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At Last, the Perfect Picture
From the guys at Plain Military, a picture obviously posed for the benefit of Think Defence! Does it get any better than this, seriously?
Wildcat Trials
From the MoD The Royal Navy’s next-generation helicopter Wildcat, is pictured onboard HMS Iron Duke during three days of trials at sea. A Wildcat touched down onto the flight deck of HMS Iron Duke at the Naval Base as part of intensive tests before the fast and potent helicopter is declared operational. In just three [...]
F35 – Back to Plan B
If the Guardian is to be believed the MoD is considering switching back to the STOVL version of the F35 Joint Strike Fighter. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/01/uk-aircraft-carrier-us-strike-fighter You can have a cheeky snigger at the Cats and Flaps mistake in the article but the story is no less interesting. Britain’s troubled and increasingly expensive plan to equip the navy with [...]
EPLS Cargo Transport Vehicles in Combat Logistic Patrol (CLP) in Afghanistan
From the MoD… A Combat Logistic Patrol (CLP) consisting of EPLS (Enhanced Palletised Load System), Combat Support Tankers (CST), Support Vehicle Recovery (SVR), Mastiffs and Ridgebacks in convoy in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. 1 Logistic Support Regiment (1 LSR) provides logistic close and general support to 20th Armoured Brigade, supplying and distributing everything British troops need. [...]
Old Dog – New Tricks
The TOW missile has been around for decades, it went out of service with the UK Army Air Corps as we transitioned from missile armed Lynx to the Apache attack helicopter but has remained in US service for some time and been continually improved. Developed by ATK (NYSE: ATK), the enhanced system doubles TOW’s range [...]
Junglies But No Jungles
Royal Navy Sea King Mk4′s from the Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) on a training exercise in Norway
Bullets, boots and bandages
Am looking forward to seeing this, he better have bloody well included ISO containers or else.
How I fired the first shots of the Falklands War and crippled an Argentine submarine
A great article in Daily Mail; This diary was written during the Falklands Crisis on assorted scraps of paper and in an old Government-issue exercise book. I remember I wanted to leave an account of my unvarnished thoughts as they occurred, before the mice of hindsight and discretion got to work. Stored away carelessly almost [...]
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