Comments by "ZIPZ" (@zipz8423) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1. You beauties, great to see carrier aviation back with the RN!
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  2. Not a copy, the NLAW doesnt share the same top attack vector its a flatter trajectory.
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  3. I was 9 years old in 1980 it was incredible watching, glued to our shitty black and white TV you had to put 50p into. Then two years later the Falklands war, decided I was going Royal Navy , 22 years in I had no regrets. Saw plenty of SF types in my time, fantastic professionals and not to be messed about with. I hope we never dilute the force and keep them "elite", we`d be fucked without them to be honest.
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  4. Its the best name for any Boat, ever!
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  5. Mostly, sold off by the Tory Party as they hollowed out our once mighty RAF.
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  6.  @wasp6594  It is correct, even more, Russian defence planners were so surprised by the effectiveness of British forces in the South Atlantic they had to revise their plans against the BAOR in Germany.
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  7. Me too, we have more subs laid up awaiting decommissioning than we have active.
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  8.  @Light_Painter  :P haha!
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  9.  @handsoffmygunmf6750  No, it still doesnt mean they "copied" the missile, thats like saying a Renault, Ford and a Fiat are copies of each other just because they share the same engine. Lots of western equipment share the very same seekers and they are all different weapons. NLAW is ideal because it is 100% effective against 90% of the vehicles the Russians are using. Javelin is more effective against the very latest MBTs but there are far fewer of those vehicles compared to other hardware like BMPs so it makes perfect sense to have many more NLAW than Javelin.
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  10.  @moose4488 Russia has just 12 Su-57s - take a seat.
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  11.  @oliversparks1459  he’s right, the U.K. cannot crew more ships, young people don’t want to be away from home all of the time these days. It’s a real issue for the RN.
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  12. I cant believe how little the UK SF get paid, no wonder some are buggering off but would any of them change what they have personally achieved? Has to be about more than the dosh.
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  13.  @sticks5614  I think the BAOR would have done a good job. After the Falklands war it has emerged the Russians had to reappraise their forces facing the British sectors.
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  14. the Peace dividend.
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  15.  @guts-141  it’s 5 enemy aircraft they don’t all have to be fighters. At least not in most air forces. Dave Moggy Morgan just missed out on his ace status in the Falklands War when he suffered a HUD failure at this wrong moment. His other kills included a Helicopter as well as Skyhawks.
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  16.  @Sandhill1988  how do they deal with optically guided missiles as wild weasels?
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  17. I’m not sure about Vietnam?
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  18. Andrew you are misinformed.
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  19.  Alex Doroshenk  Simple solution, dont steal other peoples countries.
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  20.  @glamdring0007  Not really, the anti ATGM systems the Russians have installed, even the next gen versions after Shtora etc cant handle top attack javelins they come in above their kill zones and their ECCM is able to overcome EO dazzlers. Take a look at some of the contraptions the Russians have put on some of their T90s to try to counter them, they resemble steel umbrellas. Different story for NLAW I will grant.
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  21. Read some interesting news on Patriot today in The Economist, their defense guy got access to a UKR Patriot operator who was cleared to talk, that person stated Kinzhal only made one third of the velocity claimed by Russia, so around 3.5 Mach terminal. Ukraine has captured Kinzhal on their radars and has done for a year, so that data most likely found its way Stateside for somebody to crunch the numbers and decided PAC-3 had a capability against it. It makes sense why they made the choice to send the system. If they did not think it was possible they might not have sent the system.
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  22. Not over Ukraine they don’t. And if you remember what happened to those 5 Russian aircraft that were splashed across the border in Belgorod I doubt they are flying too close to the border these days.
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  23.  @Vlog-hu8gb it’s actually quite the opposite. NATO has many more times the number of fighting aged men than Russia.
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  24. Great production FTV. Would like to see what life is like on base.
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  25.  @bulletproofguy5112  The RAF have a pilot shortage it takes years to train fast jet pilots.
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  26. And now a 2 grand Ops bonus, whoop de feckin do. If the lads did it for money there would be nobody in the armed forces! Need to have gone to uni and orifice training for the big bucks.
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  27. Mercs say thanks for their paychecks :P
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  28. Imagine if we had built units 7&8 of the D class… When Diamond is relieved to replenish her VLS, we done have another T-45 available to fill in - that’s why we have sent 2 T-23s with Sea Ceptor - a great weapon but much less capable than Aster, however good enough against subsonic cruise missiles and drones which are the primary threats. Luckily the Houthi ballistic missiles have shown zero capability to strike moving targets at sea.
