Want to thank those who provided the links and photos - was at work and missed all the daytime fun

Also want congratulate all those involved in the project and the likes of CJ and others on this thread for a job well done.

She looks great and everyone should be very proud.

So you're here to stir.
Two post's, both accusing British forces of murder.

downsizer wrote:the navy are involved in the ongoing reviews. I wonder what option they are pushing....

Rhino's?

NATO as an organization should have snapped up the remaining "white tail" C17s while they had the chance. All gone now I think ? Agreed. NATO or EU. Can't believe that NATO only got 3... Maybe France should have struck up a deal with the UK, along the lines of "we'll help buy / suppo...

Can they not "rent out" the capacity to help pay?
There must be other nation's who would like to use it but can't afford their own.

The fella in the background doesn't seem impressed... Or maybe he's pissed that it never came to be!?! :D That would be my father, who served on HMS Ocean & Triumph 46-48 in the med under 805 and then 800 sqdns servicing Seafires. He sadly passed away last year :( Sorry to hear that, my condole...

The fella in the background doesn't seem impressed...


Or maybe he's pissed that it never came to be!?!

3 suspects shot dead by armed police after killing 6 and injuring 50.

Hope they burn in hell, or whatever Islam's version of it is.

If anyone is interested, Air International magazine has a good article on crowsnest. From project inception through to planned deployment. Same mag also has an article on P-8, including RAF procurement lots and that we would get our allies to help out with air refuelling if it's need (author didn't ...

The SNP is launching its general election manifesto, which calls for an independence referendum "at the end of the Brexit process". The UK government has already rejected Nicola Sturgeon's call for a vote to be held in the autumn of next year or spring of 2019. But the SNP says that posit...

Surely if it is able to be set up for STOL then it won't have much forward momentum and would just need to use a bit more deck space.
What is landing speed for SRVL anyway?

marktigger wrote: why not replace the SA80A2 with the HK417?

Probably for the same reason that you only had That rifle in semi auto only.

Just to let everyone know, the fourth video (XL60 4.85mm) is now up - all nine available.


Edit:- now number nine is in private !?!

It was interesting to see the Stoner 63 hatchet job and HK's A3 Body Assembly, I wonder if they also have a TMH in the works too, maybe in a polymer?

Hope the forth vid is the double 0 and XL64 (and gets made public soon) how they went downhill from those to the L85 A1's.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WtOOLh_F8I&index=6&list=PL9e3UCcU00TTKZGYyt7empeySNqh-xJWb To those interested in the development of this "unique" rifle, Ian from Forgotten Weapons has done a series of 9 videos (playlist below) chronicling its history. https://www.youtube.com/play...

It could have been worse, they could have chosen the Boeing!!!

Timmymagic wrote: A319 would have been perfect

I was always keen to see an A320 with A321 wings/engines/undercarriage, it always seemed a better size for the job.

But as has been said, to slow off the mark, the P-8 will dominate its market for many years to come.

Tony Blair has urged voters not to elect MPs who "back Brexit at any cost", whichever party they are from. The ex-PM told the BBC that Brexit was a bigger issue than party allegiance for the general election on 8 June. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39685678 Does anyone still liste...

Fook me, you wouldn't want to fall off that thing would you!?!

Wasn't there a bit of an uproar last year (or the year before), because LM was offering an upgrade but only for a price?

Something feels a bit off here. Agreed. Mickey, what is the "Russian equivalent of the F-35"? The Russians (and Chinese for that matter) haven't got anything in full production that rivals the F-22 and they've had a lot longer to match that than the jsf. Not to be rude here fella, but I g...

And from the other side of the pond. Interview with Kori Phillips, interesting Q & A about the LSAT and CTSAS programmes. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/03/11/interview-kori-phillips-program-officer-lsat-ctsas-part-1-program-history-ammunition-technical-discussion/ http://www.thefirearm...

Little bit strange as the French Army goes to the 416, that they move away from it. And in 7.62x39, it says replace but I wonder if they would have both available?

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017 ... 6f-videos/