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Read "Empire of the Clouds" for a good account of what went wrong with Britain's aviation industry (and much of our defence industry in general) post-WW2...

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I can see some interesting RSS feeds coming from the light blue spin machine:

Typhoon achieves another first by delivering full operational capability in the ground-attack role, following final...

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There's a fair bit of open-source data about that suggests the performance of Bushmaster and the Cougar family are roughly the same.

Like I said before, you can't get a much better PM vehicle than...

An interesting comparison is the Korean war.

During this conflict, the US deployed the first 'modern' body armour in the form of the nylon M1953 vest.

Hundreds - if not thousands - of subjects...

Quite right. They usually place some form of wager well in advance...

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Would Chally2 have faired better?

In a word - and without breaching OPSEC - no.


They had one of the best pieces of kit money could buy, but no vehicle is invulnerable. Of course, that won't...

B_I, to turn your arguement on its head, we maintain armoured capability because without it, we would not be able to maintain our doctrinal aspirations.

However, that capability requires some...

Errr, newsflash: QOY will be going Lt Cav in RWMIK...



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Don't know about the Yeomanry, but there certainly seems to be a fair bit of whinging from regular RAC regiments relegated to the "lesser" role of Lt Cav!


As to 'complex platforms', it is quite...

A and W Sqns of the RY both mobilized to form a large composite Sqn...and as the saying goes "when I left, we were still winning!"

Also mobilized CO RY at the time - so not quite the only Regt,...

Agree the answer is not discipline alone - but there are many cases in which it needs to be used more robustly. For example, the soldier who doesn't show up for a course, or suddenly "has to work...

What she has 'seen' is likely to be the staffwork that suggests one way to improve attendance would be to use the existing discipline system more robustly...

But of course, saying that thousands...

The TAOR for H19 is already established as far as I know. Units start pre-mob training next month, in some cases...

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The copper of a shaped charge isn't molten as such, it just behaves like a liquid.
At the kind of speeds we're talking about - 8km/s or so - the interaction of the jet tip with the target generates...

One of the biggest problems for Britain tank design was simply Dunkirk...

In order to replace losses, new designs were put on the back burner, and existing designs were knocked out for longer than...

Not sure where you heard that from?

Last I heard from CD Cbt was that there would be a 'sliding scale' of integration in the TA Combat Arms. In other words, the reserve contribution would range...

RY currently earmarked as Lt Cav, and as such have recieved initial issue of RWMIK, HMG, and associated ancils.
However, as stated, the role itself has yet to be defined - CD Cbt not planning on...

Let the mountain come to Mohammed - I like it!

Yep - we should have waited until we'd pulled out of Afghanistan to buy more to equip our over-resourced army, which will be swimming in cash post-2014...

That's a good paper - this is another good one, that looks at the 2006 conflict in more detail:

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA477851

I thought it was pretty clear in the A2020 briefings: 3 Yeo Regts will convert to Lt Cav, and 1 to Armd Reinfocment.

Implementation order is still a year or two away, so until then - crack on...

The Israeli Namer Heavy IFV is already produced in the US...God forbid that the Israelis might have figured out what you need to do combined arms manouevre in an IED and RPG rich environment!

If you read the Army 2020 blurb, the 'point' of tanks is to support the infantry in combined arms close-combat against State-Sponsored Hybrid enemies.

Current experimentation is looking at the...

If we didn't have NATO, we'd need a whole new UK defstan to describe tea or coffee with two sugar...

Better the devil you know, etc...

Ah, "qualified system architects" - presumably like those jolly nice chaps from Atkins and Sula Systems, who are doing such a good job with FRES SV and WRCSP?

Can't believe you achieved any of that without the gold-standard 44 weeks at Sandhurst...

;-)

like Islamic Terrorists?

You can have plenty more - if you don't mind flogging QE/PoW on Ebay, and sacking off F-35!

The Russians have used steel cored ball rounds for years in 7.62x39 and 7.62x54R. However, a mild steel core does not make an AP round...

Do we not already have a form of CEC capability, in the form of Link11 and comprehensive display system?

Must admit I was taken in by this thread to begin with...

...I thought it was going to be a serious suggestion for an operational role, like mentoring Afghan kiddy-fiddlers. After all, when the...

We'd never buy it...

...we would much rather spend the next 15 years modifying Tristars by fitting surplus CVR(T) turrets in the cargo door.


Now, where's Tekirdag when you need him? ;-)

Quick, someone call Honnington - have the Jt CBRN Regt put on standby...oh wait. We did what with with it? Hey, STABs, can anyone hotwire a Fuchs?

There probably isn't an MBT out there that couldn't be disabled by application of something as small as 25mm APDS in the right place...


As for the quality of (ex) Soviet armour, the Bundeswehr...

No, I quite agree ref the need for MCO contingency.

However, the entire point of keeping the reaction bdes behind the 'emergency glass' is that they will be there if you need them, and not...

Agreed it doesn't sound like much - but consider when we were last able to deploy 3, yet alone more, Armd Regts?

I think if we ever needed more than 3, we would be in the timescales of building...

Your picture shows an R+WMIK - most likely going to 16AA Bde, I understand...

That is most definately not my understanding, nor the way it has been described by any of the 1* and above in FDT.

Our maximum effort for MCO will be the three Bdes of the reactive force, deployed...

I imagine the doctrine will be similar - or the same - however, the characteristics of the RWMIK are quite different to that of our previous default setting for all things recce (i.e. CVR(T)), so the...