Royal Navy warships trade places on Gulf patrol mission
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2022
- The Royal Navy will continue permanently operating a major warship in the Gulf and the Middle East after swapping vessels patrolling the region.
After three and a half years in the Gulf, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, the Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose has been relieved by HMS Lancaster.
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Could we sell the narcotics and buy an additional frigate?
too late!
i really dont understand why our navy is so small.
Must resist OPIUM war refereance... i failed didn't i.
If you can deliver some herion to my house in California I'll throw yall a few hundred bucks 🤪 I'll pass on the meth
@@DarthWhisper-19 money bro. No money
Smart with the trading crew in and out instead of heading all the way back
Will be sad to see her decommissioned, have had the pleasure of being aboard her twice 😢
The news of the decommission is so sad... she's only 30 years old and for me, I'd refit her.
The Type 23's have had refits, but anyway, they were never designed to be in service this long
I heard from someone how worked on her in the gulf that should would need a massive amount of work to give her a few more years.
At 30 years old it becomes prohibitively expensive to squeeze further life out of her, and chances are, what ever you don't fix or replace, will be the thing that stops her from going to sea.
Respect
Well served HMS Montrose.
She's looking very tired though, in a way that I don't think a lick of paint would do.
Nice wee bit of leave instead of the long trip home
Here after hearing that sunak promised another 5 type 26’s, that’s gonna replace these beautiful oldies on a 1:1 basis now, at least that’s a good thing
No he confirmed that 5 more are being constructed ontop of the current 3. The total number of type 26s will still be 8.
But there will be 5 type 31s to make it a 1:1 to the current type 23.
And an additional 5 type 32s to increase the frigate fleet to 18.
It's amazing how daft people can be. If he announced the same few frigates being built some will think they're new each time. They're already rolling back on the 3% GDP for defence. I never believed it anyway. Few should.
@@VanderlyndenJengold but it should still be taken seriously, defence isn’t something the uk can afford to skimp out on
@@dxempire77 so nothing has changed from b4
The 8 Type 26's will replace the 8 ASW focused Type 23's
Why doesn`t the Royal Navy keep her on, for an extra 5 yrs as part of a Home Fleet, for training new RN Recruits etc, on escort and defensive duties?
I was thinking that. We should have a home defense fleet and an attack fleet. Even though she's old and ageing, these ships are still better than what 90% of other countries have.
The Ministry of defence are idiots & possess very little common sense. 🙄
This just in... Russian missiles have hit target's in eastern Poland!!.😡💕🇬🇧🇺🇦
War is upon us, will NATO look weak by not responding? Or plunge us into WW3 with the alternative. Uncertain times ahead.
NATO will need to have a meeting for 3 weeks to figure-out how to write the official letter condemning Russia's actions.
Currently it looks more likely to be a Ukrainian S300 that missed it's target and landed in Poland
Some blaze trails others blaze dubies.
Good time to be decommissioning perfectly operational ships......
She sailing just now but someone who worked on her in the gulf says she would need a massive costly refit that would take 12-24 months to get her to serve another 3 years.
@@Statueshop297 Hmm I bet she's sold to someone else who operates her for another decade at least. That's what usually happens.
It's sad but true if the Royal Navy wants to be a state-of-the-art navy we have to bite the bullet, let ships go after 30 years, she's a beautiful ship but she's worn out ! We've got all the new super frigates coming along .
@@billcook7483 I can see that in some sense but the fact that the hulls are sold on and then go through a refit for a foreign navy always galls me because it shows the hull isn't totally useless. I dunno - seems like we could use them for the coastguard or something?
@@Phil_AKA_ThundyUK Yes I remember going on board Invincible shortly before she was scrapped and I was thinking the same ,,what waste, but I have to be honest when I had a good look around it was obvious that she was an ageing ship with obselete equipment .The Royal Navy is a true blue water Navy, as is the US Navy almost every other Navy in the world tends to concentrate only in home waters, and their ships can return to port far more often for routine maintenance. British and US ships can't do that. It's tempting to think that she could be reserved as a coastal defence craft but she'd be far too expensive to maintain in that role and we're better off going with the river class ships , which are purpose designed for the job. I agree with you that is sad to see these beautiful ships go but unfortunately comes down to brutal economics they're just not cost effective to keep going in our type of Navy.
makes no sense to decommission. for the cost of scrapping and so on, just sell it to Taiwan. they need the extra firepower at sea.
State of the warship to intercept 15 million dollars worth of drugs.. The economics make sense
Why does this CO look after if she has just finished a shift in McDonalds? get rid of those sloppy "baseball" caps! Of course if we had a decent number of ships instead of just the 19 the RN currently have we could have an effective maritime presence.
Cheers dits