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Naval Today said:
Work has begun to revamp facilities in Portsmouth Naval Base so it can accommodate Britain’s biggest warships.

It will take 18 months and £34m (about USD 53 million) to turn the 90-year-old structure at Middle Slip Jetty into 21st Century moorings meeting all the needs of Britain’s future flagship.

In due course, the more modern Victory Jetty – in the shadow of Nelson’s legendary namesake man o’war – will also be improved so that both 65,000-tonne leviathans can be in port simultaneously.

HMS Queen Elizabeth – currently being fitted out at Rosyth dockyard in Scotland – is due to make her debut in Portsmouth in early 2017.

Around £100m investment in the base and harbour is required to prepare the base for her arrival.

The year and half of work carried out by construction firm VolkerStevin – who also built the new ammunition facility in Portsmouth Harbour to meet the needs of the six Type 45 destroyers based in the city – will see hundreds of tonnes of steel installed and concrete poured to replace or enhance the existing jetty.

And in December eight months of dredging begins to deepen the main channel used by shipping by one metre – the carriers will have a draught of 11m (36ft), the same as post-war battleship HMS Vanguard – and treble its width.

It will take 18 months and £34m (about USD 53 million) to turn the 90-year-old structure at Middle Slip Jetty into 21st Century moorings meeting all the needs of Britain’s future flagship.

In due course, the more modern Victory Jetty – in the shadow of Nelson’s legendary namesake man o’war – will also be improved so that both 65,000-tonne leviathans can be in port simultaneously.

HMS Queen Elizabeth – currently being fitted out at Rosyth dockyard in Scotland – is due to make her debut in Portsmouth in early 2017.

Around £100m investment in the base and harbour is required to prepare the base for her arrival.

The year and half of work carried out by construction firm VolkerStevin – who also built the new ammunition facility in Portsmouth Harbour to meet the needs of the six Type 45 destroyers based in the city – will see hundreds of tonnes of steel installed and concrete poured to replace or enhance the existing jetty.

And in December eight months of dredging begins to deepen the main channel used by shipping by one metre – the carriers will have a draught of 11m (36ft), the same as post-war battleship HMS Vanguard – and treble its width.

“This programme confirms the future of Portsmouth Naval Base for thenext 50 to 80 years. It will be the only port which can fully support HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales and meet all their needs”, said Capt Iain Greenlees, the base’s head of infrastructure.

The jetty structure from the 1920s – an layer of concrete up to one metre thick sitting atop a complex lattice network – will be torn down and replaced as it has reached the end of its life, that from the 1970s can be strengthened.

New communications cables, a high-voltage electrical supply, improved fresh water piping will also be installed.

“The new aircraft carriers will be bigger than anything before – and so everything which services them needs to be bigger as well to meet the demands,” said Rob Coupe, managing direction of VolkerStevin who have around 75 people currently working on the project.

Also still to come as part of the improvement project are around a dozen navigational aids – those planted in the harbour will be 150ft high – to help the captain, bridge team and pilot to bring the carriers safely alongside.

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What follows are eight pictures of and RAF intercept of a formation of Russian aircraft over the Baltic.

This occurred on July 24th, asRAF Typhoons from the 6th Squadron from RAF Lossiemouth, which are part of the QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) at Amari airbase, Estonia, were launched to intercept the approaching foramtion of Russian aircraft which then flew close to the Baltic States airspace.

The Typhoons snapped a number of pictures of the twelve Russian aircraft which indluded:

4 x SU-34 Fullback Strike aircraft
4 x Mig-31 Foxhound interceptors
2 x AN-26 Curl Transports


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An Indian Air Force SU30 Flanker in formation with two 3(F) Sqn Typhoons during Ex Indradhanush.

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Two 3(F) Sqn Typhoons during Ex Indradhanush.
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Indian Air Force Il-78 MKI refuels a IAF SU 30 Flanker while two 3(F) Sqn Typhoons fly in formation during Ex Indradhanush.

2 Sqn Indian Air Force Flanker with 3(F) Sqn Royal Air Force Typhoon.

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Naval Today said:
HMS Prince of Wales reaches milestone – largest section of the aircraft carrier has been floated onto River Clyde in Glasgow.

Royal Navy’s future Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier was rolled onto a barge from BAE Systems’ facilities in the early hours of August 2.

According to STV News, the section (Lower Block 04) will contain accommodation, machinery space and the hangar of the aircraft carrier.

The 11,000 tonne section will soon depart on a journey to Rosyth where final assembly will take place.

HMS Prince of Wales is the second of the 65,000 tonne Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers being built for the Royal Navy.
 
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