For £1.3 billion I would have demanded a ship that could float by itself…
The sea must be a bit cold at the moment if it has to dip its toe in before taking the plunge.
I’m so out of the loop with this type of thing so please indulge me.
Can this type of ship bombard a coastline or specific target on land? (If we needed to attack Russia for example).
Can and how would this type of ship engage in fleet actions against an enemy fleet?
Basically, WW2 style sea combat, is it still a consideration or have we completely moved away from that?
Pretty boring name. Bring back HMS Warspite or HMS Demon. There’s been a real decline in RN ship names. HMS Gay Viking was another cracker.
Looks cool on the barges, if anything, more intimidating.
Send it to war that way IMO
“Its a world leader of its type!”
“So why does it sit on those big boxes?”
“We couldn’t possibly risk a world leading warship in the sea! It’s a dangerous place out there. Do you think we are stark raving mad? We’re not towing it beyond the environment like the last one”
Here’s my dumb take – what’s the need to build a new frigate ? To intercept the refugee boats trafficked by people who intend to use them for drug peddling ? I’m no mathematician or a Navy man but a Billion pounds is not needed for that.
And of course, it’s not as if we are surrounded by Nazi Germany or we have an empire to protect so we float a frigate to intimidate Qing China in a show of force.
For the same amount of money I’m sure many UK homes can be insulated or hungry children to be able to afford school meals.
And…. Its sunk. Fucking seriously? They forgot to close the scuttle cocks before lowering it. First the queen and now this.
Oh great perhaps we could have another one built so people waiting to be admitted to casualty can wait another few hours? Complete waste of money.
HMS Glasgow….. So I’m assuming it does a line of coke, storms towards enemy ships and twats them across the bridge with and empty Buckfast bottle.
Oh good, I’m glad there aren’t school and hospitals lacking funding. No homeless crisis either. What a good use of money.
Why they pretending this is in clydebank – it ain’t
If they attach a really big chain to it, it won’t float off. No wonder we’re skint all the time if we left £1.3bn just float off into the sea.
Can afford £1.3 billion for war machines and countless other trillions. Disgusting
And it’ll probably be back in port having repairs done within 6 months.
A friend served on HMS Diamond and spent more time docked for repairs than actually at sea sailing.
Good thing aswell as the type 23s are just a WEEEEE bit past their prime
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For £1.3 billion I would have demanded a ship that could float by itself…
The sea must be a bit cold at the moment if it has to dip its toe in before taking the plunge.
I’m so out of the loop with this type of thing so please indulge me.
Can this type of ship bombard a coastline or specific target on land? (If we needed to attack Russia for example).
Can and how would this type of ship engage in fleet actions against an enemy fleet?
Basically, WW2 style sea combat, is it still a consideration or have we completely moved away from that?
Pretty boring name. Bring back HMS Warspite or HMS Demon. There’s been a real decline in RN ship names. HMS Gay Viking was another cracker.
Looks cool on the barges, if anything, more intimidating.
Send it to war that way IMO
“Its a world leader of its type!”
“So why does it sit on those big boxes?”
“We couldn’t possibly risk a world leading warship in the sea! It’s a dangerous place out there. Do you think we are stark raving mad? We’re not towing it beyond the environment like the last one”
Here’s my dumb take – what’s the need to build a new frigate ? To intercept the refugee boats trafficked by people who intend to use them for drug peddling ? I’m no mathematician or a Navy man but a Billion pounds is not needed for that.
And of course, it’s not as if we are surrounded by Nazi Germany or we have an empire to protect so we float a frigate to intimidate Qing China in a show of force.
For the same amount of money I’m sure many UK homes can be insulated or hungry children to be able to afford school meals.
And…. Its sunk. Fucking seriously? They forgot to close the scuttle cocks before lowering it. First the queen and now this.
Oh great perhaps we could have another one built so people waiting to be admitted to casualty can wait another few hours? Complete waste of money.
HMS Glasgow….. So I’m assuming it does a line of coke, storms towards enemy ships and twats them across the bridge with and empty Buckfast bottle.
Oh good, I’m glad there aren’t school and hospitals lacking funding. No homeless crisis either. What a good use of money.
Why they pretending this is in clydebank – it ain’t
If they attach a really big chain to it, it won’t float off. No wonder we’re skint all the time if we left £1.3bn just float off into the sea.
Can afford £1.3 billion for war machines and countless other trillions. Disgusting
And it’ll probably be back in port having repairs done within 6 months.
A friend served on HMS Diamond and spent more time docked for repairs than actually at sea sailing.
Good thing aswell as the type 23s are just a WEEEEE bit past their prime