That prompts an interesting question, if you put the M157 optic on legacy rifles how much of an advantage does the M7 still have? Yes it's going to be a wide margin over a short barreled 556, but what about 762 (or 6.5 CM)? Would it still be worth investing in a new platform? Why would you buy an e...

That prompts an interesting question, if you put the M157 optic on legacy rifles how much of an advantage does the M7 still have? Yes it's going to be a wide margin over a short barreled 556, but what about 762 (or 6.5 CM)? Would it still be worth investing in a new platform? It's sort of Symantics...

SKB wrote: ↑28 Mar 2023, 17:16 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65102128

Perhaps he can stand as a PLO candidate?

It will be interesting to see what happens, if an order for the new Ranger units is small the army will not want to deal with the logistics of the 6.8x51 ammunition. If the US fully commits to the new round and issues it across all of their infantry units, eventually the UK will want to do the same...

The beauty of the British position is we have thousands of AR's in service ( steadily replacing the A3 at the tip of the spear) , plus a steady re-delivery of L85A3 rebuilds, so we can let Uncle Sam work the gremlins out of the system and then adopt the new calibre post 2030... This article infers ...

Normally I would agree, but this has gone the distance and its actually underway and in production, with a new rifle and MG. M14 and M60, anyone? Give it a few years. The semi-auto M14 had a very short life before being found totally unsuitable for Vietnam, the M60 lasted to the 90's before being r...

Normally I would agree, but this has gone the distance and its actually underway and in production, with a new rifle and MG. M14 and M60, anyone? Give it a few years. These are different days, the M14 was always a folly and to be fair the M60 remained GI for decades. This system has gone much furth...

What it comes down to is really simple, Uncle Sam (the founder of the feast) has decided on 6.8x 51mm and that's that.... That's the new calibre for those NATO and Western aligned countries wishing to keep in step. So now, it's time for the British Armed forces to select a design in the new calibre...

The holy grail as far as infantry sections go is to have one round for both the assault and support weapon allowing for better logistics in the field but this has its problems in terms of size of assault rife and range of support weapon However as we move back to the idea of fighting in Europe's fo...

I neither like or dislike nh90 my point is their issues are far more complicated and nuanced that you are making out. It’s not like Blackhawk doesn’t share similar issues https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-black-hawk-crashes/?amp But this wouldn’t the first time that the Army’s Black Hawk fleet h...

I could go on in that Australia used an internal system to control configuration and spares life which didn’t account for time on shelf and hence they lost configuration of there entire nh90 fleet now when that happens and you don’t know what’s on what aircraft and how much life you have they have ...

I don’t know how many time I need to repeat this NH90 is NOT an Airbus product it is a NHI product which is the same industrial stable as Merlin. Not the best source but according to wiki Airbus owns 62% of NHI Leonardo has 32% Fokker 5% Or there abouts, they bought it so it’s there problem having ...

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...

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...

I found this quote from Kate Forbes very interesting So having access to that huge single market, but also having sort of streamlined and accessible relationships or trading relationships with the rest of the UK. Does she not realise that the UK is still the official sovereign government of NI. So ...

SD67 wrote: ↑19 Mar 2023, 12:37 " But Sir, He started it!"

No i'm Spartacus !

We need the current government to sign up to some Gordon Brown style Carrier contracts to be sure of that.... I hope they do..... The looming UK general election must be a slight concern to the Japanese government, in this critical moment when the embryonic corporate structure of Tempest is being f...

TSR2 is the Uk version of Canadian Avro C-105 Drama? Much worse TSR2 was mentioned, so here we go..... There's an interesting synergy between the TSR2 and Arrow,both world leading programmes, both killed by government inability to see the huge strides and opportunities the programmes offered. In ma...

We need the current government to sign up to some Gordon Brown style Carrier contracts to be sure of that.... I hope they do..... The looming UK general election must be a slight concern to the Japanese government, in this critical moment when the embryonic corporate structure of Tempest is being f...

We need the current government to sign up to some Gordon Brown style Carrier contracts to be sure of that.... I hope they do..... The looming UK general election must be a slight concern to the Japanese government, in this critical moment when the embryonic corporate structure of Tempest is being f...

The simple fact is Uncle Sam is the NATO piper and we all follow the piper.... 6.8 X 51mm has been adopted and we all will eventually follow suit.... And how many of those NATO countries will remember the US 762 / M14 bs and think "nah, lets wait a while and see it get dumped to a DMR role&quo...

I hope BAE and Leonardo in particular take the opportunity to integrate as much as possible on this. The combined strengths would make a formidable competitor. In my perfect world there one day be a comprehensive Anglo Italy JV company covering all air platforms.- Tempest, Helicopters, M346 - 50/50...

6.8 X 51mm has been adopted and we all will eventually follow suit.... It will be interesting to see if that actually happens or if an intermediate round is also selected. IMO the 6.8X51 is too much and not enough. I'm assuming not, I think 5.56mm will remain the alternative round, rather than adop...