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  29. Actually the solid fuel motors aren’t the real issue. Tests have shown that its range that is affected when they are used past their use by dates - depending on grain composition and type. And that’s found to be very little. On average 10%. Cracking doesn’t lead to erratic motor performance, it turns out. However there are other components that are more problematic.
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  30.  @gmolina0614  Most muslims can spell losing, perhaps they can teach you English.
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  31. You had to edit that? :P
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  32. Every new RAF fast jet pilot wants to fly wants to fly the F-35.
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  33. Everything dies and something new is born to replace it.
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  34. Pmsl glad I am not the only one thinking that, bets on a nick name?
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  35. "If that was the case the RN could of saved a fortune and stayed with invincible class size". Nope, the cost model showed that two large carriers were more cost effective than 3 smaller CVS type hulls with 3 composite airgroups.
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  36. All of those sensors look vulnerable to me, apart from the optical sight.
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  37. Land Ceptor looks much less of a pain in the arse than Rapier.
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  38. You do realise its conservative governments who cut the Mil to the bone right?
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  39.  @lmao.3661  then you really dont understand the difference between communism and socialism. As for the idiots calling Corbyn a Marxist, i have nothing but contempt for that level of political ignorance.
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  40. How terribly self entitled of you.
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  41. Listen to Stank, the drag is a requirement if you want air to enter the lift fan.
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  42. Corbyn scuppered additional T45 numbers? I think you will find the Navy made a choice in the 1990s, more escorts or two QEs.
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  43.  @mnds1476  I know you are not, many of Putin`s sycophants couldnt find Moscow on a map.
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  44.  @mnds1476  The rust bucket Carrier Kusnetsov in your favourite Navy lost 2 jets in 8 weeks during its Syria deployment, which it had to cut short. One ran out of fuel because they dithered on an alternate..... Its refit floating dock also sank in a few feet of water with a crane crashing through its flight deck, so people in glass houses should not throw stones.
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  45.  @mnds1476  I can read, that is all I required.
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  46.  @mnds1476  No, thats not what you said, stop back peddling.
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  47. ISIS dont have an airforce.
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  48.  @krashd  Those names have a proud history in our Navy.
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  49.  @Варвара-д9ч3т  The EO system has to be looking in the right place to do that.
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  50.  @handsoffmygunmf6750  well, when you look at the top attack modes for both systems, the flight paths are very different. NLAW uses an overfly top attack mode where it flies 1 metre above line of sight (OTA) - which is very different to the Javelin top attack mode which sees the missile pitch up high into the air and make a steep dive from altitude to attack the top of a tank. This mode negates most hard kill anti ATGM systems the Russians use if not all of them since those systems can’t “look up” or fire their shots upwards either. You can see the Russians are trying to counter Javelin with some of the weird looking umbrella type devices they have on some tanks - designed to initiate the Javelin fuses before it hits their ERA. Except the fuses are in the back end. Lastly, NLAW has one single charge, Javelin has a tandem warhead.
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  51.  @0penminds  Next you are going to tell me NLAW has an overfly attack mode rendering active defence systems useless, arent you?
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  52. Those aircraft fly around with equipment that makes them more visible to radar. That’s what you do in peacetime. The Stealth is saved for sanitised training airspace or deep inland over friendly territory. No need to make it easy for Russian threat libraries.
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  53. Think yourself lucky you don’t have to look for the golden rivet.
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  54. At least you can get a beer on a RN ship.
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  55. I think everybody knows what a peacetime intercept is.
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  56. Show us the damage done by Kinzhal, I mean you must have seen the pictures to believe in what you are writing?
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  57. Stupid comment.
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  58.  @davidhouseman4328  "It is a tech demonstrator".
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  59. David Houseman pay me now it’s just a tech demonstrator.... .P
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  60. 100 quid says this aircraft will never fly.
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  61. Well we don’t like the EU or Germany now do we?
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  62.  @bulletproofguy5112  Who would fly those F-16s? The RAF are short of pilots.
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  63.  @bulletproofguy5112  I’m not sure about that pal, the US Mil is 60% smaller than it was in 2009.
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  64.  @bulletproofguy5112  good luck equipping them there’s zero chance of that happening.
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  65.  @soulsphere9242  agreed, the USA does not hand over entire submarines to other countries that’s never going to happen. America is in the deal as an enabler and to control exactly what technology is shared via the U.K.
