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FDR – Maritime (At Sea Replenishment)
The Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) project has had more lives than a whole herd of cats, on, off and on again. Most of the indecision has been driven by cost issues and delays around the CVF. Originally intended to replace the existing replenishment ships and provide a joint sea based ...
FDR – Maritime (Amphibious and Logistics)
To set the scene for this post, our earlier suggestion of cancelling CVF and JCA was nothing short of a brutal cost saving measure. Some may argue that significant costs have already been sunk and contracts signed, to cancel now would not result in any savings. This is simply not the case, yes, there ...
A Billion Here, A Billion There
And pretty soon you are talking serious money.
Revisiting the F35B Joint Combat Aircraft and CVF theme, the true costs have which yet to reveal themselves but to date it is a rough estimate that we have either spent or contractually committed to spend about 3 to 4 billion pounds on the two programmes ...
FDR – The CVF Can of Worms
As soon as anyone questions the utility or cost of CVF and JCA it is as if that person has just bludgeoned to death three dozen baby seals, shit in the Queens slippers and suggested that Dijon mustard would be a tasty accompaniment to roast beef.
In an ideal world the Royal Navy would have 3, each with ...
FDR – Maritime Futures Part 1
I have to dive in and write this piece for ThinkDefence being ex-Navy, there you go, how was that for up front disclosure and transparency !
However I am also been a soldier, and as a life long plane spotter I am also a proponent of air power, so hopefully I can provide a balanced, although maritime ...
Flying off the CVF
Enough of the mince pies.
In a previous post I proposed that the RAF revert to a single swing role fast jet, replacing the Harrier, Tornado and cancelling the JCA in favour of a slightly increased overall number of Typhoons.
I argued that the UK could do without the F35’s capabilities largely on the ...
FDR Supporting Articles – Carrier Based Fast Air
THINK DEFENCE: As you know we operate an open door policy, this is another post from one of our regular contributors, Jed…
In the previous articles written by myself and the ThinkDefence teams we both independently came to the conclusion that the future of the RAF lay in the cost effective management ...
