I wouldn't say typhoon is much bigger than tornado. They are both a similar size. Evening Topman, yep of comparable like by like size. But they are radically different aircraft, Tornado was originally envisioned as a multi role aircraft, but German insistence on an aircraft as small as possible eff...

I wouldn't say typhoon is much bigger than tornado. They are both a similar size.

When you take about “defence and security” and what is rolled into that bracket is why percentages are of little value. Energy and food security will be important going fwd and I would suspect investments in the these areas will be rolled under said title. Of course commentators associate there for...

Politicians do things that are politically popular and/or easy, the voting population aren't interested in defence hence its not given massive amounts of money. I'll believe it when i see the latest round of promises. I think they'll be quietly dropped as the government is about to spend tens of bil...

jonas wrote: ↑12 Jul 2022, 14:36 https://questions-statements.parliament ... 7-04/29912

To be read as, we've no idea.

I don't know if this has been posted. He seems to get it though which is good to see for a change.

SD67 wrote: ↑05 Jul 2022, 18:14

SW1 wrote: ↑05 Jul 2022, 10:40

SD67 wrote: ↑05 Jul 2022, 10:17 Too many research projects, not enough products.

Still, gotta keep the boffins busy

Research projects are cheap!

So is pornography....

Perhaps combine the two, they can do research pornography projects.

The problem is even with the number itself, its not capability based so they can just add something to the MOD budget that usually comes out of another departments budget then low and behold 2.5% of GDP. It would be different if they said we are going to spend 2.5% due to doubling the number of esc...

I wonder if anything actually comes of it.

Is that the 7th crash? I've lost count.

Boeing is in a mess it needs government contracts to keep cash flow going as it’s currently selling 737s at a 20% loss to cost. And impairment charges for 787 and 777x delivery suspension and delays are going thru the roof. It was a contract only ever going that direction. That said, I don't imagin...

I bet you could increase manpower in the E-7 fleet, and any chance of manning additional a/c, by moving it to waddo...

I think they've been sending them out there for a few years.

I don't think it matters too much if most of the stuff here regarding deployments and operations are fantasy. It's harmless enough, i don't think anyone takes themselves seriously that the things here are realistic. Its nothing than harmless fantasy chit chat.

You anoraks get so het up about Sqn numbers or numbers of airframes per Sqn.... The real metric is how many spares have been bought. That drives everything! With only 3 operational squadrons, that means two could be allocated to the designated Strike Carrier, and then one squadron could be allocate...

Having dealt with them in the past, they do what they say. They are a pretty good company to deal with.

They have quite a few MoD contracts already, hopefully they'll keep going for some time to come.

I believe they also export quite a bit as well.

I don't think the US are likely to ignore their own coasts.

We've got far better things to worry about. And more important things to spend our money on.

What would we patrol for that close to the US? Its their back yard, they don't need any help and we've got bigger problems.

The army could use them in the kamikaze role, they've plenty of experience of watchkeeper piling in.

Yes Eurofighter will cover them for some time a limited buy of say 25 F-35b to cover off the Harrier for the navy seems a good option to me this would be a bit like the UK typhoon and F-35b until the next gen fighter comes along They have a dozen harriers, its nearly pointless considering the expen...

Yes Eurofighter will cover them for some time a limited buy of say 25 F-35b to cover off the Harrier for the navy seems a good option to me this would be a bit like the UK typhoon and F-35b until the next gen fighter comes along They have a dozen harriers, its nearly pointless considering the expen...

I read a report stating cancelling 2 wedge tails cost the mod £18m in fines to boeing. I assume that's the loss of discount through EOS that ordering all 5 would have brought, rather than plans incompetence if the individual price would have been the same if we ordered 3 in the first place with an ...

The public given reason was the uk didn't ask permission to fly through german airspace, so nothing was denied.

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