Norway and Denmark AF depleted their A2G ammo during the Libya conflict.
But it may been a calculated move, cause then their would get newer and better ammo ordered up. 🙂

Yeah I know, the idea that NATO ran out is preposterous though.

*snort* so they train using fully loaded, live weapons systems against manned aircraft. Wow… the caliber of some of the people on this site ><

I’m sure the justification for this would be that they did it before in 2001 so they could do it again, I wouldn’t say this is a particularly logical conclusion though.

I see all the conspiracy theorist tinfoil nutters are out in force again.

Two-way datalink for in-flight re-targeting?

I seem to remember some other improvements being explored a few years back as part of a Team Complex Weapons press release, I believe one of them may of mentioned an increase in range but I could be wrong.

So the UK would have 107 Typhoon and a handful of F35 by 2020?

They are planning to get rid of T1 before Tornado but within a year its all down to T2/3 whilst we wait for F35 to get up to strength?

There is no sense to it is there? It’s like something is missing….

Well it is the MOD, common sense isn’t really in it’s remit.

The model is showing the top of the conning tower with the hatches “removed”.

Surely the outlines of the hatches would be visible in the photo as thery are on other SSBNs? The finished sub doesn’t look like it has those circular hatches for the SLBM tubes at all as the surface of the tower looks rather too smooth? You would expect some visible circular outlines in the same way that the upper 2 Torpedo hatches are visible?

The vertical bring back is 5100 lb you need 2500 lb for fuel and 600 lb for two AMRAAM leaving just 2000 lb for other weapons not enough for a single Storm Shadow. The rolling landing will add up to 4000 lb of bring back meaning 6000 lb for other weapons that would enable to bring back two Storm Shadow.

Right sorry I thought you meant 2 Stormshadow and 2 AMRAAM above the vertical bringback weight, actually looking at your second post it’s quite obvious that it’s 5100lbs. Oh well it is Monday……