Why is a weak pound a bad thing for the UK? It seems it is actually a benefit to UK based manufacturing.

What manufacturing?

If you are thinking of automotive think again. The remaining manufacturing is specialised and not the kind that produces volumes.

“How will Brexit affect UK aviation?”

As with everything in life, you reap what you sow!

I fear we have been extremely narrow minded in this and it is going to be expensive in the long run.

Actually I am in My wife’s home country for a the summer, and the Greeks have a saying that is more appropriate I think …”when you sow winds, you reap storms!” ….it’s hard not to see dark clouds closing in..

E1 would essentially in an unprotected environment cause tracks on a PCB to melt/burn out as if they were fuse wires, so it’s not just the individual components that get fried but the layers on and within the PCB as well.

GarryA : You answered your own question with the first paeagraph of your quote above

Depends how far away from the EMP origin they are. It is distance dependent.

What makes you think that progress automatically means territorial expansion? I am talking about more integration in fiscal, monetary, defense or trade policies.

1. I think that pretty much everyone in the EU agrees on that matter.. Still no reason to shatter the whole thing
2. I disagree. For expansions, most people are unable to even find the said countries on the map, let alone say anything meaningful about the situation. For treaties, most people have zero idea what is written there, they are being lead by phantasmagoric conspiracy theories about Mosanto poisoning the whole world and similar crap (talking TTIP now)

I seriously believe most people in Bratain, having voted pro or contra, have zero idea about what EU really brings and what it really takes.

This forum generally has an aversion to BS. Most Britons didn’t vote because of “more democracy” …they voted out because of immigration! Old f**ts afraid of Eastern Europeans taking over their neighbourhoods!

Everything else is just some weird excuse people tell themselves so they won’t feel racist!

in my opinion, electric equipment with an antenna like Radar and RWR can’t be shielded from EMP, because they need to receive radiowave so they cant be putted in a Faraday cage, On the otherhand components that doesn’t required outer electromagnetic out put should be quite easy to be shielded from EMP
Come to think of it, EMP effects from a high altitude nuclear explosion will seriously handicapped modern aircrafts, their radar and RWR will be fired, their missiles and bombs ( if carried externally) will likely be fried as well, iam wondering if EMP can denote the warhead of weapons?

I am no expert, but an antenna and even the tracks on an individual PCB are not vulnerable to EMP. It’s the electronic components such as inductors, capacitors, ICBs and processors that have a problem. So shielding of the processing modules should be sufficient.

And UK shipbuilding would be moved back south of the border. But like I said, it isn’t up to Sturgeon whether there’s a referendum. It has to be agreed by the UK, so there’s no way they’ll pick a stupid time like now, when everything is up in the air, to decide to have one.

It’s not arrogance, look at the numbers for A8 EU migrants yourself. These numbers do not work for the UK, irrespective of country, some people just think they do because they haven’t witnessed the effects.

http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/characteristics-and-outcomes-migrants-uk-labour-market
https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates
https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowances
https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance-rates-letters/contribution-rates
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/628640/Bank-of-England-migration-down-wages

What are you talking about, I live in Hampshire!!!

I still can’t see why you guys think the F-35 will dominate in sensors or netcentric warfare. The F-35A might enjoy some advantage over what Chinese can field now, but in 2030, the F-35D will easily have lagged behind advanced versions of J-31 or J-20. If there is anything Chinese are good at, then this is it. Send data in real time, guess what, every cheapish Bluboo or UMI can do it.. They have already designed more mobile devices than you will ever forget. They are catching up in sensors/electronics at light speed, they cycle times are half of the west, it’s inevitable, only a matter of time..

Airframe and propulsion, that is the tech which is the hardest to master..

True, but effective encryption might be an issue. Although I doubt it.

You can hardly blame the aircraft for that. Using the same logic, what has the F-22 achieved in practice? I mean, what do you expect? The US and Russia to get involved in wars to test out their kit and demonstrate their effectiveness….oh wait…

My 2c,

I still think the F-15 is a superior weapons system, whilst the Su-27 family is a superior aircraft. The point is in a hypothetical engagement which one would prevail.

I am not talking 1 on 1. I mean had one side got an X number of F-15s and the other also an X number of Su-27s, which side would prevail.