The British Army is considering SPIKE on Apache:

British Army leads the way for NATO’s next generation rotorcraft Colonel Paul Morris, Assistant Head Plans, Capability Air Manoeuvre, addressed the virtual International Military Helicopter Conference to outline further detail on how the British Army are leading NATO’s development of the Next Gener...

Please keep things civil guys. I shouldn't have to remind you. Warnings and bans will be issued if not.

A SeaGuardian is being shipped over for trials as part of the Protector programme:

HMS TALENT spotted with a new wake detection system in Gibraltar:



Article here: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3 ... -gibraltar

A model of HMS Queen Elizabeth was at a virtual cabinet meeting with the Home Secretary today.

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Merging this with the Russian Armed Forces topic.

HMS Albion transferred Fleet Flagship duty to HMS Queen Elizabeth today:

I thought CSG21 was supposed to be a fully “sovereign” deployment with only UK assets? I didn't think it was ever marketed as that? AFAIK we were always having international escorts and USMC participation. 2023/2024 will be the true sovereign effort. Put together a task group with 24 UK jets on boa...

US Navy commits to HMS Queen Elizabeth’s maiden deployment The United States has committed air and naval power, plus sailors and marines to the UK’s premier military deployment of 2021. US Marine Corps F-35 Lightning jets – identical to those flown and maintained by the Royal Navy and Royal Air For...

RAF Chinook 'stuck in the mud' in Oxfordshire after emergency landing https://i.imgur.com/lSjbJSA.jpg An RAF Chinook has been stranded in an Oxfordshire field after making a precautionary landing because of mechanical issues. The wheels of the helicopter, based at RAF Benson, sunk into the mud when...

First of all I'm always a bit sceptical of what the press says. However on a potential UK-EU deal The Times has just reported: UK and EU on brink of getting Brexit deal done ..... The draft agreement is understood to run to more than 1,000 pages and covers arrangements for trade, security and fishi...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all.

Deleted the last few posts of squabbling. Keep it civil please.

The Type 32 frigate has been split from this topic as it seems to be more than just a Type 31 derivative. This topic is now solely focused on the Type 31.

Type 32 frigate General Purpose Frigate [News Only]

A topic dedicated to the Type 32 since its a different ship to the Type 31. Comments from the Deputy CDS today: “Type 32 is the name give to follow on capability from Type 31. The broad intent is to follow on in the same kind of vein as T31 as a general purpose frigate with open architecture to fulf...

The Sun reporting on a COVID-19 outbreak aboard HMS VENGEANCE.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13367835/ ... -outbreak/

No talks of selling any Type 23s to Greece, putting some rumours to rest: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?i ... &s=type+32

Deleted another page of off-topic posts. This isn’t the place for speculation. Let’s get back to news and related discussion.

https://rbsl.com/capabilities/tracked-v ... hallenger2

RBSL website states the LEP Challengers will be known as Challenger 3. Not seen any British Army or government sources to suggest that’s what it’s name will be in service but it seems to be what RBSL is going with.

Apache AH-64E heralds new era in modern British military aviation https://i.imgur.com/pmA2p5c.jpg The first two new Apache Attack Helicopters (AH-64E variant) have been delivered to the British Army from the US Government. They arrived at Wattisham Flying Station on 26 Nov 20 with Aviation Technici...

"MCDCS5 Challenger 2":

A "Barracuda fitted Jackal 2" from this Tweet by Pagey.

Just a heads up. I know yesterday's announcement will lend itself to speculation but can we keep it out of this topic please. Feel free to speculate in this topic instead: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=701 Let's stick to confirmed details/news in this topic.