Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 06/30/2026 8:22:59 AM PDT by DFG
Sir Keir Starmer is to replace the Royal Navy’s destroyers with smaller, cheaper warships under new military spending plans to be revealed this week.
The Navy aims to replace the current fleet of six Type 45 missile-defence ships with the new Common Combat Vessel (CCV) from the early 2030s.
The plans are expected to be announced by the Prime Minister on Tuesday as part of the long-delayed defence investment plan (DIP).
The new vessels, which have not yet been designed, would be crewed by sailors and act as a “control hub” for a series of drone warships, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
They will be joined by a series of newly announced drone ships, including the Type 91 missile barge, the Type 92, built to hunt submarines, Type 93, a small autonomous submersible, and Type 94, a drone warship packed with sensors and radars.
The ships will be built instead of the previously planned Type 83 destroyer, after The Telegraph revealed earlier this month that it had been abandoned.
Some observers fear it is a cost-cutting exercise by the MoD to save cash, as the military faces a reported £28bn shortfall in its budget over the next four years.
Cdr Tom Sharpe, a retired frigate captain, said: “Destroyers have been the backbone of the Navy for so long it is almost incomprehensible to get rid of them.
I’m deeply uncomfortable about this. It’s been done because someone has made the case it will be cheaper. And it will be, because it will be s---.”
The MoD insists the six new vessels will improve the “reach, resilience and firepower” of the fleet as part of Gen Sir Gwyn Jenkins’s hybrid navy approach, combining traditional warships with unmanned drones.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
I agree with the concept of smaller, faster, ships in the age of drone swarms.
But there has to be a lot of them.
Image of Type 45 destroyer being replaced.
Can these things sink rafts of invading illegals or has UK abandoned any pretense of being a sovereign sea power.
I have been advocating the use of smaller and cheaper vessels still large enough to get to where they need to go.
“Resilience” is now an essential word for a navy.
“Can these things sink rafts of invading illegals”
You’ll be very safe on one of our remote Scottish islands.
Well at least they still have rum and sodomy.
When you have millions of your Muslim Masters to feed and house you have to cut unnecessary expenditures.
What, no yardarms? This will not stand!
“firepower”
A safe corridor for the Strait of Hormuz needs to be at least 100 miles long.
The firepower and its detecting means must be able to take out threats with that kind of breadth.
The UK counts pensions toward its NATO spending obligation.
While buying Russian energy.
While playing footsie with Iran.
We really need to get the hell outta NATO.
Smaller cheaper ships? Good time to attack England! ~ Signed, ‘The Enemy’.
And the lash! Mustn’t forget the lash!.........
Another thing is that expensive equipment ought to be transferable between ships, so if one ship is whacked it equipment can be transferred to another ship to carry on the fight.
Good time for Argentina to take back The Malvinas.
I hate to be the one to break the news, but the Royal Navy ditched the rum ration back in 1970:
https://www.historypod.net/07/31/31st-july-1970-black-tot-day-ends-the-royal-navys-daily-rum-ration/
They seem to be quite effective in keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.