The Army has procured this for the moment: https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/06/game-changing-anti-drone-weapon-sight-for-army-s-close-combat-soldiers/#:~:text=The%20capability%20can%20recognise%20a,other%20in%2Dservice%20individual%20weapons. Great as that is, I can see there being...

Little J wrote: ↑14 Nov 2023, 11:20 If V-280 is the long term goal, shouldn't we be hearing about tie ups with UK companies by now?


More Chinooks? Do we really need any more?

To make V-280 more expensive!?

I would have thought if UK was looking for a tilt rotor, and an expensive one, we'd be looking at AW609.

Whatever happened to the turrets, were the Canons removed and handed back to the MOD with the rest of the turret scrapped by LM? I am still hopefully they will be repurposed in an unmanned variant on boxer. Only the warrior prototype turrets were made. There was never a production contract for them...

With drones and the probability of swarm drone attacks shouldn't we also look at gun based systems to. Some of the lessons from Israel and Ukraine show the limitations of pure missile systems and the need for layered systems. Where it might be more cost effective to expend a couple of 30mm cannon r...

I can't understand why any infantry commander would b concerning themselves with something 45km away... I would agree that the first 15 km's is of the up most concern and that is why the greatest concentration of fire power is based within this zone however I believe ( and I may well be wrong ) tha...

I can't understand why any infantry commander would b concerning themselves with something 45km away...

You brought up the range for both, giving an assisted range for one and a unassisted one for the other. If you didn't mean for that to be a comparison, it didn't come across that way. And yet I didn't compare them. If anything I spoke about L118 range in relation to 155... Whatever little conversat...

Rocket assist (12km) vs base bleed (20km) or plain ballistic (8km) vs plain ballistic (17km). You're the one comparing rocket assist with plain. Um no, you've made the comparison. I told you the range of 120mm Mortar in relation to MA requirements... It's the great thing about forums, read back... ...

Not with regular ammunition, but the base-bleed ER shell would go over 20km (wiki cites 20.6km, Janes "over 20km") Maybe not quite 21km, but still, compare like with like. Base bleed range isn't a free lunch. So... You're not comparing like with like then. Why not!? And has about half the...

L118 doesn't hit 21km.

120mm mortar is helicopter carried.

Did I suggest sending air defence into a low intensity conflict? Why would we send deep fires into a low intensity conflict?

Can you at least discuss in good spirit, instead of being misleading?

When I said resources, I meant money and personnel. If you bin the light gun, what are you doing with the money and personnel? Re-equipping with the long range guns and missiles? I thought point two made that abundantly clear? Personally, I think that the light gun is still a pretty useful gun for ...

Seems like a strange way of presenting it. Would the 120mm mortars be in addition to the 81mm mortars at battalion or in addition? In addition. What would the RA be doing? Just counterbattery and interdiction? If the enemy gets within 5km of a manoeuvre unit the RA will down tools as it's not their...

mr.fred wrote: ↑10 Nov 2023, 12:31

RunningStrong wrote: ↑09 Nov 2023, 22:44 - Remove close support from RA. Give 120mm mortars to MA

RA = Royal Artillery, MA = ?

Manoeuvre Arm. That'll be the infantry/armour that the artillery are operating in support of.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ojRCMC4d9aHzb4siXpdcO?si=uyLo3SRvQUqUwXi10uTe3w Podcast, talks a lot about Artillery from training and the state of the army today. But some of the proposals are: - Remove close support from RA. Give 120mm mortars to MA - Rebuild Artillery Regiments around deep stri...

mrclark303 wrote: ↑09 Nov 2023, 14:36 I see, hopefully Boxer with a turret?

You and half the army can keep dreaming!

Maybe a 20-30mm remote weapon station.

They lot should end up being quite standalone, and aside from harnesses and IKEE you'd hope it could be fitted to another vehicle in future (still plenty of Bulldogs in service). God forbid we have to deploy obsolete Warriors on a combat operation with a sophisticated enemy. 20 years of ignoring ou...

They lot should end up being quite standalone, and aside from harnesses and IKEE you'd hope it could be fitted to another vehicle in future (still plenty of Bulldogs in service).

It's been part of the design for years.

https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-rel ... ge-systems

It's a great facility and workforce and I hope that they get some continued business.

44 complete vehicles have been handed over - all non turreted = roughly 8% completion. Turreted AJAX have been handed over... Unless the contract is absolutely water tight fixed cost - but GD deny that The contract is watertight fixed-price for what MoD contracted. Did MoD change the contract? I th...

With this said money spent on Ajax is now starting to benefit Boxer and CR3 programs meaning these programs follow some what better There's no doubting that AJAX had a significant impact on the UK supply chain, but many suppliers entered the market when the fleet estimates were in the thousands (wh...

Moved here to be on topic And if there really is a unique UK need for gold plated electronics then it should have been modularised and separated from the platform. By making it bespoke and platform specific you're basically allowing GD to milk us for the next 30 years. Isn't Ajax supposed to be GVA...

Jackstar wrote: ↑25 Oct 2023, 09:52 Various British Army MAN Logistics Support Vehicles and Land Rover Utility Vehicles travelling together, several in a handful of convoys.

But no HET? Odd post.

Why do think nothing has been stated in public? Does this imply these features are absent? I cant imagine these basic features are classified. To be blunt, no one is going to add anything that isn't in the public domain. ETA - CR3 and AJAX share the same sights https://www.janes.com/defence-news/ne...

Regarding AJAX's ISTAR capability, can anyone explain if there is AI or ML built in to enable automatic detection and classification of threats and targets? Or does the crew have to continuously observe? Is AJAX equipped with a STANAG 3733 Laser Target Designator? Nothing stated in the public domain.