AW159 Wildcat HMA.2
AW101 Merlin HMA.2


I missed out the A in the earlier post

Here's a daft idea... Take 14 Wildcats from the Army, give them to the Navy (get them up to HMA.2 but with dipping sonar modification). Freeing up some Merlin's... Give the Army 10 AW149's (less airframes, but more capable)... 20 more AW149's to the RAF (to replace Puma) until the Future Vertical Wh...

Which makes it all the more criminal that 8 x Merlin HM1 are languishing in inactivity, when they could (and should) have been brought up to HM2 standard to provide additional Airframes for the additional (to Merlin) Crowsnest role. :mrgreen: Was just going to say that too... I would even have used...

When people ask why didn't we just use this rifle or that rifle (instead of the SA80) it always makes me wonder why the FN FNC never gets mentioned...

He is pretty downhearted at the moment Cant say I blame him. Is there not any courses he can sign up for, that will help him advance his career. He is working towards his LH but needs sea time as well to complete the requirements I think. He has asked for a loan to another ship, a lot of his old ph...

Marine's from 43 show off their skills...

Question: Are the L119 A1's just hand-me-downs, or would they have needed to buy new A1 spec rifles to fill a whole unit?

From Wiki... U.S. withdrawal In October 2019, according to documents from the House of Representatives, the United States' President was considering withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty.[22][23] NATO allies and partners, in particular Ukraine, were against the move, fearing it would license Russia...

Just over 40 years ago, the Royal Air Force took delivery of their first Chinook helicopter. They’ve featured in every major conflict since and proven to be versatile across the spectrum of operations, from deploying troops to rescuing civilians.

ArmChairCivvy wrote:The lightness (leaving aside the changeability of barrel, for a longer one that is) may be the reason why the US has not had any of the silliness (with their SAW) of dropping MGs from section level.

Well except for the USMC who have switched to the HK 416 for assault, DMR and SAW...

ArmChairCivvy wrote: Those interested in all the twists and turns can enjoy a read here:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ ... lure-93001

That article is soooo badly written

I only got a few paragraphs into before I had to stop... I'll try and force myself to read it later

If we did get a small number (6 to 8) of Tilt Rotors for the SF they would probably hide them as RAF Mildenhall with the USAF platforms, but equipped more like the SOCOM platforms, but with no nationality markings. All the infrastructure is there to support them and they could be kept off books/Bla...

If you want to see a much smaller number of helicopters going fwd tilt rotors are the best way to achieve it. Fewer = How many? Fewer titlt rotors which current fleet are you goin to dispose - Puma, Merlin or Chinook? Or is there a huge budget to put them in storage? Who is going to fly these fewer...

Textron's entry...
Note that on the rifle, the support hand is right on the ejection port...

Just found this, showing a lot of the testing done...

aimed at a space between the 556 and 762, but not necessarily designed to replace either So you don't see a unitary (as for ammo carried) squad coming? 556 isn't going away for a long, long time, the new 6.8 is all about "overmatch" at the expense of lower powered situations, i.e. room cl...

Problem with M855 A1 (and its like) is that the barrel pressures have gone up so high that your safety margin to the proof load is almost halved... https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/06/03/hornady-announces-6mm-arc/ The new 6mm ARC round has promise (and is extremely similar to an idea i had y...

I imagine it went something like this...

Signed off work, bored... Decided to do some crude photoshopping...

bobp wrote:US and UK bomb Scottish island.........
No humans were killed in the exercise

Don't tell Nicola Sturgeon that

Joe f'ing Wicks....

Bit of gun porn anyone?

This bloke is making a RC F-35B (really cool btw, look at his other videos), but he's also built this test frame to help him get used to flighting it and experiment with bits and bob's...

Anyone else think it would make a good (scalable) basis for a UAV???

Sorry, but that first link about Tonka is biased as fook. Other than the small wing, every argument against it is purely due to lack of investment (an unfortunately common problem outside of the US). The Female former RAF pilot saying that the F-15E would have been better... There was a 12 year gap ...

It appears that a year after the introduction of the newly upgraded SA80 A3 the British Army is introducing a series of small but significant tweaks to improve weapons handling. The changes come following user feedback on the SA80 A3 / L85A3 rifles which have been overhauled by Heckler & Koch i...

Ken Block would probably be up for it... A gymkhana through the ships may not go down to well with the Admiralty though