I don't really see it as a BDR area at all, but it is something that could be used to shorten turn around times for items especially in areas of the aircraft that suffer from flex/stress.

I wonder what the cost of one these vs a conventionally made panel would be?

You've obviously not worked in the Mod

If these new helicopters are going to be primarily aimed at giving integral mobility to the planned Rapid Response BCT then it would be useful to know the size of formation that is intended to be lifted in one go. This would dictate either or both the number of fully equipped troops each aircraft w...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-56538334

Ex general gets sent to prison at a court martial for fraud.

Were you can hope to improve the software development is by separating the flight control software from the weapons and sensor software, so that when you need to modify things your flight critical software doesn’t need to be touched and re certified at each stage. We’re the digital twins help is in...

If you deem someone from the state important enough to be allowed to fly in such aircraft then no matter how unlikely it’s use i think it should have the defensive systems in place. We hear a lot about non state groups getting access to ever more sophisticated weapons. Could you imagine the ramific...

Speculation now that these (two of them) will be contractor-operated, not RAF. The last image lacks an RAF roundel and still carries civilian registration. As they are contractor ownership and run. Will they have defensive aids fixed to them as they are most likely carrying high value vips? They co...

Am I reading to much into the fact that the silhouette for the light brigade combat teams on the army’s integrated force 2030 looks like foxhound and bushmaster I would think so, someone at the printing dept probably got tasked to add on some generic outlines. The paper mentions army chinooks, comm...

I see hidden away there's more money for Cyprus, I wonder what that'll be spent. No shortage of things to spend money out there.

I don't think there's anything in there that hasn't already been leaked.

I can't remember when the hercs were due out of service?

But ignoring that as our watery eyed champions do, the U.K. f35 fleet is about the same size as our allie Norway’s entire fast jet fleet, bigger than our Dutch, Belgium and Danish allied entire fast fleet. So our deterrent effect is collectively fine. Next time the UK is attacked by one or all of t...

Wasn't it mentioned that any reduction in personnel would be done by lower recruitment levels in the future rather than giving out redundancy pay? I wonder how many people will find their careers cut short in the next couple of weeks? There could be redundancies, although I doubt it. Might be lots ...

I wonder how many people will find their careers cut short in the next couple of weeks?

Sorry not sure what you mean

Calculation for QEC availability worked out a 1.4 IIRC. On the same basis, taking 36 x F35s as the ”1” in the “1.4” results in 14 x F35s for the 0.4 (rounded). Therefore to match projected Carrier availability would require 50 x “Front Line Aircraft. On this basis, if someone promulgated the effica...

I see the fantasy fleet chat is on full flow again

RichardIC wrote:

That made laugh

I still sometimes think that, assuming the same level of funding was put in to them, we'd have been better off spending the same amount on 4 or 5 x 35,000t class carriers, similar to the Italian one, than 2x65,000t (or whatever they now displace) QE flat tops. Having 3 of those at sea at all times,...

Kids go back to school that day, since the government want to sell this as good news, I'm not it'll be on that day. Possibly that week though.

Tbh, it doesn't make it clear either way at the moment. I guess we'll see in time what they are actually aiming to do.

Possibly so, tie it in the some sort of, we are retraining people for cyber warfare (even if they aren't) so upskilling our most important assets etc etc.

Yeah I get some of it is let's try something new and see what works and doesn't, as you never what you might learn. However I don't see changing things like wings about to be easy or cheap. Stations still have different functions so there wouldn't be much mix and match inside one particular flying u...

Reminds me of the scorpion (?) that similarly promised to cover all manner of different roles?


I don't think they sold a single aircraft did they?

Seems to be the standard rumour of the army loosing 10,000 people knocking about. I wonder how true it'll be this time. Personally I doubt it, how do the government sell it? They've been pretty visible with support for cv19 in several roles. Not just that the government have been very keen to show t...

I can't see how messing about with changing the wings, intakes etc are worth it for fairly small changes in performance.
I'm not sure there's any real demand for this sort of thing.