With Ajax as production has barely started we do have the option to both reduce the quantity and the make up of the fleet to be procured, and their capabilities. Define "barely started". Because I think anyone with any knowledge of the programme would agree that's about 12 months out of d...

389 Jaguars are being purchased, now, in a fixed price contract of 1 million eur each including R&D. I’m not sure what you mean by full fighting trim. Has the same gun as Ajax and is physically entering service now. Because you never know what is in scope of Government Furnished Equipment. We k...

Seems quite sensor 'rich' whereas protection levels are a :?: - at least to me. This is via Shephardmedia from Eurosatory 2018: " Owing to its use as a reconnaissance platform [ which is not the only role] by the French Army, the vehicle uses an extensive range of sighting systems that include...

For less than 580 million France are replacing their entire recce fleet with a brand new all French vehicle (Jaguar). But are they comparable to the AJAX design? (and only 300, not 589). This article is all over the place, but suggests no electro-optic sight for the Gunner or Driver. Is it an unman...

The UK would be the only. The ONLY country in the world suddenly deciding that tanks are obsolete and too heavy and shouldn't be used. Look atthe US, Russia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Autralia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Canada, India,...

The question then should be, how many nations have 3rd gen and 4th gen tanks. That's by no means an exclusive club, but it's certainly not a global constant. Please help me out, why is this the question, I don't get it? Because a country's tank count/credibility can be grossly inflated by 2nd gen t...

Is the "close" aspect a consideration that the system could be used in an FR(O) role?

So no conflicts that have actually seen in armour versus armour contacts? Both Ukraine and Syria/Iraq have seen armour conflict occurring. There was some particularly notable ones from near Donbass where people were analysing the effect of APFSDS on the T-72s being used. The point was "What wa...

So no conflicts that have actually seen in armour versus armour contacts? Maybe not, but how is that relevant? Then none of those are good examples of todays conflicts of either repelling a contemporary heavily armoured brigade or advancing on an opposition force with tanks. All those conflicts are...

It is strange to question the role of tanks when there are multilpe active warzones in the world right now proving the current need for them. Out of interest, which active warzones are currently seeing active use of tanks? Syria is the obvious one. Yemen another. Ukraine has quieted down a bit of l...

RetroSicotte wrote:It is strange to question the role of tanks when there are multilpe active warzones in the world right now proving the current need for them.

Out of interest, which active warzones are currently seeing active use of tanks?

I think the only way that this could possibly be justified is by concentrating all the money saved by not going ahead with C2 and Warrior upgrades (if there is anything left after budget cuts) on Ajax and Boxer, to implement the missing large gun and mortar variants (plus CTA40 turret for Boxer). T...

I think the stealth aspect is a bit overplayed, but perhaps at low speed a relatively small battery (2-3kWh) would allow you creep the last mile if needed.

A normal car does 2.5-4 miles per kWh at road speeds. And EV batteries are generally 40kWh plus.

The environmental side is limited to say the least, unless you're planning to have a rather large battery for regenerative braking (which is no bad thing on a vehicle that heavy). However, it also provides improved drive characteristics by improving the torque performance. Not to mention you replace...

SW1 wrote: Highlights also how little slack there is within the air transport fleets

Does it? Seems like a good exercise in using contract An124 which has twice the payload of a C17. Perhaps if we had C5 it would make sense...

Too pricey for one thing and more than a little under powered for another. Not even their own manufacturer believed in them enough to put them forward :( :lol: Cracking bit of armchair engineering there! Never heard the FH described as underpowered by a user. Is your experience in spreadsheets? Hav...

Lord Jim wrote:Highly unlikely but wouldn't it be something if the Challenger 2 CEP resulted in our becoming the first western nation to field a Main Battle Tank armed with a 130mm Gun in regular\r service.

Let's hope others press ahead and adopt it too otherwise we're back to square one...

Ron5 wrote: Too pricey for one thing and more than a little under powered for another. Not even their own manufacturer believed in them enough to put them forward

Cracking bit of armchair engineering there! Never heard the FH described as underpowered by a user. Is your experience in spreadsheets?

Is it just me or does anybody else have little faith in our powers that be for providing the correct kit too late if anything did kick off with a half peer enemy , personally I think we get our arses kicked in short order We could produce analogue, third generation equipment quickly and easily. But...

There was a link to an article posted on here that mentioned that the threat level the MRV(P) platforms were intended to be able to cope with was now greater than when the programme was started. Quite rightly, the Army are worried about being wiped out by Russian Artillery before they are anywhere ...

Tempest414 wrote:Then maybe you know less than you fucking think as the one we had was a Ford transit from Ford

You mean the Smith Edison The company that went bust because they crow-barred batteries into commercial vehicles.

We had a all electric minibus at a company I worked for ran well for 3 years then it needed new batteries which cost £3500 + £ 800 to dispose of the old ones electric cars make me laugh the batteries crap out after 3 or so and the batteries need special disposal in a few years the new problem facin...

Replacement battery packs for Electric Cars when they existing ones deteriorate are not covered under warranty in most cases. Some companies are looking at a scheme where the owner leases the battery pack, which is then replaced when required. spreads the cost out over X number of years. I do not k...

We had a all electric minibus at a company I worked for ran well for 3 years then it needed new batteries which cost £3500 + £ 800 to dispose of the old ones electric cars make me laugh the batteries crap out after 3 or so and the batteries need special disposal in a few years the new problem facin...

We had a all electric minibus at a company I worked for ran well for 3 years then it needed new batteries which cost £3500 + £ 800 to dispose of the old ones electric cars make me laugh the batteries crap out after 3 or so and the batteries need special disposal in a few years the new problem facin...