If you really need a third Division them one way might be to keep the 3rd as I laid out 3rd Division ( Based around Boxer , Ajax , CH3 , M270 , K9A3 ) 1 x Armoured brigade with 1 x Cavalry regt , 2 x Armoured regts , 2 x Infantry battalions , 1 x Artillery , 1 x Logistics 2 x Mechanised brigades wit...

To follow on how do I see the Air response units laid out maybe something like this 1 x HQ & QM Platoon = LRV 400 & HMT 600 2 x Recce sections = LRV 400 2 x forward fire Platoons = HMT 400 1 x Fire support Platoon = HMT 600 As these Units will need to stay light so weapons would be 12.7mm HM...

The rest of Tweet (neither convinced that a follow on OPV needs to be in effect armed like a corvette) https://twitter.com/nicholadrummond/status/1689374439253725184?s=20 As a base line I believe first and for most the RB2's should be given a 3d radar like SAAB x1 and a better UAV and if money allo...

downsizer wrote: ↑11 Aug 2023, 08:02 What a load of fan boi pish.

Remember you have to say why as this helps others to accept or question your point and we know you have some life ex in this

moved over form the Jackal thread the Army right now can't move to 3 fighting Divisions due to the lack of Logistics and Artillery units right now the best it can manage is 6 brigades plus 2 reserve brigades with something like so 3rd Division ( Based around Boxer , Ajax , CH3 , M270 , K9A3 ) 1 x Ar...

I think if 16AA and 9 of your ARU's had LRV 400 & 600 they would be in a great place The LRV 400/600 is a great capability but it has limitations just like everything else. How would the LRV perform against a peer force? How much appliqué armour can the suspension take? How would it perform in ...

I think we should only really think about making HMT 400/600 air deployable by C-17 & A400 what we should be looking at as far as 16AA goes is LRV 400 & 600 plus bring back ATMP which can all fit inside a Chinook HMT400 fits in a Chinook - https://supacat.com/products/hmt/hmt400/ https://su...

What the Ukrainians think right now is thank god kit keeps coming what they will think once the war is over is what works for us and that is what we should be thinking right now what works for us and what do we have in production Absolutely but there must be lessons that can be learnt. The HMT is a...

Group 1 North Atlantic = 2 x T-31's and 5 x OPV's Group 2 South Atlantic = 2 x T- 31's , 1 x OPV & Protector Group 3 Indian Ocean = 3 x T-31's & 2 x OPV's Group 4 Pacific Ocean = 1 x T-31 & 2 x OPV,s Is this active or both active/refit? It’s a bit ambitious for active but if it’s active...

In a war time effort there would likely have been some “unserviceable” AND they would be needed for Maritime Patrol AND they would have to provide themselves with return trip (to Ascension) fuel ………. Remember, according to your scenario, you have lost the use of the runway at Mt. Pleasant. “Wartime...

Tempest414 Wrote:- Plus they don't need to go by carrier they can go using Tankers Have a read to see how many tankers were needed to get 1 x Vulcan to Stanley from Ascension in 1982 ……… How many Tankers do you think we have got ? You really think that would be practical for a whole squadron. I do ...

Ian Hall wrote: ↑10 Aug 2023, 07:12 Those in favour of amalgamation should look hard at the 'ian experience.

Don't worry we are heading for amalgamation due our addiction on money and not being willing to give up a little bit of it to go green so a Nuke option could be seen as euthanasia

Tempest414 Wrote:- to counter the F-16 threat if it comes we could deploy a Sqn of F-35 which would not need a full runway if things start to heat up Unfortunately, if you do this, you will not have enough F35’s to put on one carrier, let alone two. AND you will have to transport them there on a ca...

Well as said on other threads if the Army sorts its self out and opted for 1 x Armored brigade = 12th 2 x Boxer based Mechanised brigades = 7th & 20th 2 x Rapid Response brigades = 4th & 16AA with each having 1 x Cavalry , 3 x Infantry , 1 x Artillery this will leave us with 2 x cavalry and ...

Exactly! 4 x Fleet Ready Escorts are better than 1. At least four FRE should be the minimum that the RN should have available. :mrgreen: They would not be FRE's as to say they would be duty escorts with each region having two T-31's working 3 months on 3 off they would be able to join different tas...

A airmobile/lt mech brigade based around this would be useful I think to us. Or at the very least a comparatively cheap capability that the Army could field fast that would address a lot of the gaps we have, maybe not close to completely, whilst it attempts to sort out the mess that it has got itse...

The payloads should be as far as possible platform agnostic what we need as I keep mentioning is assembly, integration and test capabilities as a prerequisite for major equipment purchases in this country. So we can buy and put them on whatever vehicle, ship, aircraft we want. It so happens in this...

Putting aside the OPV plus one or two Ice Patrol ships, of the RN means business the best way to achieve sea control of the region is to deploy a SSN. Fine to sail the CSG there occasionally, but a SSN will stop any thoughts of an invasion - which is why an increase to the SSN force should be prior...

The payloads should be as far as possible platform agnostic what we need as I keep mentioning is assembly, integration and test capabilities as a prerequisite for major equipment purchases in this country. So we can buy and put them on whatever vehicle, ship, aircraft we want. It so happens in this...

So in the last 18 months we have see SC HMT 600 configured for Light recovery SP Mortar SP 105 gun Brimstone Over watch Air Defence and before that MLRS so all we need now is a APC capable of carrying 10 troops and Ambulance and we are good to go It would be interesting to know what the Ukrainians ...

They would not have the manpower to operate more than 10 Escorts and 10 LST's plus it would take at least 4 years to train for an invasion and then there are only a handful of landing sites witch could be well mined both at sea and on the landing grounds They could be mined but will they and by wha...

So in the last 18 months we have see SC HMT 600 configured for

Light recovery
SP Mortar
SP 105 gun
Brimstone Over watch
Air Defence

and before that MLRS so all we need now is a APC capable of carrying 10 troops and Ambulance and we are good to go

Now back to 1939 we had the South Atlantic hunting group made up of 2 x Heavy and 2 x Light Cruisers with 3 on station and one in maintenance at anytime Now as said if we had 8 x Type 31 and 10 x OPV's we could have a South Atlantic group of 2 x Type 31's , 1 x OPV and the Ice patrol ship with UK po...

….Argentina say 10 LST and 10 escorts Considering the numbers of soon to be decommissioned vessels that would be a lower estimate. …plus 30 fast jets If the US Congress approves it will be up to 40x F16. We would have time to move the rapid reaction brigade by air and deploy 2 SSN to the region giv...

I don't understand. Very simple. Every nation needs to maintain a drumbeat of orders through their shipyards or skills, knowledge and capacity is lost between classes unless they rely on imports. The UK is a great example of how not to do it in this regard. The PLAN has roughly 160 Destroyers, Frig...