Is the MICV concept past its use by date ?
A guest post from Jed There have been a lot of interesting comments made in the various post-SDSR army articles written by TD (and guests), some by serving soldiers, some…
Hub and Spoke
We were discussing earlier this week the UK's capacity to move personnel in and out ouf Afghanistan, whether the hub and spoke arrangement currently used with a mixture of RAF aircraft…
FRES – British to its Bootstraps Part 2
Does anyone remember last year, following the announcement that General Dynamics had been selected for the FRES Specialist Variant, the phrase British to its bootstraps? At the time I did…
Naval Mine Countermeasures
A diversion from the shabby goings on elsewhere. The sea mine is the IED of the maritime environment, cheap, easy to deploy and with a tactical and strategic effect out…
Addios Liam
There seems to be an undercurrent of sympathy for Liam Fox. I don’t mind about the short term and incoherent mess that was SDSR and I quite like the fact…
UAV Proliferation
Our future ground based anti-air capabilities seem to be coalescing around CAMM and Lightweight Starstreak but have a look at this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ3hEt0EOkc The caption reads While NATO countries fly…
Cats and Cards – Defence as a Political Football
It is obvious that the government needed something to get the Human Right Act and cat's off the news agenda so what better way than a security and sexuality innuendo.…
But where are the melting flight decks
The F35B is making progress on its trial programme and some of the more grandiose claims of its general crapness being slowly knocked off one by one. I still think…