Lord Jim wrote:Can either a Merlin or Chinook lift a Foxhound (with RWS) or Jackal?

Chinook can

Didn't Donald just say that he will bring it back home... all of it? - a nice way to have a sovereign capability (I mean: more like, not to have it in the long run) Perhaps we can soon forget about what he says, no? Did started pulling some engineering contracts back to Texas in May under the cover...

However I doubt there is enough merlins to have 4 on one. Quite a few were marinised as troop carriers? - v tight with ASW/ AEW Merlins Yes a fleet of 25 transferred from the airforce. This I believe leaves a round 10 available to deploy after other tasks/maintenance taken into account. Of that 10 ...

They should really be called multi role support ships. The roles being defined what they carry. The bay has always been the ideal candidate as its basically what they’ve been doing for years fwd deployed. However I doubt there is enough merlins to have 4 on one.

I would say like most of the Nordic countries they have a limited budget so don’t have money to burn they need to get a clear idea of what they want to
do be pragmatic about what’s possible and then buy what’s needed. It would never catch on over here.

The bill expects the Gripen C/D to be “an important part of the war organization beyond 2030,” while noting that C/Ds can also be employed for advanced training. Currently, Sweden has 60 Gripen Es on order - IF Finland buys Gripen, then the pipeline will double (I doubt that they will, or can, doub...

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2020-10-16/swedish-defense-bill-extends-gripen-add-new-aew-aircraft The bill sets out a series of measures that improve equipment, readiness, training, and organization across the Swedish armed forces, including the reestablishment of a number of units...

Is Germany doing that? They aren’t mounting their sigint on an airbus.....

- that clearance figure seems to be hard to find? http://www.b737.org.uk/techspecsngs.htm#side How do you read the two 'height' figures given and their small difference? Is that the max (allowable) impact from touching the runway on landing? I.e. ground clearance, written 'in code'? It maybe around...

I tried to verify the concerns of the early operators of the NGs with much improved bypass engines, namely that the ground clearance was so much less than on earlier models that the use of some airfields could become not feasible That’s why you have those flattened lower surface on the NG nacelles ...

You can hypotheses exactly how much it may generate or how many it may employee and most figures are woolly because it’s nearly impossible to predict with any certainty but one thing there is no getting away from and that is the below. “ The Tempest programme is also being seen as providing critical...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:GE and RR worked together on the alternative engine for the F-35... good to see them coming together (again)

There talking about GE U.K. subsidiaries (smiths) Particularly in Cheltenham and hamble I would think rather than GE aero engines.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/84a9b674-fe09-4dd6-a52e-d112ce25d88d Britain’s next-generation fighter programme will support roughly 20,000 jobs and deliver £25.3bn in value to the UK economy by 2050, according to initial estimates that will form part of an outline business case t...

Interesting thread

Interesting thread

I can understand the decision especially if they are wishing to maximise helicopter landing spots and if they see f35b primarily in an air defence configuration. Maybe we will send a flight out East for exercise to integrate on the ship at some point.

As for those numbers (the difference in quantities is interesting) and esp. "Obviously both massively exceed the €9.3 billion budget" they are for (or with) all optional extras, not all options to be taken up - more importantly, over the 30-yr life span two MLUs have been calculated to ta...

If there moving the the land mass of the UK away from the continent no wonder it’s taking so long hopefully it ends up somewhere warmer. I don’t see anything from anyone discussing anything other than NATO being the bedrock off our national security. There appears a real disconnect for some about th...

Interesting analysis on the conflict

https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/file ... _20-66.pdf

https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/file ... _20-67.pdf

Is there scope over the next decade to increase build drum beat. Hopefully but only if funding matches ambition. It will be interesting to see what the emphasis on subsea results in as part of the Integrated Review. The threat to National Security has been identified but the cost to properly counte...

Indeed so will you be proposing moving surface fleet spending to the submarine service. What are you suggesting he do? Cut what to build what and where? You need to look short term and long. Manning of the current fleet, maintenance and support to the current fleet and if extra resources could impr...

Amongst the usual defence review bingo card checklist two point worthy of consideration “A Russia that is now more active in the Atlantic, our backyard“ Yep so maybe do something about that before banging on about playing in other people’s back yard “Meanwhile he said that while space and cyber wer...

Amongst the usual defence review bingo card checklist two point worthy of consideration “A Russia that is now more active in the Atlantic, our backyard“ Yep so maybe do something about that before banging on about playing in other people’s back yard “Meanwhile he said that while space and cyber were...