[LM]

Não terão colocado ExLS/ Mk 41 porque o espaço não dava ou por causa do "vil metal"? Porque o Sea Captor não é a mesma coisa do Aster 15 - convém ter mais, que "a quantidade tem uma qualidade própria".

[P44]

Babcock Fits Foremast on First Type 31 Frigate HMS Venturer

HMS Venturer – the first of the Royal Navy’s new Type 31 frigates – has taken another major step forward with the installation of her foremast at Babcock’s Rosyth facility.

With the foremast now in place, the profile of HMS Venturer is nearing completion, offering a visible sign of momentum as we continue with the outfitting of the ship ahead of sea trials next year. The successful lift and integration of the foremast required close coordination between several specialist engineering and lifting teams.

Paul Watson, Babcock, Arrowhead Managing Director, said: “HMS Venturer will play an important part in the Royal Navy’s defence capabilities. The foremast installation on the vessel marks another important milestone and clearly demonstrates the progress being made across the Type 31 programme.”

The foremast, which weighs 24 metric tonnes, the same as 10 full-size Range Rovers, travelled from the Venturer Building (Build Hall) to the dockside at our Rosyth facility, before being lifted into the air and expertly placed on the ship.

Babcock rolled out Venturer on May 27, 2025. The hull entered the water in mid-June. Based on our Arrowhead 140 design, the Type 31 Inspiration-class will form a core part of the Royal Navy’s fleet with the baseline design already exported to Indonesia and Poland, bolstering the ability for allied nations to work together in support of global security.

Venturer is currently undergoing extensive outfitting and systems integration in dock before her sea trials and entering operational service. Her commissioning with he Royal Navy is expected to take place in late 2026 / early 2027.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/08/babcock-fits-foremast-on-first-type-31-frigate-hms-venturer/

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BMT announces Ellida Strike concept to align with Royal Navy MRSS requirement



Ahead of DSEI 2025, BMT have unveiled the Ellida Strike concept, the boldest evolution yet in BMT’s family of amphibious ship designs. Developed as an option to inform the recapitalisation of the RN’s amphibious fleet, it presents a vision of what a future Multi-Role Strike Ship could deliver in both combat and humanitarian operations.

Ellida heritage
BMT’s ‘Ellida’ design lineage stretches back several years, evolving in step with the shifting language around the Multi-Role Support/Strike Ship (MRSS) programme. What began as a family of flexible support ship concepts has matured into Ellida Strike, a ship explicitly framed to deliver the Commando Force from the sea to the shore.

The concept is not a fully formed solution to the requirement, which has yet to be published in detail, but rather BMT’s interpretation of what such a platform could embody. Redesigned from the keel up, Ellida Strike (ES) applies full naval standards to create a survivable warship optimised for amphibious operations and adaptable across a wide mission spectrum. Designing a ship with a well dock operating vessels and other kit that will be transferred on and off demands a large reserve of buoyancy and presents a complex naval architecture challenge.


At 213m in length, 35m in beam, a 7m draught and displacing around 29,500 tonnes, ES is significantly larger than the legacy Albion class LPDs. The scale reflects both the RN’s complex outline requirements together with weight, space and power margins to support upgrades to sustain the vessel in service into the 2060s.

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https://www.navylookout.com/bmt-announces-ellida-strike-concept-to-align-with-royal-navy-mrss-requirement/

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O futuro?

Frota híbrida:
Uma T26 escoltada por duas fragatas não tripuladas , controladas por AI

https://www.facebook.com/ForcesTV/videos/853268270660336/

 

[LM]

Um pequeno texto que encontrei e pode ajudar a "enquadrar" sistemas europeus AAW navais:

A quick rundown of the relevant disclosed stats for these systems (acknowledging that maximum ranges are likely greater and effective ranges against manoeuvring targets like fighter jets and missiles are likely smaller):

The CAMM is a point defence/local area defence missile, with a disclosed range of >25km and a disclosed altitude of >10km. It's used onboard a variety of ships, but most famously onboard the British Type 23 frigates. It's a British missile. It's used in the GWS.35 'mushroom farm' VLS or can be quad-packed into the ExLS, and the Mk41.

The CAMM-ER improves the reach of the base CAMM. It can do area air defence with a range of >45km and a disclosed altitude of >10km. It's an Italian/British missile, and is used by the Italian Army and Air Force as well as being planned for use by several export customers. It's fired from an enlarged version of the 'mushroom farm' VLS and can be quad-packed into the Mk41.