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  66.  @jaysonkmendoza  the U.K. T26 will be threadbare for financial not tactical reasons. If the RN has a choice they would have mini Sampson radars - single face AESA and all of them towed arrays.
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  67.  @TheBooban  the U.K. doesn’t have the yard capacity to build ships for the U.K. Canadá and Australia plus submarines for the Aussies & the RN. I think you already know there would have been no GCS sale unless local building was included anyway.
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  68. This is what happens when people vote for the Conservative party - they make people redundant and shrink the services.
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  69. Deluded post Brexit thinking, the U.K. is a bit part player in 2021. The days of big navy are over. We can’t afford a bigger navy and we certainly can’t crew it. Young people don’t want to go to sea anymore.
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  70. It’s a fine FFG but in truth the reason why they will be under equipped in U.K. service goes back to the 1990s when the RN made its choice to build 2 big CVF carriers - they knew then hull numbers for future DDG, FFG and SSNs would be significantly reduced. The U.K. has the Navy it can afford, the hope we are going to build a larger Navy is deluded.
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  71.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Well yes of course, which ably demonstrates my theory that everybody takes part in the Great Game.
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  72.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Well two can play at that game and often do.
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  73.  @BroadHobbyProjects  he’s had NATO on his borders for 20 years and can’t do anything about it without entering a conflict that would bankrupt his own country. Putin is more than anything a realist. He once said “A war with NATO would be madness.”
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  74.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Putin doesn’t want war. If he did Kiev would already be in Russian hands.
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  75. Who are you planning to fight?
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  76.  @davidhouseman4328  yes they did you’re just a Tory in denial. It makes me laugh, ex forces chaps moaned for 13 years under labour governments then when your beloved Tories got into power they made everybody redundant. Karma.
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  77.  @davidhouseman4328  then in January they announced cuts.
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  78. Get past it, the U.K. is a middle ranking power and the days of big navy are over and will never return.
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  79.  @davidhouseman4328  yes in December 2019 then there were cuts announced in January 2021 that everybody knew were coming. That’s the hypocritical lying Tories for you.
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  80. Actually the radar is a downgrade. The RN wanted Sampson on both the carriers and the T26. Second hand Artisan units will be removed from T23s and fitted to the T26.
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  81. I would say armed to a normal standard. It is the U.K. ships that are going to be under equipped, courtesy of a defence budget 3 times smaller than it was in 1990.
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  82.  @paultanton4307  MTU or Wartsilla?
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  83.  @G1NZOU  How many?
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  84.  @paultanton4307  MT 30?
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  85. The U.K. can’t afford it.
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  86. CAMM will fit in Mk-41.
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  87. In bandit country middle east, probably the most difficult mission ever attempted, they had balls to try.
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  88. @Alien industries, no, its just that we Brits dont require this reverence of the military you guys seem to need. We just get on with the job and get satisfaction from a good career we can walk away from in one piece, the only thanks I needed was from my wife and kids, colleagues. I didn't need the public to kiss my arse in any way, I just served them and the Crown because that was the job. I wasn't Army I was RN by the way.
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  89. The Brexshitters have landed.
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  90. @@JimCarnerthe Aster block 1 conversion is underway. The issue that concerns me is countering those MRBMs - the anti ship ballistic missiles. Without ABM capability (Sampson) they could be challenging. I’m glad the USN DSG-51s are there with the “ROTA” fit.
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  91. @@JimCarnershe really needs a 57 mm mount great for anti air. And 40 mm auto cannons instead of those DS-30s. Great for drone work.
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  92. Granted, against a peer force but the Houthis aren’t that. Diamond used her guns against some of those drones. So it’s all pretty benign stuff. The Houthis most advanced armed UAVS only have daytime optics.
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  93.  @stephenobrien5909 you can’t replenish a Sylver VLS underway, that has to be done in port and it takes hours.
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  94. I would love to see these things happen with T-45 - some of them are in the pipeline. Aster 1NT, BMD capability - drop the 30 mm autocannons for 40mm. Replace the 4/5 with a 76mm Oto Melara or a 57mm cannon. Remove phalanx and replace with RIM-116. Add a 16 cell Mk-41 instead of the mushroom farm for Sea Ceptor - then we can use lots of different weapons instead of only Ceptor. Fantasy fleet I know but the T-31s are showing the way with their fit.
