IMHO we're in the grey zone already. China is a massive customer for Iranian Oil, I struggle to think those attacks are happening spontaneously. If China continue to ratchet up the pressure on Taiwan then some sort of confrontation with the USN is inevitable. In that case we can assume the USN will ...

Whilst I do not buy the idea that Russia will be in a position to launch a major ground attack on NATO countries anytime soon, I can see a conflict in the far east having an knock on impact to the European region (and possibly Gulf, South America and Africa through proxy wars). One plausible scenar...

Really good document, thanks for posting.

Interesting, the graphic is cross-domain - Land Sea Air, specifically mentions carrier strike and ASW. Surely this should all be joint, or at least RN + RAF

That must have been a wrenching painful decision for those chaps, having to start a new life in 1960s California.

" A fixed-price contract for the program’s development has additionally forced Boeing to absorb approximately $1.3 billion in losses to date. "

Read that and weep, it would never happen here. Not with Boeing, not with BAE (Nimrod), not with GDUK Land Systems.

avbucc_6.png Here's the aircraft that should have been developed post TSR2, the Blackburn P150. It was a realistic project, a long range strike aircraft using the Buccaneer as a starting point, stretching it, applying area ruling and using the already developed Spey with reheat combination from the...

If I could have given that comment 10 thumbs up, I would have :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Bring it on! IMHO we needed two aircraft - an evolved supersonic Buccaneer and an evolved supersonic Hunter ie P1121. And then continue spiral deve...

Just flapping his arms in hope of a bigger work share. One line had me scratching my head: If participating nations just want a next-gen platform, he said, that “already exists — it is called F-35 and can be modified easily.” I kind of agree. Sounds like lastminute workshare negotiations, let's fac...

We should just cut Boeing a cheque for a billion a year as a xmas present and save all this mucking around.

The Chairman of Boeing UK is a former top Civil Servant

“Thank you sir may I have another!”

2 billion GBP for 14 chinooks

Sheesh

Well at least they won’t have a door to blow out mid flight.

And this is the day after a Boeing whistleblower “suicided”…

They brought Bronk back to Parliament.... :? He seems to have taken an issue with Japan and their more exquisite capability requirements... International Relations and Defence Committee: The Global Combat Air Programme Video: https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/c7fc2a65-ab60-4dd5-a63b-58eb11de014...

Personally I'm thinking the next government if labour will definitely throw GCAP under the buss and try and hash a french plane , personally if I was BAE, I would turn around to the next government and say,we have a perfectly good plane and team up in gcap and if you want to throw it all under the ...

Who is this “we “ he’s referring to?

If he means Europe well most of it has gone for the F35

Given the potential volume of drones would it be possible / advisable to embark a couple of Starstreak teams? Just to give that extra layer.

Start a recruiting office in Aberdeen there'll be no shortage of resource these days

Boeing are in a serious pickle. Buying.Spirit means reversing the strategy of the last 2 decades.And they bring the liability back onto their books - no one else to blame now.

Luckily they still have a few dumb customers like us prepared to pay twice the USAF price for a P8 LOL

UK Research and Innovation, part of BIS, has a 25 billion GBP budget over the next 3 years.

Surely some of that could be tipped into productionising UN sovereign defence technologies, or at least making up some of the cost deta

Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're...

Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're...

Heretical thought here - should we be buying ANY non-marinised helicopters from here on in? Given the pretty clear tilt to an expeditionary CONOPs. Where exactly is an Army-only helicopter going to be used? BAOR doesn't exist anymore. The USMC don't operate Blackhawk. Or Chinook. Or Apache. I'd put ...

Actual long term benefit to British Industry is considerable in the case of the Leonardo offering - which has also been selected by Poland and the US, so it's not exactly an orphan like Ajax. Shutting down a major Uk industry just as we're verging on a hot war with Russia? Not terribly smart. We're ...

I'dhave thought composites

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1966306/business-economy

SW1 wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 17:09 They’ll be falling over themselves to buy the Boeing T7 red hawk knowing them.

"Proven low cost off the shelf option" LOL

It's interesting. Aeralis are confirmed subsonic only, ie going for "everything below T7 / M346 / T-50". Which is quite a huge market, but not a LIFT for a 5th/6th gen fighter. But for sure there'll be synergies. For one thing Aeralis are now half owned by the Qatar sovereign wealth find, ...