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I’m not saying you don’t have a point, and Swedish media have been pretty aggressive in asking the police about their response time.
(While Norwegian media has been caught up in the somber mood of the general populace – even the tabloids refrained from AQ speculation – but I expect them to begin to ask those questions when things have settled down a bit.)

The UK has had it’s more than fair share of atrocities (7/7), Lockerbie, Northern Ireland and IRA on the mainland and hence can if requested provide Norway with professional advice on being prepared.

You have to consider the logistics and distances involved. (Scroll down to find a map here).
Keep in mind the Cumbria shootings. Derrick Bird was killing people for at least an hour before police found him dead. I’m of course not saying that the UK has no good advice to offer, just pointing out the geography here.

I hope the Norwegian courts treat him as cold blooded murderer, not some mentally ill that will be sent to a psychiatric hospital with the view of the fjords.

The latter is of course not an option. Regardless of whether he’ll be considered mentally ill or not, he’ll be jailed for life. People considered to be severe threats to the rest of society do not get sent to psych.hospitals.

BTW the uniform is not Norwegian (he did not have a career in the military) and his manifest is partially copied from Ted Kaczynski’s (the Unabomber) manifest.

These days you get the impression that Phalanx/Goalkeeper (limited bow/stern coverage on the Type 45) is mainly mounted for moral support and shooting at quite slow objects. See how the Phalanx did in the Gulf in ’91 against the subsonic Silkworm (where one missile got shot down by a Sea Dart, and the other Silkworm missed, while a Phalanx unit was shooting at friendly chaff and an Iowa-class.)

For handling anti-ship missiles, there seems to be much more faith in missiles or guns with fancy anti-missile airburst munitions. QE will be relying on CAMM/Aster/etc, on-board or on escorts.

(Grape shot has returned! Ideally you don’t want your frigate escort firing 76mm airburst munitions in the general direction of your carrier flight deck… )

It says ‘strategic bomber’:rolleyes:

What’s behind that, I don’t know. Maybe a F-111 analog but that doesn’t make a lot of sense.

The image looks like it’s made of stock line drawings pasted onto the background. Guessing whoever made it just chose a random large aircraft shape to represent a new bomber.

An American manufacturer might well act as a development consultant which isn’t unreasonable considering its hard cash to them and whatever fighter is developed will be no export threat to American aircraft.

An operational ATD-X means less (or none at all) F-35 sales to Japan. (I would expect LM to lobby for F-35 as a F-15A/C replacement for Japan and Israel.)

At any rate, it seems Mitsubishi/TRDI/etc are confident they can do it without any outside aid, as long as the political landscape allows them to proceed.

In terms of program complexity, Concorde was on a whole other level than any Neuron/Taranis-follow up.

Yes, Concorde didn’t end up getting ordered in large numbers, but it was certainly a flagship program, with final assembly lines in both countries.

SME= Sony Music Entertainment. It’s due to the music used in the vid. The liveleak link should work for you: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=94f_1306963246

Very nice video, thanks for sharing.