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by SW1
04 Mar 2024, 21:25
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
Replies: 86
Views: 8702
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Re: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion

FAA is cracking the whip may put the recent news in context. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/updates-boeing-737-9-max-aircraft The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s six-week audit of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, prompted by the January 5 incident involving a new, Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft, fou...
by SW1
04 Mar 2024, 19:25
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
Replies: 86
Views: 8702
United Kingdom

Re: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion

FAA is cracking the whip may put the recent news in context. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/updates-boeing-737-9-max-aircraft The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s six-week audit of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, prompted by the January 5 incident involving a new, Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft, foun...
by SW1
04 Mar 2024, 15:57
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

@SW1 forgot to show the last paragraph in the article: That many accidents during a collective 1.7 million flight hours gave a rate of .87 class A mishaps per 100,000 flight hours, lower than the Army’s overall rate of 1.03 and lower than the H-60’s previous five-year rate of 1.04. Flightfax’s revi...
by SW1
04 Mar 2024, 11:42
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
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Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

[quote=Tempest414 post_id=165091 Firstly under CANZUK I would be looking at Canada and Australia to form an F-35b unit of 20 jets meaning that that the carrier would carry between 24 and 30 5th Gen jets however I know you don't think so but most including the USN would think a CANZUK battle group o...
by SW1
04 Mar 2024, 09:43
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

If they are falling over themselves for Blackhawk and wish to ignore the supposed industrial strategy cut the program delete the funding. They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite. yeah, that'll help the squaddies Does in France and Italy What o...
by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 20:06
Forum: Conflicts
Topic: The war in Ukraine
Replies: 1163
Views: 85539
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Re: The war in Ukraine

by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 17:15
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

Both leonardo and airbus have offered production lines and full integration in the uk with airbus also offering export from there line Full integration = assembly of kits produced abroad with a smidgen of UK parts. All three offer that with varying amounts of smidgen. No R&D, no design, no prot...
by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 16:22
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

[quote=Tempest414 post_id=165091 Firstly under CANZUK I would be looking at Canada and Australia to form an F-35b unit of 20 jets meaning that that the carrier would carry between 24 and 30 5th Gen jets however I know you don't think so but most including the USN would think a CANZUK battle group op...
by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 15:25
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

You can certainly speculate, I go with submarines , strategic logistics, ISR, ew hardening, communication, special forces and ground based air defence. My main point is: • What does the UK actually need to be able to do better? • What is the U.K. not doing now that an increase in funding would faci...
by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 15:13
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

If they are falling over themselves for Blackhawk and wish to ignore the supposed industrial strategy cut the program delete the funding. They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite. yeah, that'll help the squaddies Does in France and Italy What o...
by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 15:11
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

Sorry which airframe doesn’t exist? All examples in the nmh contact are flying helicopters. The perfect all-rounder doesn’t currently exist. Which of the NMH contenders are: • As accomplished at ASuW as a Wildcat? • As accomplished at ASW as a Merlin? • As good a battlefield helo as a Blackhawk? It...
by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 12:11
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

You can certainly speculate, I go with submarines , strategic logistics, ISR, ew hardening, communication, special forces and ground based air defence. My main point is: • What does the UK actually need to be able to do better? • What is the U.K. not doing now that an increase in funding would faci...
by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 12:09
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

Your industrial strategy is to retain the design integration, manufacture test skills in rotorcraft industry…..Aerospace is an expensive business but you get better outcomes if you keep the design integration and test in country . It’s highly unlikely the NMH contract will be awarded before the GE ...
by SW1
03 Mar 2024, 10:30
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

….ignore the supposed industrial strategy….. Regardless of the design that is eventually chosen, how can you have a coherent industrial strategy with so few units? If HMG was really serious about an industrial strategy they would transfer all Wildcat AH1 to RN and increase the NMH order to around 7...
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 21:57
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)
Replies: 156
Views: 82211
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Re: Vanguard Class Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) (RN)

tomuk wrote: 02 Mar 2024, 21:32
SW1 wrote: 02 Mar 2024, 08:38 Is this an upgrade to all the ship’s systems short of a refuel?

Surely they’re not going to attempt another refuelling after vanguard?
Well the Vanguard refurb and refuel has been estimated at costing over £500million so?
See you in 7 years or so then
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 21:57
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
Replies: 86
Views: 8702
United Kingdom

Re: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion

The plants in the UK and America are also heavily involved in defence programs that would not sit easily within airbus or Boeing. I cant see airbus wanting their business jet or nacelle business either as there not on airbus products. It could become complicated. The problem is that Spirit are losi...
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 21:27
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

If they are falling over themselves for Blackhawk and wish to ignore the supposed industrial strategy cut the program delete the funding. They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite. yeah, that'll help the squaddies Does in France and Italy
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 20:51
Forum: Conflicts
Topic: RED SEA - Houthi attacks
Replies: 49
Views: 1635
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Re: RED SEA - Houthi attacks



Italian destroyer in the Red Sea has intercepted a drone with a 76mm cannon
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 20:49
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49337
United Kingdom

Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)

If they are falling over themselves for Blackhawk and wish to ignore the supposed industrial strategy cut the program delete the funding.

They might get the message then that industrial resilience matters it’s not a catchy sound bite.
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 20:15
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

You can certainly speculate, I go with submarines , strategic logistics, ISR, ew hardening, communication, special forces and ground based air defence. My main point is: • What does the UK actually need to be able to do better? • What is the U.K. not doing now that an increase in funding would faci...
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 11:51
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

The current planned structure is based on finding efficiency saving. It isn’t based on finding £10bn of annual savings from a £50bn budget. Be serious. A raise to 2.5 GDP is an increase of around ~£100bn over the next decade. That amounts to 4 years of Australias entire defense budget added to the ...
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 11:21
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

If the defence gets 2.5% of gdp is simply funds the current program nothing more. Again this is another throwaway comment that is regularly regurgitated by the commentariat. If that is true then 20% savings need to be found from the defence budget per annum from next year. It’s not remotely credibl...
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 10:40
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

A third “LHA/LHD’ is also attractive but completely out of the question without funds, and even then only when other priority areas are properly funded first. So what will this extra funding provide? Lots of commentators insisting that more money is required but I have so far seen no one put togeth...
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 09:32
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

I don’t understand the fascination with these small amphibious support ships other than an assumption it’s possible to do it on the cheap because we’ve spent all the money elsewhere and don’t know what to do now. These small cheap flat-tops are relatively new and therefore there is bound to an exci...
by SW1
02 Mar 2024, 09:07
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion
Replies: 5973
Views: 1499927
United Kingdom

Re: Current & Future Amphibious Capability - General Discussion

I don’t understand the fascination with these small amphibious support ships other than an assumption it’s possible to do it on the cheap because we’ve spent all the money elsewhere and don’t know what to do now. These small cheap flat-tops are relatively new and therefore there is bound to an exci...