Indeed so. The name's had a very varied life, to put it mildly.

Some trivia: HMS Tamar was a name once assigned to a River class frigate in 1946 for a brief time, before the original name was brought back (HMS Aire) upon the ship's end. HMS Spey was last used on a River class minesweeper as recently as 1998. Both quite appropriate names then, given they've been ...

Arrestor failed and rolled off the deck, they say?

Good grief.

Just shunting to the general area. Good thread idea!

Expected 2021.

Having an interest/hobby in military developments and technologies is amazing, but goodness me it sure isn't one with fast developments.

Guys, chill. Lets avoid having to "put the foot down" in here.

Discussion is fine, debate is fine. Throwing out the passive aggressive superiority at one another is not, regardless of who is right or wrong.

This same article that calls Sea Viper as Sea Venom?

Interesting comparison that the French utilise 4 VBLs with every 4 Leclercs as their "hounds", to rove around and keep an eye out for them.

Allegedly, the Leclerc commanders absolutely adore this setup and find it (in exercise) extremely effective.

ArmChairCivvy wrote:But as for the quote, does such a gun exist (152 used to be a std round, but in the Russian field artillery)?)

Yup, they've mounted it on previous prototypes.

Well the Marksman turret fits on Challenger hulls and we're gonna have a whole bunch of them left over soon...



Directly need something that isn't just SHORAD though. Get some SAMP/T on a MAN SV already.

You know when I do my "thing" of making a parodied quote of what the government would say to a criticism brought up here, I don't actually expect that to become a reality . Then they do it and make it not a parody anymore. Except one of a defence ministry. Flagging up "But we have new...

"But we are investing in even bigger ships that will be upgraded to carry out amphibious operations. We are continuing to invest in our armed forces to ensure they have the very best equipment possible." So long as they can say they can do carrier strike and amphibious, thats all they'll b...

The rumour of T-14's alternate gun is a 152mm. However it is extremely unlikely to come to fruition. The T-14's advancement over the T-90 is primarily in its mobility, survivability and its "soft" lethality, as in FCS, sights etc. Significant crew survivability advancements too. While the ...

So basically the usual tactic. "Yeah it was a difficult decision BUT WE'RE LOOKING INTO OPTIONS" "For when?" "Mumble mumble..." "Will it replace the missile the day it goes out of service?" "Um...um..." Deflect and give no assurances. Utterly patheti...

I am perpetually impressed by Italy's escorts development. The Bergamini class is an absolute bar-setter for European frigates, and only continues to be moreso.

I've said this about other capability "gaps" (12 years is not a "gap", it's a loss) on this forum when the "Lets try and make this not sound as bad to defend Britain online" thing crops up. If these were not considered essential bits of kit then every single leading nav...

Cost, as always. It's not an "essential" upgrade, as the Typhoon is already one of the most dominant A2A fighters in the world. So they are prioritising other things like AESA, A2G and avionics. Would be nice, but it's far down on the priority scale. Same as why the EJ-200S2 engines are d...

Cost, as always. It's not an "essential" upgrade, as the Typhoon is already one of the most dominant A2A fighters in the world. So they are prioritising other things like AESA, A2G and avionics. Would be nice, but it's far down on the priority scale. Same as why the EJ-200S2 engines are do...

It was always going to be the case. Even the lighter VBCI was demanded to be uparmoured from the "trials of truth", a large portion of why the VBCI ended up as 32 tonnes, which the French Army is also wanting as an upgrade.

What an absolute farce. They conclude the F-35 is the best option, look to buy. The left wing party then slates the "no competition" approach. And now that same party does a no competition approach themselves, repeatedly delaying what they know damn well is the best option. They committed ...

And yet another different number too...500 this time.

Boxer AGS would be a naturally useful commonality. I'm still fond of AMV as well, mind. Boxer hasn't shown any integration with CT40 yet, given the firepower lack.

That snippet seems to be build out of inaccuracy of understanding from those writing, if you ask me.

Checking on twitter, seems this is just 7 squadrons having each reduced in numbers to make an 8th.

No increase in overall plane numbers, just each squadron gets smaller.

Checkbox military everyone!

Crotale is definitely still on some ships yeah?

Have the Crotale vehicles for the French Air Force been retired?

Haven't heard about Roland being active in some time, so those are likely gone, yeah.

So yes, thats why they would need them. Because literally every other big navy in the world cannot all be wrong. And yet the Russian submarine launched Club-S anti-shipping missile has a range of 220 kilometres and Type 53-65 torpedo has a range of 22 kilometres. In contrast Sting Ray launched from...