Stuart Galbraith Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 That's nice. I'm glad to learn we have him a title. This is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Schwing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R011 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 6 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said: Thank you for that, thats very interesting. I cant rmember if I told you this, so appologies if heard it before. When my cousin visited Japan about 15-20 years ago, she met a very old man on the street. He asked if she was English, she said she was, and he was really very happy about it. It turned out (if im remembering correctly) he was part of a delegation, or perhaps even the Embassy, in England during, or immeditately after WW1 (He must have been pretty sprightly for his age) He as glad to meet someone British again, because he always held us in high regard. So yes, I guess there are still links there which we can reforge. Now if we can just get the French to crank up the 'Entente Cordiale' we might just be onto a winner... As I recall, the entente had a third partner, though unofficially at first. I don't think you really want to allied with them again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Oh I don't know, id be happy to see an alliance with the Tsar should he reemerge. He just needs to purge the Okhrana first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 On 9/2/2021 at 5:16 PM, JasonJ said: ... HMCS Winnipeg joins the group of HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Defender, HMS Kent, RFA Tidespring, USS The Sullivans, HNLMS Eversten and will conduct joint-training with JS Ise, JS Asahi, JS Harusame, JS Takanami, JS Kirishima, JS Oonami, and JS Teruzuki in the waters from the East China Sea to the waters south of Shikoku and further to the waters south of the Kanto region. Air elements will also participate which are the UK and US F-35Bs, a US P-8A, and from the JASDF; four F-2s, eight F-15Js, two F-35As, an E-767, an E-2(C or D), and a KC-767. https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/news/houdou/R3/20210902-2.pdf https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202109/20210902.pdf ... Three pictures from the above mentioned training in the quote box below. Quote https://twitter.com/ModJapan_en/status/1435754978732249091 https://twitter.com/JASDF_PAO_ENG/status/1435575618536566793 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Just for some context while all this training is going on.. After departing Yokosuka, USS Carl Vinson along with USS Lake Champlain, USS Chafee, and USS Tulsa headed to the South China Sea. https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/130914 USS Benfold, also in the SCS, conducted a FONOP at Mischief Reef. https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/2766757/7th-fleet-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation/ https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1233756.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Estes Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 "Rule Britannia!" HMS Pr of Wales returns to Portsmouth on 26 May 2021. Photo credit Derek Fox for Warship International https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/9320/XWt7zZ.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Nice to see you around, Ken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 On September 4th, USS Barry and JS Tokiwa conducted joint-training in the East China Sea. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202109/20210906.pdf On the 8th and 9th of September, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Defender, RFA Tidespring, RFA Fort Victoria, HNLMS Eversten, HMCS Winnipeg, JS Izumo, and JS Ise conducted joint-training in the waters east of the Kanto region. Some JASDF F-35As, an E-767 and UK/US F-35Bs also joined. Three images in the quote: Quote https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202109/20210908.pdf https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/sf/news/09/0909.html https://twitter.com/JMSDF_PAO/status/1435845427295703042 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Who is that cavitation queen of a flat top? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 35 minutes ago, sunday said: Who is that cavitation queen of a flat top? That's Izumo. Maybe she farted. Don't know the reason. It is in the middle of modification ATM actually. If QE was to joint-train with one of the big ones, I would have expected it to be Kaga for that reason, not Izumo. USMC is to trial run F-35B on Izumo next month or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 It could be she has Prairie/Masker installed, then. I think the USN LHD/LHA do not equip it. Remarkable the smooth wake of QE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJ Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, sunday said: It could be she has Prairie/Masker installed, then. I think the USN LHD/LHA do not equip it. Remarkable the smooth wake of QE. I remember doing a search for that sort of thing and found very little general stuff about it. So I can't say much about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Would be OPSEC for the JMSDF, likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Estes Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 18 hours ago, sunday said: Nice to see you around, Ken! Thanks, amigo. I've shifted my CP back to the disUnited States for a little while. Simply amazing times.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 18 hours ago, Ken Estes said: "Rule Britannia!" HMS Pr of Wales returns to Portsmouth on 26 May 2021. Photo credit Derek Fox for Warship International https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/9320/XWt7zZ.jpg She was out training with 4 F35s, among other things. Been a long time since we operated 2 carriers in different oceans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 20 minutes ago, Ken Estes said: Thanks, amigo. I've shifted my CP back to the disUnited States for a little while. Simply amazing times.... There was that Chinese curse about interesting times... for historians. However, I think most historians would pretty much prefer to research them than to live during them! 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 There are some images of speed and turning trials for QE and PoW that show a more traditional wake, but it does seem that many images seem to be absent the classic cavitation, with surface smoothing being in evidence. The Kelvin wake looks pretty normal. The main problem is that it's not easy to tell how fast the ship is moving in most images - it's quite possible that she had slowed to allow the line abreast formation to look neat, but it's also possible that she's really "quiet" at normal cruise speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 There's a picture of a prop here. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/hms-queen-elizabeth-undergoing-rectification-work-due-propeller-issues/ I note also that unless the press is embargoed, there do not seem to be any "the ship flooded again on Tuesday" stories now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 6 hours ago, DB said: There are some images of speed and turning trials for QE and PoW that show a more traditional wake, but it does seem that many images seem to be absent the classic cavitation, with surface smoothing being in evidence. The Kelvin wake looks pretty normal. The main problem is that it's not easy to tell how fast the ship is moving in most images - it's quite possible that she had slowed to allow the line abreast formation to look neat, but it's also possible that she's really "quiet" at normal cruise speeds. Izumo should be able to do 30kn, but perhaps that speed is only the absolute maximum. Wikipedia page on QE states a speed "higher than 25kn". Curiously, the propellers are fixed pitch, but adjustable "during the service life of the ship", in shipyard or the like, according to this. Perhaps the most sensible thing to do is to suppose we do not know the speed of every ship in that photo OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETAC21 Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 (edited) 53 minutes ago, sunday said: Izumo should be able to do 30kn, but perhaps that speed is only the absolute maximum. Wikipedia page on QE states a speed "higher than 25kn". Curiously, the propellers are fixed pitch, but adjustable "during the service life of the ship", in shipyard or the like, according to this. Perhaps the most sensible thing to do is to suppose we do not know the speed of every ship in that photo OP. It looks to me that Izumo accelerated to her position in the photo op while the other 2 slowed a bit, note the escorts are also at speed while the AOR is not. Here it seems to be station keeping: Izumo is equipped with Prairie masker according to this: https://www.rina.org.uk/Izumo_class_far_from_carriers_in_the_fullest_sense.html Edited September 13, 2021 by RETAC21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JasonJ Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 (edited) Also at Guam, USS Frank Cable is conducting joint-training with JS Oryu which was dispatched for training in the area towards and around Guam from August 20th to September 22nd. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202107/20210728.pdf https://mobile.twitter.com/USNavy/status/1437507162578821127?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^embeddedtimeline|twterm^profile%3AINDOPACOM|twgr^eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19|twcon^timelinechrome&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pacom.mil%2F Edited September 14, 2021 by JasonJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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