Boeing doing well recently with sales of 96 to Poland and another 184 for US Army, Australia and Egypt but Business Insider reporting Japan has announced in their Dec 2022 "Defense Buildup Program" they will be going in the exact opposite direction and ditching their attack helicopters sa...

Boeing doing well recently with sales of 96 to Poland and another 184 for US Army, Australia and Egypt but Business Insider reporting Japan has announced in their Dec 2022 "Defense Buildup Program" they will be going in the exact opposite direction and ditching their attack helicopters sa...

Boeing doing well recently with sales of 96 to Poland and another 184 for US Army, Australia and Egypt but Business Insider reporting Japan has announced in their Dec 2022 "Defense Buildup Program" they will be going in the exact opposite direction and ditching their attack helicopters sa...

Moved across…. The U.K. decided to replace the 3 with 2 carriers in the 30-40k tonnes range sdsr 98! Exactly but we are where we are. The rise in SSN numbers is welcome but not without further funding. If the budget remains the same the Amphib fleet will not be fully replaced in the 2030s when the ...

I’m not sure it’s an embarrassment… Its a complete failure of successive governments. Let’s rewind a little. - The UK had three invincible class aircraft carriers. - The UK decided to replace them with two QE aircraft carriers The U.K. decided to replace the 3 with 2 carriers in the 30-40k tonnes r...

Good choice to keep as an interim ASS IMO. Actually I see it as an embarrassing illustration of how ridiculous recent planning has been. Trying to argue that Ocean had to be sold after only being commissioned for 20 years and then retain Argus until the 2030s is pathetic and indefensible. As a stop...

I don’t think mass is a lesson from Ukraine. The lesson is dispersed precision and exist. If you continue to exist for an air defence capability it changes the calculus of the enemy regardless of your size. Of course for ourselves we’re really talking in a nato context and as a nuclear power state s...

Ron5 wrote: ↑15 Mar 2023, 12:35

SW1 wrote: ↑14 Mar 2023, 14:49 ... and a full load of expendables ....

Fuel would be dumped.

Expendables doesn’t mean fuel!

https://aeralis.com/2023/03/14/aeralis-announces-digital-engineering-contract-with-shinmaywa/ Innovative British Military fast-jet company AERALIS has today announced a partnership with Japanese aircraft manufacturers, ShinMaywa. Signed at DSEI Japan, the two companies will work together to establis...

If i were in government you would like to think they would want to expand this renaissance to incorporate the civil nuclear enterprise and RR SMR, massively increasing the tech so pool training and education and funding streams such a civil program would bring while increase energy security with low...

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/uk-defence-secretary-keynote-speech-dsei-japan-2023 GCAP isn’t going to be a short love affair. It’s going to be a marriage. AUKUS was another project we announced this week - the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, developing the next generation of n...

Not a production line but a 737 completions and delivery centre. But like the a320 line in China it’s only for Chinese customers.

https://hushkit.net/2023/01/24/intervie ... ter-pilot/

Commander ‘Grassy’ Knowles gives us the low-down on flying and fighting in this 14-ton Anglo-Italian masterpiece of helicopter design.

The KPI for f35b vertical landing is in tropical condition to be able to execute the recovery flight profile with 2x 1000lb jdam and 2x aim 120 amraam and a full load of expendables. That remains the case.

I think the surface fleet will end up around mid 20s in numbers tbh I hope you are wrong - one thing for sure is that if it is true, having two yards is a dead dream. With satellite surveillance, AI to scan it and significant investments in surface to surface and surface to air systems by our peer ...

Luckily the carriers we have will be able to operate drones as well as manned fighters. The reality is that the threat from a SSN is invisible whereas a Carrier Strike Group is a visible statement of intent. To be credible we need both. The don’t always come unseen when a message is required to be ...

With satellite surveillance, AI to scan it and significant investments in surface to surface and surface to air systems by our peer and near peer opponents we are being driven underwater for high end war fighting and deterrence. I know people don’t like me mentioning it but it’s not carrier strike ...

I think the surface fleet will end up around mid 20s in numbers tbh I hope you are wrong - one thing for sure is that if it is true, having two yards is a dead dream. With satellite surveillance, AI to scan it and significant investments in surface to surface and surface to air systems by our peer ...

I think the surface fleet will end up around mid 20s in numbers tbh

It seems like this might be a very significant shift in defence strategy. Just as in 97 it was decided carriers were required for power projection it looks like the decision has been made that a shift to SSN is the answer to balancing power in the Pacific and asia. I wonder if the SSN AUKUS will al...

Jdam wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 22:08

SW1 wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 21:45 I suspect if there is a vls it will be america. I think there was also mention that the CIC system will be america.

Well remembered, I suspect that is what they are talking about.

I also suspect if we do end up with hypersonic missiles this is the platform on which they will be based!

I suspect if there is a vls it will be america. I think there was also mention that the CIC system will be america.

The sun so take with a pinch of salt https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/21690788/rishi-sunak-to-meet-biden/ BRITAIN’S fleet of hunter killer submarines is to more than double by the end of the next decade as part of a landmark deal with the USA and Australia to protect against China. A new gener...