RN Project Cabot and Atlantic Bastion

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Much better to call it:

Contractor Owned
Contractor Operated
Oversight: Naval.

That gives you COCOON.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

And what did the Coast Guard deal with?

I think that the line between civil and military is vanishing.

If the enemy refuses to wear uniforms and works within civilian rules when it suits them then we need to be able to shift from civil to military and back again between breakfast and mid-morning coffee.

The aircraft looked for oil pollution mainly. Ships are navaids, Science, fisheries, ice breaking, SAR.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Basically, what the UK is doing is rebuilding the GIUK gap barrier capability of the Cold War by using current technology of mobile systems instead of the fixed sonar arrays of lore. It's a bit like a more extensive group of the old SURTASS ships (SURface Towed Array Sonar System ships, they were the original "stealth" ships that the US could deploy. They dragged huge towed array sonar with much greater range of capabilities than the warship deployed ones and could be sent out far away from the convoys to provide early warning. They carried no ASW weapons.)

 

[Kirkhill]

Britain looking to buy 20 new naval drone vessels

The Royal Navy has launched market engagement for Project Beehive, a fleet of 20 uncrewed surface vessels intended to advance its hybrid force by supporting tactics and warfare development while serving as an experimental platform for autonomous systems.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

20x 7.2 m vessels. Similar vessels controlled from distances of up to 500 miles.

 

[Kirkhill]

Further to....

Combat-tested Syos USVs achieve rapid speed to capability - Naval News

Syos, a tech startup originating from New Zealand but also with offices in the UK and Ukraine, has rapidly honed in on unmanned surface vessels (USV) as an area of growth for the company.

www.navalnews.com

"in a recently conducted demonstration with the Royal Navy (RN). In the trial lasting three days, five 7.2m-long Rattler USVs creating a “wolf pack” successfully escorted two RN offshore patrol vessels pretending to be interloping Russian warships.

"After departing Portsmouth, the five RHIB-based USVs provided by Syos had travelled to Scotland by sea, before swarming and escorting HMS Tyne and HMS Stirling Castle off the coast of Scotland.

"Furthermore, these USVs were commanded by personnel located 800km away at Portsmouth Naval Base. For the sake of this trial, each USV was operated by two personnel – one piloting the vessel and the other monitoring onboard systems."