I can look out of my living room window and see on my phone why my neighbours car failed it's MOT in 2016, yet my surgeon has to get his secretary to write to another hospital to get my records!!! We've had computer linked banking since the 1970's for Christ's sake... It's absolutely pathetic quite...

The whole thing is structured incorrectly. Look at the link you posted, take Australia and UK, looking at OECD figures Aus is spending 16% more on healthcare per head than we are. So more but not an unreasonable difference, about $879 per head. They have 424% more MRIs and CT machines than the NHS,...

"The NHS is internationally recognised as being one of the most cost efficient health care systems in the world." Noone can say you don't have a sense of humour.... It's just reality. Perhaps you could join us here sometime? https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blogs/comparin...

Round 2 Vs the Rafale in India. https://idrw.org/airbus-to-enter-indias-mrfa-race-with-upgraded-eurofighter/ Seems like a smart idea to use the same plane but this is a land based system and not a carrier based one. The biggest thing going for the Typhoon is the production backlog for the Rafale. I...

NHS funding had gone up by 50% since 2010! Err yeah, that's not surprising when you consider heslthcare inflation and population health. The NHS is poorly run, it's vast administrative arm is something akin to the Soviet Union, where different General hospitals have a small army of administrators, ...

Oh dear, I'll take a wild guess that you work in the NHS in an administrative capacity, as viewing that slow motion car crash from inside out, is the only possible way you could consider it well run...... Nope, try again. You've in total denial if you think it's just dandy, I've claimed nothing of ...

NHS funding had gone up by 50% since 2010! Err yeah, that's not surprising when you consider heslthcare inflation and population health. The NHS is poorly run, it's vast administrative arm is something akin to the Soviet Union, where different General hospitals have a small army of administrators, ...

2.5% is a relitivly low level, it's only returning us to 2010 % levels. That makes zero sense. Relative to what? If in 2010 we paid 2.47% of GDPR, and less since, then that makes 2.5% relatively high. As high as 2000, too. 2.5% would make us 6th highest in NATO. So relative to what is 2.5% low? It'...

14 years of Tory austerity and "there's a lot of money that could be moved around". Are you aware of the state of local authorities going bankrupt? The NHS is funding disarray? Schools falling apart? The state of the roads? The lack of big infrastructure projects? Tell me about about Labo...

NHS funding isn't in disarray it is higher than it has ever been, and that includes billions added by the Tories. Most cuts in government spending in the 14 years have been LAs, who are responsible for social care and the roads. That's such a false representation. The NHS is under increasing pressu...

2.5% is a relitivly low level, it's only returning us to 2010 % levels. That makes zero sense. Relative to what? If in 2010 we paid 2.47% of GDPR, and less since, then that makes 2.5% relatively high. As high as 2000, too. 2.5% would make us 6th highest in NATO. So relative to what is 2.5% low? It'...

They refuse to commit to the relitivly low level of 2.5% on defence. How is a 25% increase, and more than most other NATO nations, a relatively low level? The part I can’t understand is why the Conservatives aren’t raising defence spending at the eleventh hour to set up a fiscal straitjacket for La...

Anyone here follow this podcast? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1adaPHQLc5w Listening to the Shadow Defense minister this morning on the news and he had a lot of nothing to say, no commitments to anything sadly. A few takeaway points of Labours plan. Building a strong UK Home defence, whatever tha...

The conventional ie metal wing would not of been workable simply because weight would have been a killer in the end. It was too conservative a choice. The thing often ignored in vtol aircraft design is they are always constrained by bring back in the hover especially when the marketing men start se...

I can’t really think where they would have mounted a podded radar system that would not of been comprised for air to air with fuselage blanking in some part of the field of view. I think that was clutching at straws. The gr9 was mid 00s upgrade. The problem in 2010 would have been how many could be...

71 total fleet 3×12 aircraft front line Squadrons 1+8 aircraft OCU +3 trials. Either it should be 74 in total with 17 Squadron included or 71 without it, for 3 frontline and OCU squadron. Also OCU squadron will probably have more than just 8 planes. I believe 8 is the stated number for the OCU, it'...

I'm afraid these days it would be little more than a re-enforced Commando, perhaps squeezed to two Commands at a push?? How long that could these days be supported way up in frosty north is debatable.... Exactly my point. The U.K. wants to lead in the JEF region but the vehicles and kit of the Brit...

Is that not what all the exercises last year and this is about Not on the scale required If the Army had to deploy 1 or 2 Brigades north of the Arctic circle and sustain that deployment through an Arctic winter how would that go? The simple fact is that the British Army isn’t equipped to do it. I'm...

I would imagine that upgrades to the Tranche 1 airframes to bring them up to the latest spec will take a long while, so three squadrons max plus ocu. Well, the maintenance fleet should theoretically be big enough to absorb that. Once 12 are upgraded to block4 they will re-equip a squadron, who in t...

They are, but they haven't got this far with a replacement rifle programme since the procurement of the original M16 in the 1960's. Not strictly true, the SCAR - L did get issued to the Rangers (before getting dumped), it's still got a bit of a lead over the M7 True, but not ordered in serious quan...

Update on delivery schedule plus serials... https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1772213965914812589?s=20 Just to note UK based F-35 fleet is 30 aircraft, not 31 as per the tweet, as 1 aircraft has been added to the Test Fleet at Edwards AFB (ZM165/BK-31). Not sure how long that would be for, it ...

I think the proof of the pudding will come when US troops field the M7 and it's equally important optics, the attainable accuracy will come as as a most unpleasant surprise to their opposition, extremely accurate fire and rounds that will blast straight through most body armour. I certainly wouldn'...

If they get all 250,000... Or if they don't cancel the contract... Remember, they are quite good at changing their minds... They are, but they haven't got this far with a replacement rifle programme since the procurement of the original M16 in the 1960's. I suspect there will be an order for 250,00...

I think the proof of the pudding will come when US troops field the M7 and it's equally important optics, the attainable accuracy will come as as a most unpleasant surprise to their opposition, extremely accurate fire and rounds that will blast straight through most body armour. I certainly wouldn'...

The US Army Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) program, initiated in 2004 as the the Lightweight Machine Gun and Ammunition program, with the aim of a major reduction in soldiers' carrying loads, thereby allowing new and more equipment, drones etc reducing logistical strain, and increasing ...