizabeth was conducted in Rosait from 2009. The baptism ceremony was carried out on July 4, 2014, the main aircraft carrier was taken out of the construction dry dock of the Rozait shipyard on July 17, 2014 and began the factory road tests on June 26, 2017.

Prince of Wales will be the largest ship of the Royal Navy in history, as it is reported that due to changes and improvements made to the project of the second ship, it will have a total displacement of 3000 tons more than Queen Elizabeth (the project final displacement of the latter in most sources is characterized as 70600 tons). The building aircraft carrier Prince of Wales became the eighth ship of the British fleet with this name since 1693. However, after the sinking of the Prince of Wales battleship by Japanese aviation on December 10, 1941, this name was not assigned to the British Navy until now.

















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The first landing and take-offs of F-35B aircraft on the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth

On September 25, 2018, the new British aircraft carrier R 08 Queen Elizabeth, located off the coast of the United States, landed for the first time two fifth-generation fighter aircraft Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II with a short takeoff and vertical landing, which should make up the aircraft group of this ship. Then these F-35B fighters made a springboard launch from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Both F-35B aircraft belonged to the US Marine Corps, but were piloted by British pilots. Thus, F-35B test flights were launched from the deck of the Queen Elizabeth, which should last 11 weeks and include more than 500 landings on its deck.













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HMS Argyll with Republic of Singapore Frigates RSS Intrepid and RSS Formidable

HMS Argyll with Republic of Singapore Frigates RSS Intrepid and RSS Formidable

George1 wrote:The first landing and take-offs of F-35B aircraft on the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth

   On September 25, 2018, the new British aircraft carrier R 08 Queen Elizabeth, located off the coast of the United States, landed for the first time two fifth-generation fighter aircraft Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II with a short takeoff and vertical landing, which should make up the aircraft group of this ship. Then these F-35B fighters made a springboard launch from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Both F-35B aircraft belonged to the US Marine Corps, but were piloted by British pilots. Thus, F-35B test flights were launched from the deck of the Queen Elizabeth, which should last 11 weeks and include more than 500 landings on its deck.













https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3358690.html

They do great job ! 
And first bombs GBU-12 JDAM, LGB, 227 kg for USMC F-35B British birds armed with Paveway IV GPS/Laser 227 kg, AIM-120D, ASRAAM after in more Meteor, Spear 3 must be posible also Mk-80 series free fall 227/907 kg but internaly max 454 kgs not as F-35A and C
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Westlant18?src=hash

Labrador wrote:HMS Argyll with Republic of Singapore Frigates RSS Intrepid and RSS Formidable

The Royal Navy looks like a dinosaur in this picture.

JohninMK wrote:

Most established navies have old ships like that in their inventories and the RN in particular is shrinking fast.

However we still seem to be able to design good ships, even if we don't actually get to build them. After the forthcoming Type 26 Frigate was selected by the Aussies as their Hunter class it now looks like the Canadians have done the same for their Canadian Surface Combatant project.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/news/2018/10/government-of-canada-delivers-on-its-commitment-to-the-navy-by-announcing-next-steps-in-fleet-procurement.html

The problem for the RN is that all of their new ships are either several years delayed or total engineering disasters.  The Type 45s have propulsion design defects that have turned them into dock queens.  The new River OPVs have so many defects coming out of production they go straight back.  The Type 26s will be nearly a decade late.  The Type 31s keep coming in over budget and have to be re-tendered.  The carriers don't have enough crews so other ships have to be mothballed and sailors brought out of retirement.  The Royal Navy is a complete disaster.

 

The carriers don't have enough crews so other ships have to be mothballed and sailors brought out of retirement.  The Royal Navy is a complete disaster.

That's why they need to team up with France, but UK’s hopes of Indo-Pacific strike group with France premature.
All they can do is show the flag once in a while where it doesn't really belong. Perhaps China should sail her CBG within 12 miles of Diego Garcia or the Falklands & conduct war games with Argentina.
So, France, Japan & the US r left to "FONOP" the SC Sea.
China’s ultimate challenge to US supremacy in SC Sea to come ‘within a year’

With bases in Indo-Pacific, they'll become a headache again for China & possibly Russia.

