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Piss off, Pongos dropping out of the sky, over our dead bodies!! Everyone knows that it is 16AA who has the honour of dying in a glorious but pointless way (reported in advance by the BBC).

Where's Bob?

Scimitar54 wrote:Not wanting to give a prehistoric fish person ideas above her station?

Surely you don't mean Dear Leader, Die UberSturmbahnFuhrer, or the Hooer o' Holyrood?

There's Bob

The UGL was really bought for FIBUA, light vehicles, and reducing the need to close trenches to post a grenade. That said, the blokes seem to love them and they are a lot of fun!!

The same as at platoon level. Your fire support team will have to establish a base of fire up to 25-50m behind your point section under effective enemy fire. Therefore you need overmatch of this metric and 50m. For the 7.62x39 this was 200m for AK47, 300 for AKM(S), and about 400 for the RPK. The AK...

an SF operation Wasn't that just a faint (a helicopter load) and the non-operation was to lead the Argies to expect Hercules-loads of troopers jumping out in the middle of their southern (navy) airbase, pinning down pretty much all their pro-like, and equipped to fight at night, bns of marines? The...

If the software for the weapons system is written then surely it is carriage trials only for a Bravo user?

That was an SF operation. Certainly that does merit long range insertion capabilities but manageable due to its limited size and logistics footprint.

The French would have insisted they have the pretty bit on top. As a result they have combined the worst bits of both tanks!!! 130mm CR3 for me please and then lets have a serious look at what the US is doing for 15yrs time.

Strategic insertion over 7000km is a good way to get your airborne units killed!! If you have a fleet of 24 aircraft then we can talk battalion deep insertion/interdiction ops. We don't. Simply put, you need the means to support operations at depth or have organic support. Anything else is suicide. ...

It doesn't hurt to look. Given how bad the LeClerc is, I hope the Germans take the lead.

The BVA/RCVS joint working committee has assurance that all live animal exports excepting horses and breeding animals will stop by 2022. Also, the new planned divergence allows all animal products not meeting farm assured status (Red Tractor) be labelled as non compliant (previously banned by EU law...

The Kinloss dispersal sites and HPS/ weapons complex are still serviceable AFAIK.

Fire both and then we'll chat. If you look on YouTube you can see numerous examples of what I'm saying. The sport rifles you describe all have longer barrels, different gas piston sets, and more compliant spring systems than the standard M4. The spring force on the breech causes significant wobble w...

We are not talking about sports rifles (or at least I'm not). Any competition rifle will be better set up than an AR. That said, once you have jumped out of a plane, had a rough landing, dumped a mag going to cover, and rammed home a second with half a sand pit accompanying it ,I would imagine the g...

it is certainly one of the most accurate 5.56mm Maybe as a service rifle, but I should think that most of the the AR-15s in civilian competitions will knock it for six. Never in a month of Sundays . The new free floating barrel and Acog sights give it a much better grouping. Also, the bullpup desig...

I suspect Vlad is reprising the Xmas silly buggers the Northern Banner fleet liked to inflict on NATO (north).

That won't work . Skillsets are completely different for combined armour vs mech infantry in light role. The French seem to make it work Do they? In my experience of Conops, they rarely work well at all. You are asking a battle group to leave home the one instrument of tactical entry they have and ...

That won't work . Skillsets are completely different for combined armour vs mech infantry in light role.

Had a pre-Christmas catch up with an old class mate last night. He let slip that T31 was always intended to be a lightly armed flexible multi-mission ship in support of distributed operations. This was agreed with the RN several years ago to limit the impact of the manning crisis (now resolving), an...

Somebody has lost their little red book

But was the cat black or white?1

30mm round ND!!!!! . The Rasman is going to have a field day with that one! You will hear him in the next county!!!!

The 416 has gone down like a whore in a convent. Complaints include: 'it ain't an M4', tolerances too tight for dusty conditions, poor stability for the 203 mount, and excessive barrel heating with the suppressor. Never fired it so have no skin in the game but the same team also designed the G36 whi...