Admiral Sir George Zambellas KCB DSC ADC DL - RAEng

Admiral Sir George Zambellas KCB DSC ADC DL

First Sea Lord & Chief of Naval Staff

Protecting our Nation’s interests


To …

From Hawker

Siddeley / De

Havilland to the

Royal Navy …

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Lord Kelvin

“When you can measure what you are speaking about,

and express it in numbers, you know something about it

... when you cannot express it in numbers, your

knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind ... It

may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have

scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of

science.”

Engineering a 21st century Navy for a

21st century Nation



Disaster relief and

humanitarian aid in the Philippines

following Typhoon Haiyan

RFA ARGUS –

humanitarian aid to

Sierra Leone: Ebola

epidemic

• HMS Rothesey


Type 12 frigate: HMS ROTHESAY


A Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier


Type 26 Global Combat Ship


The Viking - Royal Marine protected mobility


F35 Lightning II


Directed Energy Weapons – an artist’s impression


KERS = energy

storage and

management

Directed Energy Weapons


1814: Cannon range = 2 miles

2014: Carrier

Strike range =

100s of miles


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Supporting a UK trade led recovery …

TYPE 23

TYPE 26

TYPE 26

TYPE 45

F35 LIGHTNING II

ASTUTE



Continuous at sea

deterrence

Continuous carrier

capability

Twin Pillars of Maritime Strategic Responsibility

TYPE 23

TYPE 26

TYPE 26



Maritime Autonomous Systems … A Revolution …

On the waves, above the

waves and below the

waves …


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