Great idea RonRon5 wrote: ↑27 Apr 2024, 14:32To defend Gibraltar?mrclark303 wrote: ↑27 Apr 2024, 12:42 While we are at it, we should make serious overtures to Spain and try and pick up the 17 Trance 2 jets they have surplus.
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- 27 Apr 2024, 14:36
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
- Replies: 2842
- Views: 787436
Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
- 27 Apr 2024, 14:35
- Forum: British Army
- Topic: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
- Replies: 2826
- Views: 750371
Re: Boxer / Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)
Nicholas Drummond appears to have removed his claim that the barrels will be made in the UK. Unless the MoD starts ordering barrels in some decent quantities it’s difficult to see how UK barrel manufacturing would survive long term. Use it or lose it. One of the issues of our small military footpri...
- 27 Apr 2024, 12:42
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
- Replies: 2842
- Views: 787436
Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
If I were Typhoon Senior I'd be claiming paternity on the basis of that central intake alone! (Plus the tail and bubble canopy are not that dissimilar) Related question - is there any reason the Batch 1s aren't being gathered up and offered to Ukraine for a pound? A very good point and question... ...
- 24 Apr 2024, 19:16
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1937
- Views: 257424
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Where is the money coming from to pay for increased defence spending after cutting National Insurance by 4 percent. Also is the money for Ukraine coming from the defence budget or foreign aid. If we are looking for pennies behind the sofa, then there's billions a year frittered away in the NHS thro...
- 24 Apr 2024, 12:30
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1937
- Views: 257424
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Where is the money coming from to pay for increased defence spending after cutting National Insurance by 4 percent. Also is the money for Ukraine coming from the defence budget or foreign aid. If we are looking for pennies behind the sofa, then there's billions a year frittered away in the NHS thro...
- 24 Apr 2024, 10:05
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1937
- Views: 257424
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Where is the money coming from to pay for increased defence spending after cutting National Insurance by 4 percent. Also is the money for Ukraine coming from the defence budget or foreign aid. I confess I haven't been keeping up over the last week or so, but aren't they trying to take money from be...
- 24 Apr 2024, 10:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
- Replies: 1937
- Views: 257424
Re: General UK Defence Discussion
Where is the money coming from to pay for increased defence spending after cutting National Insurance by 4 percent. Also is the money for Ukraine coming from the defence budget or foreign aid. If we are looking for pennies behind the sofa, then there's billions a year frittered away in the NHS thro...
- 23 Apr 2024, 14:53
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Astute Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)
- Replies: 856
- Views: 311344
Re: Astute Class Attack Submarine (SSN) (RN)
Is this a phony celebration for PR purposes? In what way? To cover the fact that astute deliveries are so slow? To give a push to the current t government in the lead up to the looming election? All the boats have had a similar light show naming event nothing new in what occurred. So she should be ...
- 20 Apr 2024, 20:09
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Multi-Role Support Ships (MRSS)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 15342
Re: Multi-Role Support Ships (MRSS)
I'm pleasantly surprised by them commiting (?) to 6 ships ! as said Argos should be replaced first but after that ???? bays are newer, but, Albions require more crew ...... The cynic in me would say that Sunaks blurb is irrelevant to be honest. They are on borrowed time. MRSS is nothing more than a...
- 17 Apr 2024, 19:12
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
The NHS is one of the most highly audited organisations in the UK Now you are just being ridiculous. Since it seems to miss so much, it can't be that good. As for the substance of what I said, how do you think these cases were known? People in a position to know did blow the whistle. People did get...
- 16 Apr 2024, 20:19
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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...
- 16 Apr 2024, 19:08
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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,...
- 16 Apr 2024, 18:58
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
"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...
- 16 Apr 2024, 16:59
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
- Replies: 2842
- Views: 787436
Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
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...
- 16 Apr 2024, 16:23
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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, ...
- 16 Apr 2024, 16:18
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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 ...
- 16 Apr 2024, 14:58
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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, ...
- 16 Apr 2024, 14:44
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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'...
- 16 Apr 2024, 01:33
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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...
- 16 Apr 2024, 01:26
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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...
- 16 Apr 2024, 00:47
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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'...
- 15 Apr 2024, 17:54
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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...
- 15 Apr 2024, 09:45
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Labour's likely defence policy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 1628
Re: Labour's likely defence policy
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...
- 06 Apr 2024, 01:53
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3566
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
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...
- 05 Apr 2024, 12:00
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3566
Re: Post-war British Aviation - [Fantasy and Speculation]
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...