The CAMM-MR (in development) offers a range of >100km and an altitude of >20km. It's a British/Polish designed missile, being intended for dual-packing into the Mk41 VLS. It's the missile we know the least about.

The Aster-30 Block 1NT is a large, long-range area air defence missile, with ranges of >150km and altitude limits of >25km. It's a missile designed to defend against both air-breathing threats and medium-range ballistic missiles. It's launched from the Sylver A50 VLS, but MBDA, Lockheed Martin and the RN have made noises about integrating it into the Mk41 VLS. Italy and France are the systems primary developers and customers, with the RN intending to procure it in the future (with no concrete timeline).

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The SM-6 was indeed a highly capable missile. Except for some problem. Firstly, price. Secondly, US.

Price? The SM-6 is just a hell of a lot more expensive than the Aster 30 B1NT. Secondly, the only place it can be used is Aegis Baseline 9. Which needed to be authorised and approved by the US to be used, as well as the entire CEC System that allows the SM-6 to be used in full capability.

Europe already had their own Interceptor systems under development. It matters especially for countries like France, who always take pride in developing their own weapons. SM-6 makes sense if you are in Asia Pacific and operates Aegis Destroyers (like SK, Japan, and Australia), but nobody in Europe except for Spain and Norway uses Aegis. And even Spain and Norway's Aegis are relatively low spec variants. Norway can only fire the ESSM, and Spain can only fire the SM-2MR.

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 MBDA seems to making their case for the future of British naval effectors with these systems, alongside others shown such as the Dragonfire DEW and the STRATUS (formerly FC/ASW) family of cruise missiles. I imagine they're competing against American options like the SM-6/SM-3 and TLAM, though that hasn't been disclosed.

The only issue with the set-up (if it is embraced, considering the Type 83 is still more than decade away), is that it lacks a true long-range anti-air missile in the vein of the SM-6 or HHQ-9B, a midcourse ballistic missile defence interceptor such as the SM-3 and a dedicated hypersonic interceptor such as GPI or Aquila.

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At this year’s DSEI in London, BAE Systems presented concepts for two new classes of warship that together could change the way the Royal Navy fights at sea.
The designs, a Future Air Warfare Command Ship and a family of Deployed Sensor Effector Platforms (SEPs), are being framed as a response to crew shortages, tight budgets, and the need to put more missiles into the air more quickly. In short, they would provide mass.

  https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/bae-unveils-warship-concepts-faster-leaner-more-firepower/

[Cabeça de Martelo]

Possível futuro "Deployed Sensor Effector Platform", navio não tripulado e autonomo.



Para o pessoal do fórum, esta imagem faz-vos recordar alguma coisa? Pensem bem...

[Cabeça de Martelo]

Agora já ninguém se lembra disto?

[Duarte]

BMT announces Ellida Strike concept to align with Royal Navy MRSS requirement



Ahead of DSEI 2025, BMT have unveiled the Ellida Strike concept, the boldest evolution yet in BMT’s family of amphibious ship designs. Developed as an option to inform the recapitalisation of the RN’s amphibious fleet, it presents a vision of what a future Multi-Role Strike Ship could deliver in both combat and humanitarian operations.

Ellida heritage
BMT’s ‘Ellida’ design lineage stretches back several years, evolving in step with the shifting language around the Multi-Role Support/Strike Ship (MRSS) programme. What began as a family of flexible support ship concepts has matured into Ellida Strike, a ship explicitly framed to deliver the Commando Force from the sea to the shore.

The concept is not a fully formed solution to the requirement, which has yet to be published in detail, but rather BMT’s interpretation of what such a platform could embody. Redesigned from the keel up, Ellida Strike (ES) applies full naval standards to create a survivable warship optimised for amphibious operations and adaptable across a wide mission spectrum. Designing a ship with a well dock operating vessels and other kit that will be transferred on and off demands a large reserve of buoyancy and presents a complex naval architecture challenge.


At 213m in length, 35m in beam, a 7m draught and displacing around 29,500 tonnes, ES is significantly larger than the legacy Albion class LPDs. The scale reflects both the RN’s complex outline requirements together with weight, space and power margins to support upgrades to sustain the vessel in service into the 2060s.

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https://www.navylookout.com/bmt-announces-ellida-strike-concept-to-align-with-royal-navy-mrss-requirement/

O futuro NPL? NRP D. Sebastião 

[Cabeça de Martelo]

Acredito muito mais na solução holandesa, até porque é mais pequena e barata.