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- 05 Mar 2024, 11:11
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
@SW1 forgot to show the last paragraph in the article: That many accidents during a collective 1.7 million flight hours gave a rate of .87 class A mishaps per 100,000 flight hours, lower than the Army’s overall rate of 1.03 and lower than the H-60’s previous five-year rate of 1.04. Flightfax’s revi...
- 04 Mar 2024, 21:25
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
- Replies: 86
- Views: 8753
Re: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
FAA is cracking the whip may put the recent news in context. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/updates-boeing-737-9-max-aircraft The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s six-week audit of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, prompted by the January 5 incident involving a new, Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft, fou...
- 04 Mar 2024, 19:25
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
- Replies: 86
- Views: 8753
Re: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
FAA is cracking the whip may put the recent news in context. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/updates-boeing-737-9-max-aircraft The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s six-week audit of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, prompted by the January 5 incident involving a new, Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft, foun...
- 04 Mar 2024, 15:57
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
@SW1 forgot to show the last paragraph in the article: That many accidents during a collective 1.7 million flight hours gave a rate of .87 class A mishaps per 100,000 flight hours, lower than the Army’s overall rate of 1.03 and lower than the H-60’s previous five-year rate of 1.04. Flightfax’s revi...
- 04 Mar 2024, 11:42
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
[quote=Tempest414 post_id=165091 Firstly under CANZUK I would be looking at Canada and Australia to form an F-35b unit of 20 jets meaning that that the carrier would carry between 24 and 30 5th Gen jets however I know you don't think so but most including the USN would think a CANZUK battle group o...
- 04 Mar 2024, 09:43
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
If they are falling over themselves for Blackhawk and wish to ignore the supposed industrial strategy cut the program delete the funding. They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite. yeah, that'll help the squaddies Does in France and Italy What o...
- 03 Mar 2024, 20:06
- Forum: Conflicts
- Topic: The war in Ukraine
- Replies: 1163
- Views: 85686
- 03 Mar 2024, 17:15
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Both leonardo and airbus have offered production lines and full integration in the uk with airbus also offering export from there line Full integration = assembly of kits produced abroad with a smidgen of UK parts. All three offer that with varying amounts of smidgen. No R&D, no design, no prot...
- 03 Mar 2024, 16:22
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
[quote=Tempest414 post_id=165091 Firstly under CANZUK I would be looking at Canada and Australia to form an F-35b unit of 20 jets meaning that that the carrier would carry between 24 and 30 5th Gen jets however I know you don't think so but most including the USN would think a CANZUK battle group op...
- 03 Mar 2024, 15:25
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
You can certainly speculate, I go with submarines , strategic logistics, ISR, ew hardening, communication, special forces and ground based air defence. My main point is: • What does the UK actually need to be able to do better? • What is the U.K. not doing now that an increase in funding would faci...
- 03 Mar 2024, 15:13
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
If they are falling over themselves for Blackhawk and wish to ignore the supposed industrial strategy cut the program delete the funding. They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite. yeah, that'll help the squaddies Does in France and Italy What o...
- 03 Mar 2024, 15:11
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Sorry which airframe doesn’t exist? All examples in the nmh contact are flying helicopters. The perfect all-rounder doesn’t currently exist. Which of the NMH contenders are: • As accomplished at ASuW as a Wildcat? • As accomplished at ASW as a Merlin? • As good a battlefield helo as a Blackhawk? It...
- 03 Mar 2024, 12:11
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
You can certainly speculate, I go with submarines , strategic logistics, ISR, ew hardening, communication, special forces and ground based air defence. My main point is: • What does the UK actually need to be able to do better? • What is the U.K. not doing now that an increase in funding would faci...
- 03 Mar 2024, 12:09
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Your industrial strategy is to retain the design integration, manufacture test skills in rotorcraft industry…..Aerospace is an expensive business but you get better outcomes if you keep the design integration and test in country . It’s highly unlikely the NMH contract will be awarded before the GE ...
- 03 Mar 2024, 10:30
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
….ignore the supposed industrial strategy….. Regardless of the design that is eventually chosen, how can you have a coherent industrial strategy with so few units? If HMG was really serious about an industrial strategy they would transfer all Wildcat AH1 to RN and increase the NMH order to around 7...
- 02 Mar 2024, 21:57
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
- Replies: 156
- Views: 82272
Re: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
See you in 7 years or so then
- 02 Mar 2024, 21:57
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
- Replies: 86
- Views: 8753
Re: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
The plants in the UK and America are also heavily involved in defence programs that would not sit easily within airbus or Boeing. I cant see airbus wanting their business jet or nacelle business either as there not on airbus products. It could become complicated. The problem is that Spirit are losi...
- 02 Mar 2024, 21:27
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
If they are falling over themselves for Blackhawk and wish to ignore the supposed industrial strategy cut the program delete the funding. They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite. yeah, that'll help the squaddies Does in France and Italy
- 02 Mar 2024, 20:51
- Forum: Conflicts
- Topic: RED SEA - Houthi attacks
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1642
Re: RED SEA - Houthi attacks
Italian destroyer in the Red Sea has intercepted a drone with a 76mm cannon
- 02 Mar 2024, 20:49
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49498
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
If they are falling over themselves for Blackhawk and wish to ignore the supposed industrial strategy cut the program delete the funding.
They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite.
They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite.
- 02 Mar 2024, 20:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
You can certainly speculate, I go with submarines , strategic logistics, ISR, ew hardening, communication, special forces and ground based air defence. My main point is: • What does the UK actually need to be able to do better? • What is the U.K. not doing now that an increase in funding would faci...
- 02 Mar 2024, 11:51
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
The current planned structure is based on finding efficiency saving. It isn’t based on finding £10bn of annual savings from a £50bn budget. Be serious. A raise to 2.5 GDP is an increase of around ~£100bn over the next decade. That amounts to 4 years of Australias entire defense budget added to the ...
- 02 Mar 2024, 11:21
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
If the defence gets 2.5% of gdp is simply funds the current program nothing more. Again this is another throwaway comment that is regularly regurgitated by the commentariat. If that is true then 20% savings need to be found from the defence budget per annum from next year. It’s not remotely credibl...
- 02 Mar 2024, 10:40
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
A third “LHA/LHD’ is also attractive but completely out of the question without funds, and even then only when other priority areas are properly funded first. So what will this extra funding provide? Lots of commentators insisting that more money is required but I have so far seen no one put togeth...
- 02 Mar 2024, 09:32
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
- Replies: 5986
- Views: 1501055
Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
I don’t understand the fascination with these small amphibious support ships other than an assumption it’s possible to do it on the cheap because we’ve spent all the money elsewhere and don’t know what to do now. These small cheap flat-tops are relatively new and therefore there is bound to an exci...