Occupation of Alsace again. I will repossess what I like and there is fuck all you can do about it. This is the 1930's all over again. The troops will remain and then there will be a need to 'assist' rescue other 'ethnic Russian areas' elsewhere in other parts of Ukraine. He will stop short of trigg...

Doesn't Spear 4(Storm Shadow) have a MTI capability?

For 'tracked mafia', see 'donkey wallopers'. All are targets.

I guess if the need arises then a UOR would occur, Harpoon BlockIII would be the logical choice due to the missile interface being there already.

Rafale nearly bankrupted both Snecma and Dassault. Both needed large bail-outs from the French government which wouldn't be allowed under EU rules now.

The French aircrews are scared shitless of Aster on CdG. In fact they refused to have the system active during the Syria crisis.

I think UAS for sonobuoy pickets is a good idea, with the aim to drop fences of the low cost long life Ultra passive DIFAR buoys. They could police these for hours and if needed drop a multistatic triad on a suspect contact. The problem is that dropping weapons may be a step too far or the performan...

I can think of easier ways to remove the wings.

A replacement for the Arran ferry 2.0 currently rusting/broken up on the slipway?!

Perhaps a tethered drone would be a good short term fix. The recce screen is already using them and they have much wider field of view.

Given the above opinion, would a clutch failure on the lift turbine seem more likely ?

Fire (as in the flamey stuff) does tend to be a consequence of an ATGM hit unless you have serious armour protection. Modern tandem or binary ATGM HEAT warheads generate a lot of lateral plasma flow when in contact with the triggering surface. This improves the chance of beating ERA. I think if it k...

NH-90 is an expensive very flawed machine with very little growth potential. Everyone who uses it is already trying to find a way to replace it.

Anyone get the impression the Jungly Merlin is reclaiming it's spot form the annoying Osprey?!?

No, it is a failsafe. It has to be enabled before firing. The mechanism is armed after launch. Otherwise anybody could trigger self destruct if they knew coding (unless wireguided). Those weapons with a command destruct have quite complex interactive software to prevent this, but still need enabling...

Most weapons which have a self destruct enabler in the start sequence. Dependant on guidance (wire vs radio vs SAL/MMW) the range gate is preset or elective. On start up the self destruct powers up from the main power bus and then awaits launch detection (usually an accelerometer with a minimum limi...

That and that it is the size of whale, makes a hell of down draft and noise, ,and would need Ben Nevis or Sherwood Forest for cover!

Ron5 wrote: Medium armor requires a decent gun. But for recce, if you're engaged in a shooting contest, you've failed your primary task The primary aim of the BA (and every other buggers) recce screen is FIND,FIX, and DESTROY. Your primary aim is to locate and shadow the main force using a mix of as...

I can think of quite a few people who had armour and indirect fire superior to our unit, who are now contributing to the long term soil fertility of their homeland. So, I respectfully disagree with your latter.

No, not really. If you can disperse and find decent cover, they can take anything on other than indirect battery fire.

I don't understand how an army built around Boxer and an armored truck will be capable of peer warfare. Sounds more like a unit for fighting colonial wars against under equipped 3rd worlds. In which, by the way, the UK is 0 and 2 over the past 20 years. Peer warfare is armored warfare. Why does arm...

I haven't fired Starstreak but we were part of the trial team which looked at it as a direct fire weapon against IFV'S. Was amazing to watch. The reaction time was especially impressive. The time to fire was less than the MILAN (I would be wary about actually specifying due to opsec) and we simulate...

Given the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, what are the bets that CSG21 gets recalled to that area sooner than we think?

Have any of you had any training in vertical assault?! If there is even the remotest chance there could be opfor in the area of the LZ then doctrine dictates in the absence of AH, initial assault by a limited number of SH using NOE insertion occurs with cover from the remaining force of SH, indirect...

Back to the news, GB seems to be doing well in Tokyo!