Assuming both that the Ajax programme goes ahead and that the Ares variant can have the internal racks removed to allow for a total of 10 crew and dismounts and be fitted with a RS6 RWS with Javelin & 30x113mm cannon, then would it not be better to create one decent armoured brigade with 1 recc...

Assuming both that the Ajax programme goes ahead and that the Ares variant can have the internal racks removed to allow for a total of 10 crew and dismounts and be fitted with a RS6 RWS with Javelin & 30x113mm cannon, then would it not be better to create one decent armoured brigade with 1 recc...

Maybe maybe not yes 29 regt gunners are given extra training but this is on going so in real terms those that are in 29 regt today would move to the newly form RM overwatch sqn using Brimstone or Exactor fitted to Vikings and 29 regt with some of gunners it has now would move back to the army and r...

... also maybe it is time for 29 regt to come back to the army full time and the RM to have there own overwatch sqn this could mean we could have 5 brigades with organic artillery plus the DRS That would be waste of money and years of specialist training. If it needs another artillery regiment, the...

NATO has significant surveillance assets, the five eyes partners had Russian moves in Ukraine right on the money several months before they moved. With this information and rapidly deployable forces they should be able to make the border so prickly that the Russians would not dare moving over it wh...

RichardIC wrote: ↑22 Jul 2023, 15:19

Confirmation that RN regards Wildcat/Martlet as a credible air-to-air combo.

Yep would interesting to know how far this could be pushed

The biggest lesson relearned I see from Ukraine is dont lose territory it’s incredibly expensive to take it back no matter who you are. In the case of future war, losing territory is inevitable, unless you are expecting that NATO will heavily fortify whole border with Russia, with trenches, strongp...

But until we get a force structure that works we can't really know what to buy right now the army claims to have funding for 1000 Boxers but I can only see a need for 800 with only two armoured brigades with 5 battalions. Now if it true that the army has funding for 1000 Boxers then with money so ha...

Nor blind optimism. Agreed. If we expect industry to be held to its contracts then I think that should go for MoD as well. If they aren't held to account and just handed more money to fix their mistakes, will they learn from that? Its a balance. Lots of mistakes have been made and lots of lessons l...

On the Plus side we still have 359 Warriors to put them on About £2.5bn to replace them like for like with CV90? I think where we are headed with the army right now and with what kit we have coming in 2 x Armoured brigades of Brigade HQ = Boxer 1 x Cavaly regt = Ajax 1 x Armoured regt = Challenger ...

"What other limitations ?" Lets just look at the radar, assume T31 may be called on to operate in a high threat zone e.g. Persian Gulf, you can envisage coming under attack by Iranian subsonic, supersonic and even hypersonic sea-skimming missiles in 2030s/2040s. T31 is fitted with the S-b...

https://twitter.com/navylookout/status/1682403833220145153?s=46&t=uxMT95H5Nr9jAEmCklKdgA Some context as the tweet was is unavailable I'm picking off recent news on twitter so maybe it is this? https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1682658202876272643 Does anyone know why a second crane has be...

Air to air? https://twitter.com/815NAS/status/1682489598402867201 That’s a capability I wasn’t expecting! As a surface based laser guided anti air weapon it makes sense it can be fired from any stable platform it also means that if S-100 camcopter is carrying it they too will be able to down other ...

Repulse wrote: ↑22 Jul 2023, 07:38

Some context as the tweet was is unavailable

Also of note Babock's is doing well on T-31 given they have had POW in to be fixed

Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑21 Jul 2023, 08:28 Costs mounting but still on track

This is in line with what we have seen at BAE

100 million inflation rise on type 31

233 million inflation rise on type 26

But the threat to the U.K. is not as significant as the Cold War. There is not a massive soviet navy airforce or army bearing down on us. We and nato have more than enough equipment to ensure robust defence. Likewise there is a gd defence capability at all U.K. sovereign territories and we need to ...

Cancel the 40mm Bofors order immediately.... 40mm CTA with 4 LMM (or Starstreak 2). EDIT: Gabrielle Molinelli has spotted that they are in fact Starstreak tubes, the end of the missile tube s just visible as is the same diameter as the front, plus you can just make out the circular indentations in ...

The answer to everything is: - 73 x SSNs - 10 x LHDs - at least another 5 batches of T31s - 8 x Divisions of RMs and 3,000 1/2 Challenger 3s Don’t care what the question is What are you on about everything above is in Army FS doc just moved about as under FS we should have full time units 20 x Infa...

It’s highly likely we are now in for 12 months of fudge until the next election campaign. Yes but this is where the heads of the RN , Army and RAF need to do there bit and get on with what they have got to deliver better out comes Are they now as confused as everyone else? It’s clear the current te...

Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑19 Jul 2023, 16:05 It’s highly likely we are now in for 12 months of fudge until the next election campaign.

Yes but this is where the heads of the RN , Army and RAF need to do there bit and get on with what they have got to deliver better out comes

I wouldn’t as it’s skipped to the answer without stating the problem / requirement. Lets be honest, it isn’t a report, it’s a document in place of a report because the report would have been too politically embarrassing at the moment. The problem and requirement part is really easy. It doesn’t need...

Type 31 is the UK's base line GP frigate and not its tire 1 ships its primary role is Maritime Security

Lets remember that the RM could have stated fix radar but it didn't

What I would have liked to have seen is something like this…. I wouldn’t as it’s skipped to the answer without stating the problem / requirement. It may be a very frustrating report, but it’s better to have the What and Why and not the How than the other way round. If only there was some What and W...

PGZ-MIECZNIK consortium have given presentation on the Polish Miecznik Class Frigates based on Babcock Arrowhead 140, it will be a real frigate not like the pseudo RN frigate T31 i.e. its DGs will produce an extra 2 MW of power no doubt necessary to power its S band radar etc which are four panel a...