Little J wrote: ↑09 Jan 2023, 17:45 Not a fan of this myself, the Yanks have got shed loads of M1's give them some of those

Think the goal is to get the Germans to free up the licenses that allows transfer of Leopard 2's to Ukraine. M1's fuel requirements and servicing will probably hurt ukraine more than help them right now.

India has unfortunately shown itself to be an unreliable partner, in an era when right thinking nations are stepping forward and firmly hammering their colours to the mast. I hope they don't look towards Russia for help if China attacks, I doubt their loyalty to Putin will be rewarded.. India is no...

India has unfortunately shown itself to be an unreliable partner, in an era when right thinking nations are stepping forward and firmly hammering their colours to the mast. I hope they don't look towards Russia for help if China attacks, I doubt their loyalty to Putin will be rewarded.. India is no...

India has unfortunately shown itself to be an unreliable partner, in an era when right thinking nations are stepping forward and firmly hammering their colours to the mast. I hope they don't look towards Russia for help if China attacks, I doubt their loyalty to Putin will be rewarded.. India is no...

Absolutely, it had been hypothesised that SAAB would lead design of a single engine smaller machine, using the engine, avionics and new construction techniques within Tempest, creating a highly scalable high low mix that could have played well to the market. I think that the KAI KF-21 is in the ord...

Looks like Sweden is a bit pissed. Guessing they are out. Saab's setback - misses out on the giant project with Great Britain Saab is outmaneuvered from the joint development of a new future combat aircraft that the Swedish government agreed with Great Britain in 2019. It would have secured the nex...

They are being foolish, the Tempest maybe to big for their needs but being involved in the program would help pay to put the subsystems developed into their own airframe (Gripen or something newer). Absolutely, it had been hypothesised that SAAB would lead design of a single engine smaller machine,...

Merry Christmas Lone Ranger, just reading the various news reports. The Japanese are very keen to drive forward.... The highly likely next Labour administration in the UK, just at a pivotal point for Tempest, must cast some doubts in Tokyo... For that reason alone, considerable pressure will be exe...

It's interesting to note that it's now the Japanese who seem to be dictating the drum beat. They are very keen enter the detail design and engineering phase in 2024, possibly a year or two prior to the UK's ideal time line. Where - how do you come to this conclusion? The pace is more dictated by th...

Merry XMAS everyone - hopefully Santa was both wise and bountiful for all of you and your families.

And - of course - happy new year!!!

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1606355713256718344 :lol: Agree - lol - we should enforce paycut as soldiers can do the job better and as we all know they are paid less ( unfortunately ) and then we need to introduce performance based pay that they can go back to their "old" salari...

I agree that I think Italians will want an "equal share" up until major investment is required, and will then pull out, but by that point having guaranted the involvement of Italian companies to manufacture components which I suspect was their likely end goal all along. I suspect that bot...

FCAS Update : https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/european-future-combat-air-program-wants-demonstrators-flying-by-2029 The fact that FCAS is too large to operate from the new French carrier - is an interesting observation for sure. I guess they were forced to make this statement - even though the...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/tempe ... e-systems/

>> nice writeup on the many dimensions of why Tempest is important to the UK...

FIFA World Cup 2022 Quarter Finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en2bswIl4Oo (BBC Sport) 10th December 2022 England 1-2 France England are out of the World Cup, losing to the current World Champions, France, who will play Morocco in the semi-finals. Thankfully the Lionesses know how to get the jo...

Another thing that comes to mind is that the Americans tend to store their decommisioned systems such that if required - as is now for Ukraine - they can be supplied. The UK tends to not do this and as such there were a number of systems eg Rapier(!!!) that we could have sent to Ukraine which would ...

Think that is the Americans way of telling Germany to step up and supply more systems to Ukraine - rather than sitting on the sidelines and sprinkling in the odd old system from time to time..

Excellent news that the project has been inked with international partners with contractual obligations that stops the UK bean counters from cancelling the project without loss of face for the UK.. The emphasis on equal partners is interesting and good and reflects the ongoing issues that the Franco...

https://twitter.com/lucasfoxnews/status/1599131898760298496?s=61&t=uvg9nZKNv_yN5_q7rSvW2g This just highlights how little prepared the west/NATO is for war when ammunition supplies are so low. I guess, there will be the need for a rethink on procurement capabilities, procurement pipelines and s...

I can’t help but feel that we’d get more, better quality jets with less expensive through life support costs if we just went all in with the Americans like we did with F35. The Tempest programme offers industrial capability that an all in F-35 programme wont offer, and the use for the Tempest is di...

Hopefully the RAF/RN does a better job of looking after the F35B then the Marines !



https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/m ... n-in-japan

Ouch !!!!!!!!!!

SW1 wrote: ↑27 Nov 2022, 11:14

Excellent - the NLAW and Javelins helped stopped the initial attacks on Ukraine and put a stop to Putins plan - happy UK was part of that!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/17016 ... arines-spt

Any ideas on what is being blocked?!

The Conqueror wrote: ↑23 Nov 2022, 18:32

Nice going Turkey - good on showing how to get stuff done!

Pushing aside something like 200,000 often well dug in troops easier said than done ,the foliage providing cover in trees that both sides have hidden beneath will be gone allowing drones to easier find them True - also Ukraines trained soldiers are now hitting the frontlines in mass aswell, and Rus...