Three a month? Thirty six a year? Jesus wept. Wonder how many would be produced per year at WFEL. Officially it is expected that 27 vehicles should be in service by 2025, with all 623 by 2032. Maybe slow production was intended to keep production line active for longer time, providing steady the wo...

This is one of the reasons I think we need 2 or more 210 x 40 meter Flat tops as we as the Carriers for me having a 210 meter flat top with say 6 x of these 6 x wildcats , 6 Merlin and 2 Chinook would be a big thing for the LRG or even in the Indo-Pacific when there is no carrier in the region being...

So the way I read it we have 157 CH2's ready to go within 30 days. The 14 sent to Ukraine have been back filled from the 75 in long term storage leaving 61 in long term storage this to me means that if we 157 ready to go within 30 out of the working fleet of 227 then 70 must be in deep maintenance i...

HQ's need deploying and testing too some 3000 troops plus all there kit moved by the theatre sustainment brigade is a good thing

Ex Swift Response with 16AA is a good place to start you can pick it up on Youtube nice peace on there

then there was the deployment in to Germany of the Field HQ and all its sub HQ's to test deployment and robustness

So some good stuff going on

I disagree about the whole Pacific thing. We're better off doing one thing well, than half a dozen things badly. We need to concentrate on keeping people in, repairing buildings, invest in training, recruiting, deploy on realistic exercises. Europe and the ME is more than enough for us to worry abo...

Think the conclusions have stood the test of time very well. Until the army started fighting in places other than Europe. To a point but the average infantry man will still be a average shot at 300 meters by this I mean his grouping will be the size of a dinner plate with 5.56 this was a bit better...

The game changer will be GSDB with it's range and cost

This is why I say we should look to add 1400 to 1600 extra Gurkha's and keep them in the Indo-Pacific these plus the Gurkha Battalion in Brunei could form a Brigade Remember Gurkha's are always added to the Army figures so the British army is 79,400 plus 4000 Gurkha's As for retention we need to do ...

Yes, those former Warsaw Pact countries are indeed now with the west, but you forgot to consider the “Elephant in the room” that we face today, one that we did not have to in 1991 ………………… CHINA! An immeasurably larger threat to World Peace today and a threat that is seriously increasing in both siz...

Also we have some 288 hulls in total after giving 14 to Ukraine so it is just down to money if we want more CH3's being someone who has rebuilt spitfires almost from a makers plate anything that has been built can be built

To be clear what is being said here is we had 302 CH2's of which 227 were deemed main stream and 75 were in deep storage now what is being said is we have 157 operational 70 in ? and 75 in deep storage Could it be the author of the article has got it wrong and what we have is 157 ready to fight 70 i...

Yes everyone here would like to see more ships a bigger army and more aircraft in the Airforce but we also need to look at the other side of this. In 1991 our forces were 3 x the size it is today but it was facing the Soviet Union which included Poland , Ukraine the Baltic states and a hole host of ...

As I said for me the RB2's still have a role to play and if there is a 5 billion budget for Type 32 and MRSS then I would push for a ship like Vard-7-313. I think we could 3 Type 31 plus and upgrade the first 5 to the same standard for about 1.12 billion. We could then get 6 x Vard-7-313 for about 8...

NickC wrote: ↑27 Mar 2023, 13:53 Not surprised Saab Kockhums chose the Odense Maritime Technology Iver Huitfeldt / Absalon (and T31) HM&E as basis of the MRCV due to the soundness of its design, but was surprised by the increase in the displacement by 50% to 10,000 tons.

The Indonesian 143 meter A-140 is close to 7000 tons

Yep 5.56 is going to be around for some time to come however 6.8 could be a good round for both the infantry assault and support weapon with the 12.7mm remaining as the vehicle mounted support weapon

Or we could divert that money you are spending on new ships to base infrastructure improvements, better man power retention, a more robust spares and weapons holding, or if you really want to spend it on equipment the ssn fleet. Priorities and choices. Not just I want more ships There is a separate...

Any likely budget or future budget doesn’t even get you half that lot. If there is no attempt to come up with a plan that stays inside any likely future budget not to mention add at least a 15% contingency then the malaise and drift of the past 30 years will continue. That is all before the convers...

The holy grail as far as infantry sections go is to have one round for both the assault and support weapon allowing for better logistics in the field but this has its problems in terms of size of assault rife and range of support weapon However as we move back to the idea of fighting in Europe's for...

The standard LRG as it stands is 1 x LPD , 1 x Bay , 1 x Escort , and ether Argus or a Point class this has been standard from 2018 so to add another Bay and a extra escort in my mind could be done this would mean that the high readiness CSG and LRG would take up 3 x T-45 and 3 x T-26 at anytime By...

For me the way forward right now for the RN is to build 3 more Type 31 4 x Vard-7-313 Completely agree. However that is an expensive proposition given that HMG is strangling the defence budget in real terms once again. The extra T31s is important as is upgrading the entire class up to a credible GP...

My fleet as laid out is in someways the lower end when we look at it East of Suez Gulf = 1 x T-31 and 1 x Vard-7-313 as a MCM mother ship Indian Ocean = 1 x T-31 , 1 x RB2 , 1 x Vard-7-313 as LRG/S - HRDA support ship Pacific = 1 x T-31 , 1 x RB2 1 x T-31 in Maintenance Atlantic South Atlantic = 1 x...

For me the way forward right now for the RN is to build 3 more Type 31 4 x Vard-7-313 Keep the RB2's and split the fleet like so 4 x T-31 , 2 x Vard-7-313 , 2 x RB2's in the Indo-Pacific 4 x T-31 , 2 x Vard-7-313 , 3 x RB2's in the Atlantic , Med , Baltic 1 x High readiness CSG = 1 x Carrier , 2 x T...

RN/RM personnel of January 2020 38,980 2021 39,990 2022 40,270 2023 38,990 Within 1 year, RN/RM lost 1280 personnel. 2 Echos (75x2 = 150) and 2 Sandowns (35x2 = 70) is only 220. Frigate's crew is just rotating = sent to LIFEX-finished T23. I understand the on-board crew is about 1/3 of the total ma...

So Tamar has been knocking about DG for about a month and has now moved again back to India still seems to to be working a 15 days at sea 5 along side pattern