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by SD67
15 Mar 2024, 16:24
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
Replies: 308
Views: 132604
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Re: Boeing Chinook (RAF)

The Chairman of Boeing UK is a former top Civil Servant

“Thank you sir may I have another!”
by SD67
14 Mar 2024, 22:04
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Boeing Chinook (RAF)
Replies: 308
Views: 132604
United Kingdom

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”…
by SD67
13 Mar 2024, 07:08
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4029
Views: 947314
United Kingdom

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...
by SD67
12 Mar 2024, 20:36
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4029
Views: 947314
United Kingdom

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 ...
by SD67
11 Mar 2024, 23:23
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4029
Views: 947314
United Kingdom

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
by SD67
10 Mar 2024, 14:15
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 1010
Views: 397039
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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.
by SD67
07 Mar 2024, 17:38
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15432
Views: 4405454
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Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

Start a recruiting office in Aberdeen there'll be no shortage of resource these days
by SD67
03 Mar 2024, 18:31
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry - News & Discussion
Replies: 85
Views: 8465
United Kingdom

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
by SD67
01 Mar 2024, 14:52
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49070
United Kingdom

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
by SD67
01 Mar 2024, 09:01
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49070
United Kingdom

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...
by SD67
29 Feb 2024, 15:01
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49070
United Kingdom

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...
by SD67
28 Feb 2024, 17:23
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49070
United Kingdom

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 ...
by SD67
28 Feb 2024, 17:08
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: New Medium Helicopter [NMH] - (RAF & AAC)
Replies: 479
Views: 49070
United Kingdom

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 ...
by SD67
25 Feb 2024, 14:57
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4029
Views: 947314
United Kingdom

Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)

SW1 wrote: 24 Feb 2024, 17:09 They’ll be falling over themselves to buy the Boeing T7 red hawk knowing them.
"Proven low cost off the shelf option" LOL
by SD67
24 Feb 2024, 15:45
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4029
Views: 947314
United Kingdom

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, ...
by SD67
24 Feb 2024, 12:11
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4029
Views: 947314
United Kingdom

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
by SD67
23 Feb 2024, 08:54
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: BAE Systems plc
Replies: 191
Views: 15484
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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
by SD67
22 Feb 2024, 18:55
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: BAE Systems plc
Replies: 191
Views: 15484
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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...
by SD67
22 Feb 2024, 17:23
Forum: UK Defence & Aerospace Industry
Topic: BAE Systems plc
Replies: 191
Views: 15484
United Kingdom

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...
by SD67
14 Feb 2024, 21:58
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail (RAF)
Replies: 593
Views: 181515
United Kingdom

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
by SD67
14 Feb 2024, 12:52
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail (RAF)
Replies: 593
Views: 181515
United Kingdom

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...
by SD67
09 Feb 2024, 22:04
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4029
Views: 947314
United Kingdom

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...
by SD67
09 Feb 2024, 15:19
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4029
Views: 947314
United Kingdom

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 ...
by SD67
06 Feb 2024, 10:06
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2803
Views: 762630
United Kingdom

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...