Gabriele wrote: Frankly, it would be far more useful to keep Tornado GR4 for a few more years past 2019, but it would be more complex from a logistic and training point of view.

Burn the witch. Repeat after me, typhoon good, tornado bad.

No shit. I did not know that. Thats why we keep getting lumbered with crap we don't want or need. :roll: Like typhoon, queen Elizabeth, brimstone ect ? 1 of those isn't in service so no-one can comment. I've worked with the other 2, and only 1 can be quantified a certifiable success at this stage. ...

I don't give a shit where it comes from, I want the best kit to do my job. U.K. Armed Forces don't exist to provide jobs to British industry, we exist to win wars. That's bull. Go read about the last UK only war, the Falklands, and see what the British industrial base did to support the military. A...

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/experts-debate-likelihood-of-uk-acquiring-favoured-p-418551/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter An additional three RAF squadrons are also expected to be established, sources suggest – one for the Lockheed Martin F-35 and two for the Eurofighter...

No shit. I did not know that.

Thats why we keep getting lumbered with crap we don't want or need.

I don't give a shit where it comes from, I want the best kit to do my job.

U.K. Armed Forces don't exist to provide jobs to British industry, we exist to win wars.

Cant workout who the snoopers are though. Wouldn't it be lovely if not all the energy we expend here dissipated into space, but had an impact on the true public domain? Not that we weren't in the public domain, but the pull-mode of acquiring information is still only for the genuinely interested. T...

Bottom line is ALARM was out of date against modern and emerging AD systems. To upgrade the threat library would have been mucho expensive, coupled with the life experiation of the explosive components meant the head sheds decided we no longer needed an ARM. Despite some protests from operators it w...

I said ages ago, it would be the P8 or nothing. That was the options put forward for the review. As others have said, if that article is true, we are gone with MPA. However, I'd take it with a pinch of salt. All kinds of rumours floated around last time, and are doing so this time. Largely because o...

If it is a "lease" it isn't anywhere remotely similar to the abortion PFI that provides voyager.

Other ways to SEAD than ALARM.

marktigger wrote:could the P8 be a brimstone launch platform?

If you pay for integration. It has a standard mil-databus.

At the risk of stirring the maelstrom again: 3 OTU airframes leased stateside in 2016, 1 of which is 'ours already' and then 3 + 6 bought over the next 4 budgetary years from within the conveniently unallocated Boeing serials. Sources: none I would care to share, if I'm wrong I will eat a hat of th...

Russian tanks is best.

This NOT a 'non-story' .......... if you reversed the situation there would a similar reaction if a General or Admiral had similar responsibilities within the RAF there would be similar reaction. Because you are RAF and working for the appointee you do not see the illogicality. Experience in any ro...

its not a "new" aircraft but would like to have seen an updated Buccaneer with new Nav attack system updated radar and avionics possibly updated engines. There was rumours of the Nav/attack system from the Jaguar being put in to them. A Buccaneer with EJ200s, modern avionics and weapon sy...

This NOT a 'non-story' .......... if you reversed the situation there would a similar reaction if a General or Admiral had similar responsibilities within the RAF there would be similar reaction. Because you are RAF and working for the appointee you do not see the illogicality. Experience in any ro...

RAF ship Queen Elizabeth ;_ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/retired-admiral-slams-appointment-britains-6703123 C'mon your better than this.... The Air Marshall is in charge of the CEPP programme which includes the ships but also f35, merlin, chinook, Apache and whatever else goes on the deck. ...

It's nothing more than creative accounting. It's not a real 2%.

Gabriele wrote:

It's the navy. They like that shit!

Ianmb17 wrote:World tour for ZM405

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ut-418009/

Awesome. Can it now do paradrops or fly into a hostile environment?

Interesting POV. Don't think many here will agree.

The Kabul Puma crash victims were repatriated today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ox ... e-34581760

Hopefully no-one else will die in that shithole.

arfah wrote:Jet Provosts...

Training aids at Cosford

New series.