Nope, no need for an MPA, honest

[S0I]

Oh well, what can we say but bugger!
I suspect no one will do a quick 'told you so'.

http://aviationweek.com/defense/canadians-french-us-hunt-submarine-scotland

 

[EX_STAB]

The defence policies of this government and the previous one are an utter disgrace.

 

[Balls_out]

We should probably stop looking like a bunch of cnuts.

 

[javaguzzisti]

The policies of this government and the previous one are an utter disgrace.

Usual charge

 

[Fat_Cav]

All those airframes and did they actually find/track anything?

 

[fantassin]

Hints for answers....

http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2014/02/future-maritime-patrol-part-4-cheaper-options/

Getting the Casa would make a lot of sense....

 

[Yokel]

What does France use these days?

 

[AULD_SWEAT]

Really starting to feel that the country is finished. Criminal the way defence has been let go.

 

[Fat_Cav]

What does France use these days?

 

[Not a Boffin]

It's known as the Homer Simpson Defence Planning Assumption (very popular in MB in the last decade or so) - "why can't someone else do it?"

 

[fantassin]

The FRA Navy flies Atlantique 2 MPAs; they are currently being modernised and a number of them have received MX-20 systems.

The Atlantique are also spending a lot of time as ISR platforms in the Sahel, over Iraq and in other places. During Op Serval in Mali they even were used as bombers, dropping GBU-12s.....

http://theaviationist.com/2013/04/30/atl2-lgb/

 

[Kromeriz]

The defence policies of this government and the previous one are an utter disgrace.

Are you seriously trying to suggest there was a policy? Give your head a wibble!

 

[Herrumph]

Are you seriously trying to suggest there was a policy? Give your head a wibble!

Agreed - "here's a very small bucket of money and I'm sorry about hole in bottom - just see what you can do!" is hardly a sound policy.

 

[Kromeriz]

Agreed - "here's a very small bucket of money and I'm sorry about hole in bottom - just see what you can do!" is hardly a sound policy.

Heaven almighty, another one! What small bucket? With or without hole?

 

[Magic_Mushroom]

Cheaper options are not really an option in ASW. If it ain't the best, you may as well not bother given the capabilities of modern Russian SSNs (and the PLAN are rapidly catching up).

However, watch this space

Regards,
MM

 

[Kromeriz]

Cheaper options are not really an option in ASW. If it ain't the best, you may as well not bother given the capabilities of modern Russian SSNs (and the PLAN are rapidly catching up).

However, watch this space

Regards,
MM

The plane in your Avatar is... guaranteed to upset Sunno? Or it is not French?

 

[Kromeriz]

Ah, only superficial resemblance. Apols. Shadow R1

 

[oldsoak]

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The FRA Navy flies Atlantique 2 MPAs; they are currently being modernised and a number of them have received MX-20 systems.

The Atlantique are also spending a lot of time as ISR platforms in the Sahel, over Iraq and in other places. During Op Serval in Mali they even were used as bombers, dropping GBU-12s.....

http://theaviationist.com/2013/04/30/atl2-lgb/

Ah, a French airframe with Rolls Royce engines - MD would approve.

 

[Magic_Mushroom]

Ah, only superficial resemblance. Apols.

Very superficial!!!

Regards,
MM

 

[rampant]

The plane in your Avatar is... guaranteed to upset Sunno? Or it is not French?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Super_King_Air#Military_versions