add another £100M or more to the cost.....at which point you are approaching the price of an Arleigh Burke, with its much superiour radars , and 3 times as many missiles. A pity that the above post [ most informative!] does not separate the comment(s) from the "stupid" postulations. Just ...

Nor will we be trading "entirely under WTO rules" as we already have a few FTA's agreed in principle (covering 36 countries, of which S. Korea is probably the most significant) and MRA's with the US, Australia and New Zealand. As per (my not inflation adjusted) calculation, Anchor butter ...

Tempest414 wrote: Frassmer 80 OPV program a long with Chile and Colombia

Isn't there one in construction, in Columbia , that is BMT hull... but Saab for all intents and purposes; as a warship

RE " stubborn refusal to acknowledge that a tweet he sent over the weekend claiming that Alabama was going to be hit by Hurricane Dorian was false. They believe that his frustration is compounded by stress about the 2020 election and the economy's recent downturn. "People are used to the p...

Well done Afghanistan (without a shot being fired... for the jubilation of the date ).

And we are going onto the observer status
... or what in fact was the point of the post?

Simon82 wrote: more in the spirit of Vulcan

Tempest414 wrote:I have to say I have always liked the B1's looks

Like shedding the "warload" and compacting some masts/ antennae?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... _c1982.jpg

Any pics around of the vehicle in "Travel" mode? https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/785807834964480098/ But they have built a true "bridge destroyer" onto the same chassis: https://www.armyrecognition.com/xa_sisu_variants_wheeled_armoured_vehicle_fr/xa-185_sisu_radar_battlefield_su...

Ivan Rogers, in The Spectator: "On ‘mini deals’, the reality is, as UK officials have already long experienced, that the legislation the 27 put in place to govern economic relations with the UK after a disorderly exit has not even been up for consultation with us, let alone negotiated. These ar...

Caribbean wrote:

ArmChairCivvy wrote:will certainly change some lines in DC's memoires... still to come out

Will anyone actually buy it?

My favourite read: fiction!

Oopps. this
"Government documents revealed that Johnson had described David Cameron as a 'girly swot'."
will certainly change some lines in DC's memoires... still to come out"

up to GBP1.2 billion for cyber, shipbuilding and the nuclear deterrent programmes. Senior MoD sources told Jane's on 4 September that GBP200 million of this money was to be drawn forward from the existing contingency reserve for the Dreadnought nuclear deterrent submarine programme. The remainder w...

Still on that same, an hour ago the Beep had a good line on it: "The government argues that the law is silent on how long a prorogation should be and that it doesn't help the court judge whether Parliament actually wants to sit, or what would constitute "sufficient" time for consideri...

Getting physical... so last decade

China did a trial run of hijacking 40% of the internet traffic across the Pacific by other means... guess how much of it was generated by the USN (clue: I don't know the answer, but may be they learned something).

Lord Jim wrote:Mind you, given the height of their Crotale NG SPAA vehicles you wouldn't want to go near any low bridges.

It does not look like that https://maavoimat.fi/documents/1950813/ ... 6388409000 when ' on the road'

offer the latest generation of UUV (A-9 or A18) already selected by Belgium Thanks, that clarifies... and the RN can still announce what THEY plan in this respect. The three frigates retained for the comprehensive upgrade are: La Fayette, Courbet and Aconit Great news; not waxing lyrical or sentime...

Quite amazing that Crotale (with its roots as a S. African project, long ago) will be fully digitised and serve (from 1990, in Finland) out to 2040
- the press release let's understand that the digitisation/ IADS integration is done in Finland, supported by Thales

qualification for the whole system (USV + payload) is set for December this year. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2019/08/french-navys-slamf-unmanned-mine-warfare-system-to-be-qualified-in-december/[/quote] Hi xav, I had overlooked your piece which was a most interesting update on this decade-...

Pertaining to the above, we could easily get a "yes AND no" ruling, instead of yes or no: "Did Boris Johnson manifestly abuse his power by advising the Queen to prorogue Parliament for an exceptional five weeks - and can judges do anything about it if he did?" As for the 'state o...

Thx, a good find for what "dead in the ditch" could translate to! "Mr Johnson’s government could also roll the dice on Monday and, in topsy-turvy times, call a vote of no confidence in itself. This could be won by a simple majority vote. An election would follow if opposition parties ...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:- keep up the good work!

That seems to have passed for real: 11 (!) on the same page (in their compressed "ignore" form = 2 lines each)

don't forget, for every winner, there's a loser. 78% of retail LOSE money ... more difficult to get that statistic for FX Anyway. another type of loss: "Jo Johnson says he’s leaving the government and the House of Commons due to ‘unresolvable tension’ between ‘family loyalty and the national i...

I knew that there was fresh money for the constabulary, but to be that quick , onto these pages

Suspect some of that will go towards the 5 T31 yet to be announced Or perhaps the FLSS? Ahh, I haven't checked the latest 10 yr EP; in the previous one they had nibbed half a bn from the early 20's T26 budget twrds the T31, without making it a line item... and got something across their wrists from...

Caribbean wrote: the Government will have to seek an injunction to overrule him.

We will see what happens - there re a lot more twists and turns to go yet

Wasn't it a wise policy by Maggie to keep all Etonians as far away from the Gvmnt as humanly possible?