other brigades led by Germany and Italy." Multinational brigades. Thx, you found the "missing, 6th, brigade" - we have some numbers on major participators now: Norway 10.000, Germany, variously 8 to 8.5k, would UK be coming in as a good third? Bomb disposal means 1-3 MCMs Could also ...

RunningStrong wrote: Last AJAX variants

May be he meant (but failed to formulate) that the order for the whole family of variants would be fully delivered by...

I am relieved that it wasn't a sneak pre-release of some MDP outcomes!

referring to the 6.8 specifically He is referring to test results with the new round... and can't wait (until next summer) to see how the manufacturers will have handled "any problems" - he also acknowledges that the two new weapons will be more expensive and will only be distributed to f...

Ron5 wrote:Don't take much to persuade a Marine to drink

You say? https://www.msn.com/...marine...darwin. ... .../ar-BBO...

3 days old piece - The head of the US marine force stationed in the Top End has been relieved of his command for drink-driving on Darwin's nightclub strip. -

Arrowhead 140 at 101/121 crew Leander at 100/120 Arrowhead 120 has a quoted crew allocation of only 80/100 Holland Class @3,750t. 50/70, as in "can accommodate 50 ship crew members and up to 40 non-listed persons, including a helicopter detachment, law enforcement detachment (LED), a platoon o...

Black Belt and all that...

That Jane's piece (above) states AJAX becoming operational in 2025... how does that rhyme with the statements that both Strike bdes would be up and running by 2023? Also, it is now "official" that Ajax will be the fire support vehicle for Boxers - I guess an outcome to spread the available...

As it is AUSA time, we also got to hear why the US Army has made the u-turn, from upping the calibre , to " Military.com 8 Oct 2018 By Matthew Cox The U.S. Army's chief of staff said Monday that its 6.8mm , next-generation weapons, slated to replace the M249 squad automatic weapon and the M4A1 ...

I cannot see the A140 running costs being that high, they only have a crew requirement of 100 which is good for a ship of that size but there are berths for additional personnel if needed. For a big(ger) vessel , only if was always making use of the power installed - yeah, may be costly - but more ...

benny14 wrote:Six brigades training

1 Norway-regular; another Home Guard?. One German; one Brit. USMC (pre-stored heavy kit)...makes 5. Some Dutch... sprinkle in RM = total of 6?

benny14 wrote: logistics is the sixth domain of warfare. And you can see that play out through Trident Juncture

PS. 3 logs & engineers units for 3 bn sized combat units - would point to them trying to do it for real - with simulated "no bridge here" events... how long would it take to get the relevant asset in-situ to rectify that? And then just, cooly, drive over the bridge that is "still&...

70km per hour convoy road speed. Would it be a real test of logistics that the lead pulls into a commercial petrol station, the 2nd takes the lead... and about the 10th pulls in as the lead is already leaving... in a good old F1 style Organising self-sustaining stops (granular; 10 vehicles at a tim...

A substantial part of the Ex takes place between Iceland and Norway
- what has not been "revealed" yet is what (if any) air assets will operate out of Norway airfields/ temp. bases

Also, no mention (yet?) of RM involvement

Steve Baker was out for count, and with lines like this "Raab yesterday said [...]he wanted “enough detail and enough of the substance in the political declaration on the future relationship, so that this House and the country at large understand the model of economic and security co-operation ...

It makes you think what else could be "Linked". If speculation is allowed - I have not seen a confirmed source for this - the link between F-35s is far superior to the downlink back to the carrier - an absurd situation (if true) as A. the carrier is supposed to contain and operate the hig...

Maybe the +1 ship will not be the same as the other two FSS. Maybe the +1 ship will be a design for solid support specific to amphibious ops, and also be an Argus replacement. Thought that,and then it was there in print, as your conclusion, too. concept with the well dock to help balance the Amphib...

Thx benny, I consider it to be the most important ex in Europe this year - certainly deserves a thread. In this sneak preview (2014 input to Norway's Defence Review) one can see on slide 5 https://cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/airpower2014/Gjert_Lage_Dyndal.pdf the emphasis on providing dispersed bases fo...

"the draft PON appears to dictate the weapon’s ammunition by stipulating a specific projectile. The PON states that the government’s new ‘6.8MM GENERAL PURPOSE (GP)’ projectile, designated the XM1186 vendors will have to supply “50 NGSW-R weapons, 50 NGSW-AR weapons, To continue on this "...

Elsewhere (DID of today reports) another kind of "jointness" taking at least baby steps: ". During a recently held test, one of the USMC's F-35Bs was able to connect with a HIMARS shot for the first time. According to Lt,. Gen. Steven R. Rudder, the F-35 used sensors to create a data ...

I personally, hope that the Arrowhead 140 re-appears in some guise or other me, too, as its size gives flexibility for the future, with lots of space for additional organic and offboard systems introducing a multipurpose design that meets the T31 requirements and provides a clear pathway for the ne...

IMF World Economic Outlook summarises the past 10 years as it " takes stock of the global economic recovery a decade after the 2008 financial crisis. Output losses after the crisis appear to be persistent, irrespective of whether a country suffered a banking crisis in 2007–08. Sluggish investme...

doesn't look like 15 years of cutting edge development. I expect the RN didn't accelerate its development because of lack of funds. The joint prgrm with the French is, as far as I know, still running. The difference in that they have already sketched out (in the Military Law) what they will order a...

Is the 50mm the long-rumoured ATK supershot modification? There has been much speculation that Carmel, in the end, would get something akin to the very high velocity Italian/ Israeli tank gun - which by now is very old, and has only sold to refurb prgrms of even older tanks (Chile) - but it is an al...

Are those Wessex I see down there too? I thought so, too. The idea is to create 'congestion' and get the not-so-small F-35s from A to B plenty quick, and without any scrathes... so does it matter much "who" plays the "Garden Gnomes" as the obstructions in the confined space (the...

something biblical, anyway (forgetting the name for the mo) Had time to look for it (after dinner): " Much like the United States and its Ground-X Vehicle Technology project, Israel is aiming to develop smaller, lightweight tanks that can operate in urban terrain. In Israel’s case, the IDF is ...