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[QUOTE=ropebag;466185]Originally posted by ancientmariner View Post
You mean 'it moves stuff to an austere disembarkation point'.
Apart from the OPV element the functionality is exactly the same - and the RN have used the RFA's in the drugs interdiction role in the Caribbean and the counter piracy role off the Horn of Africa.
The crux of the MRV/EPV/Whatever-the-hell-its-called-this-week is 'what do you want it to do?', and still there's no decision on whether it's an OPV with a couple of TEU's or a littoral logistics support ship with a flight deck you could see from the moon, a well deck and the ability to put a field hospital, a water purification and pumping station, an airfield control radar and fuel pumping system.
It doesn't matter what you call it, it matters what it does.
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Originally posted by ropebag View PostAnd does 'Defence' know what it wants from an MRV in NS service, and how does that compare with what the NS wants?
And what does the NS want from an MRV?
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Originally posted by ancientmariner View PostThe MRV " will be enabled for helicopter operations and will also have a freight carrying capacity. It is the Governments intent that this new vessel will provide a flexible and adaptive capability for a wide range of maritime tasks both at home and overseas " White Paper.
Thats perfectly clear - I assume the dockyard will be cutting steel by the weekend....
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The NS knows what it wants and are fairly confident they will get support from a number of different departments, they didn’t go all the way to New Zealand for the crack, rather than the original mooted blue/green ship ... plan is this will be purple (ie joint)
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Originally posted by DeV View PostThe NS knows what it wants and are fairly confident they will get support from a number of different departments, they didn’t go all the way to New Zealand for the crack, rather than the original mooted blue/green ship ... plan is this will be purple (ie joint)
Do you know if what the NS wants bares much relation to what the rest of Defence wants, or what the DoD wants, or what Coveney, Varadkar or Kehoe wants?
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Originally posted by ropebag View PostSo, do you know what the NS want, or are you just saying that they know what they want?
Do you know if what the NS wants bares much relation to what the rest of Defence wants, or what the DoD wants, or what Coveney, Varadkar or Kehoe wants?
We won’t be putting a Bde across the beach with it but we won’t be stuck with a Frigate or OPV with 10 TEUs either
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Originally posted by DeV View PostThe State (DF, DoD, Minister, the other Departments etc) know what they want... it’s a matter of time and funding .... the little that we were told was very positive.
We won’t be putting a Bde across the beach with it but we won’t be stuck with a Frigate or OPV with 10 TEUs either
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Originally posted by ropebag View PostSo, do you know what the NS want, or are you just saying that they know what they want?
Do you know if what the NS wants bares much relation to what the rest of Defence wants, or what the DoD wants, or what Coveney, Varadkar or Kehoe wants?Last edited by ancientmariner; 26 March 2019, 07:37.
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