I am aware of the inaccuracy of "just max range", but what I'm saying is that one way or the other, it is easy to misrepresent CAMM to push an agenda in an article, by ignoring that even in the most simplified measure (the "max range") it is often underreated. And thats my point...

So no anti-Bae sentiment in the MoD or Treasury? Sure. You folks are all just wonderful, won the Australian bid all by your little selves. The man doth protest too much. Really interested where I said that the MOD won the contract by themselves, care to point it out? So opening a competition in one...

The author clearly has some form of bias going on. For one, Janes IHS once reported CAMM (not ER) reached out to 60km in testing. Granted THAT probably had low energy by that point, but it's definitely a given that CAMM is a lot further than 25km in its simplified reach statistics. So now we’re bac...

The biggest thing going for Babcocks is that its not Bae. Very sad but there is a definite anti-Bae sentiment in the MoD and Treasury. Luckily Australia & the US don't share the same delusion. Seriously? A lot of support and lobbying has gone into some recent BAe bids, Type 26 included. I’ve do...

On the Swiss thread there is the budget figure (still to be divvied up between fighters and GBAD) and here https://www.offiziere.ch/?p=32425 are excerpts from a market survey (I guess to establish the cost benchmark for the performance sought for the GBAD component) - interesting comments on CAMM (...

the Royal Navy's E/F-band multibeam Type 997 radar (also known as Artisan 3D) draws on technology from the Sampson multifunction shipboard radar, and the Commander series of ground-based air-defence radars. Is there one Commander series in use, anywhere? I think its referring to the Commander SL ra...

Developments in radar technology by British research programmes input heavily into products such as the Sky Sabre and SAAB products in general. Projects such as FF GBAD-AS are about proving new theories and pushing the outside of the envelope on what can be achieved. These projects never produce an...

Would the RN gain anything by using the same radar as the Australians are using when it comers to the T-26, and use Artisan on the T-31? If you use the RNs own PR with the delightful Mach 3 tennis ball being detected at 25km, most trackers need 3 hits before generating a track on the C2 system, whi...

How many Artisan sets are there going to be to port over? 13? T26 3 T31 6 MARS SSS 3 I don't think we really know the figures but batch 2 T26 will require new sets so maybe they will be different. It does seem possible that Australia has potential to export EMPAR to the UK and Canada. Signing the d...

I think the overall thrust of your position seems to be that the UK is somehow behind other nations with respect to radar technology and prepared to operate second best equipment. This is not the case with current technology being more advanced than you want accept. In most cases the UK was the fir...

It cant be too bad to go max 200 nm range and track about 800 targets and fast tennis balls .not Too shabby really , not sure the range track capabilities of ceafar and fremm frigates french/ italian radars altho they alot more expensive so must be better Kilometres are the units of distance you’re...

ASDOT delayed yet again. RFP now due late August.. Probably a favour to Babcock. Meanwhile 736 NAS due to stand down in 2020 which would effectively leave the RN without aggressor training. RAF could take up some slack but not all of it. Which itself would impact upon FOST and every tub we send int...

Not seen this on here. FGS Sachsen having a bad day.



Almost always similar audio for these hang/mis fire videos...

I'd think looking properly at biz jets... they are available at a much lower cost and therefore more likely to be supported properly in the future. "What's that? You've picked the cheapest option!?! Well done lad, we'll invest your savings for future upgrades" said no-one at the Treasury ...

What matters is does that lower cost enable new distributed methods? If it does the smaller platform is viable, if not it's difficult to see how it can fully replace the bigger platform,. This buoy is gone round repeatedly. The issue is that due to the large areas it covers Air C2 is already decent...

I see the advantages of the smaller system, but too many times have I seen operational capability constrained by lack of operators or comms channels. There is a massive difference between what six people in the back of a SAAB could achieve vs ten (ideally I’d like twelve!) in the Boeing. That’s befo...

If you’re looking to replicate the availability of the Ds a fleet of two E7s would probably suffice..... Boeing is the obvious answer, which I imagine will go down really well in some quarters. Airbus will push something that doesn’t exist and unfortunately the SAAB offerings don’t have the operator...

Never knew Iceland played cricket.......

And this was before the MoD got a little extra money so who knows. The story about Tyne being prepared to replace the ailing Forth was just packed full of quotes from May when the original story broke. No new ones. The only new element was the claim that Forth was to be replaced and that was from a...

And this was before the MoD got a little extra money so who knows. The story about Tyne being prepared to replace the ailing Forth was just packed full of quotes from May when the original story broke. No new ones. The only new element was the claim that Forth was to be replaced and that was from a...

Explains the slow Frigate build. BAe have to keep stopping to wait for the glue to dry.

Old thread but seems appropriate, saw today that sadly John Farley, the famous Harrier test pilot, has died. A few colleagues had been to his lectures and had nothing but praise for an fantastic man to whom the success of the Harrier owed much to. The 'Farley Take off' must have been an amazing sigh...

Obligatory posting of the Dos Gringos song when talking about a fighter trail across the Atlantic.....



For the more sensitive forum members the song references the male genital and also occasional swear words. Those tinkers.

Duh, they’re stealth aircraft. They have been in the UK and sat on the deck the whole time while the carrier has been in Pompy.

Safeguard, bloke in the pub said so......

SKB wrote:Um... they can't fly OVER the weather??!

It’s not the flying over, it’s the getting up there, the refuelling and the diversions!

I imagine tolerance of risk is low for this trip.....