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  95. Every hull is a potential missile sponge. The Navy had a choice, lots of escorts or 2 CVF.
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  96. What would you like us to name them after?? Marvel characters??
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  97. Could have worse and been called Collies Mother, then it would be REALLY Fugly.
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  98. He wanted Boaty Mc boatface 2.
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  99. Well believe in miracles, its flying.
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  100. If we had to fight a peer adversary you'd be having the same bullshit rant with "Where are the carriers and subs" instead.
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  101. Methinks they are spinning the trials out for political reasons.
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  102. Wannacry? :P
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  103. Says the ship has no point but wants it to do a pointless coastal patrol task to stop immigrants storming our beaches. Bell end.
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  104. Do you want any help towing the Smokey Joe out to sea?
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  105. It has to be commissioned and fitted out first, that includes commissioning every bit of kit. Coming out of the yard is just the beginning.
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  106. Not really, in fact not at all, the RN has been gutted to pay for it. The other defence cuts are nothing to do with the RN, blame the Tories for that.
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  107. if Theresa May had ordered them, the ships would have been built in Northern island to bribe the DUP.
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  108. It has, they just belong to somebody else.
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  109. Cant fold the F-35 B`s wings I`d imagine.
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  110. "Crowsnest".
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  111. Dont worry about us, your country has some of the poorest people on earth.
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  112. Then maybe we should not have hobbled ourselves with the economic disablement called Brexit including the probable break up of the United kingdom. If that happens we will be lucky if we can afford to maintain 2 CVF never mind 4. We have already gone from global 5th largest economy to 7th or 9th in 3 years. Everything has consequence.
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  113. Russia`s Navy is overhyped their ships are worn out.
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  114. How?
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  115. The diesel engines are made by a Finnish Company......
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  116. No, it makes them carry more in the case of the F-35B.
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  117. Fantastic ship names.
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  118. Wonder how straight the keel is :P
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  119. Attrition, imagine we lose one on an Op, then its time to concede the field.
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  120.  flip inheck  I know mate, but they are still 4 stroke turbocharged diesel engines "used as generators".
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  121.  flip inheck  Diesel generators ARE diesel engines.....
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  122.  @TheHawk1202  I hear the US is putting ALIS into the trash can of history? The Israelis did not even touch it.
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  123.  @britishrail243  Not really.....
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  124. Cant we just be friends? From experience, no matter who the leaders are the cooperation beteen the US and UK military never changes and will always remain solid. Forever friends and brothers.
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  125. Yes. In the form of Typhoon.
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  126.  @nialpollitt3410  No, take a look at the labour manifesto it guarantees the deterrent and the replacement.
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  127.  @sticks5614  I am glad too. Yes, there are a number of articles that have mentioned changes in Russian tactical planning. The performance of the British Army was a surprise for them. Speed of advance and determination being chief.
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  128. Really?
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  129. Thank the Tories for that.
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  130.  @olympia5758  Well said mate. When we need to we can supersize.
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  131. My mates the Donahues were all in the Kings reg at the time, all top lads, respect.
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  132. I think those lads were just better stock than they are today but I could be wrong.
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  133.  @stevenbreach2561  :P
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  134. I know a Chieftain tank that went through a house by mistake, not on the Ex but in winter one year mid 1980s. Must have been messy it skidded on ice and just could not stop.
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  135.  @gusgone4527  Stop with the Brexit delusion it looks like they have brainwashed you very well.
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  136. What the hell are you rambling on about?
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  137. Its not really "2 islands for redundancy" as the prime motive its one for Flying Ops, (Flyco) and the other for Ship control. There is a lot of redundancy built in with a philosophy of being able to "continue to fight" even after taking damage. The CVF`s were not however designed with resisting damage "all round" from all types of weapons imaginable, that would have made them much more expensive.
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  138. I can see problems with what that money is ultimately used for in those countries but we can`t have it all ways. We sell weapons to countries who conduct unsavory things against their own people for example, but it stops that country hiking up our Oil prices, so we turn a blind eye.
