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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 ...
Unmanned K-Max
We looked at the unmanned K-Max and the USMC demonstration programme in an earlier post
http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2009/09/unmanned-logistics-getting-the-delivery-through/
By way of an update, Lockheed Martin have released some more information on progress to date.
Unmanned K-Max
Perhaps the most ...
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 ...
Is this What They Call Taking the Piss?
Sorry for the title, hope no one objects too much but I couldn’t quite believe this quote when I saw it.
Speaking at an evidence session for the House of Commons Defence Select Committee a number of industry figures have urged the MoD to consider fielding ‘less than fully capable’ systems, ...
Helicopters – Vision 2020
Expected to be aired in public this month is the MoD’s vision for helicopter procurement and management, a cynical person might expect this to be announced before the much anticipated Question Time on the 10th of December, we will see.
In what is being trailed as a radical and bold plan, an additional ...
Merlins in Afghanistan
Some helicopter porn, pictures of the recently deployed Merlins in Afghanistan (picture credit MoD)
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Don’t Worry, They Always Pack Extra Screws
Threading a needle wearing boxing gloves.
This amazing series of photographs shows the loading of a C17 at RAF brize Norton with the first of a batch of Merlin helicopters bound for Afghanistan.
Not much to say except, brilliant…
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Helicopters, again
We tend to try and step back from most news related issues and post something that is a little more measured and thoughtful at a later date but once again the subject of helicopters have hit the news again in the political storm that is currently taking place around the taped conversation between Gordon ...
AW109: Battlefield Light Utility Helicopter Par Excellence
The Lynx Wildcat, whether you love it or loath it, will undoubtedly be the Army Air Corps main mode of battlefield transportation for the next three decades, despite its stratospheric development and procurement costs. As a previous post highlighted the AW139/149 as a low-cost Light Utility Helicopter ...
Unmanned Logistics – Getting the Delivery Through
They say amateurs talk tactics and professional talk logistics.
The recent story from the MoD highlighted the job of a Combat Logistics Patrol. Operations in Afghanistan require a number of Patrol Bases (PB’s) and Forward Operating Bases (FOB’s) and these are expanding or being improved on a continual ...
