The UK's biggest warship has broken down off the south coast shortly after setting sail on what had been billed as a "landmark mission" to the United States. HMS Prince of Wales, the second of the Royal Navy's two aircraft carriers, was experiencing an "emerging mechanical issue", a spokesperson said. The problem is being investigated.
The £3bn carrier, which became fully operational only last year, is reportedly anchored south east of the Isle of Wight while the investigation is carried out. "HMS Prince of Wales remains in the South Coast Exercise Area while conducting investigations into an emerging mechanical issue," the Royal Navy spokesperson said.
The problem was first reported by UK Defence Journal, an online news site focused on defence issues, which cited unconfirmed reports about damage to the starboard propeller shaft. A second specialist news site, Navy Lookout, said the 65,000-tonne warship had suffered a "significant technical fault".
It was just a feint bro. This ship will land in Crimea in 2 weeks time.
Tyler Lee
I pray that Russian subs will sink that piece of shit....it would be so funny.
Dylan Allen
get the oars out wtf is wrong with brit engineering?
Luke Cook
Good time for China to attack Taiwan. Burgers will be on their own, and fucked.
William Allen
lol
Evan Sanchez
warships are just floating targets either way, if it sinks by itself will be a gain from all the fuel they will spare
Owen Anderson
>wtf is wrong with brit engineering? just look how fucked up all your infrastructure is. all british.
Evan Turner
>A FUCKING RAMP
Jayden Kelly
>HMS Somerset suffers major systems failure after leak
>August 22, 2022
The Type 23 Frigate remains alongside at Rosyth after an emergency drydocking following “a major leak” earlier in the year and a recent “major failure” of her systems, with her becoming a “dead ship” for a short time.
Despite a £20mn major upgrade in 2018 and a return to service in March 2022, HMS Somerset is currently experiencing severe issues, according to a contact that spoke to me on the condition of anonymity.
>After several years laid up in Birkenhead Docks but officially still listed as part of the active fleet, stores ships RFA Fort Rosalie and RFA Fort Austin were surprisingly sold for further service to the Egyptian Navy in October 2021. Cammell Laird has the contract to reactivate them and Fort Austin has emerged from dry dock re-named ENS Luxor, her sister will become ENS Abu Simbel. The Egyptians may be stretched to find spares to keep these 45-year-old vessels seaworthy.
they don't need allies to wipe beijing off the face of the earth
Christopher Lopez
>HMS Vanguard arrived in December 2015 for her second Long Overhaul Period and Refuel (LOP(R)) expected to take about 3 and a half years and cost £200 million. Her three younger sisters, HMS Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance had already completed their first LOP(R) at Devonport which averaged about 42 months. Vanguard is unique in having an unplanned second reactor refuelling as a precautionary measure. Six and a half years after work began, Vanguard has still not emerged from dry dock and as a non-fixed-price contract, cost to the MoD is thought to have ballooned to over £500 million.
A senior stakeholder recently admitted: “Vanguard is a textbook example of how not to set up a major project. Among other things, we changed the scope of the project, did not invest in the workforce and did not invest in the infrastructure.”
Royal Navy working with tech giants Microsoft and Amazon to embrace new technologies
June 17, 2022, by Fatima Bahtić They are absolutely fucked. Microsoft & Amazon as tech partners. >The Royal Navy’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) challenged two of the biggest global technology giants, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to demonstrate how industry could bring new, state-of-the-art Cloud-based technology into the hands of the warfighter quicker than ever before. royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2022/june/17/220617-royal-navy-stormcloud
William Murphy
>they don't need allies to wipe beijing off the face of the earth Let's see here, Paper Tiger Burgers had NATO helping them for 20 fucking years to win war with sandal wearing goat herders in Afghanistan. Hmmmmmmmm....... must be too much ass fucking I guess.....
Just incredible how unlimited budget, by-the-book obsessiveness and quadruple box ticking with multiple levels of busywork redundancy will still lead to exactly the same fuckups
Isaiah Barnes
Hey, at least we've got something in common with Russia. Neither one of our carriers are seaworthy, and we both have operated shit Yak-141 VTOL designs.
>Just incredible how unlimited budget, by-the-book obsessiveness and quadruple box ticking with multiple levels of busywork redundancy will still lead to exactly the same fuckups Kivi.....Stop fucking diverting the narrative, everybody knows that it was Russia and Putin personally responsible for this fuck up with British warship.
>Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigates HMS Glasgow and its seven sister vessels are being fitted with selective catalytic reactors to reduce their impact on the environment.
>The new selective catalytic reactor, which is a box about three metres tall and two across equipped with large-scale filters/converters, will allow the submarine-hunting ships to operate in some of the most environmentally-sensitive parts of the world as well as meet the standards set in heavily-regulated waters such as the North Sea and off the Eastern Seaboard of the USA.
Designed to blow shit up and kill men. Have to meet the Green Agenda. I'm feeling JUSTED.
Levi Nguyen
Ukrainians might have one for sale soon. Boris was in Kiev just few days ago
Ethan Cox
February 13, 2022 The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers – status report. With the return of HMS Dragon to Portsmouth last week, at the time of writing, all six of the Type 45 destroyers are alongside or in dock.
>the WR21 gas turbine intercooler-recuperators, part of a complex integrated electric propulsion system, have experienced a series of failures. The RN is still struggling to deal with the legacy of this decision more than two decades later.
