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The Light Protected Patrol Vehicle
Although it has been in the equipment programme for some time the Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV) has been in the news this week as Gordon Brown chose to announce something that had been announced several times before. Of course this is par for the course for the Labour government, why say something ...
The Falklands and ISAF
In our previous post on the US reaction to the latest Falklands Islands we pondered on the fact that the UK has 10,000 service personnel in Afghanistan and this deployment has been ongoing for several years at a very high cost in blood and treasure.
And yet despite this, the State Department and Hilary ...
The Falklands and Our Allies
There is a great deal of debate on the nature of our political and strategic relationship with the EU, NATO, the Commonwealth and individual nations.
One of the fundamental principles of UK defence and security strategy is the recognition that large scale operations will always be conducted in conjunction ...
Going Out with a Bang
The House of Commons Defence Select Committee has quite rightly come in for a lot of criticism for not holding the MoD to account in a sufficiently robust fashion, but in its last report before being replaced by a new committee after the General Election, it has gone out with a very big bang. It is ...
Helicopters Update from the MoD
Tucked in behind the widely trailed Commons Defence Select Committee Defence Equipment Report (2010) is the MoD’s response to an earlier report on helicopter capability.
As readers of Think Defence will know, the issue of helicopters is of significant interest and we have keenly followed the issue ...
Would a Reduction in Budgets be a Bad Thing for the MoD?
More money and better spending has been our guiding principle, this might be a rather outrageous statement to make but one has to wonder if throwing more money at a dysfunctional Ministry of Defence would actually be counter-productive?
The Ministry of Defence
The Ministry of Defence hovers between two ...
Lack of posting
Apologies for the lack of posting of late, the real world has intervened but hopefully the torrent of nonsense will resume shortly.
Did everyone miss my request for an outline of what should be in the Land component of our deliberations on the FDR, come guys, get your ideas in
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All the Chiefs
All the service chiefs have now set out their stall for the forthcoming strategic defence review at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
The transcripts are available at the links.
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton
General Sir David Richards
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Haiti Update
RFA Largs Bay has recently arrived in Haiti with its cargo of Land Rovers and wriggly tin.
Operation PANLAKE involves various teams and resources and RFA Largs Bay will stay in the area supporting the UN.
Continuing our obsession with Mexeflotes some pictures from the Royal Navy
More information here
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/operations/haiti-diary/
And ...
Makes a change from a Vallon
As part of Operation MOSHTARAK the Royal Engineers have deployed an explosive clearance system called Python, towed behind the Challenger derived Trojan Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE).
Clearing mines and IED’s in front of vehicle or foot patrols, called ‘Op Barma’, is usually a painstaking, ...
