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by RetroSicotte
13 Aug 2020, 22:43
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4067
Views: 950112
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Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)

and France went further with reducing the Rafale's RCS than the Typhoon ever did. Your post is mostly correct, except for this. Typhoon has broadly been seen to have a lower RCS than Rafale, due to having a full composite frontal aspect (Rafale's entire engine inlets are non-RAM metal), recessed mi...
by RetroSicotte
04 Aug 2020, 08:50
Forum: British Army
Topic: FV4034 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (British Army)
Replies: 2323
Views: 1031527
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Re: FV4034 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (British Army)

I'm not expert by a long shot (stand in line) but I was of the thinking that RM's long 120mm with existing US Depleted Uranium darts would be superior at splashing tanks to any 120mm or 130mm gun with Tungsten rods which is all the German army can have by law. There isn't a colossal difference betw...
by RetroSicotte
31 Jul 2020, 16:02
Forum: British Army
Topic: FV4034 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (British Army)
Replies: 2323
Views: 1031527
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Re: FV4034 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (British Army)

It is a Challenger.

Basically, one site said Leo, and all the sites who just reprinted from that one copied. It's usually the case.

Shows how little research most "journalism" does.
by RetroSicotte
31 Jul 2020, 11:34
Forum: British Army
Topic: FV4034 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (British Army)
Replies: 2323
Views: 1031527
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Re: FV4034 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (British Army)



Well, this was a surprise.
by RetroSicotte
11 Jul 2020, 18:23
Forum: British Army
Topic: FV4034 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (British Army)
Replies: 2323
Views: 1031527
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Re: FV4034 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (British Army)

Carter probably just meant "projectile". Remember that "missile" refers to that sort of thing in certain branches of English too.

Odds are 9/10 he probably just meant a normal FIN round. Given it's L55A1 that likely refers more to (so called) DM73.
by RetroSicotte
26 May 2020, 14:57
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Raytheon Sentinel R1 (RAF)
Replies: 227
Views: 213043
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Re: Raytheon Sentinel R1 (RAF)

And yet another sham, of yet another critical bit of capability being removed without a replacement ready to take over from Day 0.

First RAPTOR, now Sentinel.

Armed Forces are going to end up blind.
by RetroSicotte
08 May 2020, 18:56
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 1992
Views: 554800
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Re: Type 45 Destroyer (Daring Class) (RN) [News Only]

It sounds a lot like marketing blab for just general line software upkeep and refactoring.

Would be delighted to be wrong.
by RetroSicotte
07 May 2020, 11:41
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19147
Views: 7055627
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

Bearing in mind I generally supported more T26 in place of T31, but there is one flaw to the argument of "Cancel T31, go all in on T26", and that is ship hull numbers in the short term. Even if you went all on T26 today, you would run into a problem of the T23s starting to retire without a...
by RetroSicotte
02 May 2020, 00:29
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Replies: 8469
Views: 2142252
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Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

Can't call them after weapons. That'd imply it can be used in a fight. ;)
by RetroSicotte
01 May 2020, 08:39
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Replies: 8469
Views: 2142252
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Re: Type 31 General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

Have to wonder, what exactly on this ship is even British other than the CAMM silos?
by RetroSicotte
23 Apr 2020, 00:38
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: AERALIS - Modular Jet Trainer
Replies: 79
Views: 7285
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Re: AERALIS - Modular Jet Trainer

Always good to see concepts still trying.

Really gotta see about swapping that engine out for a Rolls though...
by RetroSicotte
16 Apr 2020, 14:40
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2804
Views: 763417
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Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)

Hi... new contributor, so please go easy on me please?! Re. RAF Eurofighter Typhoon; during this lockdown, I'm just watching a Forces TV documentary about the aircraft. Filmed in 2018, it shows aircraft in both Lossiemouth & Romania. What intrigues me is that the video imaging of the aircraft, ...
by RetroSicotte
15 Apr 2020, 09:54
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The future form of the Army
Replies: 635
Views: 115140
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Re: The future form of the Army

