Littoral Operations

[Kirkhill]

Maybe not

British shipyard gearing up to build drone warships

The Navantia UK Appledore shipyard say they can build two LASV75 autonomous vessels at once.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

Appledore Devon ready to build two LASV75 at a time and deliver two a year.

"The LASV75 is Navantia UK’s UK-designed large autonomous surface vessel, designed from the keel up as an uncrewed platform and combining size, range and speed with a modular, open-architecture design. Since its launch at the Combined Naval Event, the company says it has matured the concept and demonstrated the platform’s modularity, with configurations developed spanning anti-air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, naval fires against land-based threats, and sensing, operational or combined roles, with the open architecture allowing a single vessel to be re-roled, even at sea, as operational demands change."

Navantia UK unveils LASV75 autonomous surface vessel concept

Navantia UK publicly unveiled a scale model of its new LASV75 large autonomous surface vessel concept during the Navy Leaders Combined Naval Event (CNE), held in Farnborough from 19-21 May.

www.navalnews.com

75 meters

1000 tonnes.

A crewless continental corvette.

 

[Kirkhill]

More of a demonstration than a raid.

A Ukrainian USV delivered a UGV to the beach at Kinburn Spit at the mouth of the Dniepr while a UAV observed and spotted. The Ukrainian UGV fired on a Russian position.

https://kyivindependent.com/a-new-era-of-war-begins-ukrainian-sea-ground-drone-team-up-for-combat-mission-on-kinburn-spit/

 

[Kirkhill]

Inside Virtual Warrior – the Royal Navy’s secret war game

UK Defence Journal became the first media outlet allowed inside Exercise Virtual Warrior, the Royal Navy's secret annual command exercise, where 240 personnel fought a two-week war in the High North from a camp on Salisbury Plain.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

Can the Royals launch a force?

 

[daftandbarmy]

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Can the Royals launch a force?

This is nothing new, and not really rocket surgery or 'top secret' I don't think We did many amphibious exercises like that in Norway and Denmark in the 80s, both Army and RM forces, and with other NATO countries involved as well.

I have no doubt they can do it these days too. It's great that they have a virtual trainer for this stuff now as we just learned OJT-style, which takes time and bumped knees. It is ironic that mountainous-amphibious-arctic operation is being trained for on a landlocked, temperate prairie, like Salisbury Plain, though

However, IMHO, the reality of 'Combined Operations' is that it's entirely dependent upon Naval and Air support. If they screw it up everyone is doomed, pretty much. You need the pukka ships, boats and planes to play with to get a real appreciation for what's involved, of course.

And you'd better hang on every word from the met people as ignoring the avalanche forecast, for example, can and does have dire results.

The avalanche accident at Vassdalen, Norway, 5 March 1986​

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0165232X88900602