How new Mk 41 Vertical Missile systems increase firepower for Royal Navy 

"First Sea Lord" damn, that's one awesome title.

It’s definitely going to be the coolest looking frigate on the high seas.

Love British Navy ❤ Hello from Latvia ❤

Gorgeous-looking ship. Completely badass

The Danish Ivar Heuitfeld class fregat which type 31 is based on, has 16 Harpoon, 24 ESSM missiles in addition to a 32 cell MK41 VLS with currently SM-2 missiles. The navy is looking into aquiring SM-6 and Tomahawk as well.

Fantastic. Now double the number of frigates .

Its all very well having this system technology etc. It still come down to numbers ..

It's more ships we want especially from the threat of Russia and China.

Our navy has been downsized for years and now it’s time to build it back up to a formidable force again.

About time! Though the T45s have STILL missed out.

Awesome🇬🇧

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this is such good news. about time our RN got more lethality to do what they need to do.

The Type 31 also having the MK41 launcher is new.

we need like 50 of them at least

Can Sea Lords really walk on water?

Doesn’t mean we’re purchasing anything to go in them. They also should be fitted with a “tail” for ASW we don’t have enough ships to have specific ships for specific things, all ships should be fitted for everything

for me , only f110, type 26, fremn frigates are worth to build in nowadays

According to the MOD, the UK had the 3rd largest military budget in the world, considerably outspending Russia for example. And yet, we never seem to get any meaningful capability for this; underarmed ships, aircraft carriers with very few if any aircraft, a small number of tanks with most in maintenance, only 40 MLRS, no real artillery, the RAF has over twice as many propeller aircraft and gliders for training and aerobatics displays as it has front line aircraft. The number of F35s is only double the size of the Battle of Britain memorial flight. Something feels seriously wrong with the purchasing arm of the MOD - we have the companies available to us to produce excellent equipment, but everything is late, over budget, and reduced effectiveness. It's not the nuclear deterrent that is taking up the money - we spend considerably more on hotels for asylum seekers than on our nuclear deterrent. The whole Trident program could have been purchased with one years Foreign Aid. So why the lack of equipment? I am not complaining about the MODs budget - I would increase it - but the armed forces personnel (and the taxpayer) deserve much better bang for the buck. We always seem to end up with no real "teeth".

A very capable asset if we go for the fitted with, not fitted for version. We also have to buy enough of them for them to be affective.

Es algo muy común cuando creas algo o te fundametas en principios junto alos principios de una sociedad buscas y leas junto los mismos que van sobre los mismos mundamentos en la vida

variety - explain please

It always makes me laugh when they talk about whether they have the money for it. It’s the public’s money so ask us if we would like to spend it and I’m sure the answer would be yes. The amount of our money the government wasted over covid could have bought our a current navy 5 times over.

I hope to god y’all make enough of these to where the Royal navy can independently put both queen Elizabeth and prince of whales to sea and always have the ships needed to escort while maintaining a similar strength of frigates to operate independently.

You can fit a launcher but will there be any missiles in the launcher?

Wella buh dayum

Finally

It's about Time this country was built on it's Navy. We have to build more to defend our island. We have the money.

Aside from US and China, modern warship are crippled by budget constraints and that is why destroyers and frigates carry so few missiles. These missiles are expensive and most countries can't afford many of them.

The MK 41 Launcher is over 35 years old! For example I served on a US Spurance class destroyer in the 80's that had a 61 cell mk 41 launcher. that ship is now retired out after long and excellent service.

