God forbid the BA ever aspiring to have the best tank. That would never do.

Dear MoD, please put this in the C2 LEP for Xmas, you can reuse them for C3:

https://www.janes.com/article/93163/rhe ... m-tank-gun

You know it makes sense.

Pretty sure you've had that mate. I think one of the 4 was donated to the Moriva aviation meseum in Kinloss recently as an outdoor display. Apparently there's one in Karup in Denmark now...wtf. Insane. In that case I will have to adjust my plan to purchasing the Italian ASH variant and re-building....

insist on an "open book" bid Weren't the carriers done on open book? Before the carrier era I was working with companies that copied the practice, they said, from the MoD; it was a disaster. One can always compound a disaster by adding micromanagement: We would like to have several suppli...

You have a competition to get a good deal. The US had one. That's why JLTV is so cheap. The UK is getting them at the same price as the US army is getting them. Plus the cost of the unique UK bits of course. In the year since that Single source decision was made the price seems to have doubled Rumo...

Well that was quite an optimistic agenda laid out up to and including CSG 21, though the air group for the latter is decidedly underwhelming with 16 F-35 and 8 Merlins, plus any additional assets the USMC may wish to bring along. I have to say that I would be happy with the QE class having a standa...

Don't know if anyone has seen the Times today but there's a 2 page rant about the carriers from Max Hastings. Guys a complete pillock. Got that right: "yada, yada, yada, generals don't like carriers, yada, yada, yada, wrong statements about carriers, yada, yada, yada, need a bigger army, yada ...

Be fun if the Marines brought along some V-22's and they did some a2a refueling of both the F-35's and Merlins. Maybe "fun" isn't the right word. You know what I mean. Informative maybe. Will they actually have VARS ready then, its gone a little quiet on it recently... Thought it was supp...

Just pulling your chain

It’s not underwhelming it’s reality rather than the fiction that’s been going round for years. When us marines put this number of f35s to seat in the Pacific and elsewhere it’s considered a strategic statement why should we be any different. I think it’s seen as disappointing by most due to what th...

I suppose it would be too naive to think that more details will emerge on the Type 31 contract now that the election is over.

By the way, many congratulations for getting the correct answer.

Hey, F-35's are US made!

Well that was quite an optimistic agenda laid out up to and including CSG 21, though the air group for the latter is decidedly underwhelming with 16 F-35 and 8 Merlins, plus any additional assets the USMC may wish to bring along. Be fun if the Marines brought along some V-22's and they did some a2a...

You have a competition to get a good deal. The US had one. That's why JLTV is so cheap. The UK is getting them at the same price as the US army is getting them. Plus the cost of the unique UK bits of course. In the year since that Single source decision was made the price seems to have doubled Rumo...

Sorry for the multi updates, shut me up if I get too much! I did notice walking around that now and again there were certain doors with a Stars and Stripes picture stating that there were certain things within these rooms that were also under US restrictions and therefore different T&C's for no...

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Why bother! Mods will do f all anyway.

I read it. Didn't bother me. I'm sure I deserve some shit thrown my way. Nobody's perfect.

Luckily the US has other things to offer other that technology transfer, like actual defense. "Dear Japan, if you buy our jets, we will defend you with our biggest navy in the world ,our biggest air force in the world and our best equipped army in the world including our nuclear weapons, love ...

SW1 wrote:Or why not just go with the Australian hunter class configuration from ship 4 onward.

The RN could just take the Tempest budget to pay for it: the 2 billion might just be enough for all the new kit: 2 new radars, 2 new management systems, 2 new missile types etc.

Nothing to do with Trump. I hate the guy but don't lay this at his door. If you buy foreign, this is what you get. Buy Chinese, buy Russian, buy French, buy British, it's all the same. I understand what you're saying, but I disagree as to the implications. There have clearly been countries where th...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:

Ron5 wrote: Putin-bots and useful idiots. One or two of the later appear here.

None of the former ?

I think we've found one of the later.

Well phillyj I'm going to say 4mts longer 2 MTRS wider and 3oz heavier lol :-),one day we might find out After last night's shenanighans I reckon she is a lot heavier! Met my nipper, as he was on duty he sent a mate to pick me up from Victory Gate, and he showed me pretty much every nook and cranny...

Well phillyj I'm going to say 4mts longer 2 MTRS wider and 3oz heavier lol :-),one day we might find out I read in "someone who ought to know"s tweet yesterday (but I can't remember who) that PoW is 12 feet longer because of the changes for LPH duty plus detailed design changes made for e...

The bit that seems to have a little bit of truth to it is the sovereignty part Sovereignty has been brought into more focus because of what happened to Turkey on F35. You supposedly weren’t able to do that especially if you’d paid the joining fee. Now if the US can do that to a NATO ally then they ...

Perhaps buying the P-1 may have been a smarter move than P-8.... I've a couple of mates who are either current or ex RAF "kipper fleet" One lad is currently serving with the P8s & says it was the only deal in town, the assistance from the USN made it the only option. The other lad who...

The bit that seems to have a little bit of truth to it is the sovereignty part Sovereignty has been brought into more focus because of what happened to Turkey on F35. You supposedly weren’t able to do that especially if you’d paid the joining fee. Now if the US can do that to a NATO ally then they ...