I am not optimistic about KSA placing a follow on order unless price is no barrier. Same thing for another RAF order. Why pay for 4G Typhoon when 5G F-35 is cheaper, especially if F-35A. The peace dividend may be a thing of the past for the UK but that does not mean it is OK to spend extra funding ...

If the Army have a braincell they'll purchase 2 Decoy systems for every Real one... Counter-intelligence batteries have been discussed recently by a few people with experience. It should be a question everyone is asking. If the RAF aren't contacting the people who made the F-35 replicas for the dec...

Tempest414 wrote: ↑14 Jan 2024, 10:05 Did we not just buy SAAB Giraffe X1 for close radar

Not for weapons locating, they appear to be for AD gap filling and UAV detection.

Completely missed this.... The Thales Nederland GM200 Radar has been selected as the Deep Find part of Project Serpens...no idea on numbers but delivery is apparently in 2029 with IOC in the early 2030's. These also have a significant air surveillance capability. Presumably they'll be mounted on MAN...

Could the German Electronic Warfare version be an option, do we have anything that does that job right now? (I am assuming its something like the EF-18) It might be a good reason to buy Typhoons by possible introduction new abilities that cant be done by something else and it is not just more Typho...

Posted this in the Ukraine war thread....

Looks like we know where the 150 Towed AA guns come from now...

This might answer the question of what the 150 towed AA guns from the UK are/were...

https://aei-systems.com/ae20mm-cannon/

Reuters story...sanity finally prevails. https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-will-not-oppose-further-eurofighters-saudi-arabia-2024-01-07/?utm_source=reddit.com Reuters TEL AVIV, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Germany is prepared to allow further deliveries of Eurofighter jets to Saudi Arabia, German Foreign M...

Any guarantee the work will take place at Barrow? Thats where it was done previously and where all of the experience in the titanium fabrication is. Pretty much nailed on. I guess the equipment is still there but how much of that knowledge and skill has gone to the wind over the years? It only ende...

RunningStrong wrote: ↑04 Jan 2024, 16:18 Any guarantee the work will take place at Barrow?

Thats where it was done previously and where all of the experience in the titanium fabrication is. Pretty much nailed on.

Some good news.... BAE in Barrow in Furness back in M777 business....all the complex Titanium stuff is at Barrow... Now all we need is barrel manufacture and artillery propellant....suspect both will happen in due course... https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1742902392054567417 BAE Press Releas...

I can go down the 'rabbit hole' for ages on Secret Projects. It's always interesting to remember the RN drive in the 70's and early 80's to retain mass by building cheaper (and proposing) comparatively small warships, few exceeding 4,000 tons. Compare a 1970's patrol frigate, the T21 GP to today's ...

This might be a daft question....but I'll ask it anyway. T23's have 3 seperate superstructures. The forward superstructure with the bridge, the midships superstructure with funnels and the stern superstructure with the hangar. I can understand the need for the gap between the bridge and midships sup...

RunningStrong wrote: ↑28 Nov 2023, 22:17 Look at all those hulls!

It would be funny if GD was only renting the racking....over the years the cost may have used up all their profit margin....

Its always been one of the big questions marks for our Apache's (from me), if we had put it on the AH1 I think we would have used them during the Afghanistan war and then we would have gotten our moneys worth with that investment. After that you could have made sure it was on the E's from the start...

new guy wrote: ↑15 Dec 2023, 16:02 Why does this have it's own page?

Morpheus, and the wider LETacCIS programme are amongst the biggest programmes the Army has at present, multi-billion...

If only we'd have chosen Racal instead of GD for Bowman....

Interesting thread on Caesar....turns out its not all that. I've never been a fan of Caesar. Useful for firefighting, expeditionary type warfare. But seems to have a lot of the drawbacks of SPG's (size, cost) but few of the advantages (little armour, reliance on manual loading and exposed crew, even...

Does anyone know if the RN has trialled the 40mm "upgrade kit" for the DS30M? It seems that that might be an interim solution, particularly for vessels where a larger change might require an element of re-design (T45/ T26), or where life is limited (T23). Once the BAE 40mm has been adopte...

Is this the same Nicholas Drumond who was ecently advocating "gifting" all of UK Challenger MBT to Ukraine and UK then buying Leopard II to replace them? Whilst being employed by IIRC KNDS!! I wonder if he also has a consultancy agrement with LM..... Suspect more a case of helping out a f...

This is just stupid, firstly there's no money, secondly there's a desperate requirement to fill up carriers in a time of war and thirdly it would fook up Tempest... Why does this idea keep getting rolled out every year??? https://twitter.com/nicholadrummond/status/1733087811304116578 I've reached t...

If they can certify it and build it at that price....they'll sell a thousand +....best intentions etc... https://twitter.com/HillHelicopters/status/1732450434650968485 https://twitter.com/HillHelicopters/status/1732483063857222106 https://twitter.com/HillHelicopters/status/1732482615687471235 https:...

892 NAS would be fitting as they already have lightning in the crest and nice motto. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbH0TQH-jlT6xCrPz6eDll_8ow3tJUq9QOOI7BYbdY8-wSuJJNWe7Nm6aWR0NRdg86kFQ&usqp=CAU I would still prefer for the next one, if there to be one, 800 or 801 NAS. Bu...

Looks promising...

new guy wrote: ↑03 Dec 2023, 11:29 It does with MK54.

HAAWC has entered IOC but only a handful have been produced to date...it took 10 years for it to arrive. Other aspects of high altitude ASW are yet to be delivered...

tomuk wrote: ↑01 Dec 2023, 20:40 On P8 because it flies higher than Nimrod you can't just drop the torpedo it needs wings.

And yet 10 years after P-8's IOC it still does not have that capability...