In an effort to keep its readers educated Andy Bloxham has written a fact box article on the Typhoon. It starts by calling the Tornado the RAF’s workhouse jet, a simple typing error of course, but things don’t get any better after that. The article states that Typhoon; Has a wing span of 37ft, no it doesn’t, it is 10.95m [...]
I am often critical of Con Coughlin’s writings in the Telegraph but his article today struck me as being very good.
An interesting and pretty hard hitting programme, as soon as we start talking about service personnel bleeding to death in a minefield because of a lack of medium helicopter lift or being killed when their Nimrod MR2 crashes because of a fire onboard it immediately hits home that the subject we like discussing is serious stuff. For this reason I [...]
In the run in to the publication of the SDSR the Channel 4 Dispatches team and respected author/journalist Sam Kiley will be airing a hard hitting documentary this week on the MoD and Defence Industry. Titled ‘How the MoD Wastes Our Billions‘ it accuses the MoD of wasting billions of pounds, favouring a small number of defence companies, operating a protectionist [...]
I urge you to sit down and move anything light enough to throw out of the way before reading the rest of this post. Words fail me and normally I would resort to swearing but I simply cannot muster the words to describe my outrage at the Guardian for giving Gerry Adams a platform to make cheap political capital and [...]
A good article from the Guardian At any moment, one of Britain’s four Trident submarines is out there, somewhere, patrolling a continent-sized patch of the Atlantic. When the 160-strong crew slip beneath the waves off Scotland’s west coast, that’s the last anyone sees of them for three months. Powered by a nuclear reactor, the submarines are almost silent and virtually [...]
Writing in The Times this week is Allan Mallinson on the subject of the future of the armed forces in which he prescribes some simple medicine; Add 10,000 to the Army Forget balancing the forces Root out amateurism everywhere For much of the article he makes sense but veers into the ridiculous when discussing the Royal Navy and Royal [...]
We are introducing a new category today called Mainstream Media. One of the objectives of this blog is to elevate and broaden the debate on UK Defence issues. At the risk of repeating myself, we don’t have any special insight but one this we strive for accuracy, something that seems lacking in the mainstream media, especially when there is an [...]
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