The Chairman of Boeing UK is a former top Civil Servant
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- 15 Mar 2024, 16:24
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
- Replies: 308
- Views: 132604
- 14 Mar 2024, 22:04
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
- Replies: 308
- Views: 132604
Re: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
2 billion GBP for 14 chinooks
Sheesh
Well at least they won’t have a door to blow out mid flight.
And this is the day after a Boeing whistleblower “suicided”…
Sheesh
Well at least they won’t have a door to blow out mid flight.
And this is the day after a Boeing whistleblower “suicided”…
- 13 Mar 2024, 07:08
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
They brought Bronk back to Parliament.... :? He seems to have taken an issue with Japan and their more exquisite capability requirements... International Relations and Defence Committee: The Global Combat Air Programme Video: https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/c7fc2a65-ab60-4dd5-a63b-58eb11de014...
- 12 Mar 2024, 20:36
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Personally I'm thinking the next government if labour will definitely throw GCAP under the buss and try and hash a french plane , personally if I was BAE, I would turn around to the next government and say,we have a perfectly good plane and team up in gcap and if you want to throw it all under the ...
- 11 Mar 2024, 23:23
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Who is this “we “ he’s referring to?
If he means Europe well most of it has gone for the F35
If he means Europe well most of it has gone for the F35
- 10 Mar 2024, 14:15
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]
- Replies: 1010
- Views: 397039
Re: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]
Given the potential volume of drones would it be possible / advisable to embark a couple of Starstreak teams? Just to give that extra layer.
- 07 Mar 2024, 17:38
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15432
- Views: 4405454
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Start a recruiting office in Aberdeen there'll be no shortage of resource these days
- 03 Mar 2024, 18:31
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
- Replies: 85
- Views: 8465
Re: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
Boeing are in a serious pickle. Buying.Spirit means reversing the strategy of the last 2 decades.And they bring the liability back onto their books - no one else to blame now.
Luckily they still have a few dumb customers like us prepared to pay twice the USAF price for a P8 LOL
Luckily they still have a few dumb customers like us prepared to pay twice the USAF price for a P8 LOL
- 01 Mar 2024, 14:52
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49070
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
UK Research and Innovation, part of BIS, has a 25 billion GBP budget over the next 3 years.
Surely some of that could be tipped into productionising UN sovereign defence technologies, or at least making up some of the cost deta
Surely some of that could be tipped into productionising UN sovereign defence technologies, or at least making up some of the cost deta
- 01 Mar 2024, 09:01
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49070
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're...
- 29 Feb 2024, 15:01
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49070
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're...
- 28 Feb 2024, 17:23
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49070
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Heretical thought here - should we be buying ANY non-marinised helicopters from here on in? Given the pretty clear tilt to an expeditionary CONOPs. Where exactly is an Army-only helicopter going to be used? BAOR doesn't exist anymore. The USMC don't operate Blackhawk. Or Chinook. Or Apache. I'd put ...
- 28 Feb 2024, 17:08
- Forum: Joint Service
- Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
- Replies: 479
- Views: 49070
Re: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're ...
- 25 Feb 2024, 19:38
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
- 25 Feb 2024, 14:57
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
- 24 Feb 2024, 15:45
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
It's interesting. Aeralis are confirmed subsonic only, ie going for "everything below T7 / M346 / T-50". Which is quite a huge market, but not a LIFT for a 5th/6th gen fighter. But for sure there'll be synergies. For one thing Aeralis are now half owned by the Qatar sovereign wealth find, ...
- 24 Feb 2024, 12:11
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Interesting. I don't see how the Aeralis concept could be applicable to the LIFT part - it would surely need to be supersonic.
Maybe some kind spin out of GCAP using M346 as a base
Maybe some kind spin out of GCAP using M346 as a base
- 23 Feb 2024, 08:54
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: BAE Systems plc
- Replies: 191
- Views: 15484
Re: BAE Systems plc
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/k ... 024-01-29/
Wow that's a nice little earner - put 6 million in, and cash out with 49% of a billion dollar IPO
Wow that's a nice little earner - put 6 million in, and cash out with 49% of a billion dollar IPO
- 22 Feb 2024, 18:55
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: BAE Systems plc
- Replies: 191
- Views: 15484
Re: BAE Systems plc
To be fair the current CEO has tidied it up massively UK land is tiny, basically just 40% of RBSL, which may well be sold eventually I guess they see ship repair as not within Maritime because it's not product-driven, they're not developing anything. The funny one is Air Astana - they own an airline...
- 22 Feb 2024, 17:23
- Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
- Topic: BAE Systems plc
- Replies: 191
- Views: 15484
Re: BAE Systems plc
Order book is 70 billion and climbing! Here's a link for those who want to nerd out https://investors.baesystems.com/~/media/Files/B/BAE-Systems-Investor/pdfs/results-and-reports/results/2024/2023-full-year-presentation-transcript.pdf I found slides 31 and 52 really interesting, for example Order ba...
- 14 Feb 2024, 21:58
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail (RAF)
- Replies: 593
- Views: 181515
Re: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail (RAF)
The thing is though many of these issues have affected every advanced manufacturing organisation in the world - Covid, supply chain, new production sites retiring workforce.- and they deal with them
Toyota runs 10 plants in the other Carolina
Toyota runs 10 plants in the other Carolina
- 14 Feb 2024, 12:52
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail (RAF)
- Replies: 593
- Views: 181515
Re: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail (RAF)
Air safety is complex. If you think you’ve got it all sorted and wrapped, you’re courting disaster. It is. But even after disaster years of it and repeated assurances Boeing still hasn’t got a grasp of the basics. The Rot is right through in Boeing it would seem. Had this conversation last year wit...
- 09 Feb 2024, 22:04
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
I meant more an "autonomous aircraft that can be thrown into A2A combat, figure out who the enemy is and defeat them". If they cannot do that then how can they replace fighter pilots? And if they need a manned fighter to act as "Mothership" what's to say the enemy won't just igno...
- 09 Feb 2024, 15:19
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
- Replies: 4029
- Views: 947314
Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
My .02 EUR worth - the manned fighter has been pronounced dead a few times. I mean, has a fully autonomous (as opposed to remotely piloted) aircraft actually flown? And if so why aren't we deploying them commercially? Possibly starting with airfreight. What about rules of engagement, hacking (which ...
- 06 Feb 2024, 10:06
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
- Replies: 2803
- Views: 762630
Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Here's an interesting take on it https://www.timesaerospace.aero/news/events/wds-uk-moves-in-on-new-saudi-typhoon-order "But industry and UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) insiders reported that the German block had been just one factor in halting the planned deal, and that the RSAF was ‘holding out...