Shadow: mate I have had a long running battle with Alex the webmaster of the -technology sites. I keep him updated with military info but he never updates his stuff, I’ve just about given up on pushing for the Mi-26 to be listed on any of his three sites (Army, Navy, Air Force). He has said to me that the dynamic of the machine is so fluent that it can’t be placed in any one of these sites. I countered that there are many such systems that are in more than one site e.g NH-90 but that was the last I heard.

Pellson and Badger: Guys please feel free to email me the pics at [email]Ja.Worsley@gmail.com[/email] Thanks to you both!

Interesting stuff here guys, Dan, yeah the distance covered by the RN during the conflict was made even faster since they didn’t have to slow down to wait for a certain ship to take on fuel.

Wan: good point mate, I don’t know of any that are able to reach above 30kts, our two struggle to get above 27Kts and that’s on a clam sea 🙁

Can: mate those two together, they are new aren’t they? Can you give me some details on them? The other one I recognise from having been up there, she’s really old now (IIRC she’s a Steam driven one isn’t she?).

Steve: The Fort class of the RFA are superior to many ships in this role, they took a page out of the dutch books. We’ve been talking on my board about increasing the roles of these ships to make them in to a sustainable fleet unit includine the speed issue.

Actually I think they are using this as a logistics transport ship. Send in the troops to establish a beach head expand the area then send in the supplys. This is most definatly a back line ship. Similar to the former RNZN Charles Uppham in role.