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Haiti Update
RFA Largs Bay has recently arrived in Haiti with its cargo of Land Rovers and wriggly tin.
Operation PANLAKE involves various teams and resources and RFA Largs Bay will stay in the area supporting the UN.
Continuing our obsession with Mexeflotes some pictures from the Royal Navy
More information here
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/operations/haiti-diary/
And ...
FDR – Maritime (Repair and other Support Capabilities)
This is the final post in our FDR Maritime section and I have decided to go ‘off piste’ with some hair brain schemes and mad ideas, don’t take this one too seriously but treat it as a discussion piece.
We asked about naval innovation in a previous post and there are a some superb maritime focussed ...
FDR – Maritime (At Sea Replenishment)
The Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) project has had more lives than a whole herd of cats, on, off and on again. Most of the indecision has been driven by cost issues and delays around the CVF. Originally intended to replace the existing replenishment ships and provide a joint sea based ...
FDR – Maritime (Amphibious and Logistics)
To set the scene for this post, our earlier suggestion of cancelling CVF and JCA was nothing short of a brutal cost saving measure. Some may argue that significant costs have already been sunk and contracts signed, to cancel now would not result in any savings. This is simply not the case, yes, there ...
FDR – Maritime Logistics #2
Possibly less contentious than previous articles on the surface fleet and submarine fleet, this article aims to highlight the parlous state of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The RFA supports not just the navy in its global roles and deployments, but also in various indirect fashions it supports the army ...
FDR – Naval Logistics #1
I am going to conclude the maritime section of the Think Defence Future Defence Review series of posts with a look at maritime logistics. This is a timely subject given the obvious display of logistics capability evident in Haiti.
The first couple of posts are from guest contributors…
Privatising ...
UK, New Zealand and Australia Collaborate on Naval Design
The UK, new Zealand and Australia have commenced on an information sharing agreement that will inform designs for future naval surface vessels.
Information exchanges are expected to continue around the Pacific 2010 conference and exhibition, running in Sydney from 27-29 January.
Australia is planning ...
FDR – Maritime Futures – part 2 the Submarine Fleet
So in the last instalment written for Think Defence as part of the FDR series I concentrated on the surface fleet. By comparison the submarine service is easier to discuss, yet more contentious; because I am going to include discussion of the nuclear deterrent.
SSN fleet
As is well known the the SSN ...
Haiti and D Day
There has been a lot of blog coverage on the Haiti relief effort and from a defence perspective much of this has focussed on the air and sea bridge to Haiti.
Bulk transport by air is simply untenable for anything other than time critical supplies and personnel. If you need to move bulk then sea is ...
Haiti and the Royal Navy
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