It did work well for the RAF. Not anymore though. The last RAF SAR Sea Kings left service in October 2015. They’re now a Red and White colour scheme on AW189 and S-92's operated by Bristow.

The Yellow Sea Kings were RAF. I used to live next to the main maintenance base for the fleet, RAF Finningley. The RN SAR Sea Kings were Red and Grey. They were retired finally a couple of days ago. All SAR off the Uk is privately run now.

There is an awful lot wrong with that chart.....look at the dates...the first Yasen class was launched 15 years later than that....there is a lot more as well. No scale on the left for one, plus it’s use in the classic USN ‘please give us more money’ appeal to Congress.....the people I know in the RN would laugh at a…

And the Israeli’s just keep on launching stand off munitions with impunity....

Absolutely, of the many varieties of missiles carried by the S-400 the one with the greatest range against a fighter target has a NEZ of about 50 miles. Thats why they have to have a Pantsir alongside an S-400, to protect it against PGM’s. Even then it could be overwhelmed.

To be fair the Yasen is in production, with a sixth just ordered.

I’ll give you a simple clue.....how will it see it to shoot?

There’s a video of a live launch on a target in Syria.

They’ve used them before over Libya. The RAF used them (in their StormShadow guise) over libya and Iraq in 2003. Plenty have been fired.

Cough...MH17...Cough

You missed the fact they only have 6 fighters.....you could have added on...’That air battle goes one way...in about 5 minutes’

Do you understand that the earth is not flat....????

It’s the endlessly quoted 400km range as well....with the circles being drawn around the airbase with a 400km.....did these idiots not get the memo about the earth not being flat....they actually seem to think Russian radars can see through the earths crust!

Don’t muck about with toy ships.... get one of these...

Forgot a picture of the Project Zero..

An unmanned version of Agusta Westlands Project Zero would resolve the wing issue.It seems a fairly elegant solution to the fixed wing VTOL requirement. But I agree, unless we start building ships like BAe’s UXV combatant, rotary wing or Scan Eagle Integrator is the way to go. A possible solution to the teaming issue…

CATOBAR was most definitely not the cheapest option. The cost of the additional equipment, its maintenance and crucially the additional personnel to operate it over the carriers lifespan vastly outweigh the slightly cheaper initial purchase of some F-18E’s or Rafale’s. And that is before we even get to the expense of…

But what is the point of low level if the MAD boom is useless? Most MPA crews would tell you that with modern low magnetic steels MAD booms are more trouble than they’re worth, particularly as they continually generate false contacts. A sonobuoy doesn’t care if it’s ejected low or high, with a guidance kit on a…

What don’t you understand about it not being ready and never being ready?