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  • Industrial and Technology Matters

    • February 2, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Business and Politics
    • 45 comments

    The MoD has just published its long awaited replacement for the defence industrial strategy (click the image to download), the snappily titled National Security Through Technology: Technology, Equipment and Support for the UK Defence and Security. Every government has one and although the last one was a reasonable attempt and meeting the conflicting needs of UK Defence and UK Plc [...]

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  • Consultants on Five Grand a Day at the MoD

    • February 2, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Business and Politics
    • 7 comments

    Here is an interesting parliamentary question and answer from the last few days Question Madeleine Moon (Bridgend, Labour) To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 19 January 2012, Official Report, column 940W, on Harrier aircraft, (1) what monetary value was given to the associated support equipment included in the sale of the Harrier aircraft; (2) what the original cost [...]

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  • Parliamentary Answers – to 2nd February 2012

    • February 2, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Business and Politics
    • 5 comments

    This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of Commons ‘ordinary’ questions do not [...]

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  • A Swarm if Ideas

    • February 2, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Land, Sea and Air
    • 110 comments

    I have for some time thought that swarming UAV’s using off the shelf technology offers a glimpse of a transformative capability that we have very little defence against, a previous post looked at how low cost commercially available UAV’s had provided invaluable intelligence and targeting information for Libyan rebel forces. Technology moves on, these three videos shows the rapid pace [...]

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  • Has the Fat Lass Finished the Chrous

    • January 31, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Business and Politics
    • 68 comments

    Much wailing and gnashing of teeth today about the ‘win’ of the Dassault Rafale in the Indian Multi Role Combat Aircraft competition. In all fairness, one can see the advantages of the Rafale for India, they have a fleet of Mirages and a long track record of working with the French, plus of course it is obvious that the technical [...]

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  • A Good Use of 17 Minutes and 22 Seconds

    • January 30, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • News, Images, Videos and Brochures
    • 2 comments

    In the course of my research for the UK Military Bridging series I have used British Pathe quite a bit, it is a fantastic resource for researching almost any subject and not only for UK subjects. One of my favourite clips is one on the Royal Army Service Corps, the forerunner of today’s Royal Logistic Corps. Click here for an [...]

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  • UK Military Bridging – Equipment (Medium Girder Bridge)

    • January 30, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Land, Sea and Air
    • no comments

    Revolutionising the world of military bridging (with the Bailey) once was a tall order, to pull it off a second time would be nothing short of amazing, but MEXE did it with the Medium Girder Bridge (MGB) A number of design drivers informed the requirement for the MGB, an increasing desire for air portability for example, but what made it [...]

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  • Learning Lessons from Libya, ISR and Maritime Land Attack

    • January 29, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Land, Sea and Air, Thoughts on the Future
    • 203 comments

    Reality is depressing and I am even struggling with the motivation to finish the bridging series, even though it’s 90% done. So ignoring the fact that we are poorer than a jobless church mouse yet continue with our fantasy spending plans I thought a fantasy kit post was in order. A recent Janes Defence Weekly reported on a Royal Navy [...]

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  • Parliamentary Answers – to 26th January 2011

    • January 26, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Business and Politics
    • 5 comments

    This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of Commons ‘ordinary’ questions do not [...]

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  • 1 Yorks on Patrol

    • January 26, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • News, Images, Videos and Brochures
    • 14 comments

    Some good pictures from the MoD (click to enlarge)  

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  • Multi Role Brigades

    • January 25, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Thoughts on the Future
    • 526 comments

    The Strategic Defence and Security Review framed the future of the British Army in terms of the Multi Role Brigade. This had been signalled from as long ago as 2008 and subsequently featured as part of the Future Army Structure and Future Army Structure (Next Steps) initiatives. This original thinking envisaged 8 identical Brigades and 3 deployable Divisional HQ’s, each [...]

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  • Now Thats a Rocket

    • January 24, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • News, Images, Videos and Brochures
    • 45 comments

    We were discussing some of the older deep strike/FOAS (click here for a good background and images) concepts that used a transport aircraft launched payload, a cruise missile for example. Most of these studies have been consigned to the round filing cabinet but I thought this was an amusing video!

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  • The Bottomless Black Hole

    • January 24, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Business and Politics
    • 139 comments

    Will the famous black hole in the MoD budget ever be filled? It strikes me that it has become the universal excuse for anything to do with reducing defence funding, blaming the previous government is an all too easy excuse. The number is repeatedly said to be £38 billion but the government has never published the make up of this [...]

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  • Parliametary Answers – to 24th Jan 2012

    • January 24, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Business and Politics
    • 7 comments

    This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of Commons ‘ordinary’ questions do not [...]

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  • Block III Apache

    • January 24, 2012
    • By Think Defence
    • Land, Sea and Air
    • 70 comments

    This from RP Defence One such example is how Col. Shane Openshaw, the Army’s AH-64 Apache program manager is eyeing F-35-style distributed aperture sensor (DAS) tech for use on the Apache. “We’re thinking about how to do integration” with DAS-style technology on the third development phase of the Block III Apache sometime later this decade, Openshaw told me this week. [...]

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  • Parliamentary Answers – to 2nd February 2012
  • A Swarm if Ideas
  • Has the Fat Lass Finished the Chrous
  • A Good Use of 17 Minutes and 22 Seconds
  • UK Military Bridging – Equipment (Medium Girder Bridge)
  • Learning Lessons from Libya, ISR and Maritime Land Attack
  • Parliamentary Answers – to 26th January 2011
  • 1 Yorks on Patrol
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