Could be used as decoys or jammers.

The whole things utter rubbish.
Who did they get to compile it, someone on work experience?

Plus dark glasses and he's carrying his rifle left handed! Gotta be a yank surely?

arfah wrote: whitelancer wrote:
The Beufort was the Hurricane to the Mosquitos Spitfire

Beaufort? Beaufighter, surely

Oops! My mistake. The Beaufort was the Torpedo Bomber from which the Beaufighter was developed. That's what happens when you rely on memory.

If it was a 5.5 inch gun I assume it was a derivative of the famous 2nd World War artillery piece.

The Jordanian Challies were Shir 1s,which they called Khalid, basically a modified Chieftain with some elements, notably the engine that were to be part of Shir 2. It was from the Shir 2 that Challenger 1 was derived. Interestingly Shir 2 was quite a bit bigger than Challenger, in particular its wid...

You still have fixed costs to consider.

bobp

Totally agree, what is the fundamental difference between an updated Warrior and Scout!
Even if their is a rational behind the concept of Scout, which I have not heard yet, it has been poorly executed. As I have said before it is too large too heavy and underarmed.

Finally a prototype of Scout. About time considering how much money has already been committed to buying them.

The Beufort was the Hurricane to the Mosquitos Spitfire

Always wondered why the Marines never employed CVR(T). A Sqn or Regt attached to 3 Cdo Brigade would have been an ideal compliment, being light mobile with good firepower.

Enigmatically said The problems the RN has had with deck edge lifts are not actually related to the fact they were deck edge lifts And not being not difficult to enclose is only rhe case if you look at just the deck. If you look lower down the story changes As I understood it the problem was to do ...

Given the problems the RN has had in the past with deck edge lifts, wouldn't it have been sensible to partially or completely enclose them in the sponsons. Having looked closely at the pics of the lifts it doesn't look as though it would have been too difficult.
Just a thought.

Want to see Typhoon, Vulcan the Red Arrows and much more, with a day by the sea thrown in? Try the Bournemouth Air Festival in August.

downsizer asked What exact capability did the Bucc have that Tornado didn't then? Surely the question should have been what capability did Tornado have that the Bucc didn't? After all the Buccaneer was their. Their was no need to have spent very large sums of money on Tornado, when much smaller sum...

Having reconsidered my comments above I realise I have been rather foolish. The article the quote comes from would have been checked and checked again by the MOD before it was released its neither an error or lie. It is in fact a classic case of spin. On first reading I presumed that "That's do...

The Defence Secretary argues that the UK's military is more than capable of keeping this country safe Today, 4,000 brave and capable men and women of our three Armed Forces are working around the clock on 21 different joint operations in 19 countries. That's double the number five years ago. Just t...

If the Secretary of State for Defence can say:- Today, 4,000 brave and capable men and women of our three Armed Forces are working around the clock on 21 different joint operations in 19 countries. That's double the number five years ago. Has he forgotten Afghanistan already? Puts the errors of a ju...

That's the trouble with politics today, its all about presentation rather than policy. I'm not saying that presentation is not important, it is. Poor presentation can undermine a perfectly good policy. The problem arises when presentation, (spin) is used to hide or disguise a policy or when presenta...

The Defence Secretary argues that the UK's military is more than capable of keeping this country safe Today, 4,000 brave and capable men and women of our three Armed Forces are working around the clock on 21 different joint operations in 19 countries. That's double the number five years ago. Just t...

Ron 5 wrote What do you guys think a T26 could do with a full electric system that they won't be able to do without one? I would have thought it would save having to fit what must be a very large, complicated and expensive gearbox to change from electric to direct drive. It would also allow the use...

R686 wrote as said before unless going into a high threat area there is no need to put a 3rd of your T45 force when you can get away with 2/3 Type23-26. It costs money to end out a top shelf CBG all the time. Yes it costs money, a lot of it, to create proper CBGs. But not spending the money means w...

What extra kit do you need? You would need to fit larger electric motors, not that much more expensive. Have a generator attached to the MT30 but you would do away with a complicated gear box, which is probable very expensive. I just can't see where all the extra expense is. Its potentially more eff...

The above replies seem to suggest that you can throw together any old group of warships and they will preform perfectly together. This has been proved not to be the case. A properly worked up force which trains and operates together has always proved superior to one put together at the last minute o...

Why is a full electric propulsion system more expensive than the CODELOG system on T26?
I would have thought it was both more flexible and more efficient.