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  139. A very experienced American Diplomat who has worked at the State Department for decades recently said;  "If you want to involve us in more wars and let instability drag us into yet more wars, then cut foreign aid". The truth is the vast majority of the public don`t have a clue what foreign aid is used for, there is a good reason why we give foreign aid and its not for altruistic reasons, its for our benefit. Promoting British commerce abroad, creating opportunities for UK firms, fostering intelligence sharing, fighting international crime in places where Scotland Yard would hardly be welcome otherwise, crafting extradition treaties, military basing rights, refueling rights, yes we "buy" these things and more with that aid. This is the real work of foreign aid, it also builds our reputation abroad. People who rubbish foreign aid only see one dimension, "We are giving third world countries money" and are incapable of thinking beyond that. Another good example, the US gives Pakistan 3 billion dollars a year in military aid, and what does the US get in return?? The US gets to oversee the security of Pakistani Nuclear weapons so none of their fissionable material gets sold on the black market which was a real danger. That benefits us all.
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  140. Always makes me chuckle, when right wingers attack the left, take a look at our laws and statutes, the most liberal left wing tenets in western democratic history, the same with the US Constitution. Your ideology is a fallacy basically.
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  141. Oi, whats wrong with being a Crab, they didn't like being afloat but they arent all bad :P
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  142. Don`t shoot the messenger, write to MOD main building they would be happy to explain. You just said TWO CVS, we were talking about 3 CVS , versus 2 CVF, and you've added 10,000 tons to the displacement of the CVS. try "22,000t". The rest of your last post I don`t really know what you are getting at.
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  143. Or, if you want 3 Naval air squadrons instead of 2 you have to pay for 3 squadron bosses instead of 2 along with their salaries, you put additional costs and duplication into supply chains, support , training, certification thru life, etc etc etc. The bean counters did the maths a long ago in the 1990`s, they came up with 2 CVF. It wasn't money alone, with one carrier in position you can bring more firepower to bear if you cant get 2 CVS on station, you get a higher sortie rate and bombs on bums with 1 CVF than you will ever get with one CVS. Don`t assume we would have had all 3 CVS to use and play with as we would, we have NATO commitments we have to stick to and having 2 CVF actually gives us more flexibility in that regard, ie, if we have one hull in deep maintenance we only have one we can use, its much easier to get cover for our NATO commitments for one carrier than it is for 2.
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  144. Unfortunately Fek, "Simple math" doesn't quite cover the thru life costs and cost model for the 2 CVF versus a 3 CVS debate. If you want to look at it in simple terms, lets do it like this. If you want buy fuel for 3 hulls or fuel for 2 hulls over a 20 year period, which is going to cost you more money? Sorry but your model is far too simplistic and misses every nuance.
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  145. "knowing you now have no defence and are now doomed due to some else's idiotic decision not to fit any weapons?" I like what you have said in the rest of your post, however the CVS had their GWS-30 removed for no ill effect for over 30 years but thats because nobody envisaged a peer conflict.
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  146. You could probably stick 60 F-35`s on the flight deck of a QE class but you wouldn't have the servicing/handling/crew/aircrew capacity to use that many on an active deployment among many things.
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  147. "Why do you say 12...i am truly curious" Because 12 will be its peacetime F-35 complement.
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  148. P8, coming to a Scottish aerodrome shortly.
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  149. Thats what the hanger decks are for.
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  150. Anyway lad have a nice evening, signing off. Everything I say is just my opinion, I may be talking a load of bollocks, buy hey :P That`s what we are here for.
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  151. The USN uses the Mk 48 ADCAP or whatever its called now. Back in 1982, its worth remembering that Conks was carrying Tigerfish , precursor to Spearfish; as well as old Mk 8`s but used the older weapons for several reasons. You can only find a submarine if it makes the right noises or they screw up, or find themselves in shallow waters where they cannot go deep after an attack. Pretty much any modern Submarine can decide to remain undetected if it really wants to. I`m not knocking Astute or the 774`s but I have to laugh at some of the more twilight zone media claims. Park an SSK up if you know a CSG is heading your way and it can kill a Carrier, it isn't fast enough nor can they go deep enough to escape or evade the now very pissed off fleet they just hit, but they are more expendable than a carrier, especially in Chinese hands where they will be more likely to go for the guts and glorious death malarkey than Pusser.
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  152. Lastly, take a look at the ranges Conqueror took up to sink the Belgrano. Mk 8`s yes but if you want a kill you get in close.
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  153. All everybody is saying is that its a mistake to take the SSK threat lightly, it may be a fatal one if defence planners turned a blind eye to the threat.  Heavyweight torpedo`s may have a 60 nm range in a straight line but thats not why they have that range capability, they can conduct search patterns which involve maneuver, that uses up fuel and range.
