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October 14, 2006 at 12:57 am in reply to: “Westernised” Russian-made helicopters for Britain forced to use in Afghanistan #2548187

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“Contractors, what contractors?” seems to be very much the stance taken by the press here as the Sealord says.

As to whether that is morally correct is a whole different debate………….

October 12, 2006 at 9:52 pm in reply to: Belfast turning and burning @ SEN #1253519

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Don’t tell the MOD, they are so short of airlift at the moment they might even enquire if its available to use :diablo:

October 12, 2006 at 6:39 pm in reply to: “Westernised” Russian-made helicopters for Britain forced to use in Afghanistan #2549298

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They should take the Danes up on their offer for the medium term if they have said they can have them, and quickly fix the HC3’s, even if it means they can only fly in daylight for now and finish the job by making them into proper special forces machines later.

For the short term if it means the Mi-26’s then so be it.

Prime minister Blair effectively said that they can have whatever they feel they need to do the job. I wonder if any front line commander rang up London and asked for a couple of squadrons of A10’s ? :diablo:

October 11, 2006 at 1:53 pm in reply to: New air-to-ground munition aginst insurgent targets in Iraq &.. #1806570

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Has anyone else signed up to buy it ?

October 11, 2006 at 1:51 pm in reply to: Information on the Nuclear powered French PA2 proposal. #2090595

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What are they going to do, armour plate it ? :diablo:

I guess that comes down to the catapault and recovery systems and 2000 tonnes of extra fuel storage. No doubt the CVF will take the increased fuel storage option so may go up a couple of thousand tonnes as well.

October 3, 2006 at 8:37 pm in reply to: RAF Visiting Gwalior, India #2555017

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And where did 43 squadron get its recent battle experience then ? :diablo:

October 3, 2006 at 8:28 pm in reply to: USN to mothball JFK #2039399

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The savings will be significant. Assuming that laying up the JFK means that the Navy will need 4000 less sailors/aviators then that alone will save in excess of $200 million per annum before you start considering the ship operating costs and the aircraft costs.

October 3, 2006 at 8:10 pm in reply to: CVF News #2039404

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I think the French are now also close to being in a position where to back out would also cause them damage unless they found the CVF design to be generally not suitable for their requirements, which so far doesn’t seem to be the case. It was after all them that asked to join so the fundamentals must be okay. Is it right that France is even considering partially building their vessel in the UK yards and then finishing them in France ? I guess there would be some economies of scale that way.

October 3, 2006 at 8:03 pm in reply to: shrinking USN carrier air wings #2039406

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But isn’t the Superhornet significantly more reliable and hence fewer airframes are needed to do the same job ? Didn’t someone post up some serviceability statistics a while ago whch showed a big difference between the F-18 and anything else in the inventory ?

October 1, 2006 at 5:56 pm in reply to: Feasability of a mothership #2556084

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I have no doubt that this will one day happen but not for a long while yet, and what it flies off of its ‘deck’ may not be manned

September 28, 2006 at 6:10 pm in reply to: Wasting the defence budget? #2557216

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Is it true that the Americans have been removing the heavy Radar system from their 64’s in Afghanistan to improve safety margins in the Hot and high conditions ? I presume the UK ones won’t bother as their engines are more powerful. Perhaps the UK bought the best version after all despite the cost ?

September 27, 2006 at 9:40 pm in reply to: "Super" EH101 flies with better engines, BERP IV rotorblades and better cockpit #2557660

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Unsurprising that the first two requirements of the MOD re BERP related to reduced cost. That seems to be their mantra these days 🙁

Still I am sure this will make the 101 more marketable

September 24, 2006 at 10:25 pm in reply to: A new class of U.S. Navy warships was launched #2040308

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Are they still planning to turn the procurement of this into a competition between different manufacturers or is this the final design for all 40 plus craft ?

September 23, 2006 at 3:06 pm in reply to: One Bloody Harrier !!!!!!! #2559685

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Shortsbro, If you look at the other thread you will see that we have been discussing this and the possible shortcomings of the Harrier GR’s. The Consensus is that it needs a gunpod which it hasn’t got, although this may put the aircraft at greater risk. A few of those small diameter bombs just rolled out by the US might not go amiss either as when you have got an enemy 200 yards away anything bigger is risky.

One statistic that has amazed me that I have seen two different sources quote that the army have fired off 10,000 105mm shells in the last few weeks and that is no small number 😮 Maybe they should have procured the new M777 howitzer before they went as mentioned on here before, if they were firing off that level of munitions in fire support. No on second thoughts that might have been daft, as they haven’t got the helicopters to move them :rolleyes:

September 23, 2006 at 12:55 am in reply to: Picture request: H.M.S ARK ROYAL 1970-1978 #2040396

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And here. The colour ones start on page 2

http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/pages/aircraft_carriers/hms_ark_royal_r09.htm
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