Canada have gone for old Australia FA-18's, IMHO if they wanted typhoon they would have put the rfi out sooner.

Would be nice to be proved wrong

topman wrote:I (strongly) suspect many people on places such as this will be disappointed when it comes to deployed numbers of the F35.

I always thought that it was one third down for maintenance, a third for training and the final third for deployment.

Is that still the case?

Can't really imagine what use the Harrier would be? If they already had a few in service and wanted to bump up their fleet fair enough, but the differences between the two are that great (from flying ability to maintenance), I just can't see the point.

So there's the easy fix...

The Ministry : So you don't want the F-35B?
Crab : No Sir
The Ministry : OK, the Navy can have all the B's we can afford.
Crab : So how many A's will we get?
The Ministry : A's? No you can have a few extra Tiffies instead.

Wondering if Israel knows about this? They may like letting the septics buy them stuff, but I can't imagine that they tell them how or who they use them on.

Could understand why, if they used it for the navy too but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I would say less than 10 years, the pressure and scrutiny she's going to be under I wouldn't wish on anyone.

But I like Harry, so I hope I'm going to be proved wrong.

Haven't heard anything yet.

Either way, my condolences to the families.

Got to be honest Ron5, I don't see how its an irrelevant observation. Also, A commitment, if broken would piss off a great deal of US politicians who lost F-35 work/jobs in their states to the UK Who's to say that that same work share would have stayed in the US? Italy, Japan or anyone else in the p...

Ok hands up I'll give you that one

There's no "plan" to buy 138 and there never has been. What exists is a commitment to the USA to buy 138 over the life of the program. A commitment, if broken would piss off a great deal of US politicians who lost F-35 work/jobs in their states to the UK. Be fair, do you really believe th...

Article from TFB claiming that the MCX is out of the running for the G36 replacement program due to ITAR issues.
That would leave H&K (416 and 433) and Rheinmetall (RS556) as the remaining bidders...

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017 ... an-tender/

BA was in talks recently with Dr Peters Group about ex-Singapore A380's... They stated a few years ago that they love the plane but not the price of new one's!

Like to see who is going to volunteer for the live passenger demo

I'm sorry my question is ridiculous, it's true that France does not buy a lot of British material, and that the British Army has evaluated the VBCI and several French equipment, I do not know why I asked this question :oops: . Thank you for your understanding :) Don't take it to heart Frenchie, It'...

Maybe they have a reputation (similar to the Americans) were they love to sell to their "partners", but can always find an excuse not to buy from them.

My problem is that I see any difference between any of the current crop of MP's (no matter what party), they're all lower than a snakes belly.

james k wrote:So this thing is as big as Warrior but only carries a half dismounted infantry section? Yeah, sounds great value just like a watch that is accurate twice a day

All those, plus the Lightening (obviously) and Jaguar.

@ACC
Have a painting by Ronald Wong, called Return to the Future, of a TSR.2 flying low over a Loch in camo colours carrying esm/ecm pods, sidewinders and laser pod... Looks better than that pimped buccaneer

I assumed that they would have their own solution - surely they could find themselves in a situation where there wasn't a CVN to help out?

Ron5 wrote:

RetroSicotte wrote:but they have massive back up from other carrier launched aircraft that do.

The Corps has their own air force because they can't rely on that backup.

So what do they use, anti - shipping wise (and will it fit in a Dave B)?

No mention of airframe mods? Or is that just for B's (and maybe C's)?

Why the refuelling probe? We don't have anything to refuel from.

Brown trousers time

OK time for a dumb question... Why are the US army choosing landing craft?