- Mr.fred on BAE Systems Ground Combat VehicleThe Bushmaster 30/40 is chambered for 30x173mm but Atk and GD OTS have been developing a 40x180 (actually about 39x180)
- ArmChairCivvy on That’ll be the DaewooThere may be 10 kt between them http://www.defpro.com/news/details/32660/?SID=f5303fc3fef14be038575b5623b1d2d9 http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Ships/Active/209-Fleet-Tanker.html but otherwise I can only spot - better boat handling facilities
- James on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland IslandsX, see page 16 of the link I posted at 1904. Not insurmountable.
- Observer on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@x LOL seriously good one there mate! If it came to just shooting cross the bows though, then does it
- The Filthy Engineer on That’ll be the DaewooMy last ship on retirement was a wave class. It'll Be interesting to see how these new tankers stack up
- Chris Werb on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland IslandsBoth Carl Gustav and 66mm. http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/South-Georgia.html
- ArmChairCivvy on That’ll be the DaewooI am also very interested, like Anixtu " Larger, slower... it looks like there will still be a 2-tier tanker
- x on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland IslandsAnother thing about these SF teams. You can't just run here, there, and everywhere on the Falklands because some fools
- x on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@ Phil Brown's has, 1x Oto Melara 5 inch dual purpose gun 8x Breda/Bofors 40 mm/70 anti-aircraft guns (4x twin)
- Observer on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@wf "There’s a limit for how long any group of SF, even supported by parachute drops, can deny the use
- James on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@ APATS, good spot on Stanley Harbour. A quick Google gets this http://www.falklandislands.com/assets/documents/2011-harbour-info-basic.pdf which seems to be up to date
- RW on That’ll be the DaewooNot sure where the 37.000 tons comes from, the Aegir design has been up to 18,000 tons - and has
- Gabriele on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands"But they would still need a vast amount of specialised shipping that they don’t have, can’t build, and can’t afford
- Phil on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands"The Brown’s outgun T45" Not sure what a Brown is but the T45 has 13 gun mounts. 1 4.5, 2
- x on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@ Topman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Mills_(Royal_Marines_officer) The RM officer who made the "eyes water" comment.
- x on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@ Topman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grytviken
- wf on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@Topman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grytviken Carl Gustav :-) @Observer: I suggested RO-RO for the initial assault to speed unloading. There's a limit for
- x on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland IslandsI also wonder if the RN has the capacity to engage in a Cod War style confrontation in the South
- Topman on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland IslandsThinking about I think it was a 66mm rocket disposable jobbie.
- Anixtu on That’ll be the DaewooI await the detailed specifications with much interest. These are not Waves from another builder. Twin screw, medium-speed diesel, 15kts
- Topman on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@ wf, I'm fairly sure a ship in the intial invasion got hit by rm party.
- Observer on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@wf .... in shipping containers??? Stacked deep in without a way to extract necessary equipment fast??? Ouch... heaven help you
- Topman on The Price of an F35Thanks for the link Mark, no problem knew a couple of people who worked there and your comment got my
- Phil on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland IslandsCarl Gutav. Don't think there was a Milan down there. They were relatively new at the time.
- wf on The reality of the challenges involved in recapturing the Falkland Islands@Observer: in the FIW we needed to land effectively a full division with stores, over the beach, move over 100's
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