And now back to the news?!?

AR15 is anything but Ally. Personally I would go with a 6.8 mm Tavour on SCAR.

Better than that was where they said: Ukranian soldiers would eat Russian children British were encouraging Ukraine to invade Moscow Half of all Ukranian army are NATO troops Or my new favourite: this special military operation is like worming.a cat: a special operation for the vet, war for the wor...

Currently choking back the urge to nuke Ireland!

Not fast enough!

Possibly both! Definitely the rifle.

Still couldn't hit a barn door at 200m though.

I would propose all B2's be modified (at little expense) to be able to accommodate a modular armament upgrade. This would involve a side sponson on each side of the bridge, fitting points for a telescopic retractable hangar, and also upgrade the existing AS/SS radar, and fit an additional 3 WMC to t...

Thats why Scott is being retained. Echo class are less useful in deeper waters and some of the capability can be replaced by USV's.

No crew and the need to crew Scott for deep sea operations make it inevitable.

Why delay. He broke the rules of war. Either his defence is that he was within his explicit RoE or he acted unilaterally to commit murder. Either way it is a clear breach of international law, and as such, why wait. It might act as a deterrent for for other troops behaving in that way.

If you can see it you can hit it. Top attack MPAW just need to overfly, with that bloody umbrella sticking up it makes for a very nice target. If you are that exposed and needs RWS then your infantry screen is not doing it's job.

We used the 2T missile, I think the last Bk was manufactured in 2004. The motor had a shelf life of 4yr in environmental storage without safety/servicing at depot level so I would imagine all of our units would be life expired and disposed of. Definitely not one of ours though, no MIRA unit.

Not sure you are right. The 416 seems to have ejector port jams, excessive recoil, and cant hit a damn thing past 200m. So much so, the crew in Hereford now use Long barrel C6's or use or the sniper spotter weapon when in the desert or where range is a factor.

What's wrong with using it as a pillow. Milan was very comfy when you unboxed it and wrapped a cam net around it. Never tried licking one though

As long as she is a permanent fixture to the subsurface hullform I might even agree.

Until the Hoore o Holyrood gives up, they won't do anything other than maybe paint the building.

The warhead explodes within the tail section. If you put through slow image analysis you can see the impact points x2 prior to the explosion. Either it was a simultaneous impact of 2 identical MANPADS or it was Starstreak. If it the latter, then it is every bit as terrifying as it's reputation would...

Depends on the focal point of the charge and angle of the liner cone. The wider the warhead diameter, the further the standoff usually.

Bombing up for short notice to deploy I suspect.

Cue the Snatzis bitching about invading the sovereign rights and territories of the United Republic & Independant National Empress-Kranky (URINE for short).

Given the Britannia was a hospital ship, could this be used in part to replace Argus as JCRS along with enhanced medical facilities on the Bays?

I will have to take my word back; as in "the script for this Winter War" will not run as for the previous one. In the first 3 days 800 AFVs... so the number will (regardless of the final outcome) well exceed the 2400 or so that it took to take out in 105 days. ... keep up the good work! A...

Time to UOR something, maybe that was the navy plan all along. Avoid interminable competition phases and they get to pick. I doubt any politician now has the balls to say no.

TBH I think we have enough tankers with Tide class and we need the money for FSS program. If they are kept in reasonable order they could be re-activated in a hurry and the RFA have a real man-power crisis at the moment especially in engineers.