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  154. Nobody fires live Torpedo`s at a target at 60nm range, it doesn't happen and never will its too dangerous for friendly shipping. The Astute can do what every other submarine can do at the right depth under the right conditions in the Atlantic in the right sound channel. I forget the correct term. It may have a theoretical capability based on the characteristics of its sonar systems but doesn't mean it can actually do it. An SSK with AIP can sit there quietly or on batteries without being detected until it shoots.Its been done. Try detecting a submarine running on electric motors, good luck with that. If an enemy has lots of SSKs they will not mind sacrificing one to take out a carrier, because as you say, as soon as it fires a spread it will get chased down by the ASW screen. One Torpedo CAN sink a carrier, its why the USN has invested so much in active torpedo defenses that travel down the wake to intercept wake homers. One Torpedo can break the keel if the CVN is having a bad day. Also, he CVF was NOT built from scratch for survivability in terms of armour protection as a prime driver for the design, it was built to carry on operating with battle damage by having a lot of redundancy incorporated into the design. It was too expensive to go the US CVN route, ie extreme durability and resistance to multiple hits from inbounds.
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  155. A Torpedo is the one weapon that can sink a CVN, and the hardest to avoid.
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  156. 2 Billion pounds, that is the cost to convert to cats and traps, it was always a none starter for me and we were always going to buy the F-35 B, the brief period when some barked bout the F-35C was just bean Counters getting a short lived hard on, nothing to do with capability.
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  157. ..and 5 months later, the Pound is still depressed so imports still cost us more that includes defence equipment like the P-8, hope we got a fixed price contract!
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  158. Pusser always gets shafted yeah we know!
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  159. Has to have a hatch it's too delicate to mount outside.
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  160. One standard RPG hit would probably disable the lot of them. Wonder how Iron Hand can cope with top attacks from an elevated position from say a block of flats straight down? Trenchcoat looks a better system.
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  161. Tanks have a degree of EMP hardening designed in as does most military equipment. From rangefinders to power units to aircraft.
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  162. Didn't they get appliqué on the glacis in Iraq? Didn't work apparently.
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  163. As long as you have good AC the crews will be fine. Colour makes no difference to an IR signature index unless the chemical properties in each paint colour are different and have a different absorption profile.
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  164. Greeny we are leaving the EU not NATO ffs. EU security Ops and strategy use the same logistics footprint , Comms infrastructure and stocks as NATO anyway, Even the same personnel ffs.
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  165. Dumbest comment I've ever read.
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  166. Thats why Russians earn 2 pence an hour.
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  167. We are not ready for squat. thats what decades of neglect and apathy does.
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  168.  @bubba842  TOR M1 equivalent.
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  169.  @bubba842  Its more like a TOR M1 equivalent.
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  170. Biggest mistake was not adding a proximity fuze from the start. Bonkers.
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  171. They are just saying he’s an ace pilot not “an Ace.”
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  172.  Broski Snowski  like Kosovo and the Gulf wars.
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  173.  @Tuhoeterra  what about their jamming capabilities?
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  174.  @lmao.3661  No worries.
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  175. He also wants to expand the surface fleet......
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  176.  @jonathanwilcox7318  fantastic job I hope you are enjoying your time on the aircraft!
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  177.  @davidhouseman4328  Sorry I meant the C model.
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  178.  @kcimb  I would love to see that! Is the larger wing area noticeable?
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  179.  @kcimb  Oh I dont doubt the capability, there just isnt much in the way of footage of them doing it.
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  180.  @kcimb  Thanks, I am thinking of conventional landings in the event of a lift system failure. I have never seen a B model land conventionally as yet.
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  181. I have a question I cant seem to find an answer to. Can the F-35 B land like a conventional fighter on a concrete runway ie without operating the Lift Fan?
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  182. As many have said, Flyco is for aircraft handling, the other island is to manage the ship.
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  183.  @Elfin4  I have nothing more to add really....
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  184.  @Elfin4  Again, Chinese whispers and Daily Fail propaganda are irrelevant, Manifesto`s are relevant as are conference motions "if" they make into into the policy unit and manifesto. The manifesto committment from the Labour Party is to keep Trident, do not forget the Union support Labour needs at Barrow and every other site supporting the industry.
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  185.  @Elfin4  I am no fan of Corbyn, but he does want the RN to have more surface units ie escorts, nor can he reverse Labour Party policy which is to maintain Trident he has already accepted this. A Labour leader cannot be a dictator, policy and the manifesto is a collective responsibility. The Unions dont want to shed jobs in the Nuke industry.
