SW1 wrote:can only mean it must be closer to the truth than first thought

Or alternatively, that it is completely unfounded , speculative, tosh.

To be honest, it just looked like a re-cycled article from around 12-15 months ago.

Nah, more like 20-40 I reckon The two most recent (Comres and YouGov) are saying high 20s to low 30s (say 28-32) at the moment. BMG/ICM are still in "no overall control" territory (-8/-7 respectively), which is pretty much where they started, I think. Opinium are sticking with a 124 seat ...

Surfaced launched Spear 3 is a fantasy weapon. Not in development, but not entirely fantasy - it's in MBDA's mind as a potential future development - from TD In a maritime context, MBDA has shown an artist’s impression of SPEAR with a booster, quad packed into a CAMM launch cell. This means custome...

Things are definitely getting tighter. The latest "scorecard" for the various polling organisations is here: https://www.markpack.org.uk/155623/voting-intention-opinion-poll-scorecard/ The list gives the latest poll by each organisation and the dates over which it was conducted. The YouGov...

Apologies if there is already a thread for this (Mods, please merge if there is) Following on from last years hurricanes (and, indeed, Hurricane Ivan, back in 2004), it looks as if the UK is finally putting sme effort into upgrading local capabilities in and around the Caribbean. Following on from t...

Timmymagic wrote:.... or the other US small munition ....

The Raytheon/ Nammo Pike?

I don't know how you can target a pilots eyes with a laser and still claim it's not meant to harm his (or her) eyesight. I'm pretty sure that the limits of what the human eye can tolerate without being permanently damaged are well known. You don't need to damage the pilot's eyesight, you just need ...

The UK RWS 'fleet' is almost entirely Kongsberg. Again, we're heavily invested in that interface already so we would need to accept a bespoke solution for Boxer which doesn't make sense in my mind. We would need to accept a bespoke solution for Boxer Just because it hasn't yet been tested with the ...

I do wonder whether said RWS manufacturers have any interest in endorsing this integration in their already in-service hardware. For Midguard, Venom LR is a major advertising point! http://www.valhalla-turrets.com/products The EOS literature doesn't mention it (yet?), but the RWS can handle a missi...

The Telegraph (yes - just a tad partisan, I know) tried to do an analysis a few days ago of what the potential effects of tactical voting might be. Their conclusion: if done perfectly by both sides, remain would gain 55 seats and leave 53 - a net gain to remain of 2 seats. In the process, Labour wou...

"The debasement of our public discourse has been aggravated by the systematic and sustained spraying of untruths, often by foreign state actors – and not in the expectation that their lies will be believed. Success for them is everyone starting to doubt that anything is true: and 44% of remain...

What you have posted exactly describes the banning of "dazzlers". The British equipment was designed & used to damage the pilots vision. They are no longer fitted on any RN ship. Not so. The key word here is "permanent damage". I remember reading a post (over on ARRSE, I bel...

As I understand it ten year gilt rates are below the rate of inflation, so as long as that situation continues any public borrowing at those rates will decrease in real-term value over the next decade. That is true. What remains to be seen is whether rates will stay that low if the UK Govt embarks ...

They have been banned. Illegal now. Dazzlers are still legal. The ban is on using lasers that cause "permanent blindness to unenhanced vision", (Article 1 , Protocol IV of 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons - came into effect in 1998). Article 3 says "Blinding as an inci...

... or buy British Further to Ron's post. https://www.overtdefense.com/2019/11/08/aei-systems-low-recoil-30mm-cannon-nears-production/ I did see a post (on here, I think) that said that the Army was assessing a 30mm cannon for the MIV/MRV(P) - possibly this is what they were looking at, rather than...

the constitutional courts will sign the section 30 A section 30 order, transferring power for the independence issue temporarily to the Scottish Parliament is not a power within the gift of the Courts (and in Civil matters, the Scottish Courts are subordinate to the United Kingdom Supreme Court (an...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:Who cares about the manifestos; anyone seen any ?

I believe they are due to be published on or around next Monday (the week commencing the 18th November), one week before voter registration closes (25th November).

Well, if you read up on the Revolutionary Communist Group/ Party/ Tendency, you would be unsurprised- they were after all: Cool, so you're basically "Yey, communism!" at this point. :o :lol: Opposed to the EU and the subordination of the British Parliament to the European Convention on Hu...

Anyone care to guess which party's manifesto is going to be written with the help of self-confessed Trotskyist and former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Munira Mirza? Yep, it's the Conservative Party. :lol: Well, if you read up on the Revolutionary Communist Group/ Party/ Tendency, yo...

If reconfigured into a Company Level ops platform rather than a Brigade Level command ship, could the crew be reduced from the stated 325? A good question. Drawing an (not too wild) inference from the Daily Express article quoted above, it looks as if the intention is to possibly trial both amphibs...

As the "full-time trained crew" number is 1400 soul short Once again, not all of the 1400 shortfall relates to sea-going crews, especially as the RN has been pushing to fill the sea-going shortages first. (hence the 1SLs statement that the crew shortage was almost solved, some months ago)...

Interesting and echos much what’s been discussed. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/amphibious-ships-punch-navy-could-add-missiles-assault-vessels-92626 Adding ASuW capability to a LPD is an interesting concept as is operating it with 4 LCSs. The article also fleshes out the USMC's ideas on th...

Caribbean wrote:TBP, though they seem to have unilaterally decided to not campaign against the Tories in marginal seats

..... and just to confuse, they now seem to have reversed that decision (the unilateral bit, that is - they now want a pact) - I guess a day is a long time in politics now

If there's no pact between the Conservatives and the Brexit Party, then the 'leave' vote is going to be split and neither will get enough seats for a Commons majority.... That's not supported by the gross polling figures at the moment, as the Brexit party's support is well below the Tories (to the ...

Early polls are meaningless as far as predicting the result go. It's going to be a couple of weeks before we start seeing polls that reflect the impact of the election campaign. I think we are all aware of the limitations of opinion polls and their relevance to the final result. The initial polls m...