Until they are no longer supported, we should think about retaining Phalanx for use on RFAs & STUFT vessels, alondside the DS30Bs

How to say language teaching in the UK is crap without blaming the teachers and the Dept for Education

Oh dear - resources are resources, whether they are currently being exploited or not. Russia wishes to take control of Ukrainian resources, largely for the personal enrichment of the kleptocracy currently running Russia. The late John McCain who said about Russia "Russia is a gas station masque...

But they are still in the ground they aren't preventing access to any one. The shocks to the economy due to Ukraine have been due to a lack of Russian Gas and Oil not Ukrainian. I suggest you read up on the subject a bit more. Putin and the oligarchs are obsessed with acquiring wealth. The oil, gas...

tomuk wrote: ↑03 Apr 2024, 22:02 lots of potential resources

Still resources. Also resources that they are denying others access to.

Remember - Britain denying Germany access to the Middle Eastern oilfields was one of the most significant actions of WW2. Lack of fuel crippled the German war effort

Ukraine sits on large oil & gas fields. Its Black Sea EEZ also contains large undeveloped oil & gas deposits (which is why Russia is desperate to capture the entire Black Sea coast). Sufficient that, if exploited, Ukraine could seriously compete with Russia as a major supplier to Europe. It ...

Not going to happen. Too expensive. The US has set aside $60b to restart chip manufacturing in the USA. Even the Tories have started taking stakes in strategic industries - hopefully Labour will continue How much of that industry would survive a lengthy conflict. It's one of the primary strategic t...

I'm not so sure that the US will just roll over & let China take 60% of the worlds chip-making industry

As an Easter thought exercise, given five years, no increase in budget, but an opportunity to tweak a few things (changing priorities/selling things to add realistic / modest additions), what’s the view on how to respond and deploy the limited UK maritime forces? 1. Build ammunition stocks (startin...

It's the Lightweight Multirole Missile. The RN calls it Martlet.
So far demonstrated in surface-to-air, air-to-surface, surface-to-surface and air-to-air modes.
All the same missile, using the same laser-beam riding guidance tech as Starstreak. Other guidance methods have been proposed

Pushing the light gun's range out to 22-25km would outrange all current Russian 122mm (based on publicly available specs) and even some 152mm systems (using standard ammunition). Perhaps 40km range could be acheived with specialist (rocket-assisted etc) rounds. For longer ranges, I think we should b...

AFAIK there are Boxer, Man and Jackal flatbeds available. Pretty sure there was a prototype flatbed Foxhound variant. Stormer had one as well. Maybe something will come out of the FV432 replacement program next year. I would love to see a wheeled/ tracked pair of vehicles using the same modules/ com...

To my mind, one thing that is missing is a wheeled deep-fires capability to support 1 Division. Initially, keeping the 14 Archer and acquiring (say) 24 HIMARS equivalent (potentially based on a more compact platform, for air-portability) would go some way. Eventually replace the Archers with (say) t...

"Nicholas Peterson" isn't British or Australian - neither of those would refer to the "Royal Army". He sounds like a fake "source" to me. Eurasian Times has a long-standing habit of parroting CCP messaging. Relatively low-key - it also often publishes puff pieces for so...

Dropping it actually on the beach?
Not drowning so many people?

I guess this should go here

There have been rumours that Ukraine has had to push launchers closer to the front, to compensate for lack of other ammunition. Launchers are relatively easy to replace - it's the radar and command facilities that would be a real blow - takes the whole battery out (though they are said to have two s...

Repulse wrote: ↑09 Mar 2024, 14:57 until a clear strategy is defined

So what, to your mind, constitues a clear strategy? Perhaps that's where we should all start, with agreement on that

. Many in service with the RAF for training, 6 more ordered for Cyprus and Brunei, as well as the 5 H135 the Army are leasing to Australia and the 2 in the Cayman Islands Regiment. The Cayman Islands Regiment doesn't have any helicopters. Probably meant the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, who ...

One thing that perhaps needs to be considered is an increase in the number of nuclear warheads and tactical nukes. Not an issue currently with the US tightly tied to NATO, but when that changes who is going to fill that gap. Having a credible deterrence against Russia above all else is key. I seem ...

Reported the A-50 released numerous flares but as the S-200 uses semi-active RF seeker would have had no effect. There are videos circulating on X, showing the A-50 dumping strings of flares. One missile appears to track some of the flares and detonate, with a second detonating a few seconds later,...

So you got your knickers in a twist over this? Russia seems to be producing large numbers of tanks & APCs after leaving them to rust in a field for 50 years. Ukraine also just dug 10,000 maxims out of a warehouse somewhere to convert into anti-UAV systems And responded with this Are you trying t...

And yet you've posted conjecture and twitter as your "facts" Russian & Ukrainian MOD Press releases are "conjecture". OK. I can agree that a lot of Russian statements need to be taken with a pinch of salt, but when they corroborate what is seen by OSINT sources and by Ukrain...

Procedural issue with the test? Something not done in the correct sequence, maybe?

"Russia seems to be producing large numbers of tanks & APCs after leaving them to rust in a field for 50 years. Ukraine also just dug 10,000 maxims out of a warehouse somewhere to convert into anti-UAV systems" Are you sure English is your first language? That's not a meme, it's simpl...