Passing grade

ACTUALLY, on a more recent video (Feb 2024) the closing remark re the promised fit of 32 X Mk41 VLS cells from the outset on the T31 frigates, was as follows. " Potentially, with future ships in class incorporating the Mk41 during the construction phase. The earlier designed vessels would then have the Mk41 fitted at a later date, during the capability upgrade phase undertaken half way through the initial service life. Usually around 10 TO 12 years" [IE; the 1st batch of five which in reality will be the ONLY ones ever built for the RN, will not get Mk41 VLS during build but only be completed half-armed i.a.w. the London elite's usual FFBNW con.] I say "con" because, In truth, experience shows that any weapon system not actually installed on a new RN ship during construction but which is only described as "Fitted For But Not With", is never fitted later on, at all. (Just look at the T45 destroyers!) Furthermore, the phraseology quoted above sounds very like the weasel-worded lies that our loathsome Political and Civil Service elites emit routinely to confuse the public and row back on their own undertakings. So where did it come from?? Because anyone who doesn't want these alleged T31 GPFs to still actually emerge merely as giant, massively under-armed OPVs unfit for any real combat role, would be well advised to ask!

Where is the mk41 launchers going?

I love to join royal navy nobody take me to join😢

He was the most irritating man to listen to he couldn't string two words together without a pause or an um or an err . He didn't seem to know what he was talking about.

Background musak spoils so many talks

The MK 41 VLS system is hardly new and is used by many nations, the Royal Navy is just catching up with the times.

Strange How negative you all are anyone Would think you hate your own country the new frigates are among the best in the world

I doubt the Navy will have the money.

Sorry but I couldn't listen to Mr Childs for very long. What an appalling speaker and he didn't seem to clued up from the little I could stand.

Who’s the Second Sea Lawwdddd? 😂

harder and deeper eh 😂

It will be chickens coming out them

The construction on these ships as was planned, has slipped about three yeas. (So Far) Also,the Royal Navy has planned for a smaller number if frigates and destroyers then it has now by about five, in ten years!! All ready the Royal Navy is too small.

The Royal Navy warships, existing frigates and destroyers, should have been built from new with these larger |Vertical Launch System silos / cells, both Type 23 Frigates and Type 45 Destroyers too. Let alone now going to fit these MK.41 Vertical Missile System, to new Type 26 Frigates, maybe in the new Type 31 Frigates, plus even in the new Type 32 Frigates for the Royal Navy. Along with will be installed high numbers of these Mk.41 VLS silos/cells, in the future new Type 83 Destroyers too! However ,there is still the question the UK Conservative Government and all present MP's or future Government and future MP's after 2024 General Election. This being will the Royal Navy, have the warships and submarines, plus auxiliary support vessels and a fully F-35B Carrier Air Wing's (36 F-35B each) too? That able to deploy two British Aircraft Carriers Battle / Strike Groups, to different conflict zones in different parts of the world at the same time, yes or no? While there is another Destroyers, Frigates, Off-shore Patrol Vessels, Mine Countermeasures Vessels, plus Fishery / Border protect Navy Vessels, to meet the Royal Navy's other domestic, European, Commonwealth and Nato Commitments too, yes or no? Which at present, seems a very tall order, for the Royal Navy and the MoD to meet at present, or could meet in the near to medium future. We could be talking of the Royal Navy having such capabilities, maybe around 2050, if UK Government start committing necessary fund now. Though by then the Royal Navy will have to start thinking about its next Aircraft Carriers around 2050 too, with the aim of replacing the two Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carrier by 2060 at the earliest or at the latest by 2070! Along with by 2050 to 2060 also looking at replacing the Type 26, Type 31 and Type 32 Frigates too, let alone replacing the Royal Navy's present day SSN's or newer SSGN's and even their newer four SLBN's that have not come into service until 2030's by then too? That a lot of warships, aircraft carriers and submarines, all need replacing between 2060 to 2080 at the end of this century, the UK Government and MoD plus RN need to think about! While the likes of the Chinese Navy, will have grown has even bigger in number of warships and submarines, also these Chinese warships and submarines will be even better state of the art combatant's too, so be more of a threat to the Royal Navy as well. Then where will a future rebuilt Russian Navy to face and deal with maybe too, or face other countries Navy power be too? Is the UK Government and the MoD properly looking at future threats and requirements, the Royal Navy will have to deal with in, say just 20 to 30 years, or 40 to 50 years, let alone in the next 10 years? The MoD has never been very good at reviewing future threats to UK Defence and Security, just look at the conflicts and wars the UK has got involved, that is in since the end of World War Two. Or just since the 1980's to the present day, that only just in the last 43 years, we gone from the 1982 Falklands War to the 2022 Ukraine War, kind of says it all!

