https://spacenews.com/u-s-general-starlink-in-ukraine-showing-us-what-megaconstellations-can-do/ What we’re seeing with Elon Musk and the Starlink capabilities is really showing us what a megaconstellation or a proliferated architecture can provide in terms of redundancy and capability,” Gen. James ...

jedibeeftrix wrote: ↑09 Mar 2022, 14:05 What chance of an early transfer of T31 to Poland?

It was intended for these ships to have a short life for industrial drumbeat reasons - which presumes and early resale.

Thought they wanted to build there own

May explain the mig story

Only the first of the ripple waves https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/07/we-need-bread-fears-in-middle-east-as-ukraine-russia-war-hits-wheat-imports The next one will be if fertilizer availability will be curtailed in different ways: so the harvest that soon will need to be pla...

requirement to move small amounts of armour over around 2000 miles rapidly What would that, say over 3 days, translate to with our C-17s and A-400Ms? You might get two flights a day in , then dependant on how many aircraft and crew assigned. But if you wanted to do it and set a requirement against ...

There’s a range payload trade off in anything you fly anywhere. Sometimes speed is important he who gets there first usually wins Especially if we are talking about contesting nuclear powers (ref: Pristina airport). However, I was referencing that particular situation: "Flight distance from Vi...

ArmChairCivvy wrote: ↑08 Mar 2022, 12:09 Does the RA 'watch" drone have that ?
- though I believe it is the JHC (?) that now operates them... the other fixed-wing assets transferred to JHC seem to have the habit of being (rather quickly) jettisoned

They were becoming expensive loitering munitions in the hands of the RA…..

Some have proclaimed you’d never want to do that……. A short hop... lifting armour costs in range (as the structural limitations, otherwise, are well known). When Germany still had their mini-panzers (I believe mortar carriers are still in service), they had specially made floor elements for the Luf...

Don’t see the point of a different number of Mk-41 VLS Cells between batches 1 (and hopefully) 2. Why would you not go for the consistent approach with 24 x Mk-41 for both ? I would be more than happy to both batch 1 & 2 type 31 fitted with 24 Mk-41's I would also very happy if the batch 1 were...

Norway has flown some cv90 into Lithuanian as part of the NATO response.



Some have proclaimed you’d never want to do that…….

Probably is, the question didn’t ask the gd bits though, in want time frame could it deploy one and how long could it sustain it, and is it fully trained

Seen a tv report from Charles Stratford from inside Kharkiv it looks like Dresden in ww2. He was gobsmacked because he bought food from what was a store about 10 days ago now gone. They’re close to surrounding Kyiv they will utterly destroy that which they cannot keep.

It’s not about export wins,it similar logistics across services, increased volume leading to reduced cost, access to development funding across services, and national resilience in expendables. We don’t make hellfire or what they’ve selected, we do manufacture brimstone we can flex its production as...

You could put a towed sonar in a navy pod!

The horrific nature of this war is starting to be seen from north and south Ukraine the New York Times in particular has some truly grim images on its website. I dread to think what is going on in Mariupol. Not to mention the unprecedented number of refugees fleeing for there life’s flooding into bo...

seems to point in the right direction at a high level then cut the things that would make it possible The 'what' and the 'how' ... takes skill to connect them In the corporate world, consultants are called in. - here... it is just the Group Think that carries on (btw. Putin has been captured by his...

modern personal weapons, if you can call it that. [backed by] The proliferation of precision and technology True, but sometimes one will need to counter-attack and mere 8x8s and personal weapons won't cut it. Going into the ships discussion: we look East and it is 'one front'. Russian perspective i...

125kn is that Dry or wet thrust?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/03/05/ben-wallace-vladimir-putin-could-toying-emmanuel-macron/ Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, states: “This war will give us lots of pause to think about the balance of investment decisions. “What I'm seeing anecdotally at the moment, is that armour doe...

At the very least we can expect an extra tranche of funding announced (ca. £20 billion) over the next 4-5 years...but I'd be hoping for something more significant, for example: - Removal of nuclear deterrent from the MoD budget, meaning the MoD gets the full 2% for other commitments - Increased MoD...

Starlink in Kyiv

It’s only a guess but short term the real change will likely be around a need to maintain forces on the eastern nato border this would like see changes around readiness and spares and possibly UORs and have little to do with ships. Infact unless there much movement around the fabled nato 2% I doubt...

I go back to the Iraq war in 2003 for something roughly similar to what is happening only Ukraine is nearly twice the size and the population largely more hostile it took America and us arguably the most powerful force ever fielded over a month to take the capital. This is a war in its early days th...