Interesting article about current state of the CR2 fleet The British Army has just 157 Challenger 2 main battle tanks (MBTs) either on or available to undertake operations within a 30-day work-up period, out of a theoretical fleet of 227 vehicles. Ukraine will receive 14 operational Challenger 2s ta...

Carl Gustaf is back!

Production of Boxer has started at Telford

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...

Payment to GD will be resumed with new delivery schedule

• IOC July and December 2025

• FOC between October 2028 and September 2029.

Maybe someone find it interesting. Two part article about AW149 protection

https://uk.leonardo.com/en/news-and-sto ... eld-part-1

This is the core reason I strongly believe we should double down on Boxer and use it to replace as many legacy very old platforms still in service with the British Army. Considering that the Army is struggling to get any increase in the budget and seems like current one is not enough to cover all i...

Has Archer or a 155mm Boxer been tested in the desert? Not sure if Boxer RCH155 is tested anywhere outside Europe so far, but Boxer AFV had served in Afghanistan. Archer was tested on Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona on request of the US Army which is the closest to desert conditions I could find. Be...

Official announcement of Archer deal https://www.gov.uk/government/news/british-army-announces-new-artillery-deal-with-sweden The first 14 Archer artillery systems will have ownership transferred to the British Army this month and be fully operational by next April, forming an interim replacement fo...

CR3 is progressing with new contract signed, this time with MilDef to manufacture Generic Vehicle Architecture-compliant Processors and Ethernet Switches.

... question is could it be possible to have both types for the U.K ? You can argue for both cases but if UK is going to have only two regiments equipped with 155mm than no, there is no point having both types. Just chose one and have uniform system as its total numbers would be very limited. If on...

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So basically it would be a battery worth of Archers. Wonder if this would be just a lease or buy out

The current cost of a bog standard UH-60M, as delivered to the US Army is about $6 million a copy. I am not sure where do you get this number. For example Croatia is getting 4 UH-60M. Two were donated by US but other two are paid $55 million. Croatia is set to receive four UH-60M helicopters, with ...

bobp wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023, 20:16 Interim solution to what?

To cover the gap until MFP decide what will replace AS-90, as UK is sending 20 AS-90 from active fleet plus additional 12 from reserve to Ukraine.

On which chassis? Considering that 24 additional Archer systems that Sweden is intending to buy are supposed to use MAN HX2 8x8 as chassis, I would suppose UK would go with the same. But I would still wait for both official confirmation for both system and chassis. So far above tweet is the only in...

So you don't think they even looked at Ajax? Considering that Ajax is not an IFV and there is no IFV version, it is also not a proven solution probably not. If your going to buy new Leopard in the interim what is the point of the C1 upgrade? The last C1 were produced 20 years ago do Iveco\Leonardo ...

Rumors are that Italy will be the latest customer for CV90 Mk IV. So yet another missed opportunity for Ajax. To be fair, there was no official competition and this is intended as interim solution. Seems like Italy might decide to buy some 70-100 (depending on source) Leo 2A7 or 2A7+ and some 100 C...

Seems like, after all, UK will not double the number of CR2 tanks, intended to be sent to Ukraine. So, for now, it is just 14 originally announced

There is no official confirmation from MoD except statement from Ukrainian Ambassador in the UK https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1632047727616851968 Only info I could find that could suggest that UK will send 28 CR2 is that members from two Ukrainian airborne brigades, 25th and 80th are curren...

The competitive prototype phase for CR3 cost something like £650m That is not correct. BAE and RM got £23 million each, plus £7 million for additional costs for total of £53 million for assessment phase. Total worth of the Challenger 2 LEP was supposed to be around £650 million but this is not what...

Another image of Boxer NEMO

It's just a "what if" - ie would it really have taken longer than the 5 year delay to Ajax? You are asking would it take longer to contract, develop, build and test new chassis instead of using contracted, developed and built chassis that is currently in the testing phase? Not to mention ...

Here’s a crazy idea - design a new chassis from scratch for both CH3 and Ajax. I don't think that it is realistic to build new chassis for either CR3 or Ajax. It would require much more money and would delay their arrival even further. How could anyone justify spending so much money on Ajax while t...

I'm not in anyway an expert, but if we upgrade an extra 50 tanks even if there was no further changes in units or unit sizes, would it not still be worth having them in reserve or rotation for when tanks are under heavy maintenance. If we do go to war ourselves we can't guarantee we won't lose a fe...