ArmChairCivvy wrote:

Smokey wrote:Indeed, and the bribery investigation around it only kicked off quite recently.

It wasn't bribery, it was Anschluss!

I thought Germany secured the Austria deal?

Will this jeopardise a future KSA order? If there was a slightest chance of that happening, I doubt the Qatari LOI would've gone ahead? Possible 72 airframes against a possible 24? The elephant in the room is that the neighbours are boycotting Qatar, so why would the UK risk a diplomatic upset? Som...

dmereifield wrote:What is an LOI?

Letter Of Intent

@ Eurofighter (BAE Systems, Leonardo, Airbus Defence) Get your arses in gear!

Opinion3 wrote:

SDL wrote:he might be able to tow Ocean ........

Fake news, already been rebuked.

As for Tiderace, she has this habit of switching off her AIS. Possibly mid N.Atlantic right now?

No wonder the US army is looking for a new bullet as the areas left for critical injury https://imgur.com/TfWzbzV are a small area of the total in the traditional (even more so, a kneeling one) target figure on the ranges I'm guessing that's the latest incarnation of Putin's "Little Green Men?...

R1 to R2 upgrade confirmed.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ce-441135/

Some info on the BAE Systems Chally 2 upgrade.

https://www.armyrecognition.com/dsei_20 ... _2017.html

Tiderace is underway again. Heading N.E. from Curaçao in the approximate direction of Anguilla.

DSEI 2017.

Oshkosh showcases its JLTV for the MRV-P

https://www.armyrecognition.com/dsei_20 ... on_uk.html

Armoured Recovery Version of the Coyote by Supacat.

https://www.armyrecognition.com/dsei_20 ... _2017.html

DSEI 2017

Manroy Engineering becomes FNH UK

https://www.armyrecognition.com/dsei_20 ... nh_uk.html

She's in Curaçao at present.

ArmChairCivvy wrote:

Smokey wrote: I expect the Chinooks won't be stopping at Gib.

Sitting pretty, on the deck now.

Yeah, I got that wrong.

I was expecting more to fly out to either the ship when she was underway or loaded onto a C17/AN124 and taken direct to the Caribbean.

Each method avoiding Spain completely.

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Looks like the MOD have contracted an AN-124 as well?

Not bad for a tax haven to receive a lot of taxpayer's cash £££££££

shark bait wrote:Great to see them progressing quickly now, looking forward to seeing Tidespring filling up QE in the near future I hope.

Here's an appetiser.

ArmChairCivvy wrote: I wonder if Spain is sticking to their funny games about overflight rights, when there is some urgency to get "stuff" over there and the Chinooks to help to deliver it?

Rhetorical question?

If HMS Ocean is underway then I expect the Chinooks won't be stopping at Gib.

If the entire fleet need turrets, a UOR will be initiated (probably) or all the vehicles on deployment will be the turreted version (Theatre Entry Standard).

My opinion based on prior experience.

There was an order of new RHIB's placed about a year or so ago for the RN.

https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/imps ... scheduled/

Tiderace has turned her AIS back on.

She's been through the canal and is approaching Aruba just off Venezuela.

KyleG wrote:Ocean only cost about £150m when it was built, so it going for £80m 20 years later doesn't sound a bad deal IMO.

Allowing for inflation the equivalent of £150m would be £243m today.

If I bought a new car in 1998 for £15k and sold twenty years later for £8k, I think I'd be happy, too?

Argentina's helicopter flight for UNFICYP is operated by their Ejercito and consists of a Bell 212 and two Hughes 500's.

Bell 212's in Brunei. Contractor owned. AAC pays for the flight hours and then bills the Sultan. Bell 412's in Cyprus. Contractor owned. RAF pays for the flight hours and then bills the M.O.D. Or something very similar? Military using aircraft they haven't forked out for equals cost saving. Allegedly