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by Timmymagic
20 Jan 2024, 19:01
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: Future cruise/anti-ship missiles
Replies: 83
Views: 11547
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Re: Future cruise/anti-ship missiles

VL and canister launch have been mentioned previously.
by Timmymagic
19 Jan 2024, 08:15
Forum: British Army
Topic: UK Mobile Fires Platform
Replies: 97
Views: 11800
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Re: UK Mobile Fires Platform

Apparently a decision has been made. I bet archer I hope so, but only if it involves more UK content, particularly the gun and barrel. I was originally a fan of the RCH155....but everytime I see one fire I wonder about the effect on the suspension, plus its a whole lot easier to support a MAN HX ba...
by Timmymagic
18 Jan 2024, 10:01
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2804
Views: 764282
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Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)

Did Egypt jusrt express an interest in Typhoon or are there signs it wants to buy some? I do not think that Poland would choose Typhoon over KF-21 if it is happy dealing with ROK/KAI. Last thing I heard was that Poland would like to buy out Indonesia's stake in the programme. Turkey? After putting ...
by Timmymagic
17 Jan 2024, 18:10
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2804
Views: 764282
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Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)

Sounds to me that worst case scenario Warton is going to become a support, subassembly, and upgrade business between now and the early 2030s. There's 63 fuselages to provide Spain / Quadriga plus 40 ECR2 upgrades (and more for KSA?). Also bear in mind Tempest is a revenue generating project. Warton...
by Timmymagic
17 Jan 2024, 12:17
Forum: British Army
Topic: Apache Attack Helicopter (British Army Air Corps)
Replies: 612
Views: 211968
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Re: Apache Attack Helicopter (British Army Air Corps)

DE & S confirm that 38 AH-64E have been delivered. Remaining 12 are to be delivered by end of 2024 for the planned total of 50.

by Timmymagic
16 Jan 2024, 18:31
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2804
Views: 764282
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Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)

I am not optimistic about KSA placing a follow on order unless price is no barrier. Same thing for another RAF order. Why pay for 4G Typhoon when 5G F-35 is cheaper, especially if F-35A. The peace dividend may be a thing of the past for the UK but that does not mean it is OK to spend extra funding ...
by Timmymagic
15 Jan 2024, 07:57
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293405
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

If the Army have a braincell they'll purchase 2 Decoy systems for every Real one... Counter-intelligence batteries have been discussed recently by a few people with experience. It should be a question everyone is asking. If the RAF aren't contacting the people who made the F-35 replicas for the dec...
by Timmymagic
14 Jan 2024, 11:36
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293405
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

Tempest414 wrote: 14 Jan 2024, 10:05 Did we not just buy SAAB Giraffe X1 for close radar
Not for weapons locating, they appear to be for AD gap filling and UAV detection.
by Timmymagic
14 Jan 2024, 09:52
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293405
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

Completely missed this.... The Thales Nederland GM200 Radar has been selected as the Deep Find part of Project Serpens...no idea on numbers but delivery is apparently in 2029 with IOC in the early 2030's. These also have a significant air surveillance capability. Presumably they'll be mounted on MAN...
by Timmymagic
13 Jan 2024, 15:07
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2804
Views: 764282
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Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)

Could the German Electronic Warfare version be an option, do we have anything that does that job right now? (I am assuming its something like the EF-18) It might be a good reason to buy Typhoons by possible introduction new abilities that cant be done by something else and it is not just more Typho...
by Timmymagic
12 Jan 2024, 15:43
Forum: British Army
Topic: Ground Based Air Defence
Replies: 685
Views: 191355
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Re: Ground Based Air Defence

Posted this in the Ukraine war thread....

Looks like we know where the 150 Towed AA guns come from now...

by Timmymagic
11 Jan 2024, 12:19
Forum: Conflicts
Topic: The war in Ukraine
Replies: 1163
Views: 85682
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Re: The war in Ukraine

This might answer the question of what the 150 towed AA guns from the UK are/were...

https://aei-systems.com/ae20mm-cannon/

by Timmymagic
08 Jan 2024, 11:40
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2804
Views: 764282
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Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)

Reuters story...sanity finally prevails. https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-will-not-oppose-further-eurofighters-saudi-arabia-2024-01-07/?utm_source=reddit.com Reuters TEL AVIV, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Germany is prepared to allow further deliveries of Eurofighter jets to Saudi Arabia, German Foreign M...
by Timmymagic
05 Jan 2024, 14:58
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293405
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

