By the time we get round to building them the models will be reaching the end if their service life. The model's at least two years old so ... Yes looking at it looks more like the 'OTO' than the Mk45 Mod 4 gun mount on the model. Just what I said, there is a model knocking around with a mod 4 on i...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:Hype about HVP and other goodies for Mk 45

... even the French might put it on their FTI "light" frigate

I note the model of the T26 has the 127/64 Oto Melara on it......................

Live right next door to STANTA

First steel cut

http://navaltoday.com/2016/10/06/photo- ... submarine/

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Apparently not!

He felt the motor had a little bit more to give but not much, if the thing ends up weighing in at 42 tons then the motor will be on its limit but that seems fair enough. He felt the real problem with off road performance was the torsion bar suspension and felt that hyrdo gas would have helped to imp...

@Ron MTU motor

Spoke to a reservist this weekend who is on the Ajax test team. did 20 years in armour, there is only one seat in the back which he is stunned at given the size of the beast. He is underwhelmed by cross country performance describing it as sluggish. A 20 year old design with torsion bar suspension w...

marktigger wrote:so 2039 is the current OSD, so will that be replaced on type 45 or type 45 osd?

Thought we were buying 14 mark 45 mounts, said at the time there would only be8 type 26 so that leaves 6 for the type 45s.........

If Atlantic Conveyor had been Invincible then she would have knocked down the incoming with seadart or one of the pickets would have got them or as the escorts deliberately kept very close station whey would have taken the hit and we would have carried on to win the war. A more likely scenario?

Hi ArmChairCivvy

I was totally tongue in cheek

Albions are a funny mix of commercial items and construction standards, damage control is to military standards.

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ArmChairCivvy wrote:

R686 wrote: By 1999 only 4 tons of bombs were needed to accomplish the mission, regardless of the weather at the target"

Lucky, as that (bombs, not tons) is all one F35 can carry!

F35b only carry 2 internally along with a couple of AMRAAM

The type 26 build schedule was a long one and I thought that surely by the time we got to the end of it T26 would be "out of date" the 8 T26 will take long enough to build, the new light frigate design will be able to be designed to take in any changes seen necessary in the 2035-40 time fr...

A happy new year to all

Ron 5 is right , its a river with a 5 inch on the front and a hanger on the back or its to expensive

That's very sad

Even our american cousins like it

TBH yes they seemed that way to me

I'd like it better if it didn't cut between scenes so much. It's always instructive to see how the Challengers are left wallowing in the wake of the Leopards which are going so much faster. ..or maybe the German tank crew were just pressing down harder on the accelerator pedal in those particular s...

I remember quite some while ago on another forum saying Perseus would be the weapon of choice for T26 and being laughed at, guess I might have been right

This has been a really good discussion and I now have a better understanding of the RN's choice of CODOG and the change from power/propulsion from the T23, though gabby will disagree I think this is the correct choice for the RN

F35 Porn... The October 2015 issue of Air International (Key publishing) has a large section devoted to the Lightning II F35A/B/C programme. Pages 37-98. Includes UK F35's, too. (Page 15 has a minor mention about the A10) Regards Any news? Work on infrastructure in Marham should be about to begin, ...

Hi REC Why rebuild conventional subs? Their only good for protecting your own shore line or sculking around some one else's shore line hoping something will blunder by, why put a huge amount of resources into building maintaining, crewing, training a small number of surprisingly expensive low capabi...

Why has BAE's latest video been taken down?