UK reportedly plans its own satellite navigation system

[BMD]

It's the problem : the more Diesel for the carrier, the less fuel for the jets.
Your classical carriers, in case of a heavy duty of the jets (in case of a conflict), will have to refuel every 2 days. Nice !

They're stored separately though. The same goes for CdG having to carry fuel for jets and the QE is far bigger and can carry more fuel.

 

[Guynextdoor]

And yet we have nuclear submarines, so perhaps there is a reason for that other than the "can't do" one you're putting forward.

You mean the thing that broke down recently?
French aircraft carrier set to defend Britain breaks down

You are naive my friend. They deliberately shut it down to leave Britain undefended

 

[Superkaif]

It's all EU rules. Soon we will get back our own waters... the UK at least... the French will just have to chase the other 26 EU nations away after that.

Define what you mean as “our own water”? What would be the radius of this territory?

 

[Bon Plan]

T45s are new, so teething troubles. And when you say noisy, because of the 100 mile thing, you underestimate the distances things can be heard from under water. Whales can be heard from 1,000 miles away.

Over-reporting culture.

New ? first is on duty until 9 years....
So Horizon frigates are new, but run perfectly (and with all the weapons.... see Harpoon for T45)

It is said that russian SSN can hear à T45 in the norht sea from their own harbor....

 

[Bon Plan]

They're stored separately though. The same goes for CdG having to carry fuel for jets and the QE is far bigger and can carry more fuel.

far bigger ? Size doesn't mater. You only will have 12 jets.
Better call it a helo carrier.

 

[BMD]

You are naive my friend. They deliberately shut it down to leave Britain undefended

Sure, that's why it was taken back to be fixed.

 

[BMD]

far bigger ? Size doesn't mater. You only will have 12 jets.
Better call it a helo carrier.

It will carry 24 front line jets, with the ability to carry 48 if need be.

Just because you never mastered VTOL.
Dassault Mirage IIIV - Wikipedia

 

[BMD]

New ? first is on duty until 9 years....
So Horizon frigates are new, but run perfectly (and with all the weapons.... see Harpoon for T45)

It is said that russian SSN can hear à T45 in the norht sea from their own harbor....

At least our carrier doesn't breakdown and our fighter jets don't crash as much.

Yes, because rocks and land don't get in the way at all.

 

[BMD]

Define what you mean as “our own water”? What would be the radius of this territory?

Same as it was prior to the common fisheries policy.

 

[Guynextdoor]

Sure, that's why it was taken back to be fixed.

Even that might have been a show. You know how devious these fraasnhhh people are....as twisted as their kwassantttss. They've been looking for an opportunity to screw britain and then took it.

 

[Bon Plan]

It will carry 24 front line jets, with the ability to carry 48 if need be.

Just because you never mastered VTOL.
Dassault Mirage IIIV - Wikipedia

1) 48? ie 36 from USN or USMC....

2) Harrier was a french idea : see "Michel Wibaut". And no VTOL plane reached mach 2 as french did.

 

[BMD]

Even that might have been a show. You know how devious these fraasnhhh people are....as twisted as their kwassantttss. They've been looking for an opportunity to screw britain and then took it.

Nope, it was just a POS.

 

[BMD]

1) 48? ie 36 from USN or USMC....

2) Harrier was a french idea : see "Michel Wibaut". And no VTOL plane reached mach 2 as french did.

Nope, a;; from us.

It was never able to take-off vertically and attain supersonic speed in the same flight, in fact the test aircraft that did it never even had the VTOL engines equipped. It was a also an overly complicated POS that needed 9 separate engines. The P.1154 only needed 1 engine. Plus the Mirage IIIV needed British engines.

Nope, his patent was for a turboprop VTOL. Sydney Camm is responsible for the design of the Pegasus engine.

 

[Amal]

Building their own GNSS? How ridiculous.

British have more important things to do, such as deciding who should undertake manned space flights.

All this from a country with exactly zero space launch capabilities...

 

[Shajida Khan]

We've put lots of satellites up in the past, I imagine we'll use the same method. £15bn/year in tariffs on EU imports should nicely cover it, even without the £11bn saving in EU funding. We could put Sadiq Khan on the moon for that price.

Afterwards we'll control our own GPS system, which is something no EU nation can say.

Correction : It was not satellites, it was one nano-satellite launched in the orbit after four failed attempts.

Last time UK tried, it took 4 attempts to send one 102 KG satellite 500 KM in LEO. So good-luck and see you after 96 launches, if you can reduce the weight of one nav-sat to 102 KG.

Or may be you can ask ISRO to do that for you, they have more experience in setting up a Nav-system and are economical to boot.

 

[BMD]

Correction : It was not satellites, it was one nano-satellite launched in the orbit after four failed attempts.

Last time UK tried, it took 4 attempts to send one 102 KG satellite 500 KM in LEO. So good-luck and see you after 96 launches, if you can reduce the weight of one nav-sat to 102 KG.

Or may be you can ask ISRO to do that for you, they have more experience in setting up a Nav-system and are economical to boot.

And what was India doing in that time period? We'll be launching our own satellites by 2021 anyway.

 

[Amal]

And what was India doing in that time period? We'll be launching our own satellites by 2021 anyway.

Probably launching microsats again. Whom are you competing with? Iran ?

And there is a difference between launching a microsatellite to LEO & launching a GNSS satellites to MEO.

 

[BMD]

Probably launching microsats again. Whom are you competing with? Iran ?

And there is a difference between launching a microsatellite to LEO & launching a GNSS satellites to MEO.

Not really, just a bigger rocket, the technology is the same. There is a difference between a Tejas and a proper fighter though.

https://assets.publishing.service.g...E-SHUKSI_2016-INFOGRAPHIC-FINAL_S2C171116.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.g...tachment_data/file/363903/SandH2014final2.pdf

And BTW, all I was initially implying in the other thread, is that you should be able to design and build all your own subs, before others got petty and took the comment the wrong way.

 

[advaidhya]

And BTW, all I was initially implying in the other thread, is that you should be able to design and build all your own subs, before others got petty and took the comment the wrong way

Does UK or USA build diesel submarines? Same way, even India makes just nuclear submarines and in diesel category it is getting French assistance to complete indigenisation without having to design by itself. I would not mind this as long as India gets the design and eventually makes it fully in India. For now, nuclear submarine manufacturing is enough and is at par with many other countries

There is a difference between a Tejas and a proper fighter though.

Tejas MK1 is similar to Gripen C. They are decent fighter planes but just too small for having larger payload. Current payload of 4ton is insufficient as about half of it will go for 2 WVR and 2 fuel tanks leaving little for other ammunitions.

 

[Amal]

Not really, just a bigger rocket, the technology is the same. There is a difference between a Tejas and a proper fighter though.

Highly intelligent... So the Iranians should be launching geostationary satellites by now. New Zealand would soon follow after launching the Electron.

And you don't even have a program to develop even a medium lift launcher. Even on paper.

There is something called the learning curve, and you are somewhere near the origin.

As for the LCA, it belongs to the light category. Not the 'overpriced & unserviceable' category as some European fighters.