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- 26 Aug 2023, 12:12
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: AW159 Wildcat Helicopter (RN & AAC)
- Replies: 490
- Views: 214860
Re: AW159 Wildcat Helicopter (RN & AAC)
Shame, was hoping it was a larger order
- 26 Aug 2023, 07:20
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: AW159 Wildcat Helicopter (RN & AAC)
- Replies: 490
- Views: 214860
Re: AW159 Wildcat Helicopter (RN & AAC)
Very interesting. How many and for whom....hopefully, we'll find out soon
- 26 Aug 2023, 07:17
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19402
- Views: 9738289
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Any efficiency savings won't be felt by HMG/MoD, they'll benefit BAE. Said savings won't be available to fund new builds for the RN etc Understand your point, but disagree. It will reduce the amount of cost blow up, and reduce the amount of “ additional money” required to be payed by HMG :D So it w...
- 25 Aug 2023, 23:05
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19402
- Views: 9738289
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Not sure what you mean. The "frigate factory hall" is a hall. Manpower to weld, install, and integrate everything is unchanged. The hall will make their life easy, and reduce the risk of schedule delay. Good. But it does not necessarily improve the production speed, I think? In Scottish w...
- 28 Jul 2023, 07:58
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 254775
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
The MoD will be fitted for but not with a Secretary of State
- 27 Jul 2023, 23:56
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 254775
- 18 Jul 2023, 18:11
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 992400
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Let's hope it doesn't fall apart too quickly or else we'll have Germany sniffing around Tempest looking to get in on the act
- 14 Jun 2023, 13:58
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: SSN-AUKUS Future Astute Replacement (2030s) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 249
- Views: 92913
- 14 Jun 2023, 13:57
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: SSN-AUKUS Future Astute Replacement (2030s) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 249
- Views: 92913
Re: SSN-AUKUS Future Astute Replacement (2030s) (RN) [News Only]
More than 7 SSN for UK????
- 13 Jun 2023, 10:43
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
- Replies: 2837
- Views: 780696
Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Using which engine I wonder? The Rolls / Kale engine hasn't started development yet. I don't see how Turkey avoids an interim fighter purchase, whether it is Typhoon or something else. I don't see any other alternative to Typhoon but I think Eurofighter (and respective governments) need to get on w...
- 12 Jun 2023, 14:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Wave Class Tanker (RFA)
- Replies: 208
- Views: 125430
Re: Wave Class Tanker (RFA)
Hardly much better...
- 09 Jun 2023, 21:27
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 83 Destroyer (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 324
- Views: 176401
Re: Type 83 Destroyer (RN) [News Only]
….discount the Arsenal ship - too many imponderables. Why not use the T31s as the Arsenal ships? So when they are on carrier escort duty they add 32 silos queued by the T83. Makes sense. Even adding just CAMM to the Goalkeeper T31s would vastly increase the defensive capabilities of the CSG. If qua...
- 07 Jun 2023, 16:08
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8490
- Views: 2199314
Re: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Arguing for arguments sake, the pair of you. Geo was on his mission to savagely cut defense spending in pursuit of his financially illiterate idea that a balanced budget should be achieved at all costs. He refused to pay for T26GP and commissioned an ex-Babcock's guy to write a shipbuilding "s...
- 06 Jun 2023, 19:23
- Forum: Conflicts
- Topic: The war in Ukraine
- Replies: 1164
- Views: 96867
Re: The war in Ukraine
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1666122246899871750?cxt=HHwWjMC97eTWoJ8uAAAA Still a bit shocked by the whole thing :wtf: Awful. I read that the Russian's allowed the volume to increase before blowing it, to cause maximum damage. We'll not know the full extend of the tragic loss of life, homes an...
- 03 Jun 2023, 18:23
- Forum: Conflicts
- Topic: The war in Ukraine
- Replies: 1164
- Views: 96867
Re: The war in Ukraine
Reported US DOD buying some of the 60 ex-Dutch Gepards from Jordan for Ukraine through an intermediary, how many of the 60 involved under the contract not mentioned. The Gepard has been reported to have been very effective in Ukraine (the Dutch version uses different radars to the German version). ...
- 03 Jun 2023, 12:29
- Forum: Conflicts
- Topic: The war in Ukraine
- Replies: 1164
- Views: 96867
Re: The war in Ukraine
Reported US DOD buying some of the 60 ex-Dutch Gepards from Jordan for Ukraine through an intermediary, how many of the 60 involved under the contract not mentioned. The Gepard has been reported to have been very effective in Ukraine (the Dutch version uses different radars to the German version). ...
- 21 May 2023, 15:18
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8490
- Views: 2199314
- 19 May 2023, 15:52
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19402
- Views: 9738289
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Me tooRon5 wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 14:25and I'm getting nervousdmereifield wrote: ↑18 May 2023, 21:09That's mine and Ron's target...not sure it's the MoDs....Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑18 May 2023, 20:53Surely by 2025 the target must 24x UK F35s? That would be quite a sight if it could be done.
What is the plan for CSG2024?
- 18 May 2023, 21:09
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
- Replies: 19402
- Views: 9738289
Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
That's mine and Ron's target...not sure it's the MoDs....Poiuytrewq wrote: ↑18 May 2023, 20:53Surely by 2025 the target must 24x UK F35s? That would be quite a sight if it could be done.
What is the plan for CSG2024?
- 17 May 2023, 17:46
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
- Replies: 8490
- Views: 2199314
Re: Type 31 Frigate (Inspiration Class) [News Only]
Generally positive news, but "we intend to" is not the same as "we are going to" and nowhere does it indicate that this will be at the build stage. If this is part of some distant future upgrade post build then its liable to be cancelled or postponed and never come about
- 04 May 2023, 15:33
- Forum: Conflicts
- Topic: The war in Ukraine
- Replies: 1164
- Views: 96867
Re: The war in Ukraine
Why has Ukraine denied responsibility, then?
- 19 Mar 2023, 08:37
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 992400
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
We need the current government to sign up to some Gordon Brown style Carrier contracts to be sure of that.... I hope they do..... The looming UK general election must be a slight concern to the Japanese government, in this critical moment when the embryonic corporate structure of Tempest is being f...
- 18 Mar 2023, 18:43
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 992400
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
We need the current government to sign up to some Gordon Brown style Carrier contracts to be sure of that....
- 18 Mar 2023, 18:42
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4460842
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Was there ever amy doubt....
- 18 Mar 2023, 14:23
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4067
- Views: 992400
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
I think the numbers will be way more than than the 120-180 people here suggest. My imho my view is ~250 units. The lesson from the Ukraine war is the need to have combat mass, and with the UK being involved in the European theatre, and now a toe in the "Indo-Pacific" theater - the UK will...