Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑31 Mar 2024, 16:47

SW1 wrote: ↑31 Mar 2024, 11:17 Really is that all sensible on top of everything else?

I think the short answer is, yes, absolutely it really would be sensible.

It’s just time to fund it and do it now.

Just sounds like a fantasy shopping list to me tbh

Indeed because the vehicle you posted an image off has a gross vehicle weight limit which is less that the weight which can be lifted by chinook. So you are still missing the point. So regardless of what configuration it is(gun, cab whatever) it should still be lift able by chinook. Somehow I doubt...

Indeed because the vehicle you posted an image off has a gross vehicle weight limit which is less that the weight which can be lifted by chinook. So you are still missing the point. So regardless of what configuration it is(gun, cab whatever) it should still be lift able by chinook. Somehow I doubt...

Indeed because the vehicle you posted an image off has a gross vehicle weight limit which is less that the weight which can be lifted by chinook. So you are still missing the point. So regardless of what configuration it is(gun, cab whatever) it should still be lift able by chinook. Somehow I doubt...

Extremely illuminating. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13254155/JAMES-HEAPPEY-spend-three-cent-GDP-Armed-Forces.html • Grant Shapps was offered 2.5% GDP in a decades time! Effectively 3 parliaments away. • Heappey proposing increase to 2.5% by NATO 75 summit in July. • Heappey proposing...

I have no idea what your point is. Yes, that was obvious from your previous post. Indeed because the vehicle you posted an image off has a gross vehicle weight limit which is less that the weight which can be lifted by chinook. So regardless of what configuration it is(gun, cab whatever) it should ...

sol wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024, 20:32

SW1 wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024, 20:15 We don’t have those ...

Sometimes I really ask myself why I even bother

Fair enough. I have no idea what your point is.

If something like coyote was towing a 105mm gun I don’t see the problem. How about something like this, because, if I am not wrong this is something that he had in mind https://i0.wp.com/militaryleak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/supacat-and-am-general-unveil-hmt-extenda-mk2-with-105mm-light-weigh...

Why can’t archer be moved by a400m? To big or to heavy, not sure. Info came from one twitter post by Gabrielle Molinelli. We have already done the helicopter move within Europe from the fwd mounting positions on operations so I don’t know why it would be impractical now. Yes, I know that Chinook, P...

Why can’t archer be moved by a400m? We have already done the helicopter move within Europe from the fwd mounting positions on operations so I don’t know why it would be impractical now. https://www.forces.net/news/seven-aircraft-seven-field-guns-military-performs-rare-lift-salisbury-plain Seven Brit...

The joint harrier force never made it to 4 front line squadrons it only got to 3.

The invincible class operated with up to 14 harriers on it

Just a nice pic

20-25 year service life should be a pretty standard goal. They shouldn’t be doing mid life upgrades either. They should be big enough and simple enough with an open architecture command system to have relatively straight fwd capability insertion periodically at relatively short dry docking periods e...

Everything I see points to a top-end ambition that includes a scale and compelxity of formation that shouts "battlegroup!", and again; that is a cascade of procurement consequences that makes the idea of harmonising commando equipment to 16AAB Chinook-undersling seem short-sighted. It’s w...

Is the concept that different to the brigade reconnaissance forces that were formed to support the brigade’s that were sent to Afghanistan or indeed the long range reconnaissance group that deployed to Mali only configured to deploy from the sea in complex terrain against a high end enemy. They don...

Secondly, can everything that 3Cdo and 16AAB needs (on land) be made air mobile by underslung Chinook? It’s essential IMO. [If] we've made the choice that the RM are out of the business of combined arms maneuvre under armour, then sure. [If] the game is now 72hr raids by company sized units of nava...

For those interested there is on bbc iPlayer a two part documentary to mark the 30th anniversary of ZD576 Titled Dead men don’t talk https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vxy6/chinook-zulu-delta-576-series-1-1-catastrophic-loss I think it deserves the widest possible viewing so it’s never allowe...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... rategy.pdf

RAFs new drone strategy document

Quite a good publication to read of what’s going on in artic

https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/nordic ... ins-closed

https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/nordic ... hern-flank

This book maybe of interest on transport aircraft topics

https://www.crecy.co.uk/on-atlas-shoulder

On Atlas' Shoulders: RAF Transport Aircraft Projects Since 1945


The coanda effect is used to aid lift by inservice aircraft today namely c17.

To assemble a force for such an incursion would require build up and planning. If you have the intelligence assets you would see it. That’s fine but the planning and contingencies still need to be in place. What will the U.K. be contributing to blunt any incursion and then what follows and how do y...

i'm not expecting a more peaceful Europe in the 21st century, but I do work to the following: 1. the scale of the threat from russia today is an order of magnitude smaller than was the case when britain was staring down the barrel of 15 soviet shock armies. 2. in consequence, the threat that russia...

Russian aggression would likely not take the forms of a traditional invasion of nato countries. Potential disruption could be greater think back to fuel protests of the last decade or so as an example instead disruption to money transfer or payment systems for weeks. Or attacks against infrastructu...

The answer to your original question is No. That is an opinion that i do not share. The vast majority are not spending 2.0% nor will they for many years yet, outside of Greece and Poland no major country in Europe is spending 2.5% Accepted - my point was more that if the UK did respond to events by...