Babcock Starts HMS Pembroke’s Upkeep Period

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Babcock Starts HMS Pembroke’s Upkeep Period

Posted on Jun 26th, 2013 with tags Babcock, Defence, Defense, HMS, Naval, Navy, News by topic, Pembroke’s, Period,starts, Upkeep.

Following the recent departure of HMS Penzance from Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard after a successful upkeep period, Babcock has now started work on Sandown class mine hunter HMS Pembroke, in dock at Rosyth for a similar six month Support Period (Docking) (SP(D)) under the Surface Ship Support Alliance (SSSA)’s Class Output Management (COM) Phase 2 arrangements.

The work package for Pembroke’s support period has been defined by the Babcock-led COM team to reflect the ship’s needs and minimise the level of emergent work, drawing on knowledge of the ship’s material state and previous experience of Sandown class refits. Under the SSSA (an alliance between the MoD, Babcock and BAE Systems), Babcock leads the Sandown class COM.

This comprehensive support period will involve a substantial maintenance package, plus a number of upgrades and improvements that will significantly enhance HMS Pembroke’s operational capability, sustainability, and habitability standards.

Upgrades will include the high pressure air system (extending system life and offering cost and space benefits); remote isolation of the waste water system (helping to prevent flooding following a hull breach); readiness for the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII), which provides a coherent infrastructure to enable information sharing and collaborative working across the defence sector network; galley improvements (including replacement of equipment with modern alternatives); and installation of a new fire detection system, which extends coverage to additional areas.

In addition, the maintenance package includes an extensive paint coating renewal programme to all upper decks, including areas of trawler deck, renewal of most internal deck coverings, and an allowance for blasting and represervation of both fresh water tanks. Work will also include elements as a result of knowledge gained from previous Sandown class upkeeps, including slow speed drive alignment checks, and renewal of all propeller unit blade seals. Additionally, all 01 deck fittings, ventilation spigots, aerial ground plane and earth plates are being removed for survey and probable renewal.

Babcock Warships Managing Director Mike Whalley said:

“This is the third Sandown class support period to be carried out since the introduction of full COM arrangements, and will benefit from the knowledge and experience gained by the COM team from HMS Grimsby (the first under COM) and recently completed HMS Penzance, as well as previous successful Sandown class support periods. The team is now focused on delivering HMS Pembroke to schedule and quality reflecting optimum value for money.”

MoD MCM Team Leader, Captain Matt Harrison said:

“I look forward to the continued good working relationship of all stakeholders and implementation of the latest lessons learned from HMS Penzance to deliver HMS Pembroke on time and within budget.”

HMS Pembroke is expected to leave Rosyth for sea trials at the end of this year.

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HMAS Perth Trains Hard for Unit Readiness Evaluation

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HMAS Perth Trains Hard for Unit Readiness Evaluation

Posted on Jun 26th, 2013 with tags Defence, Emergency Procedures, Evaluation, hard, HMAS, Melbourne, Naval, Navy,News by topic, Perth, Readiness, Seamanship, Sirius, Trains, Unit, Warfare.

HMAS Perth is a little way from her home port of Fleet Base West as she works hard in the East Australian Exercise Area, near Jervis Bay to prepare for a Unit Readiness Evaluation where she will be tested on Warfare, Seamanship, Emergency Procedures and much more in preparation for a busy six months of exercises.

Perth has battled huge swells brought on by a cold weather front on the east coast, conducted a Replenishment at Sea with HMAS Sirius and supported HMAS Melbourne in her important “Work Up” and Readiness Examination.

This intense practical assessment conducted by Sea Training Group onboard ships and boats is to prepare them for major deployments.

After exercising in the east side of the country with her colleagues on Sirius and Melbourne, the 175 men and women in Perth will continue to a major joint amphibious exercise in Queensland in July.

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.F35s thwart attack on Queen Elizabeth as carrier battle group flexes its muscle

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F35s thwart attack on Queen Elizabeth as carrier battle group flexes its muscle
26 June 2013

Four F35 Joint Strike Fighters fended off an air attack against the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier battle group as destroyer HMS Dauntless and ‘eye in the sky’ Sea Kings helped form an aerial shield around the flagship.

Royal Navy air crew and ops rooms teams across the land linked up via simulators to test how they the Fleet of tomorrow would work together in battle.

Bogeys inbound, 30 miles… An F35 banks after lifting off the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth

FOUR F35 Joint Strike Fighters fended off an air attack against the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier battle group as destroyer HMS Dauntless and ‘eye in the sky’ Sea Kings helped form an aerial shield around the flagship.

For the first time aircrew, operations room teams, scientists and technicians tested how the technology of today’s and tomorrow’s Royal Navy will work together on the battlefield.

They used simulators to link up the Type 45 destroyer, a Sea King, the 65,000-tonne leviathan, and a quartet of the stealth fighters to see how they can share information to defend the Fleet and to direct the F35s on to incoming targets.

Fleet Air Arm, RAF and US Navy pilots ‘flew’ F35s from simulators at BAE’s site in Samlesbury in Lancashire, while two ‘bagger’ aircrew in Culdrose simulated a mission in an Airborne Surveillance and Control Sea King.

An F35 prepares for take-off from the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth

On the Isle of Wight, air warfare officers from HMS Duncan were at the controls of the Queen Elizabeth carrier lab, while on Portsdown Hill their counterparts, and fighter controllers, from sister ship HMS Dauntless were doing the same in the Type 45 lab.

The idea was to see whether the reams of data and information the Sea King, Type 45, carrier and four fighters could be passed from helicopter to F35 to ship in real time so decisions could be made and threats eliminated – exactly as would be expected were the Queen Elizabeth battle group on front-line operations.

“Not only does this help the UK customer get their heads around how the F-35 will integrate into operations, but it can also save a lot of time and money,” explained Tony Hall, the BAE F35 programme manager overseeing the trials. “We can identify issues early and fix things at this stage far easier than when the aircraft are built and in operation.”
The simulated link-up was, said Lt Cdr Mark Humphries of the RAF Air Warfare Centre at Waddington, “something we have never been able to do before” and it proved to be “extremely valuable”.

Lt Cdr Jim Blythe, air warfare officer on HMS Dauntless, said the link-up with the other ships and aircraft had really tested the Type 45’s combat system and given the destroyer’s fighter controllers much better understanding of directing the jets; it’s the job of fighter controllers to help guide an aircraft on to a target. “We are in a far better place for working with the F35 when it comes into service,” he said.

Tomorrow’s world… HMS Astute leads a Queen Elizabeth-class battle group with the carrier flanked by two Type 45 destroyers and followed by a Tide-class RFA tanker

Three real F35 evaluation models are currently in UK hands and are being tested in the USA right now. The front-line versions aren’t due to begin trials aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth, which is launched next year, until 2018.

The jump jet – also known as the Lightning II – is the world’s first fifth-generation fighter jet (the Harrier, which it replaces, was third generation) and gives the pilot unparalleled understanding of the world around them.

As for the Type 45s, they can track aircraft up to 250 miles away – one parked in Portsmouth can watch aircraft landing and taking off from Charles de Gaulle, Manchester, or on final approach at Schiphol in Amsterdam. And courtesy of its Sea Viper missile it can take out incoming enemy aircraft or missiles up to 70 miles away.

And the baggers can track targets in the air or on the ground – as they’ve demonstrated over the past decade first in Iraq and today over Afghanistan, where the helicopters of 857 Naval Air Squadron continue to fly daily.

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