Danish manufacturer Terma has been awarded an order to supply ten SCANTER 6000 radars to equip five the Batch II T26s The Scanter 6000 is a X-band solid state 2D radar operating in the 9250 – 9500MHz / 3cm range with max elevation <35 deg, instrumented range 96 nm, with ECCM (Electronic Counter Coun...

USN keen to leverage the industrial base of the three countries in support of the programme, the US industrial sub base under severe pressure with the Columbia and Virginia, current plan to increase rate to 2 per year in five years, currently only averaging 1.2 Virginia's per year. Rear Adm. Scott P...

BAE Australia issues PR to counter all the bad press Hunter has been receiving BAE Systems Publishes Status Report on Australia's Hunter-class Frigate Program Hunter Class Frigates: November 2023 Update - Nov. 01, 2023 https://www.defense-aerospace.com/bae-systems-publishes-status-report-on-australi...

I fully expect it to be 120+ when they actually commission. Why do you think the RN crew number would be so high, the Danish Navy IH class which is a real AAW frigate, not a OPV as the T31, with its SM-2s, ESSM and associated radars, 76 mm guns, HMS, LWT etc operates with 120/123 crew excluding the...

The US Army have a programme to equip their Apache helos with longer range NLOS ATGW missiles to replace the short range Longbow and JAGM, no doubt reflecting the high losses incurred by the Russian attack helos in Ukraine when using their short range ATGW missiles by Ukrainian MANPADS e.g. StarStre...

UK MoD and Denmark funding the SKYctrl SKID a Polish APS/UK MSI counter-UAS system on a standard pallet for Ukraine Using APS’s 3D MIMO radars with 3D arrays, EO sensors, ECM suite and its CyView C2 system and the MSI gun mounting for the Northrop Grumman 30mm MK44 Bushmaster cannon. https://www.def...

Hamas vs Israel A classic example of the effectiveness of firepower defeating defence, the Hamas attack with thousands of cheap rockets a significant number of them penetrated the Israeli Iron Dome system, inflicting extensive damage and casualties, Israel had 10 Iron Dome batteries and an estimated...

A Ukranian USV hit the Pavel Derzhavin in the Black Sea, a Project 22160 corvette of approx 1300-1700t, 94 m length, beam 14 m, 25 – 30 knots, according to Wikipedia they appear reasonably well equipped:- Pal-N, Pozitiv-MK radars, Sfera-2 opto-electronic station, TK-25 EW, 1 × 76.2 mm AK-176MA autom...

The Australian A$535 million/£280 million upgrade to turn Osbourne into a state of the art shipyard for the Hunter, the cost looks very reasonable considering that the 8 T26's costing £10 billion, the impression is it makes the upgrade to Govan shipyard look half-hearted. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

The NGAA will be totally compatible with existing Course Correction fuzes, hence accuracy will be ensured even when using RAP. Speculating the Northrop Grumman US M1156 GPS Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) with its small canard aerodynamic fins allow it to steer the shell on to target, okay as long as ...

CEAFAR2 on Hunter is S and L band (upper and lower sextupel arrays) plus the X Band target illuminators (cardinal point arrays). Thanks for the info. AIUI although the design margin maybe 10% much of that has been used up on the Burkes. The T26 light displacement from wiki is 6900t Though Burkes bu...

Mr Hudson's statement (@R686) explained the differences to the T26 hull required to increase the Hunter's displacement and will be be mainly driven by the need to be able to accommodate the ships much higher top weight due to the weight of the much higher performance of the S and X band CEFAR flat p...

I found the transcript, https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fcommjnt%2F27343%2F0000%22 Not sure where you are getting you weight figures from, The 10,000t is the figure in the press and is what the senators wanted Mr Hudson to confirm or deny wh...

Long range light frigates built to OPV+ standards will be around 50% cheaper than a A140. Is there any real world in service examples of this opv +, what this standard is, what is deleted compared to a proper frigate like the a140 and how or where it was built for around 150m pound? I'll try my bes...

Tempest414 wrote: ↑07 Oct 2023, 12:47 Long range light frigates built to OPV+ standards will be around 50% cheaper than a A140.

I'm dubious that's a true statement, can you quote an example of a light frigate/OPV that is 50% cheaper, the A140/ T31 OPV has a range of approx. 9,000nm.

Apologies for above error saying EM-2, was the SA80/L85

7th September interview with Mr Leuba of Knight's Armament Company on their KS-1 5.56 assault rifle chosen for the special operations units for British Army and RM. MoD placed a an order for 1,640 Knight's Stoner 1 (KS-1) rifles, designated the L403A1 in UK service, with an option to acquire a furth...

The US Army standard M4A1 has the option to fire in the fully automatic mode. A few 5.56 intermediate round rifles use constant recoil, firing from open bolt, with in effect zero recoil to make them fully controllable in full automatic fire. Knight's Armament classify theirs as a Light Assault Machi...

Following the Australian National Audit scathing May report on the A$45 billion cost of the Hunter Classs, an independent analysis was requested by the new Australian government in June to review the status of its navy surface combatant programme and notably the expensive/troubled Hunter-class friga...

It most certainly has an effect when we are talking 1 moa. A typical mil spec AR trigger weighs in at about 5lb, some slightly lighter, some even heavier!! A 5lb trigger is sufficiently hard to effect accuracy. I've fired AR's with the dreadful heavy 3rd burst group (A2), there is a world of differ...

I find it amazing the KA claim their AR platform is capable of sub moa out of the box, that's really impressive, you simply can't do that with most AR's due to the bloody heavy standard mil spec trigger! Would not be surprised if the claim for sub MOA true as impression is that production knowhow i...

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Geissele Automatics 31 August 2023 won the contract for the SOCOM MRGG-S (Mid-Range Gas Gun - Sniper) programme launched more than three years ago in preference others including FN and LWT (L129A2) rifles. MRGG-S spec was a semi-automatic rifle with a 20-inch barrel, weighing less than 10.5 lbs, fir...

Happy for someone to point out the substantial ballistic improvements of 6.5 over 7.62 at realistic ranges on a two way range in the hands of DM..... The problem with the 7.62/.308 is basically its a weak short 30-06 without the powder capacity and the resultant power needed to drive the heavier lo...

The L129A2 the RM procuring in 6.5mm Creedmoor

U.K. Royal Marines adopt a 6.5CM LMT as the L129A2, ft. HUXWRX and Leupold - The Firearm Blog