The knocking shops of Nicosia had a clap pandemic when we were there on ops. The MP's were crawling all over town trying to police it but didn't stop several cases in our unit. Good luck trying to stop an airborne contagion!

There's a Good pub just across the water!

Aplique armour has some defects: Shearing strain means an non lethal hit can mal-align panels, needing an angle grinder anyway! This means you have to replace the whole lot. Aplique really doesn't like ERA. The shock wave will cause delamination. This has been seen in several conflicts and one of th...

Rant over.

Without going into specifics (and exposing them), BAe has to plan for disruption to delivery schedule within the contract. MoD rules preclude production outwith the UK. As a result, they have to secure delivery of long lead items and ensure stability if the logistics train. Also, IP of warship and m...

Ok, does that mean we get to keep the one they found down the back of the couch?!?

BAe has now finished risk mitigation study of possible Indyref2. MoD will not allow non UK shipyard to build 'warships'. As a result options are now being prepared to move up to 800 jobs in design and advanced material research/manufacture to CL and Barrow. They are also now looking at an all Englan...

I thought the reason they chose the CR2 was because the turret ring was wider and therefore easier to integrate the 130mm gun and autoloader.

Bloody crab air!!!! USMC all standing at ease, Brill -cream Boyz all lounging about. Hope they fly better than they look. Seriously, not a good advert. I hope the CPO applies a leather enema to those concerned (if that was the mob the Rasman would be fucking apoplectic even for us Ruperts).

That is so they can get in to the bar!!! Seriously though, This deployment really is historic. The USN now views the QE class as a peer for operations due to the density of 5 gen aircraft. They have a huge problem with deck availability due to usage, maintenance, issues with GRF class, and with the ...

If Yes2 is successful, property in Scotland in general and Glasgow in particular will be worth JackShit.

The beer was indeed cold (BrewDog Mr President)! He suggested that several groups were in planning currently. Also, George Galloway asked an SNP lackey in an online debate yesterday about where the 16500 high skill jobs would be found to recreate the loss of Faslane and the associated facilities (ye...

Socially distanced beer with neighbour last night (across the garden fence- BrewDog of course). Batch 2 T26 WILL NOT be built on Clyde if a second referendum goes ahead. Moves to use Appledore for blocks and CL for weld-up and finish.

You have obviously never been roused by 'the star spangled banner' followed by 'playthatfunkymusic-white boy' on the pipes. Most unnerving to the uninitiated especially at 0520. Not sure how the cousins would counter-battery that. They did however play 'God Save the Queen' on a banjo on the last nig...

Ah, the porridge canons do get everywhere!! We took 2 pipers from RHF when we went out to Benning for the para-rescue course. Their reveile was 0530 with a bugle. Needless to say, we deployed the heavy artillery at 0520 and were up in PT gear to see the cousins stumbling out and cursing the instrume...

Piss off, Pongos dropping out of the sky, over our dead bodies!! Everyone knows that it is 16AA who has the honour of dying in a glorious but pointless way (reported in advance by the BBC).

Where's Bob?

Scimitar54 wrote:Not wanting to give a prehistoric fish person ideas above her station?

Surely you don't mean Dear Leader, Die UberSturmbahnFuhrer, or the Hooer o' Holyrood?

There's Bob

The UGL was really bought for FIBUA, light vehicles, and reducing the need to close trenches to post a grenade. That said, the blokes seem to love them and they are a lot of fun!!

The same as at platoon level. Your fire support team will have to establish a base of fire up to 25-50m behind your point section under effective enemy fire. Therefore you need overmatch of this metric and 50m. For the 7.62x39 this was 200m for AK47, 300 for AKM(S), and about 400 for the RPK. The AK...

an SF operation Wasn't that just a faint (a helicopter load) and the non-operation was to lead the Argies to expect Hercules-loads of troopers jumping out in the middle of their southern (navy) airbase, pinning down pretty much all their pro-like, and equipped to fight at night, bns of marines? The...

If the software for the weapons system is written then surely it is carriage trials only for a Bravo user?

That was an SF operation. Certainly that does merit long range insertion capabilities but manageable due to its limited size and logistics footprint.

The French would have insisted they have the pretty bit on top. As a result they have combined the worst bits of both tanks!!! 130mm CR3 for me please and then lets have a serious look at what the US is doing for 15yrs time.