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  186. It is Tory governments that have hollowed out our armed forces.....
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  187.  @willmorrell488  At £1 Billion per ship, not likely to happen.
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  188. Not at all, the F-35B is the perfect carrier aircraft for UK PLC. Think "jointery".
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  189. SVRL and Bring Back....
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  190. You`d have a point if she sailed anywhere on ops on her own.
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  191.  @davidhouseman4328  Yep, and it will be capable of STOVL Ops in my opinion. There are lots of advantages. I have seen no compelling evidence why we would turn away from this design.
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  192.  @davidhouseman4328  Too expensive David, ive seen a figure of £2.1 Billion for conversion and that`s just the hull without aircraft, then you have to find a company which still makes steam CATs unless you want EMALS. it`s too late we have committed to the B model purchase what would be the point of the A model? The B model and STOVL Ops are perfect for us when you look at joint Ops with the Crabs.
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  193.  @davidhouseman4328  These ships will never be converted to CATOBAR.
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  194. Not a great idea on a low vis aircraft :P
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  195. Go back to RT, thats where dopes are better appreciated.
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  196. Paid for how??
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  197. Poor old Mikey......
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  198.  @kcimb  The S1 seemed surpsingly easy to spoof via the IAF but I am not surpsised they are excellent exponents of that art.
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  199. That was the analogue signal era :P
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  200.  @kcimb  Only about 15% of their equipment was sourced from the Allies its a bit of a myth actually.
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  201. It was 75% to be exact.
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  202. The UK is not leading 6th generation tech.....More brexiter delusion its pretty sad really.
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  203. Islam future what other war is there in 2020?
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  204. The Brexitard psychosis is strong in the UK.
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  205. David Buckley there are no new western front line fighter jets with parts only made in the country of the jets origin. Those days are long gone apart from maybe the US.
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  206. Do you think this Tempest, that will never exist by the way, would have all UK content?
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  207. You must be really pretty to attract the attention of a CPO so quickly :P
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  208.  @blackmantis3130  No, that was British ULTRA decrypts.
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  209.  @Scumsuckingpigmonkey  worryingly the Russians have now captured NLAW and Javelin firing units abandoned by retreating Ukraine forces in some areas. There was an agreement to limit use of Javelin to the Kyiv area for this reason but a desperate country doesn’t have that luxury. However, having a good look at those weapons doesn’t mean they will be able to counter them in the short term.
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  210.  @jerski14344  I think both weapons are complimentary and most of those nations have a mix of them. Why waste a javelin on a BMP when am NLAW can turn one inside out for less $$$.
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  211.  @0penminds  Oh sorry I thought you meant the explosion speeds would be different, you meant initiation. My bad.
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  212.  @landcruiser6406  There is plenty of evidence of burned out Russian armoured vehicle husks.
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  213.  @Yonisaj12  They probably have plenty already preceeding this conflict.
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  214.  @0penminds  Yes but NLAW does not approach the target at the same steep angle as the Javelin round. ERA reacts when it gets hit so I dont really know what you mean regards ERA.
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  215. Would be even better if NLAW had the same flight trajectory as Javelin but would be heavier.
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  216. Let me tell you about The Redcoats.......
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  217. That’s what “Aster” is for. Pity we don’t have CEC for OTH work but Link will do.
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  218.  @malcpaul996  it’s a matter of public record. During the Cold War NATO flew far more recon flights that the WARPAC.
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  219. I can assure you we prodded them far more than they prodded us.
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  220.  @josef596  yeah we don’t do mass murder of foreigners anymore we just kill old people with Covid.
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  221. @Drew Peacock I’ve forgotten.
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  222. @Drew Peacock we aren’t what we were. Russia just placed a force larger than the entire British army on Ukraine’s border.
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  223. We can’t afford them.
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  224. Works both ways.
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  225. @Drew Peacock why couldn’t they just stick huge fuel drums inside the Osprey like every other tanker is weight an issue?
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  226.  @1IbramGaunt  how many Victors would it have taken to refuel enough Victors to refuel SHARS, then back to ASI again!
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  227. Not from each other, there’s no buddy tanking.
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  228. Sakhalin 👍
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  229. Ha yes indeed.
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  230.  @Hiker_Nature_009  personally, all of the important changes I see in that balance are political.
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  231.  @Hiker_Nature_009  SM-3 cannot be used against anti ship missiles.
