the idea of the FLSS and LSG have some merit, but they need to be funded with new money At the time of the announcement Defence Transformation Fund was mentioned (and it was topped up in the recent "spending review" - it would not (without depleting it) stretch to new builds, but conversi...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:one FV524 Warrior artillery observation post vehicle

This one is interesting as upgrade trials (5? yrs back) showed that doing the Joint Fires job properly, each team would need two Warriors.
- it was reported in the Gunner, to quite some detail

Caribbean wrote:budget was £1.6b

Costing in the option (for a 3rd)?

Andy-M wrote:Are you sure you don't mean Sweden?

Their 6.5? Universal caliber - the holy grail - that was done away with, a while back?

War and peace decisions seem to simulated, too? One of such knife-edge decisions is bound to 'blow up' even though the current priority seems to be to come up with POTUS's very own Camp David achievement: "soon after Iran shot down an American drone, Mr Trump called off airstrikes that Mr Bolto...

Great piccie - are they all to the same scale (can one infer the relative size)?

By my earlier comment I just meant that there had been that obvious 'gap in the armoury' for far too long.

we really need to select a platform for the T-31 that has plenty of growth potential, and just as important, being easy to update in as efficient and cost effective manner. Like all warship construction though we need to ensure that there is a seamless transition from the T)26 to the next class, mo...

A good article as it digs into the unknowns " a brand new covered shipbuilding hall at Rosyth capable of building two of the 5,700-tonne frigates simultaneously." - once "in the water, a "rapid" fitting out... up to a year that is? But where? " as unknown as the precise...

expanded brief, including both competition and digital affairs Was a bit quick and omitted the geopolitical aspect in the above comment. As Trump was quick to nix web neutrality, meaning "have the right to discriminate and favor the internet traffic of those companies with whom they [internet ...

NBCnews reports that even Trump is starting to understand that good guys (ehmm, re-election?) can come back: "In phone calls to McMaster — the first of which took place last fall — Trump told his second national security adviser that he missed him, according to two people familiar with the conv...

Trump did not have anything nice to say about this " Ursula Von de Leyen has started springing some surprises. Her announcement that Margrethe Vestager would have an expanded brief, including both competition and digital affairs, brought a gasp from the news conference." ... more particula...

mr.fred wrote:something like a 50% increase in unit cost

Started with 600 for a bn, what was it for 380?

This 280 will be (?) 1.5 bn... or be cut
- MTBF will tell

Repulse wrote:Any news on the approx unit cost? Tide class were approx £140mn per unit, would these be 2-3 times more expensive?

If the budget was for a bn and the 3 then change to 2, plus an option for a third (when that money has been found)
... then it can't be much short of half a bn

Bolton, Bannon , Flynn, Hayley and (leaving the "comms people" on this list out) it is mainly a gallery of "good guys"? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39826934 Out of the three on the job (so far) ... by far the best was Herbert Raymond McMaster (H.R. for short) - rub...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:were the worst thing for the Union

Perhaps we ain't seen nothing yet
- well, Boris has studied history; may be that can be the one thing that can put a break on his personal ambitions?

As The Spectator puts it: " DUP leader Arlene Foster are having talks, and the latter isn't making very hopeful noises at all. She told Sky News this morning that it would be 'unheard of' for Northern Ireland to be 'hived off into a different customs union than the rest of the United Kingdom' a...

U.S. Navy SSBN USS Nebraska Tests Four Trident II D5 SLBM Florida was safe, this time 8-) On a more serious note: " full operational capability (FOC) by the end of 2019 [...] will include being certified to operate as a forward-deployed expeditionary command headquarters" Wasn't the origi...

As Jim put, it's mostly because it's specialised for their role. The Merkava is advanced and potent, but designed entirely around Israel's needs, Funnily enough, Merkava arose from the void that was the "secret" UK/ Israeli project to come up with the nxt-gen after the great success of th...

8 have always been quoted (does that tally up from the turreted ones?): "Lockheed Martin UK has supplied 11 WCSP for the RGT Armoured Trials and Development Unit trials: six FV520 Warrior IFV section vehicles; two FV521 Warrior IFV command; one FV522 Warrior repair; one FV523 Warrior recovery/r...

It's almost as if T-Force didn't read the article that he posted. Well, if you are a trucker, shifting timber around, you are paid by piece (metric ton), no? https://imgr.cliqz.com/bbMQh9OsW_6o_fqSDOr78T29BqaRUzFEqZjwa1mOXwg/fill/0/200/no/1/aHR0cHM6Ly9pdC53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvdzppdDpTcGVjaWFsOk...

Errr,
What else have "they" got?
"And Spear-EW, which is the first time we've seen it 'in the flesh'.
And....it appears Spear-EW has got the MoD interested, which is fantastic news."

The Navantia design is supposed to be the front runner so it must be substantially larger than a 20k tonne class vessel. It will be interesting to see what BMT have done with the Cantabria design indeed Harland and Wolff has a workforce of 130. And you don't just recruit a trained and skilled workf...

A bit 'destroyed' by some of the most informed commentators' "fight to the death" about nothing :? (Scotland is not a member of either the EU or the WTO in its own right, though could probably join the WTO fairly quickly). Just like Mali (or Afghanistan). want to avoid listing the accompli...

current build cost of ~$1.1B/£900M? for the last two FREMM DA frigates/destroyers (DA "Défense Aérienne"/ AAW). The reason the French moving to the cheaper FTI, originally they had planned for 17 FREMM's, shades of T26/T31. Not a surprise Admiral West very clear that you can not use River...

Pseudo wrote: If the UK leaves the EU and defaults to WTO rules it loses almost all of these agreements and the regulatory and tariff benefits that they provide to Uk businesses trading with these countries.

I think the "opposite" camp has listed abt a dozen countries