Como que la Royal Navy le está tirando todos los Tomahawk a Gaddafi y se les están acabando...
Libya: Navy running short of Tomahawk missiles
Defence insiders say as many as 12 of the weapons have been fired from the hunter–killer submarine Triumph in the past four days.
If this is correct, the Navy will have used up to 20 per cent of its 64 Tomahawks in the opening salvos of the war, leading to fears that it is "burning through" its armoury.
The situation could become an embarrassment for the Government if the submarine were the only vessel within range of a number of targets but could not fulfil the mission.
The submarines are stealthy and can loiter offshore unseen before going to depth to fire the Tomahawks.
The Block Four variant of the missile can travel more than 850 miles, can be retargeted in flight and can loiter above a target for more than two hours.
It is understood that plans are being made either to resupply Triumph or send another Trafalgar–class submarine to the Mediterranean as a substitute.
Triumph can carry up to 25 missiles or torpedoes. It is likely to have been loaded with as many as 20 of the long–range strike weapons. However, it is now likely to have used half its armoury.
Questions have been raised about why the number of Tomahawks was not increased during last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review which highlighted the role for submarines to be used for "strike capability".
"At this rate we are using up five or ten per cent of our stock per day and soon it could become unsustainable," a defence industry source said. "What if the strikes go beyond a second week? We will simply run out of ammunition."
Several of the 64 Tomahawks are being serviced because their fuel and computers need to be regularly checked.
However, a senior Navy source said: "If we need to have a submarine on task we will have a submarine on task. You have to remember that the UK is part of wider coalition."
The Navy has also indicated that it could rely on the American fleet to provide emergency stocks of Tomahawks if they ran out.
A Ministry of Defence official said the Navy would still remain "poised to deliver missiles if it needs to".
He said: "As we take out static targets the number of opportunities to use the Tomahawk will decrease."
The battle to enforce the no–fly zone over Libya is costing the taxpayer millions of pounds a day.
The cost of the four–day operation to date is £28.5million, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
The cost of putting four Tornado GR4 bombers, three Eurofighter Typhoons plus support aircraft into action is an estimated £3,216,000 a day. The Tornado costs £33,000 an hour to operate, including fuel, capital costs and crew training and the Typhoon costs £80,000 an hour.
The Storm Shadow missiles and submarine–launched Tomahawks cost £1.1million and £800,000 each.
Defence chiefs are said to be lobbying the Prime Minister to ensure that the extra costs are paid from the Treasury's reserve budget. "This is a huge issue for us," said a senior military planner. "Who is going to pay for this?"
The Government is paying almost £5billion a year for the 10,000 troops in Afghanistan.
Al menos un muerto y un herido muy grave por disparos de un soldado en un submarino nuclear fondeado en el puerto de Southampton, informa Sky News. El alcalde de la ciudad estaba dentro. Defensa británico descarta que sea terrorismo
The incident on HMS Astute happened while the Mayor of Southampton, the leader of the council and the chief executive were aboard the vessel. None was hurt.
A Royal Navy serviceman has been arrested. There are reports a 9mm pistol was used in the attack.
A police spokesman said the shooting was not terror-related and there was no risk to the public.
Police vehicles were sent to the city's and officers could be seen on the gangway of the submarine. The area has been sealed off.
A former submarine engineer told Sky News handguns would be kept on board under lock and key.
Hampshire police were called by the Ministry of Defence shortly after midday.
HMS Astute arrived at Southampton on Wednesday on a five-day informal stay after six and a half weeks at sea.
The vessel previously made headlines when it ran aground on a shingle bank between the Scottish mainland and the Isle of Skye and remained marooned for several hours.
The incident in October last year cost Commander Andy Coles his captaincy of the 300-ft, 7,800-tonne sub.
HMS Astute was named and launched by the Duchess of Cornwall in June 2007 before being welcomed into the Royal Navy in August last year.
The submarine's nuclear reactor means it does not need refuelling and it makes its own air and water, enabling it to circumnavigate the globe without needing to surface.
The Ministry of Defence says anyone worried about loved ones on HMS Astute
Prego de Bezoucos escribió:En las elecciones escocesas, el Laporta de allí, Alex Salmond, ha ganado por mayoría absoluta.
Ya ha anunciado que antes de dos años convocará un referéndum de independencia.
En el caso de una hipotética independencia escocesa...
¿Que pasaría con la Royal Navy?
En Glasgow se construyen el QE2, el PoW y los Astute.
En Falslane está la base de los submarinos.
Escocia tendría grandes intereses navales y exigiría una parte de la Royal Navy.
La OTAN tiene allí bases clave.
La verdad es que vivimos tiempos interesantes.
No creo que sea posible que Escocia se independice del Reino Unido, además como que por cuestiones económicas no les conviene mucho que digamos y supongo que los Ingleses tampoco lo aceptarían tan alegremente.
Saludos.
"Los tiranos no pueden acercarse a los muros invencibles de Colombia sin expiar con su impura sangre la audacia de sus delirios."...Simón Bolívar
además como que por cuestiones económicas no les conviene mucho
precisamente por cuestiones economicas SI les conviene.....poblacion escasa, tienen el petroleo del Mar del norte, ricas zonas pesqueras...potencialmente podrian convertirse en otra Noruega
además como que por cuestiones económicas no les conviene mucho
precisamente por cuestiones economicas SI les conviene.....poblacion escasa, tienen el petroleo del Mar del norte, ricas zonas pesqueras...potencialmente podrian convertirse en otra Noruega
El País que más aporta al PIB Británico no es Inglaterra?
"Los tiranos no pueden acercarse a los muros invencibles de Colombia sin expiar con su impura sangre la audacia de sus delirios."...Simón Bolívar
además como que por cuestiones económicas no les conviene mucho
precisamente por cuestiones economicas SI les conviene.....poblacion escasa, tienen el petroleo del Mar del norte, ricas zonas pesqueras...potencialmente podrian convertirse en otra Noruega
El País que más aporta al PIB Británico no es Inglaterra?
Si claro, pero solo es porque tiene una poblacion 10 veces superior. Pero per Capita es Escocia el mas rico.
Royal Navy Cougar 11 Force begins exercises off Cyprus
Exercise Cypriot Lion, designed to demonstrate the versatile capabilities and high readiness of the Royal Navy's new Response Force Task Group (RFTG), combines air defence exercises and live firings out at sea with amphibious exercises in coastal waters involving Royal Marines of 3 Commando Brigade.
Three ships - HMS Albion, HMS Sutherland, and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessel Cardigan Bay - left the UK with elements of the commando force at the beginning of April, and were in Cyprus last month for a series of amphibious exercises.
For Exercise Cypriot Lion, they are being joined by a second group of ships - the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, landing ship RFA Mounts Bay, fast fleet tanker RFA Wave Knight, and supply ship RFA Fort Rosalie.
The Commanding Officer of Royal Navy destroyer HMS Liverpool has praised his 'cool and professional' crew after they silenced a Libyan shore battery this week which had opened fire on the ship and its helicopter.
"Los tiranos no pueden acercarse a los muros invencibles de Colombia sin expiar con su impura sangre la audacia de sus delirios."...Simón Bolívar
Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has today announced that approval has been given for the early phase of design of the submarine that will deliver the UK's nuclear deterrent well into the 2060s.
The submarines that will replace the existing Vanguard Class will be powered by a new nuclear propulsion system known as the Pressurised Water Reactor 3. This will deliver a longer lasting and more cost effective capability.
