anyone interpret what it is saying? Two battalions armoured/tracked recce. One regular battalion wheeled recce, one reserve battalion wheeled recce Two regiments Tracked Gun artillery Two regular regiments rocket artillery, two reserve regiments rocket artillery One battalion maintenance (REME) One...

It most certainly has an effect when we are talking 1 moa. A typical mil spec AR trigger weighs in at about 5lb, some slightly lighter, some even heavier!! A 5lb trigger is sufficiently hard to effect accuracy. I've fired AR's with the dreadful heavy 3rd burst group (A2), there is a world of differ...

mrclark303 wrote: ↑29 Sep 2023, 14:53 I find it amazing the KA claim their AR platform is capable of sub moa out of the box, that's really impressive, you simply can't do that with most AR's due to the bloody heavy standard mil spec trigger!

Trigger weight isn't really relevant to the mechanical accuracy of a rifle though.

Hit probability isn’t technically the same as accuracy But arguably more important. This seems like the most unbelievable statement as the rounds are ballistically pretty similar. Depends on how you are defining effective range. It's usually the range at which a certain hit probability floor is rea...

RunningStrong wrote: ↑23 Sep 2023, 07:32 That's appalling! The French have accepted a modern medium calibre weapon that can't fire on the move! That's disgraceful.

They should fire everyone involved and burn the factories to the ground!

RN can’t handle two concurrent CSGs so 48x F35b is plenty at this stage so why not cap it there and channel the funding to Tempest? Was the plan for 138 F35Bs concurrently or 138 purchases over the programme? Plus having two capable aircraft lessens the risk of a problem with one grounding your who...

If the LMG's are equipped with 7.62 what is going to happen when the designated marksman needs resupplied with 6.5 and all he can find is crates of 7.62? That's a pretty fringe "what if". The marksman isn't going to be breaking down linked ammunition for rifle use unless things have reall...

new guy wrote: ↑18 Sep 2023, 18:14 One hope from me, aside defence, is commitment to HS2.

Why? It's the biggest boondoggle going.

Diesel genset charging a battery that supplies power to an electric motor that turns a prop shaft - isn't that called a U boat? Not really. The U-boats were generally a parallel drive system rather than a series system - the diesel motors would drive the propellers directly as well as recharging th...

I can't help but wonder about the cries about how the CR2 was so hopelessly obsolete.

I’ll use an example that I think is really ironic Ukraine has asked for fighter aircraft to defeat what we consider our main peer threat in this part of world, and what was the choice championed by the “experts” was it f15, typhoon, rafale, f35 no it was F16 and gripen! If that is more than good en...

I understand. But hey the harrier could do VTOL, let alone STOL, without a separate liftfan. But couldn't go supersonic or carry as much due to the limitations of the Pegasus arrangement. What is said is if a rather useless VTOL capability is of detriment to the price, range and maintenance of the ...

Yes, but without the VTOL requirement, thus reducing how powerful the liftfan had to be, maybe not having it at all, thus saving weight, increasing range. If there wasn't a need for the liftfan at all, then there might not have been a need for a B variant at all, thus reducing costs enormously. Tha...

new guy wrote: ↑29 Aug 2023, 16:40STORL.

So, you are asking us to imagine an F35B that can do the things that an F35B can do?
Isn't that simply an F35B?

Imagine how much better F-35B would be if instead of VTOL it was just SVRL and safely takeoff with heavy load in 250m/ under 500ft . F35B is V/STOL and can do shipborne rolling vertical landing (SRVL). Going from the short take off and vertical landing (STOVL) nomenclature, do you mean something li...

Little J wrote: ↑20 Aug 2023, 18:33 They have a lot of interesting videos (including VLOG's), only watched a few so far, but I'm working my way through them

https://www.youtube.com/@HillHelicopters/videos

Well, give us a summary when you're done.

While I'd love for a startup to achieve it's aims, I've only seen marketing spiel from this so far. Looking at their recruitment page: https://www.hillhelicopters.com/careers There are a lot of roles that I'd expect to see filled already, if they had product rather than CAD models. If they expect to...

So it's 2026, Tempest has been cancelled by Labour as it trys to balance the books. You're the Defence Secretary, ordering a replacement is now getting critical as time ticks away? Options???? Give up and go home? You've no money for anything save maybe a few export grade F35s or maybe a lease a fe...

Thanks, understandable for engine, but no damage to airframe. I've heard helicopters described, amongst other things, as a flying vibration testing machine. If the engine is running harder then so are the rotor blades and between the engines, transmission and rotor blades, the vibration is going to...

bobp wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 19:03 Great but without an increase in numbers they will be flogged to death sooner.

Doesn’t it mean that you need fewer aircraft, on average, to fulfil any given task, so you actually put less time on your fleet as a whole?

I agree that an armoured rapid reaction force is important but due to the distances involved how quickly could it reliably be deployed and would it even make it to the incursion before getting attacked? IMO what Ukraine lacked was an air mobile rapid reaction force. Virtually everything required sh...

- Dispute resolution needs to be clear at the outset and heavily weighted in favour of the taxpayer. If the contractor over promises, under delivers and blows the budget then a clear mechanism is in place to deal with that. All things come with a cost and if you place more risk on the contractor th...

Pure spite isn’t fair Nor blind optimism. my concern is that the Army won’t learn their Nimrod/T45/T26 lesson. It can’t be business as usual. If we expect industry to be held to its contracts then I think that should go for MoD as well. If they aren't held to account and just handed more money to f...

Why are you so convinced based on the programs performance to date? I look at the information presented. At present I think let it run with increased scrutiny. Is it just blind optimism? I'd like to think it's no more that than your opinion is based on pure spite. When? Now or 3, 5 or 8 years from ...

That is the same argument that manages to prolong the agony of HS2. With HS2 I think you could cancel it with no replacement without really affecting anything other than those directly involved. I've not been involved with discussions on it so I don't know what arguments get advanced, but I hope no...