Big Halali in the North Atlantic!

[Kapitan]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Aye, born July 1957 and served my apprenticeship as a fitter in the yards 1973-1977 before going to sea after that as an Engineering Officer.

Very nice indeed its a shame our RFA has shrunk so much back in 2004 it was 24 ships today down to 11 think nelson would turn in his grave if he saw the navy today so small

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

Very nice indeed its a shame our RFA has shrunk so much back in 2004 it was 24 ships today down to 11 think nelson would turn in his grave if he saw the navy today so small

I cringe when I think of the fact that we have more Admirals than ships

[Kapitan]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I cringe when I think of the fact that we have more Admirals than ships

Personally i do think we should have built at least 8 type 45's (12 would have been nice) i also think the cutting of type 26's down to 8 from 13 is also going to leave us short and reliant on the type 31 which is unlikely to be as capable as the type 26, i think personally 13 type 26's would have been the best course of action.

I personally also think the carriers should have been CATOBAR in order to have cross deck capabilities with the USN and Marine Nationale France.

Another gripe i have is that we should have built a replacement type for the Upholders we don't need a class as numerous as the Oberons but 4 SSK's would do.

Do we need 22 mine warfare vessels? i would have cut them down to about 8 or 10 and built some off shore patrol craft for work in home waters and Gibralter Falklands and Persian gulf area.

With the sale of HMS Ocean to Brazil id have replaced her only because of the lessons learnt in 1995 with RFA Argus and how unsuited she was to that role i dont think there would be any need to go much bigger than Oceans size so something like the Mistral would be about right and only one of them.

Obviously im in favour of keeping our SSBN fleet all 4 of them and the replacement and not to mention the 7 Astute class submarine

As for the RFA we should have up scaled that for the above dream fleet to bring it back to around 20 ships.