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- 05 Apr 2024, 15:45
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9756964
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
But they are still in the ground they aren't preventing access to any one. The shocks to the economy due to Ukraine have been due to a lack of Russian Gas and Oil not Ukrainian. I suggest you read up on the subject a bit more. Putin and the oligarchs are obsessed with acquiring wealth. The oil, gas...
- 05 Apr 2024, 15:34
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
How has the way the JEF can respond or pre position thing changed as a result of Sweden and Finland joining nato? Because historically both have tried to tread a careful line of partial neutrality not trying to upset or antagonise Russia. With the invasion of Ukraine and joining NATO that dynamic h...
- 05 Apr 2024, 11:20
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
…Simply that the world changed post Feb22 and planning hasn’t caught up with Sweden/Finland in particular… We have been exercising with Sweden and Finland long before 2022. Your premise that the world changed in feb 22 is I believe wrong. I actually think you are both right. JEF was around before 2...
- 04 Apr 2024, 23:29
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3574
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
There was no way they were integrating a radar to the harrier fleet in 2010 it would have taken too many airframes out of service to do it, if it was to be one of the two fastjet types to remain because it would have needed to go back to Afghanistan. Over the years, I've seen mentions of a Blue Vix...
- 04 Apr 2024, 19:41
- Forum: Political Discussions
- Topic: Geopolitics and the global economy
- Replies: 193
- Views: 20732
Re: Geopolitics and the global economy
While we close strategic industries because of their coal use the rest of world laughs
- 04 Apr 2024, 19:17
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
The reason for JEF was a group of 10 like minded nations that would come together to respond to or deter aggression using rapidly deploying forces with the uk as framework for it, along the Baltic, high north and North Atlantic. That grouping has been planning together for 10 years now. As that can...
- 04 Apr 2024, 13:02
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Sweden and Finland were part of the JEF since the beginning in 2014 so nothing has changed in that regard. The fact they are now part of nato also is a bonus Not if you are a NATO planner! Planning simply hasn’t caught up with events yet. The reason for JEF was a group of 10 like minded nations tha...
- 04 Apr 2024, 09:35
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Because they are the artic and mountain warfare lead units Due to fact that NATO had a tiny land border in the Arctic. Now that Sweden and Finland have joined the majority of the land mass in the JEF region is in the Arctic or Sub-Arctic. If the Army isn’t willing to get persistently involved in th...
- 03 Apr 2024, 21:41
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8504
- Views: 2206011
Re: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
As the original info was placed here.
- 03 Apr 2024, 20:27
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Because they are the artic and mountain warfare lead units
- 03 Apr 2024, 20:17
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
I'm afraid these days it would be little more than a re-enforced Commando, perhaps squeezed to two Commands at a push?? How long that could these days be supported way up in frosty north is debatable.... Exactly my point. The U.K. wants to lead in the JEF region but the vehicles and kit of the Brit...
- 03 Apr 2024, 18:32
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Is that not what all the exercises last year and this is about Not on the scale required If the Army had to deploy 1 or 2 Brigades north of the Arctic circle and sustain that deployment through an Arctic winter how would that go? The simple fact is that the British Army isn’t equipped to do it. 16 ...
- 03 Apr 2024, 17:39
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Its what being the framework nation means bring all the nations together go where the need is, command the operation and support it. Can the U.K. reliably do that in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic? There is little sign of that currently. Is that not what all the exercises last year and this is about
- 03 Apr 2024, 16:20
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3574
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
The decision to delete sea harrier was in 2005 and implemented in 2006 so long gone by sdsr 2010. So that tweet is conflating several things. The real question is should fa2 sea harrier ever been started. They should have gone for the av8b with the blue vixen radar and used it both in the RN and th...
- 03 Apr 2024, 15:45
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8504
- Views: 2206011
Re: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
The danish ship did shoot down 4 drones so..
There not the only ones needing to make software changes based on the real world experience
https://whro.org/news/local-news/45582- ... he-red-sea
There not the only ones needing to make software changes based on the real world experience
https://whro.org/news/local-news/45582- ... he-red-sea
- 03 Apr 2024, 15:38
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3574
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
The decision to delete sea harrier was in 2005 and implemented in 2006 so long gone by sdsr 2010. So that tweet is conflating several things. The real question is should fa2 sea harrier ever been started. They should have gone for the av8b with the blue vixen radar and used it both in the RN and th...
- 03 Apr 2024, 15:27
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
It’s not about moving a dial it’s about being there. If there is say 2000 uk soldiers on Estonias border and they are killed by a Russian attack the reckoning is that would cause a full response and they know Russia knows that too. The British Army isn’t big enough anymore to knowingly sacrifice 20...
- 03 Apr 2024, 09:31
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
So not the JEF region after all just the bits that best suit the narrative. Not at all. It’s the entire JEF area. In the same way that UK Battlegroups in Denmark and the Netherlands would be pointless is a single UK Battlegroup in Estonia going to move the dial? Deploying 2 or 3 rapid reaction Brig...
- 03 Apr 2024, 09:22
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9756964
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The global meltdown that will ensue if we give the CCP control of 80% of the microchips on which our economy is dependent would be far worse. Frankly it would be the end of the western world as we know it. From that point on Japan would be effectively Finlandised and Australia would be next - with ...
- 02 Apr 2024, 23:04
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
OK 3 Cdo and 29 RA Cdo could do with few GBAD Vikings No argument. My point is: If the Army is concentrating of the JEF region and leaving the large land armies to continental Europe, how many Vikings will the British Army need? 5 of the JEF nations are in continental Europe. I know but deploying B...
- 02 Apr 2024, 22:58
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9756964
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
The global meltdown that will ensue if we give the CCP control of 80% of the microchips on which our economy is dependent would be far worse. Frankly it would be the end of the western world as we know it. From that point on Japan would be effectively Finlandised and Australia would be next - with ...
- 02 Apr 2024, 22:19
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19404
- Views: 9756964
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Which is why if indications of conflict started to appear and you were serious about stopping it you rapidly start streaming in stand in forces, think desert shield. With the very clear signal if you are coming in, you are coming in on us with all the implications of where that ends. It’s the clear ...
- 02 Apr 2024, 22:14
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 6182
- Views: 1876951
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
5 of the JEF nations are in continental Europe.Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑02 Apr 2024, 21:34No argument.
My point is: If the Army is concentrating of the JEF region and leaving the large land armies to continental Europe, how many Vikings will the British Army need?
- 02 Apr 2024, 17:59
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3574
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
The decision to delete sea harrier was in 2005 and implemented in 2006 so long gone by sdsr 2010. So that tweet is conflating several things. The real question is should fa2 sea harrier ever been started. They should have gone for the av8b with the blue vixen radar and used it both in the RN and the...
- 02 Apr 2024, 16:26
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8504
- Views: 2206011
Re: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Probably more appropriate in the Red Sea or Danish military thread than here. Sounds like the issues were known about for some considerable time.