USS Roosevelt Visits the UK. Brits In Awe
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No need to wish it luck. It'll be your Halifax-class ship that'll need luck. A Type 45's SAMPSON radar can detect all types of targets out to a distance of 250 miles and is capable of tracking hundreds of targets at any one time, even travelling at three times the speed of sound. Sea Viper uses this information to assess and command target priorities, and calculate the optimum launch time for its Aster missiles.
A Halifax class frigate is no match for a Type 45.
And the ICWS on the Halifax can handle anything you chuck. That is why they run flank on carrier battle groups.
You'll have to excuse Blackleaf, he's stuck in the 18th century. Thankfully he's a minority in the UK.
I'll say again: the United States' population is five times than of the UK. The US is a much larger country. When the new Queen Elizabeth-class carriers are built it will mean that, including HMS Ocean, the UK will have more carriers per head of population than the US.
And you have double what Canada does but no ships capable of running flank on battle groups.
How come?
BTW are you using Canadian iron like your entire fleet of past clunkers?
How come?
BTW are you using Canadian iron like your entire fleet of past clunkers?
And it'll be impossible to hit a Type 45 frigate, yet you think your poxy 1970s'era Halifax-class ships, which have hardly set the world alight, can beat the world's most powerful destroyer.
A Type 45 destroyer will put a Halifax-class frigate to the bottom of the sea before you can say "What the hell was that?"
When they're not being repaired, modernised, put at reduced readiness or taken out of service altogether, as over half of all Canadian ships are.
All those obsolete Halifax-class ships that are being taken out of service are to replaced by a new type of ship designed by the Danes.
More than half Canada’s Navy vessels are either being repaired, modernized or otherwise at reduced readiness | National Post
Nope. Sorry. I have to disagree with you there.
I'll say again: the United States' population is five times than of the UK. The US is a much larger country. When the new Queen Elizabeth-class carriers are built it will mean that, including HMS Ocean, the UK will have more carriers per head of population than the US.
Our useless new carriers have no planes to fly off them, plus no Destroyers to defend them at Sea, due to silly Camerons defence cuts.~ robin, Leeds
And unlike our new aircraft carriers it's actually carrying aircraft.~ Curmudgeon- Preston
The bigger badder GE turbines and goodies from Raytheon are only cementing our position on the flanks of battle groups.
Have you any evidence of that?
Did we ever use Canadian iron? Plus, if we don't have iron ore under the ground thenw e have to export it from elsewhere.
At least we build our own ships, not buy second-hand ones from a foreign country.
Bet Putin don't fly over the uk now or sail up the English Channel.~ John, Midlands
Don't worry John ... Canada and the US will protect you as always.
Don't worry John ... Canada and the US will protect you as always.
And unlike our new aircraft carriers it's actually carrying aircraft.~ Curmudgeon- Preston
Instead of posting inaccurate comments by people who don't know what they're talking about, why don't you actually try to put up some form of cogent argument?
As a young boy, I had the good fortune to be taken on a tour aboard the USS John F Kennedy back in the 70s, at that time the largest US Navy carrier at about 85,000 tons. I thought that was big. The Americans certainly know how to build an effective, intimidating warship~ Tom, London
Baby boom next year?~ not again, London
LOL. The brit ladies are ready and willing it seems!
Baby boom next year?~ not again, London
LOL. The brit ladies are ready and willing it seems!
I hope people realise that the British Navy does not have the surface fleet to surround and protect a carrier in open sea. Other EU countries will be needed to provide such a fleet before it can ever be deployed (as France is doing now), meaning the end of Britain's independent navy. This is Artlicle 42 of the Treaty of Lisbon in action: the armed forces of the EU to be integrated under the strategic command of an EU commission.~ Dave, Wimbeldon
Was that because we couldn't magic it out of thin air? We have large coal and tin deposits in britain, but not large iron ore deposits.
Then you are floating foreign ships aren't you? No Canadian iron = no Brit fleet.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.