Like I keep saying.... Russia needs to expand to Asia and central and south america and africa... now that britain is leaving the EU it needs to do the same... which is perfectly natural, and certainly nothing for Russia or China to fear... the British wont be able to afford enormous bases around the world... even the US can't actually afford that and it is destroying them...

After EU impose them huge taxes on deals to punish them for the brexit, their only problem will be finding food to eat.

South america is a long time spanish colonisation that became independant. They can dream about having anything there.

They might even lose Gibraltar base to spanish nationalist since EU will support Spain.

Once their navy destroyed by budget cut, Argentina might also get Malvinas back without even fighting. Their two carriers will be destroyed there if they try something.

GB is done. Bigger are the chances to sea chinese navy around GB.

Isos wrote:After EU impose them huge taxes on deals to punish them for the brexit, their only problem will be finding food to eat.

South america is a long time spanish colonisation that became independant. They can dream about having anything there.

They might even lose Gibraltar base to spanish nationalist since EU will support Spain.

Once their navy destroyed by budget cut, Argentina might also get Malvinas back without even fighting. Their two carriers will be destroyed there if they try something.

GB is done. Bigger are the chances to sea chinese navy around GB.

You forgot the reunification of Ireland, Cyprus taking back Akrotiri and Diego Garcia. At the end of it the only thing left of the British Empire will be Pitcairn Island and their inbred pedofiles.

In the worst case, the UK can re-join with Canada or USA & become 1 nation with some autonomy. Then the US/Canadian military can leave the continental Europe & use the British Isles as its main base in that theater.

Depends how they decide to act... they might think they can reinvigorate their commonwealth, but it will never again be what it was... lots of countries feeding resources and material to mother UK in return for beads and pats on the back...

They will have problems recreating ties with countries like South Africa, India, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, etc etc, because after quite a few decades of neglect because of their focus with the EU we have kinda looked elsewhere too...

We don't need the UK like we used to so any trade deal will have to be much more interesting to us that what they had offered previously... and to be honest China and Russia look more interesting in terms of trade than the UK.

Vladimir79 wrote:

Isos wrote:After EU impose them huge taxes on deals to punish them for the brexit, their only problem will be finding food to eat.

South america is a long time spanish colonisation that became independant. They can dream about having anything there.

They might even lose Gibraltar base to spanish nationalist since EU will support Spain.

Once their navy destroyed by budget cut, Argentina might also get Malvinas back without even fighting. Their two carriers will be destroyed there if they try something.

GB is done. Bigger are the chances to sea chinese navy around GB.

You forgot the reunification of Ireland, Cyprus taking back Akrotiri and Diego Garcia.  At the end of it the only thing left of the British Empire will be Pitcairn Island and their inbred pedofiles.  

Just saw about that Pitcairn island, it is really disgusting. They are the same family since the begining and keep reproducing between themselves.

You forgot the reunification of Ireland, Cyprus taking back Akrotiri and Diego Garcia. At the end of it the only thing left of the British Empire will be Pitcairn Island and their inbred pedofiles.

It started yesterday

https://www.ft.com/content/093605de-7d06-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560

To be fair, the English speaking Commonwealth members + the US have very close relations with GB, & the British pound is worth more than US $. Loss of islands in the Indian/Pac. Oceans won't be catastrophic; they have them in the S. Atlantic, which is more important in the defense of the Falklands & her Antarctic claims.

Even the islanders themselves have not said they will kick the Americans off diego garcia... they might just get rid of the UK, go back to their islands and live off the rent they charge the US to use its air base...

The value of the British Pound makes their products very unattractive to us, but it means they can buy a lot of our stuff fairly cheaply... be that resources or finished products... depends how they go... it could go either way.

We used to buy cars and all sorts of things from them... the home decoration areas of department stores here are often called Manchester departments because way back that is what was on the labels of all the boxes of textiles had on them... but these days they would be called Chinese, Indian, Thai, etc etc departments...

I doubt they could compete with Asian car makers her in NZ any more... european cars are expensive here and expensive to fix and maintain.