Royal navy loses its anti-ship missiles

[Hawk66]

Is this really true: http://www.popularmechanics.com/mili...ship-missiles/

Unbelievable - if Margret Thatcher would know this

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Hawk66

if Margret Thatcher would know this

She'd probably have scrapped the ships too!

Still, Perseus might come into service before 2018, but I doubt it, should be a damn good missile when we do get it though, capable of hitting one large or multiple smaller vessels with one missile due to submunitions.
The Harpoon is pretty out of date now, even the US is working on its replacement, the AGM-158C. Russia and India are pretty far ahead on the anti-ship missile development and deployment trail with the Brahmos-II under development which is expected to be capable of going at Mach 7. The US, that we know of, doesn't have a hypersonic missile in development.

[Skybird]

Lets move out, containing Putin.

[Jimbuna]

Shouldn't be much of a problem because we probably won't have much of a navy worth fighting in the near future.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Shouldn't be much of a problem because we probably won't have much of a navy worth fighting in the near future.

At -$0.01 scrap value per carrier, we will always be able to get a close shave for a reasonable price though.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/us/pen...craft-carrier/

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by em2nought

At -$0.01 scrap value per carrier, we will always be able to get a close shave for a reasonable price though.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/us/pen...craft-carrier/

Probably unavoidable but quite an ignominious ending

[ikalugin]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Shouldn't be much of a problem because we probably won't have much of a navy worth fighting in the near future.

Why? The naval programs are ongoing.

[Jimbuna]

We currently have more admirals than warships, the two carriers being built have no aircraft to fly off them but as a partial counterbalance the Astute Class building program is ongoing (at least when they aren't being run aground).

[ikalugin]

Originally Posted by Oberon

She'd probably have scrapped the ships too!

Still, Perseus might come into service before 2018, but I doubt it, should be a damn good missile when we do get it though, capable of hitting one large or multiple smaller vessels with one missile due to submunitions.

Is Perseus still being developed? I thought it died in the SDSR last year.
As to the RN AShMs - you still get TLAM block IV, which has an AShM capability.