https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:509245-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0 Repairs and support. II.2.4) Description of the procurement: Babcock Land Defence Ltd, acting as Agent of the UK Ministry of Defence intends to place a contract with Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land Ltd (‘the Contractor’) for th...

https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:520756-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0 II.2.4) Description of the procurement: The International Guns Missiles and Rockets Project Team (IGMR PT) which is part of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence is intending to place an ad-hoc tasking contract with Dynamit...

https://committees.parliament.uk/public ... 4/default/

Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy writes to the PM regarding the Integrated Review and an inquiry on biosecurity.

Question: Why can't the Tide-Class act as as storage tanker, ie provide dry stores and not fuel?

If you want to see a much smaller number of helicopters going fwd tilt rotors are the best way to achieve it. Fewer = How many? Fewer titlt rotors which current fleet are you goin to dispose - Puma, Merlin or Chinook? Or is there a huge budget to put them in storage? Who is going to fly these fewer...

Why does everyone want the V-22 and not a British or joint with some other nation tilt-rotor aircraft? Would buy all US stuff be the best?

And again we see a country with a far smaller budget, managing its procurement in a far more competent manner than the UK. Didn't both Australia and the UK choose the Boxer at about the same time. How many Boxers are undergoing tests in the UK for the British Army at present? Do we know when the fi...

Mobile Fires Platfom - https://www.iiss.org/blogs/military-bal ... s-platform

But nothing to replace L118?

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/10/lynx-strikes-back-how-rheinmetall-could-win-army-omfv-analysis/?_ga=2.161299583.319202811.1603789618-1345527856.1562745431 The [US] Army's new priorities -- emphasizing heavy armor and robotics -- and Rheinmetall's successes overseas combine to give the KF41 Lynx ...

with rational ideas although part of the 'globalist' clan One cannot but infer that the clan members are not rational - can you give a few (persons as) examples of what you mean? H R McMaster, Fiona Hill, their deputies, the Vindman brothers, even Rex Tillerson, former DefSec Jim Mattis, Patrick M....

prove him wrong, guilty... or both John Bolton sure did this in his book - it does not matter whether one agrees with his policy recommendations or not... the book is based on close observation Trump has fired or made to resign lots of key defence and security people, many with rational ideas altho...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:Exactly the folks who could easily prove him wrong, guilty... or both .
Barr @ DoJ runs his errands, so no danger of being on the list.

Anyone can be fired remember John Bolton?

Scoop: Trump's post-election execution list If President Trump wins re-election, he'll move to immediately fire FBI Director Christopher Wray and also expects to replace CIA Director Gina Haspel and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, two people who've discussed these officials' fates with the president t...

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MOD just published this - asking for money at the last minute?

Was wondering about the in-depth nature of that linked article, but at the end it is stated that it draws from a research project - a non-governmental one. As for " neither clear whether the W93 program will eventually make it into the [US] budget proper, nor whether it would be taken up immed...

Not sure if this is the right thread but article on the future nuclear warhead for the UK nuclear deterrent and its troubles.

https://warontherocks.com/2020/10/will- ... r-warhead/

Mobile Fires Platform will come 'in their own time'. Until then, having short-ranged but mobile and protected 155mm moving closely with the formations they support will call for observation & command to be equally - mobile, - and protected (under armour) As well as the GMLRS. OK back to Warrior.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/naval-exhibitions/euronaval-2020-exhibitors-visitors-information/euronaval-2020-news/9150-euronaval-online-2020-bae-systems-presents-queen-elizabeth-aircraft-carrier-of-british-navy.html BAE advertising the Queen Elizabeth-classes at the virtual Euronav...

The SDSR 15 figure was 245 turreted Warriors Could that be with a gun? It has been a haze as to where all the Ajax Joint-fires vehicles will be allocated and how many upgraded Warriors for artillery would still be needed (these also have turrets). - the difference between 245 and 265 could easily b...

Government response to the House of Commons report on the Integrated Review.

https://committees.parliament.uk/public ... 8/default/

https://britisharmedforcesreview.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/army-2020-refine-regular-infantry-units.jpg The link or image was the envisioned list of units just post-SDSR 2015 or Army 2020 Refine - infantry regiments only. It definitely has changed given the announcement that only one AI brigade wi...

Path to Install Hypersonic Weapons on Arleigh Burke Destroyers Unclear https://news.usni.org/2020/10/22/path-to-install-hypersonic-weapons-on-arleigh-burke-destroyers-unclear In order to accommodate the equivalent of an intermediate-range ballistic missile aboard the Navy’s current crop of destroyer...

Could the Integrated Review be published in two parts? The first, released next month, would basically be a National Security Strategy with the second being a Security and Defence Review, published next year, listing the actions required by the first part, and coinciding with a Comprehensive Spendi...

will replace Bulldog[. That] will come online at the back end of this decade." ABSV was cancelled in 2016 as a cost saving More than ten years then. Though Bulldog is mechanically and protection-wise much younger than what the broad-brush statements would imply ... let me put it this way: will...