Good news, I thought the German company has some on order for Ukraine.

Where is the money coming from to pay for increased defence spending after cutting National Insurance by 4 percent. Also is the money for Ukraine coming from the defence budget or foreign aid. If we are looking for pennies behind the sofa, then there's billions a year frittered away in the NHS thro...

Where is the money coming from to pay for increased defence spending after cutting National Insurance by 4 percent. Also is the money for Ukraine coming from the defence budget or foreign aid. If we are looking for pennies behind the sofa, then there's billions a year frittered away in the NHS thro...

Where is the money coming from to pay for increased defence spending after cutting National Insurance by 4 percent. Also is the money for Ukraine coming from the defence budget or foreign aid.

I am not convinced that this will happen where is the money ?

Another 7 challenger 3 prototypes delivered for Army trials....


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uks- ... tion-lines

https://www.forces.net/technology/land- ... ction-line

Some sonar capability is better than none. Or better than being a sitting duck not knowing what lies beneath.

And also this is coming soon....

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/bae-target-dramatic-reduction-in-frigate-build-time/ We aim to reduce the build duration from the first of class being 96 months to the eighth being 60 months. More than that, we intend to compress the interval between ships from 18 months to 12 Now that’s an opportu...

Bob The welder at work...

Would this be useful for protection against drones?

HRH The Princess Royal visits Babcock and HMS Venturer.

Progress on Japan's light carriers

https://simpleflying.com/js-kaga-first- ... tin-f-35b/

Looks like Japan may be a partner ?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/auku ... laboration

https://www.forces.net/services/navy/au ... c-security

I would imagine that upgrades to the Tranche 1 airframes to bring them up to the latest spec will take a long while, so three squadrons max plus ocu.

The US Airforce has cleared its F35A aircraft to fly in lightning. The F35B and C are already cleared.....

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/04 ... n-4-years/

Should we have kept the Sea Harrier

Update on delivery schedule plus serials...

And she is home....

I came across this article a few days ago; https://www.eurasiantimes.com/is-germany-ditching-boxer-infantry-vehicle/ Though it is just speculation and the Australian deal does make the article look a little less convincing. It is true that the Puma/Lynx is a different role. As for the CV90 purchase...

HMS PWLS due back tomorrow ....

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defen ... th-4567690

peaking of cost-effectiveness, assuming the F-35/22 R&D costs were an outlier, and it can be kept reasonable with GCAP, hopefully the unit cost at the very least can be kept well below the F-35 (which recently went up). Not a hope in hell and by the way, F-35 purchase price is cheaper than its ...

I came across this article a few days ago; https://www.eurasiantimes.com/is-germany-ditching-boxer-infantry-vehicle/ Though it is just speculation and the Australian deal does make the article look a little less convincing. It is true that the Puma/Lynx is a different role. As for the CV90 purchase...

The above is way off topic there is a separate thread for Red Sea conflict...