Good stuff, wondering how long till Sweden gets in though months or years? Think it is electoral posturing by Erdogan to try to sway an apparently tight race. Yep - agree - regardless of who wins the election - sweden will be approved after the election is done. It is however a very self centred an...

Welcome to NATO - Finland !!!!!! Thankyou Russia for helping achieve the unimaginable...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... nberg.html

Russians cannot get hold of tanks quick enough :

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2 ... 2b881e87ee

It is only a matter of time before we start seeing T-34's in the Ukrainian war.

Interesting one for historians Personally I think if there were no Brexit we’d be looking at a maybe 20% share in FCAS, maybe even alignment of SSNs with France ie adopting LEU. I don’t think 5 eyes would last long term given the EUs defence ambitions. EU has nothing to do with 5-eyes .... so its f...

The Conqueror wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023, 18:58 MMU Taxi tests

BEAUTIFUL ... congratulations Turkey!!

SKB wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023, 18:36 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64992727

Lifetime achievement award for Putin and his legacy .. that of a war criminal. Congratulations Putin - hopefully this is "special" news for you ...

I think the numbers will be way more than than the 120-180 people here suggest. My imho my view is ~250 units. The lesson from the Ukraine war is the need to have combat mass, and with the UK being involved in the European theatre, and now a toe in the "Indo-Pacific" theater - the UK will ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/france-challenging-russia-as-second-biggest-arms-exporter-behind-us >> Not suprised that UK is falling down the rankings. We have nothing to sell !!! The goverment or UK MOD does nothing to support the development of new systems in the UK - whereas Franc...

No concrete news or announcements of the deal yet ..


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... ne-program

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/13/euro ... index.html

Wasn't quite sure where to put this, so mod's feel free to move it if you want :shifty: Official announcement on Monday he said... https://twitter.com/FrontSprocket/status/1634521936079253506?s=20 Lets see if this is true - if this is an "interim" procurement - we can always send them to ...

It will be really interesting if the Spanish buy F35. I'll put money on it, FCAS will eventually go ahead as basically french only, from about 2045, which they'll subsequently flog to India Agree - i think that the French will "pump" Germany and France for money for as long as they can ge...

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/ac ... 27.article

>> All is "well" in the FCAS programme ..

If the supplied virginia's are the initial blocks, then they will have a limited shelf life anyway and will need to be retired. The timelines for the retirement of the virginia's, procurements of the SSNR for both UK and Australia could well overlap very nicely. If the supplied virginia's are new bu...

San Diego is homeport to 5 Los Angeles Class boats that were pencilled in for withdrawal from 2026. Interesting - i do think the path will be to lease 5 for australia to learn operations and then build a derivative of the Astute that both the RN and Australia will operate with the UK taking care of...

Blloomberg says Australia will buy UK Design for AUKUS submarines (with interim of Virigina's until they turn up)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ify%20wall

China is developing a new indigenous helicopter

https://alert5.com/2023/03/06/china-is- ... elicopter/

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1286666.shtml

Just a tidbit that came out of a conversation at the Reform Club. Focus is shifting onto the turret numbers produced (more) with the umming and ahhing about chassis numbers being less of an issue. Read into that what you will (I took it as a CH3 turret on something like a K2 BP etc.). Interesting i...

Nice looking ship, will be interesting what will be the final (affordable) outcome. Having only one means a part time capability though. If the EU is serious about an EU defence force and strategic autonomy, then with funding from Germany, Italy and Spain they should be looking at a 2nd (probably w...

Latest US weapons aid package to Ukraine worth $2 billion Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems; Additional 155mm artillery rounds; Munitions for laser-guided rocket systems; CyberLux K8 unmanned aerial systems; Switchblade 600 UAS; Altius-600 UAS; Jump 20 UAS; Counter-UA...

We can now make the hipotetical question that after the Storm Shadow Missile announcement today the the next domino to fall will be the Eurofighter Typhoon ????? https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1626955966196465665?t=RSdo1I_EJT0s4W-rqjjePw&s=19 What will the Storm Shadow be launched off?? ...

We can now make the hipotetical question that after the Storm Shadow Missile announcement today the the next domino to fall will be the Eurofighter Typhoon ????? https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1626955966196465665?t=RSdo1I_EJT0s4W-rqjjePw&s=19 What will the Storm Shadow be launched off?? ...

K9 makes the most sense - given how many Poland will be buying - we need more commonality - I do think the Army is right on this one.

Two things are happening in the Black Sea which together could shift the dynamic in Russia’s favor. Russia has copied Ukraine’s’ maritime drones and started using them. At the same time, a decision by Elon Musk to limit Starlink use may stop Ukraine using their own. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-...

Why are the D Models being retired so early? Have they run out of airframe life ? ( not followed this topic so i am curious ). Is it the same scenario as the Typhoon Trance 1's where we have lots of airframe life left, but because we cannot "upgrade" them - we just retire them even though...

NICOLA STURGEON RESIGNS! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64647907?at_link_id=0F95B8B2-AD17-11ED-9451-D456FC756850&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_origin=BBCScotlandNews&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_medium=social&at_campaign_type=owned&at_format=lin...