Comments by "ZIPZ" (@zipz8423) on "This is how the new Type 26 frigates look" video.

  1.  @oliversparks1459  he’s right, the U.K. cannot crew more ships, young people don’t want to be away from home all of the time these days. It’s a real issue for the RN.
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  2. CAMM will fit in Mk-41.
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  3. The U.K. can’t afford it.
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  4.  @paultanton4307  MT 30?
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  5.  @G1NZOU  How many?
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  6.  @paultanton4307  MTU or Wartsilla?
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  7. I would say armed to a normal standard. It is the U.K. ships that are going to be under equipped, courtesy of a defence budget 3 times smaller than it was in 1990.
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  8. Actually the radar is a downgrade. The RN wanted Sampson on both the carriers and the T26. Second hand Artisan units will be removed from T23s and fitted to the T26.
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  9.  @davidhouseman4328  yes in December 2019 then there were cuts announced in January 2021 that everybody knew were coming. That’s the hypocritical lying Tories for you.
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  10. Get past it, the U.K. is a middle ranking power and the days of big navy are over and will never return.
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  11.  @davidhouseman4328  then in January they announced cuts.
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  12.  @davidhouseman4328  yes they did you’re just a Tory in denial. It makes me laugh, ex forces chaps moaned for 13 years under labour governments then when your beloved Tories got into power they made everybody redundant. Karma.
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  13. Who are you planning to fight?
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  14.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Putin doesn’t want war. If he did Kiev would already be in Russian hands.
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  15.  @BroadHobbyProjects  he’s had NATO on his borders for 20 years and can’t do anything about it without entering a conflict that would bankrupt his own country. Putin is more than anything a realist. He once said “A war with NATO would be madness.”
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  16.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Well two can play at that game and often do.
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  17.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Well yes of course, which ably demonstrates my theory that everybody takes part in the Great Game.
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  18. It’s a fine FFG but in truth the reason why they will be under equipped in U.K. service goes back to the 1990s when the RN made its choice to build 2 big CVF carriers - they knew then hull numbers for future DDG, FFG and SSNs would be significantly reduced. The U.K. has the Navy it can afford, the hope we are going to build a larger Navy is deluded.
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  19. Deluded post Brexit thinking, the U.K. is a bit part player in 2021. The days of big navy are over. We can’t afford a bigger navy and we certainly can’t crew it. Young people don’t want to go to sea anymore.
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  20. This is what happens when people vote for the Conservative party - they make people redundant and shrink the services.
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  21.  @TheBooban  the U.K. doesn’t have the yard capacity to build ships for the U.K. Canadá and Australia plus submarines for the Aussies & the RN. I think you already know there would have been no GCS sale unless local building was included anyway.
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  22.  @jaysonkmendoza  the U.K. T26 will be threadbare for financial not tactical reasons. If the RN has a choice they would have mini Sampson radars - single face AESA and all of them towed arrays.
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  23.  @soulsphere9242  agreed, the USA does not hand over entire submarines to other countries that’s never going to happen. America is in the deal as an enabler and to control exactly what technology is shared via the U.K.
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