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Better manufacturer alot of them y'all going to need them.

"new"

This is something I just learned, and it makes me wonder why anybody would use these vertical launched missiles - you can't reload them at sea ! It has to be done with a large crane to lift the empty launcher tubes out & set new, full ones in. They say that it's impossible to do at sea. That's just crazy IMHO.

I'd love to know where this black hole for UK taxpayers money is we're taxed more than ever yet have next to nothing to show for it, it seems like the only thing that increases with our money is another battalion of civil service bureaucrats and senior managers we're so top heavy in this country that the whole thing should have toppled over years ago

hasn't the Ukraine war shown us that all big ships are vulnerable to missile attack and drone attack ... will any of these ships survive long enough to actually fire their missiles ?

These should have been fitted to the Type 45. They would still have been able to use the French missiles. But the French launcher is too small for the bigger US missiles. The benefits include anti-ballistic missiles, and harpoon. The mk41 also allows quad packs of smaller missiles (i.e. 4 missiles in one launcher tube.

What Royal Navy? There is no more Royal Navy.

THE " Q.E. - I I , " " HER MAJESTY'S , " STRATEGIC EMERGENCY RESPONSE FLEET , AND AN EXTENSION OF " HER MAJESTY , " " QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND , " " BRITISH ROYAL NAVY . " TO BE REMEMBERED ALWAYS AND IN MEMORY OF , " HER MAJESTY , " " QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND " " APRIL 21 , 1926 " - " SEPTEMBER 08 , 2022 " " 2023 "

Tell the world the navy's capacities so that our enemies can defeat us .. good move

Please consider the fack that the Treasury has saddled the defence budget with the huge pension plan of the armed services , which writes down a substantive sum which is steadily increasing . It is called financial engiñeering . Pensioners live longer which equates to less ships . The only answer is to move the liabilitys across to the country's public pension scheme thereby freeing up substantive amounts .

"hit harder and deeper"........... lol THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!! waahahahahaha

My thoughts about royal Navy when size doesn't matter 😅

mk. 41 is already an obsolete vls system. The dimension too small to fit longer range air defense missile (especially anti-hypersonic), ballistic and hypersonic cruise missiles.

I am so pleased for you. Personally I do not pray to my God for material help. Obtaining sufficient material help is down to me. I pray for spiritual help which allows me to be clear minded and more able to obtain the material things in life that we need! God bless you.

Well you blew up 007!!! Next Putin the putrid!! After that? Maybe Sunak an co.❤❤❤

Unfortunately a vast amount of our defence budget contracts, goes to shareholders of the Companies building our arms. Then take into account the Billions wasted on projects like Ajax. We may have a large defence budget, but the waste and back handers soon syphon that away.

Bet they don’t stop dinghies.

''sea lord''🤣🤣😂😂😂the only meaningful thing remaining for the UK navy are these over the cloud names,well let that ''sea lord'' go and be dropped in the middle of the sea and let us see if the sea will bow down to him

The only reason the Uk has such a small force of warship, tanks and aircraft is mainly for sales contracts. The Uk is now unable to protect our own country let alone help one of our NATO or Commonwealth countries.

A SUK could take one out in minutes. Pointless toy boat!

All talk , no action . A lot of mabe , in the future , could be , proposed. Not going to happen.

UK military needs more than this if warmonger Sunak and his rat pack government keep throwing weapons at Zelensky to prolong his war with Russia.

The Fascist UK ALWAYS has money for weapons

maybe to get money from nato, or other navies support financial, knownledge, technology. a kind of goods exchange

If they had really tried, they could’ve found somebody more incoherent and boring to explain everything.

Its all very well having this system technology etc. It still come down to numbers ..

Australian Navy must work hard to get longer range hypertonic missiles Lazer guidance for protecting all people in Australia