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 of a single aircraft type as the ‘fast [...]
THINK DEFENCE: As you know we operate an open door policy, this is a post from one of our regular contributors, Jed… I started writing this article during my lunch hours after the ThinkDefence guys posted their article “FDR – the RAF and Airpower, Introduction”. However they beat me to and posted their uncannily similar artilce, “FDR – Air (Fast Jets)” , so [...]
The Typhoon is expensive but is now achieving some level of maturity and showing its versatility, recent trials have confirmed its excellence in close air support operations and its air dominance power, especially when’ the Meteor comes into service, will be more than a match for most foreseeable opponents. This proposal is a controversial one so we are going to [...]
Listen to anyone these days (even this blog!) and they all say we must have a turboprop close air support and COIN aircraft. The US has issued various requests for information and is pursuing the concept under the Imminent Fury programme. Will any of these programmes go ahead, who knows, but we thought we would have a look at the [...]
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