I suppose there are two trains of thought on that subject, either as said you used a faster firing weapon or one with a programable sensor fused round fired in a short burst as would be done by a CTS40 configured for such work and is what I have proposed for the LAAD platoon within the Boxer equipp...
by RetroSicotte
14 Apr 2020, 18:03
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The future form of the Army
Replies: 635
Views: 115140
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Re: The future form of the Army

these turning up in numbers put an end to using 23 mm AA guns against ground targets - until then the practice was to have 2 HE for each armour piercing round in the feed sequence so whether the folks in the OpFor APC dismounted or not... job done any) way A more general topic is that as there migh...
by RetroSicotte
14 Apr 2020, 13:39
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The future form of the Army
Replies: 635
Views: 115140
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Re: The future form of the Army

The '40mm' bit mentioned about Starstreak only refers to their explosive impact on an aerial target following a hit (in addition to the energy the kinetic impact will impart). The bursting charge is fused to explode inside the penetrated space. But it is also a Tungsten dart, designed to penetrate ...
by RetroSicotte
14 Apr 2020, 08:34
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The future form of the Army
Replies: 635
Views: 115140
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Re: The future form of the Army

The '40mm' bit refers to the size of the bursting charge inside each dart which is roughly the same size as the one carried in a 40mm Bofors shell. Remember the Starstreak Darts explode and fragment once penetrating an aircraft (or armoured vehicles) skin. Bofors APFSDS do not have any internal cha...
by RetroSicotte
10 Apr 2020, 20:39
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The future form of the Army
Replies: 635
Views: 115140
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Re: The future form of the Army

Worth noting that while Starstreak can target ground units, it will struggle to really deal damage to things any heavier than maybe 30mm resistant. Each dart is said to have "40mm round" type impact. Given the date of that statement, 40mm APFSDS rounds then, and how Starstreak's darts aren...
by RetroSicotte
18 Mar 2020, 18:46
Forum: British Army
Topic: Warrior Armoured Vehicles (British Army)
Replies: 1041
Views: 318421
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Re: Warrior Armoured Vehicle Variants (British Army)

I've removed he last number of posts that went past discussion or debate and just into insult and argument.

Either take it to PM, or be civil.
by RetroSicotte
17 Mar 2020, 16:00
Forum: British Army
Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
Replies: 193
Views: 62152
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Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)

Right, I think we got the convoluted story covered, although the army classifies Jackal as recce and WMIK as protected patrol. more specifically a "fire support and force protection Land Rover". But homing onto the other part of the thread header, the Coyote (support) vehicle numbers are ...
by RetroSicotte
17 Mar 2020, 08:49
Forum: British Army
Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
Replies: 193
Views: 62152
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Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)

There was no direct clean line of replacement. What was Snatch and WMIK became Foxhound, Jackal, Coyote, Mastiff, Ridgeback, Wolfhound, Husky, Panther, Vector etc etc. And it all came at different times to each other gradually, serving alongside, some done faster etc. But in role, the Foxhound does ...
by RetroSicotte
17 Mar 2020, 08:09
Forum: British Army
Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
Replies: 193
Views: 62152
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Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)

ArmChairCivvy wrote:I am only being insistent in order to reconcile what was said at the time and what is now being said. So, to that end: which vehicle did the Foxhounds replace? Surely not the Jackals (partly)...
The Snatch Land Rover.
by RetroSicotte
16 Mar 2020, 21:46
Forum: British Army
Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
Replies: 193
Views: 62152
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Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)

I must have been reading the wrong news: Jackals of which we have plenty were not mine protected enough (while otherwise v good) - hence we had to have Foxhounds ... plenty pronto (which, just like Jackals are fairly open, which is not the way to maximise ballistic protection) Which part of this di...
by RetroSicotte
13 Mar 2020, 15:35
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4067
Views: 950112
United Kingdom

Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)

The US is not 'years ahead'. They just have a blank cheque, whereas we don't. The UK could easily built a 'Tempest' (or whatever this fictional plane would be called) on its own if it had the same advantages of the US military budget. Very inaccurate. It's not simply a question of money. It's a que...
by RetroSicotte
13 Mar 2020, 08:05
Forum: British Army
Topic: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)
Replies: 193
Views: 62152
United Kingdom

Re: Jackal and Coyote MWMIK (Army)

As I understood it, Panthers, Huskeys & Foxhounds were all meant to replace Land Rovers.. These things were a UOR purchase for desert conditions in Afghanistan, they are completely unsuited to the Northern European climate. Jackals replaced the WMIK. Foxhounds etc replaced the Snatch. Jackals/C...