Any guarantee the work will take place at Barrow? Thats where it was done previously and where all of the experience in the titanium fabrication is. Pretty much nailed on. I guess the equipment is still there but how much of that knowledge and skill has gone to the wind over the years? It only ende...
by Timmymagic
05 Jan 2024, 09:33
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293405
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

RunningStrong wrote: 04 Jan 2024, 16:18 Any guarantee the work will take place at Barrow?
Thats where it was done previously and where all of the experience in the titanium fabrication is. Pretty much nailed on.
by Timmymagic
04 Jan 2024, 14:59
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293405
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

Some good news.... BAE in Barrow in Furness back in M777 business....all the complex Titanium stuff is at Barrow... Now all we need is barrel manufacture and artillery propellant....suspect both will happen in due course... https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1742902392054567417 BAE Press Releas...
by Timmymagic
19 Dec 2023, 12:21
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 1011
Views: 397920
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Re: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]

I can go down the 'rabbit hole' for ages on Secret Projects. It's always interesting to remember the RN drive in the 70's and early 80's to retain mass by building cheaper (and proposing) comparatively small warships, few exceeding 4,000 tons. Compare a 1970's patrol frigate, the T21 GP to today's ...
by Timmymagic
18 Dec 2023, 17:37
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]
Replies: 1011
Views: 397920
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Re: Type 23 Frigate (Duke Class) (RN) [News Only]

This might be a daft question....but I'll ask it anyway. T23's have 3 seperate superstructures. The forward superstructure with the bridge, the midships superstructure with funnels and the stern superstructure with the hangar. I can understand the need for the gap between the bridge and midships sup...
by Timmymagic
18 Dec 2023, 11:13
Forum: British Army
Topic: Ajax Armoured Vehicles (British Army)
Replies: 2432
Views: 526708
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Re: Ajax Armoured Vehicles (British Army)

RunningStrong wrote: 28 Nov 2023, 22:17 Look at all those hulls!

It would be funny if GD was only renting the racking....over the years the cost may have used up all their profit margin....
by Timmymagic
17 Dec 2023, 09:38
Forum: British Army
Topic: Apache Attack Helicopter (British Army Air Corps)
Replies: 612
Views: 211968
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Re: Apache Attack Helicopter (British Army Air Corps)

Its always been one of the big questions marks for our Apache's (from me), if we had put it on the AH1 I think we would have used them during the Afghanistan war and then we would have gotten our moneys worth with that investment. After that you could have made sure it was on the E's from the start...
by Timmymagic
15 Dec 2023, 16:17
Forum: British Army
Topic: Morpheus Cancelled
Replies: 6
Views: 950
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Re: Morpheus Cancelled

new guy wrote: 15 Dec 2023, 16:02 Why does this have it's own page?
Morpheus, and the wider LETacCIS programme are amongst the biggest programmes the Army has at present, multi-billion...

If only we'd have chosen Racal instead of GD for Bowman....
by Timmymagic
15 Dec 2023, 15:21
Forum: British Army
Topic: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments
Replies: 865
Views: 293405
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Re: Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery future developments

Interesting thread on Caesar....turns out its not all that. I've never been a fan of Caesar. Useful for firefighting, expeditionary type warfare. But seems to have a lot of the drawbacks of SPG's (size, cost) but few of the advantages (little armour, reliance on manual loading and exposed crew, even...
by Timmymagic
13 Dec 2023, 16:31
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion
Replies: 19150
Views: 7058631
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Re: Current & Future Escorts - General Discussion

Does anyone know if the RN has trialled the 40mm "upgrade kit" for the DS30M? It seems that that might be an interim solution, particularly for vessels where a larger change might require an element of re-design (T45/ T26), or where life is limited (T23). Once the BAE 40mm has been adopte...
by Timmymagic
11 Dec 2023, 08:06
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Replies: 6067
Views: 1725023
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Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)

Is this the same Nicholas Drumond who was ecently advocating "gifting" all of UK Challenger MBT to Ukraine and UK then buying Leopard II to replace them? Whilst being employed by IIRC KNDS!! I wonder if he also has a consultancy agrement with LM..... Suspect more a case of helping out a f...