Scimitar54 wrote:Looking forward to a T31e second batch then, (after the first 5 x Austere GP versions) being ASW focussed!

Only once they have cancelled at least 2 T26 in the second order...

Pseudo wrote:Mark the day, everyone. Today is the day that Brexit died.

All that's left is to put this mangy dog of an idea out of our misery.

Good chance you are right. If so, trust in our democratic institutions and the two main parties died with it

debating process has been the game of the day Deplorable that this happened (had to happen) at all: MPs vote by 311 to 293 to find ministers in contempt , as it is a bad precedent. But at least it proves that the nation (through its MPs) has awoken to the railroading that has been in sight for anyb...

Looks like DM is not a friend of the EFTA/EEA "card". Let's try a cook book version, start with the ingredients, as for the process, I'll only include the "prepping": - IF EFTA accepts us, guess what... we are in the EEA in the same instant= no negotiation - and no backstop eith...

A storm in a teacup, that one? They could copy it straight over from what has now been agreed, for a different scenario: "It is true that there would be regulatory divergence between one part of the UK and another, he says, but it could be kept to a minimum. It would involve just 15 forms of p...

did you not see the strings attached to EFTA/EEA that have been insisted upon if we go down that route? No, missed that. Where is that to be found (as far as I know EU sees deal, no-deal, more time (referendum and/or Canada+) so is it EFTA :lol: attaching the strings? I thought Erna Sohlberg had fi...

many problems with this route as there are with other routes forward. More so in some respects. Don't know about the last sentence, but it would sure be two steps back, to then take one forward. - through EFTA membership, we could enter the EEA "waiting room" :) - what is not off the shel...

Took a while: "Conservative MP George Freeman, a former chair of the PM's policy board [...] tells Sky News: " Since the Spring , when it was pretty clear to me the Chequers deal was not a deal [and] was likely to unfold, unravel, I think a lot of us have been looking at EFTA as the best ...

D M Please read my last post more carefully and you will see what I meant. Unless I misunderstood your point, you suggest that the carrier(s) could be deployed with fewer T45 escorts if Sea Captor were added to the T45s. My point is that I'm guessing the carrier(s) will only typically deploy with 1...

Sea-Ceptor or CAMM in addition to ASTER 15/30 on the Type 45 makes a lot of sense. It might enable the number of T45 Escorts for a QEC Carrier to be reduced and therefore stretch farther across the Fleet. If the Type 31 (or a variant) could become an effective ASW escort as well, then it might enab...

I can't say with certainty who could but I think the Tory back benchers and some labour with get spooked and cave in and vote for Mays deal ,it's just depends if it's the first vote or the second time around Tory whips will put pressure on etc and scare them into submission even tho a total waist o...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-Relations/Japan-to-order-100-more-F-35-fighters-from-US Hurray for Japan! although this does put their domestic jet program into question. Blimey, an additional order of 100 on top of their prior planed purchase of 40. I wonder how many will be the B v...

So are we expecting to see Japanese F35s flying off QE's deck in the 2020's? Would be great if so, when she deploys in the far East.

the british people voted to be out of the customs union.... we're out of the customs union, but in a new one to prevent the economy tanking. That's where people are claiming she's lied and thrown us up the river.... which is blatant bullshit. May was given a shit job that was never going to work an...

Listening to Macron and perhaps naively thinking that the UK government will not just rollover, I think fish is going to be a hot topic over the next few years, so good to have these ships available. Would like the Rivers with their flat work deck & 25t crane also to be used as mothership test ...

Either way she should be honest about this deal, when people realise that she has lied again it will only make things worse, and she is storing up more issues further down the line

PM's letter to British people https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DszZp4ZXgAAPX5z.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DszZp2kW0AAEb36.jpg I got to admit I’m not really up to speed on the issues, but reading this thread every now and again from what has been said on here and that letter from the PM, makes it so...

It has been a remainers stitch up; remainer PM, Chancellor, cival service, HoC, HoL and big business have colluded to negotiate a relationship which does not honour the spirit of the referendum result...We are getting brexit in name only. A Leave PM could have negotiated a different outcome. There ...

My point is, given the PM's obviously rather limited ability in negotiating large international political agreements she would have been better spending the last 2 years transitioning the UK across to trading under WTO terms. That would have just resulted in the UK being in a hugely disadvantageous...

It has been a remainers stitch up; remainer PM, Chancellor, cival service, HoC, HoL and big business have colluded to negotiate a relationship which does not honour the spirit of the referendum result...We are getting brexit in name only. A Leave PM could have negotiated a different outcome. There ...

Just posturing "I remain doubtful of any programme materialising". Something that this gvmnt does a lot of. We need a new low-orbit system anyway, and that can be started under the "same heading". And there is a commercial reward for doing that: " The U.K. currently produce...

Thanks guys. So does that mean that we are expecting RNR to partially crew them? Additionally, where are their local areas of interest, and why are they interested in these areas? I don't know why but I had always assumed that the B1s were usually patrolling the East and South coast, not the Irish s...

I just noticed that the B1s will be based at Newcastle, Liverpool and the Cardiff - does anyone know the operational rationale is for basing at these locations? In addition, what facilities does the RN have at these sites for the vessels and the crew?

Well I think that this conversation of knocking out satellites is all well and good but I think the news here is important and that is that the UK will develop its own navigation satellite system. The question is will the UK truly go it alone or join up with other like-mined countries wishing to pu...

It has been a remainers stitch up; remainer PM, Chancellor, cival service, HoC, HoL and big business have colluded to negotiate a relationship which does not honour the spirit of the referendum result...We are getting brexit in name only. A Leave PM could have negotiated a different outcome. There w...