Canada armed drones

[Curious Cdn]

I wonder if the Royal Navy is still planning on building its drone carriers.

Shouldn't carriers be manned?


BTW, How are you going to pay for them? Your great-grandchildren will still be paying off the QE carriers, new "D" destroyers, Type 26s, new Dreadnought SSN subs and new Acute SSK subs. You are building an entire new fleet that will have to last you until the middle of the century.

 

[Blackleaf]

Shouldn't carriers be manned?
BTW, How are you going to pay for them? Your great-grandchildren will still be paying off the QE carriers, new "D" destroyers, Type 26s, new Dreadnought SSN subs and new Acute SSK subs. You are building an entire new fleet that will have to last you until the middle of the century.

Well they are paid for through the defence budget.

Don't forget the new Type 31 frigates:

The Royal Navy has announced the names of the City-class Type 26 frigates:

HMS Cardiff, HMS Glasgow, HMS Belfast, HMS Birmingham, HMS Sheffield, HMS Newcastle, HMS Edinburgh, HMS London.

 

[MHz]

Meanwhile back at the Ranch the thread drones on and on, . . . and on.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Well they are paid for through the defence budget.
Don't forget the new Type 31 frigates:

The Royal Navy has announced the names of the City-class Type 26 frigates:
HMS Cardiff, HMS Glasgow, HMS Belfast, HMS Birmingham, HMS Sheffield, HMS Newcastle, HMS Edinburgh, HMS London.

We haven't announced the names of ours, yet. If we stick to tradition, they will be named after large Canadian rivers ... MacKenzie, Fraser, Skeena, Columbia, St.Laurent, Saturday, Nipigon, Terra Nova, Annapolis, Assiniboine, etc. The current frigates that we operate are already named after cities and the old and new fleets will overlap for more than a decade.

I'd like to see then named after indigenous tribes, as were two previous generations of highly successful destroyer ... Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, Athabaskan, Haida, Cayuga, Sioux, (Ojibwa, Onandaga, Okanagan were subs but why not) Micmac ... There was an HMS Mohawk but never an HMCS Mohawk and it's about time.

 

[Curious Cdn]

That's "Saguenay" not "Saturday" . The zitty, 18 year old coder that wrote the bizarre spell check for Android never heard of a "Saguenay".

 

[Blackleaf]

We haven't announced the names of ours, yet. If we stick to tradition, they will be named after large Canadian rivers ... MacKenzie, Fraser, Skeena, Columbia, St.Laurent, Saturday, Nipigon, Terra Nova, Annapolis, Assiniboine, etc. The current frigates that we operate are already named after cities and the old and new fleets will overlap for more than a decade.
I'd like to see then named after indigenous tribes, as were two previous generations of highly successful destroyer ... Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, Athabaskan, Haida, Cayuga, Sioux, (Ojibwa, Onandaga, Okanagan were subs but why not) Micmac ... There was an HMS Mohawk but never an HMCS Mohawk and it's about time.

Americans seem to always boringly name their ships after places or US presidents.

I'd love to see future RN ships named after ancient British tribes:

HMS Brigantes, HMS Iceni, HMS Setantii, HMS Silures, HMS Demetae.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Americans seem to always boringly name their ships after places or US presidents.
I'd love to see future RN ships named after ancient British tribes:
HMS Brigantes, HMS Iceni, HMS Setantii, HMS Silures, HMS Demetae.

I was reading some posts in what is obviously a forum for ex-US Navy types and they were joking about the future USS Clinton, Obama and Trump. It was hilarious but not pretty. I didn't know it but there is already a USS Carter, a submarine and it is appropriate as Carter is an Annapolis grad and was Nuclear Engineer in the US Navy serving on subs. Every single poster thinks that Trump is a wanker. I guess that they don't think much of "bone spurs" either. Anyway, no USS Trump carriers in the future, for sure.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Americans seem to always boringly name their ships after places or US presidents.
I'd love to see future RN ships named after ancient British tribes:
HMS Brigantes, HMS Iceni, HMS Setantii, HMS Silures, HMS Demetae.

p.s. Excellent idea! How about, HMS Boudica?

 

[Danbones]

How about they name a garbage scow "Dry Lander" after you?

The first ship named after a drone.

 

[Blackleaf]

p.s. Excellent idea! How about, HMS Boudica?

We could have the Celtic-class destroyers, named after famous British Celtic warriors or kings or queens:

HMS Boudicca (or Boadicea), HMS Cartimandua (she was the leader of the Brigantes tribe, whose kingdom Brigantia was the largest of the British Celtic kingdoms. I live in the former Brigantia), HMS Cunobelinus, HMS Togodumnus, HMS Calgacus, HMS Cassivellaunas, HMS Cogidubnus, HMS Verica.

 

[MHz]

Might as well all name them 'the Hood' as that is how long they would last when going up against a modern military. What will the UK do when robbing other nations to fuel your own success become 'illegal' or 'out of fashion'?

 

[Curious Cdn]

Might as well all name them 'the Hood' as that is how long they would last when going up against a modern military. What will the UK do when robbing other nations to fuel your own success become 'illegal' or 'out of fashion'?

They are "modern military".

 

[MHz]

Have it your way then.

BREAKING: Russia’s Bastion Defense Launches SUPERSONIC Anti-Ship Missiles In 1st Arctic Drills

 

[Curious Cdn]

Have it your way then.

BREAKING: Russia’s Bastion Defense Launches SUPERSONIC Anti-Ship Missiles In 1st Arctic Drills

There has been a lot of blah-blah and theatre about Russian weaponry over the years. The CIWS can still stop them. A bigger threat ares warms of cheap drones that saturate radars and confuse computers.

 

[Hoid]

the drone is a perfect terrorist weapon

 

[Curious Cdn]

the drone is a perfect terrorist weapon

That is true.

 

[Blackleaf]

the drone is a perfect terrorist weapon

Look what happened at Gatwick - a drone brought it to a standstill.

I got my brother a drone for Christmas. He lives in Glasgow. Now can go on the hills outside the city or stand in his garden and record great aerial footage from it.

 

[Hoid]

Drones present many problems. We have had trouble this past summer with drones interfering in fire fighting.

They are a perfect fire fighting tool but they are also a dangerous nuisance.

They are like guns I suppose.

 

[Blackleaf]

Drones present many problems. We have had trouble this past summer with drones interfering in fire fighting.
They are a perfect fire fighting tool but they are also a dangerous nuisance.
They are like guns I suppose.

Like many inventions - such as the World Wide Web, television, radar and aircraft - they can be used both for good and for bad. It's whoever operates them and why.

The islands of Canna and Sanday in Orkney have just been the subject of the most detailed mapping exercise ever undertaken of any islands in the world - using drones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47070332

 

[Hoid]

They are the perfect tool for mapping fires.

They are also the perfect tool for disrupting aircraft trying to fight those fires.