I’ve seem articles suggesting that the greater threat to Ukrainian aircraft is the MiG 31 with the R37 missiles

Good to hear things are moving forwards, but those are some very expensive lights.
Tens of thousands per vehicle?

If true IMHO that’s good more aircraft for the £ current F35B should be navy owned and operated but maintenance costs shared between RAF/RN I'd expect any cost savings in the purchase to be eaten up by running two* maintenance/training pipelines, plus it provides a wedge between disparate forces fo...

Could this company shake up the GA sector in the same way SpaceX has disrupted the launch market?

Given the last two Starship launches, one hopes not.

mrclark303 wrote: ↑22 Nov 2023, 16:26 Did we do the "UK thing" and specially bespoke modify ours, so we can't simply fit the turret systems already developed, I wouldn't put it past the MOD....

Boxer is modular at the mission module, so you'd have to "simply fit" the IFV mission module.

If we had more Artillery regiments great and maybe Hero 120 is to much and just sticking to 120mm and brimstone is enough for Battalion battle groups as brimstone allows targets out 20km's to be hit if needed That's the thing. If we've got resources to create weapons companies armed as such in each...

For me Brimstone is a weapon that is key I would if money allowed also drop in a lortor weapon section within the maneuver group for what i would call (for want of better name) the Infantry deep fight which I would mark at 45Km's from the firing point. The main combat area would be 0 to 10 km's wit...

As I said before for me I would change the infantry Battalion maneuver group to have a 120mm mortar platoon and a Brimstone overwatch platoon and then give each rifle company 2 x 60mm mortars this would allow the infantry to fight from 100 meters to 30 Km's in turn allowing the Artillery to get on ...

Um no, you've made the comparison. I told you the range of 120mm Mortar in relation to MA requirements... It's the great thing about forums, read back... You brought up the range for both, giving an assisted range for one and a unassisted one for the other. If you didn't mean for that to be a compa...

Base bleed range isn't a free lunch. So... You're not comparing like with like then. Why not!? Rocket assist (12km) vs base bleed (20km) or plain ballistic (8km) vs plain ballistic (17km). You're the one comparing rocket assist with plain. Good thing it's not intended to out-range a light gun then....

L118 doesn't hit 21km. Not with regular ammunition, but the base-bleed ER shell would go over 20km (wiki cites 20.6km, Janes "over 20km") Maybe not quite 21km, but still, compare like with like. 120mm mortar is helicopter carried. And has about half the range of the light gun. Did I sugge...

Why is it useful for light forces? Wtf has a helicopter and tank got to do with it. Because it's airportable and has a decent range. A helicopter can be used for jobs a tank does, but if you put one in place of the other neither will fare very well. Different systems for different jobs. Can you get...

No suggestions of making the RA smaller, or giving MA the light gun. Bin light gun entirely. When I said resources, I meant money and personnel. If you bin the light gun, what are you doing with the money and personnel? Re-equipping with the long range guns and missiles? Personally, I think that th...

Manoeuvre Arm. That'll be the infantry/armour that the artillery are operating in support of. Thank you. - Remove close support from RA. Give 120mm mortars to MA Seems like a strange way of presenting it. Would the 120mm mortars be in addition to the 81mm mortars at battalion or in addition? What w...

RunningStrong wrote: ↑09 Nov 2023, 22:44 - Remove close support from RA. Give 120mm mortars to MA

RA = Royal Artillery, MA = ?

The same MCS is currently in use in Ukraine on the CV9040s from Sweden, so there ought to be excellent evidence on how it stands up to operational use. No harm in further testing though. As an applique system it offers the ability to alter the performance between testing, exercises and operational u...

Spitfire9 wrote: ↑04 Nov 2023, 11:48 What about negotiating prices to enable companies to break even with productivity improvements

Can you expand on what you mean by that? It doesn't make sense to me.

I'm sorry, but this is exactly the opposite of recognised Cost Accounting / Project Accounting. The fact that 2/3 of the budget has been spent does not mean 2/3 of the milestones have been achieved. No, it doesn't. Why would it? I didn't say that it did. 44 complete vehicles have been handed over -...

Having to choose bayonet or suppressor is a bit sucky. Anything hanging off the hand guard would have to be kind of long and awkward.

I don't know - ask the market. It's called a "tender". Do you know how much a "tender" costs? How long it takes? Do you cancel Ajax before you do it in the hope that it gives you a good answer, or do you let Ajax stumble on with the axe hanging over it? Personal view - Ajax has ...

Moved here to be on topic And if there really is a unique UK need for gold plated electronics then it should have been modularised and separated from the platform. By making it bespoke and platform specific you're basically allowing GD to milk us for the next 30 years. Isn't Ajax supposed to be GVA ...

And if there really is a unique UK need for gold plated electronics then it should have been modularised and separated from the platform. By making it bespoke and platform specific you're basically allowing GD to milk us for the next 30 years. Isn't Ajax supposed to be GVA compliant? So the electro...

mrclark303 wrote: ↑07 Oct 2023, 16:48 a quiet revolution going on with moderators

...very good...

new guy wrote: ↑05 Oct 2023, 23:02 what? you still make no sense,
you arre saying have CAMM alongside CAMM.

I think he means that we should have the Supacat (or other vehicle)-based launchers in addition to the MAN truck-based systems.

mrclark303 wrote: ↑04 Oct 2023, 18:47 We could have simply licence manufactured M16A2's, with the crap three round burst replaced with the A1's simple select fire mechanism.

Wasn't that the rifle that got lots of US soldiers killed in Vietnam with stoppages and failures?