Wedgetail can have up to 10 operators.

ABC There’s space for the crew a rest area a toilet ect the aircraft is up for 11hrs if you want to, then replace the aircraft on station with another a/c. This cutaway shows it with 5 operator stations. https://u0v052dm9wl3gxo0y3lx0u44wz-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Saab-Globa...

Deal as gd as done Looks like it is. And for once we should all be grateful as this seems a very positive, cost neutral, increase in capability. A year ago we were facing a long drawn out upgrade of the E-3 fleet that had the potential, if we're honest, to be continually cut during its duration. He...

Deal as gd as done Looks like it is. And for once we should all be grateful as this seems a very positive, cost neutral, increase in capability. A year ago we were facing a long drawn out upgrade of the E-3 fleet that had the potential, if we're honest, to be continually cut during its duration. He...

To an extent this is a gd example of there being little joined up thinking. If instead of banging the carrier strike drum and considered a more expeditionary strike group arrangement with less emphasis and smaller numbers of the fixed wing element and more the rotary with buy in from an expanded Chi...

I've yet to be convinced that ending amphibious operations at combined-arms BG level is anything but foolish (it is the insurance policy that makes strike viable). Against what level of opposition do you think this is useful? Is a serria leone opposition how far up the scale to we go. If it’s a uk ...

Deal as gd as done Looks like it is. And for once we should all be grateful as this seems a very positive, cost neutral, increase in capability. A year ago we were facing a long drawn out upgrade of the E-3 fleet that had the potential, if we're honest, to be continually cut during its duration. He...

Deal as gd as done Looks like it is. And for once we should all be grateful as this seems a very positive, cost neutral, increase in capability. A year ago we were facing a long drawn out upgrade of the E-3 fleet that had the potential, if we're honest, to be continually cut during its duration. He...

Deal as gd as done https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2018/10/02/britain-confirms-talks-with-boeing-over-potential-26b-wedgetail-aircraft-buy/ Williamson said the Ministry of Defence had undertaken market analysis and discussions with other potential providers, concluding “that the potential procu...

Looks like the Iranians have beat us to the frigate mothership concept

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The USN which is why they are re introducing the anti-ship Tomahawk for both longer range and larger bang. The Harpoon is still a useful weapon but a single hit will not guarantee a kill. The low density that the RN and even USN currently have with warships carrying a maximum of eight, its slow spe...

If that was the plan, there would be absolutely no need for the RAF to be involved with the F35 at all! The aircraft would be an FAA exclusive programme. You are making far too many assertions on here, which are at best misleading, or possibly even malign. :idea: Fair enough you don’t need to belie...

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We will now see a more incremental “rapid” integration of capabilities with typhoon as all variants are sheduled to stay with the RAF until 2040

Who says this “The warhead on the Harpoon is simply too small and we lack density to overwhelm an opponent with the limited number of missile carried by our surface vessels ” is true? I would say at this time programs with the French will be extremely strained, to that end I would adopt nsm/jsm and ...

LJ That is the plan 7 typhoon 2 f35 until 2040. The question for team tempest is what replaces typhoon. The preferred option it seems is a uk fighter program, should that prove uneconomical then the answer is likely to be a variant of the f35 and we become an all f35 force and end the uk military av...

stream line Portsmouth which I believe has a labour mp Portsmouth has two MP's. Portsmouth North is held by Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt. Portsmouth South is held by Labour MP Stephen Morgan. Streamline Portsmouth was a local taxi company which had a very memorable phone number (811111), but sadl...

ACC I understand what Jake is saying but if they move the deterrent sub replacement out of the defence budget they’ll simply move the budget with it. What people are really asking for with this option is a 3.2b pound defence funding increase to pay for the sub replacement and that isn’t going to hap...

Poiuytrewq I don’t disagree we don’t have a plan we’re bouncing around all over the place another this is safe that isn’t while a supposed review is ongoing. I would argue we’ve been bouncing around for such a plan or strategy since then end of the Cold War. I also agree endless cuts sap moral. But ...

- Keep the 4 B1 Rivers in service: 130 - Bring 3 T26s into service: 3 * 118 = 354 - Bring the 2nd Albion class into permanent service: 325 Total: 1,260 B1s won't be in service for that long minus 130 away from minuses the 2nd Albion has a skeleton crew of 40 so another, gives 1260 minus 170 on the ...

Poiuytrewq You do realise the a significant percentage of the marines are infact army mainly its supporting arms that allow it to function if I was an army commander and asked to cut stuff to protect a navy budget I know what I would be offering up first! The current political climate means putting ...

Jake All military operations are authorised by the PM or senior cabinet minister if he/she is incapacitated. All military operations are the ultimate expressions of politics by the state. We’ll leave that particular conundrum for another time. It’s a military capability and deserves to be in the mil...

Jake If you think it serves no military purpose then cut it! Just like what happened when we177 was removed and nuclear Q stood down in the 90s. It stays because it ensures the need for large conventional forces to deter a nuclear state is not required and as such is a military capability. You could...

Jake1992 I disagree it’s a military capability. So it should be in the defence budget where it’s been since Polaris procurement and rightly so. CameronPerson Really you think the average joe on the street cares?? They’ll be shown a picture of an aircraft carrier with a jet or too and cha,pion the lp...

London has to get in there somewhere! Naming ships makes it harder to reduce numbers!

So what was that times story last year 5 frigates and the wildcats or the Albion’s be rest assured the piper must be paid! If the axe has to fall it has got to be on the light infantry. To relieve the manning issues and get all T45's back to sea it will take 4 Type 23's to be decommissioned early. ...