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  232.  @furryrupert3739  of which, nobody has many .
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  233.  @Dischingo  the difference is in coatings, the US has better ones on the B2.
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  234.  @gregoryhouse5240  you’re an expert but think it’s unusual that a fighter can’t outrun a SAM?
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  235. “Noses Cold” and luneberg lenses.
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  236.  @johndoe-ss9bz  Only the RFA, I was shocked to learn the Dutch Navy had a union!
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  237.  @daneelolivaw602  bit hard to torpedo a ship in dry dock.
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  238. I think we will have to rely on the inaccuracy and reliability of those missiles as our best defence, if they even exist that is 👍
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  239. The money the Tories gave to their mates for track & trace would have paid for their build.
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  240. Same for the Russians.
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  241. He’s rehearsed his lines.
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  242.  @brentsummers7377  I admit, the 100 million price tag is hard to stomach.
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  243. That’s the beauty of having closed weapons bays 👍
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  244. Be better if you could spell it.
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  245. There’s nothing free about deploying a CSG.
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  246.  @servantofchrist2483  "Shoot."
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  247.  @rogerwilco5918  Different missiles, PAC-3 came from FLAGE in 1983 then the ERINT missile. PAC-2 came from SAM-D in 1969.
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  248.  @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я  Are you in Kyiv?
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  249.  @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я  So what is shooting down Russian missiles today?
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  250. More likely the capabilities of Kinzhal are not what the hype tried to portray.
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  251.  @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я  Rubbish.
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  252.  @andreykolkov2724  children believe in mythical missiles with mystical powers.
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  253.  @johnnyenglish583  Looking at its tiny control surfaces I dont think it can turn much at all.
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  254. The glide vehilces can but they have to slow down to do so.
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  255.  @Mis-AdventureCH  The shape of the warhead, which has a relatively large cross section tells me it was not designed for deep penetration. Rather, with "some" penetrating capability. Deep penetrators are thin, long devices of a small cross section. Granted, the velocity of the weapon will aid penetration but that has to be offset with a very thick warhead casing, as in Kinzhal. The main constraint for penetrators is the deceleration limit for the design.
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  256. The warhead is inside an aeroshell.
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  257.  @andreykolkov2724  Which is why Kyiv is a crater filled wasteland isnt it......
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  258.  @FugasSPBRUS  Bullsheeeet.
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  259. Yes I agree that was probabaly a fragment that punched a hole in the warhead, if the entire mass of a PAC-3 had hit that warhead there would have been nothing to display at all.
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  260. They likely have variable fuzing.
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  261. Its faster in its boost phase.
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  262. No.
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  263.  @radionicapcelica5322  Show us the Kinzhal damage to Kyiv?
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  264.  @moose4488  there are more who don’t have a clue what they are talking about.
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  265. A Patriot battery would slap the snot out of an SU-57 so would a NASAMS unit.
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  266. Maintenance issue, they probably settled for iron pellet paint and shaping. From the frontal aspect it looks comparable to other stealth fighters but it doesn’t look like an all aspect stealth fighter. They do know how to build one but the cost of making an F-22 analogue was probably too high a financial burden.
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  267.  @ashleygoggs5679 it might be flying near the border using its sensors but it’s probably not flying into Ukraine. It would would get shot down eventually and the debris would be on its way to the DÍA in the USA just like that fully intact T-90M.
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  268.  @ashleygoggs5679 from which source? “Trust me bro?”
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  269. So basically it’s a technology demonstrator.
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  270. It’s so stealthy nobody has seen them, not even at the factory….
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  271. Lol sure pal.
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  272.  @cryptoeveryday6635 a lot? What are you talking about precisely? You can’t magically attribute kills to a fighter without knowing anything. More likely it was fried and trusted ground based AD systems.
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  273. If the SU-57 showed its face deep in Ukraine Patriot or NASAMS would slap the snot out of that beyotch.
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  274. I think they bought them because we gave all of our NLAW to UKR.
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  275. Also a wake up call for the Army to do something about counter UAS tools.
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  276. Lol you need a shag mate 😂
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  277. Try sailing around it for a few weeks that's even worse.
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  278. They were upgunned from a 20 to a 30 mil main.
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  279. Depends on which one of their three eyes you're talking about.
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  280. The people don't want the Russians there they had a rigged referendum...
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  281. Sounds like Leeds...
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  282. Yes, we sent them back home to Argentina in1982.
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