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"AWAY SEA BOAT'S CREW" - Update

HMS Trent recovers her sea boat while outbound from Gibraltar yesterday

See - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 0458851328
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The Royal Navy held a 21-gun salute to mark the 96th birthday of Her Majesty The Queen.

The salute, at the Gun Battery on South Railway Jetty at HMNB Portsmouth, was carried out by the Close Range Team from HMS Collingwood.
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FOI request reveals unauthorised drones spotted operating over Faslane nuclear submarine base.
Speculation part of a wider Chinese spying effort against UK defence establishments.

See - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scot ... l-26783425
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US report ‘Britain to continue punching above its weight’


The U.S. National Intelligence Council has released the seventh edition of its quadrennial report ‘Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World’.

The report is an unclassified assessment of the forces and dynamics that the NIC anticipates are likely to shape the national security environment over the next 20 years.

“Global Trends 2040 identifies four structural forces that will shape the future – demographics, the environment, economics, and technology – and assesses how they affect decisions and outcomes. It further describes five potential scenarios for the world in 2040, based on different combinations of the structural forces, emerging dynamics, and key uncertainties. It ends with a series of graphics displaying key demographic trends in nine geographic regions.

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As for ‘other major powers’ besides the USA and China, the report says that Russia is ‘likely to remain a disruptive power’; while the UK is ‘likely to continue to punch above its weight internationally given its strong military and financial sector and its global focus.

The report also states that the United Kingdom’s nuclear capabilities and permanent UN Security Council membership add to its global influence.

Managing the economic and political challenges posed by its departure from the EU will be the country’s key challenge; failure could lead to a splintering of the United Kingdom and leave it struggling to maintain its global power.

“The United Kingdom is likely to continue to punch above its weight internationally given its strong military and financial sector and its global focus. The United Kingdom’s nuclear capabilities and permanent UN Security Council membership add to its global influence. Managing the economic and political challenges posed by its departure from the EU will be the country’s key challenge; failure could lead to a splintering of the United Kingdom and leave it struggling to maintain its global power.”
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No additional resources for the Royal Navy’s contribution to the ‘High North strategy'


On 29th March the MoD published a new document ‘The UK’s Defence Contribution in the High North’. Here we look at the strategy and the contribution that the RN is expected to make in support of UK Arctic interests.

Grim up north
So far the Arctic region has largely been peaceful but as the ice caps melt this will open the Northern Sea Route (NSR) that will connect Asia to Europe. It is expected that by 2050 the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer months. The loss of ice will allow access to vast, but previously inaccessible resources including rare earth metals and minerals as well as 30% of the world’s undiscovered gas and 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil. (Whether it is sensible to extract and consume these hydrocarbons is another debate). Industry inside the Arctic Circle, primarily the extraction of natural gas accounts for around 15% of Russia’s GDP.

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Foriegn Secretary Liz Truss calls for more defence spending in major speech, amitting the West has overseen a “generation of underinvestment”
Can't argue but would it be funded by tax rises, cuts elsewhere, borrowing or money printing?

Liz Truss pushes for more defence spending, vowing to ‘double down’ on military aid to Ukraine
Foreign Secretary says 'generation of underinvestment' in the West has contributed to Russian invasion
See - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... itary-aid/
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From Sea Wolf to Sea Ceptor – the Royal Navy’s defensive shield

In this article, we look at the Sea Wolf missile, and its successor, Sea Ceptor which was formally accepted into RN service in 2018.

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Fleet Helicopter Support Unit contract scope detailed


Duties will range from supporting FOST to transporting personnel and freight to the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers.
According to a pre-procurement notice published by the Ministry of Defence on the 16th of May, 2022.

“Indicative Requirement – Fleet Helicopter Support Unit (FHSU) – The user requires a contracted crewed capability that can provide a medium-lift maritime Support Helicopter (SH) capability to support tasking by day and night and in all weather conditions within the Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) South Coast Exercise Areas (SCXAs) and wider UK Flight Information Region (FIR).

In addition to the principal task of transporting personnel and/or freight to, from and between ships at sea in the SCXAs for FOST, a further two requirements are under consideration for inclusion within the future FHSU contract:

Provision of land-based maritime airborne Search and Rescue (SAR) service for Maritime Counter Terrorism (MCT) Force Generation training. This would encompass supporting up to six (6) UK based exercises per year, each of up to one (1) week duration in two calendar blocks occurring in Spring and Autumn each year and requiring up to 24hrs flying per exercise.
This requires an assured ability to search for and recover individual persons from the sea at night, with an additional emphasis on being able to deliver them rapidly to specialist medical care in a timely manner.
A further emerging requirement may be to transport personnel and/or freight to the Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) carrier and other UK based RN shipping based around an initial utilisation of circa 100hrs/yr.”
The anticipated contract length is approximately 5 years with a potential option to extend.

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An independent Scotland, NATO & nukes – would it work?

Since NATO was founded more than 70 years ago, in the words of NATO itself, nuclear weapons have been “the foundation of the Alliance’s collective security”.
First off I believe it’s important to be transparent. I fully believe that the defence of Scotland is best served as part of the UK. Now with that out of the way, I also believe that if it ever leaves the UK, Scotland should become a NATO member but there are serious hurdles.

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Towed array sonar integrated with Royal Navy experimental autonomous submarine



A lightweight towed array sonar developed by SEA has been successfully integrated and trialled with the Manta XLUUV. This combination of technologies has significant implications for anti-submarine warfare, seabed warfare and underwater surveillance capabilities.

The 9-metre Manta uncrewed submersible built by MSubs in 2020 has been conducting a series of trials and experiments off Plymouth, run as part of the MoD’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) programme. SEA worked with MSubs to add their Krait passive towed array to Manta and designed a low-risk launch and recovery process. During the trial, it was confirmed Manta could be operated with a functional 150m thin-line towed KraitArray attached. The sonar was integrated with the existing communications and sensor systems which provide position, time, speed and depth data to create a detailed acoustic profile of the underwater environment. A support vessel was used to simulate the noise of submerged targets for the KraitArray to track.

The Krait Defence System is a compact Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) concept developed by SEA primarily for small vessels. There are four elements comprising the passive towed array (KraitArray), an active sonar (KraitSense), an acoustic torpedo decoy system (KraitShield) and a lightweight ASW torpedo launcher (KraitStrike). Some or all of the elements of this modular system can be fitted to existing platforms such as OPVs. This is not comparable with the sophisticated high-end Thales Sonar 2087 and ASW systems fitted to the Type 23/26 frigates but perhaps should be considered as a low cost, bolt-on option that could give the Type 31s and OPVs a basic ASW capability in extremis.

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