Ploughshares to swords: A brief look at potential COIN aircraft
The Paris Air Show is a prime spot in the Aviation world to show the weird and wonderful, or at least the exotic. One of the not-so-exotic exhibitors, but still…
Airdrop, 1982
A small series of images from the South Atlantic, 1982, HMS Glamorgan receives stores and SAS personnel mid Atlantic from an RAF airdrop. http://www.flickr.com/photos/32828971@N00/3738537702/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32828971@N00/3737742887/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32828971@N00/3737742561/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32828971@N00/3737742343/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32828971@N00/3737742049/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32828971@N00/3737741461/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32828971@N00/3738536400/…
Human Rights and Tommy Atkins
I thought I would wait until the inevitable froth had subsided before writing something about this . There has been some incredible nonsense written about the recent Supreme Court ruling in;…
Generic Vehicle Architecture and the UOR Protected Mobility Fleet
Back in September 2011 I wrote a piece about Generic Vehicle Architecture, with the wider Land Open Systems Architecture, and how I thought it was one of the smartest things…
A European Joint Expeditionary Force
Last year the Royal Navy and the French Navy conducted joint operations in the Mediterranean during cougar 12. This was a prelude to the Anglo French Combined Joint Expeditionary Force…
No More Hexi Telly
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DFiD, the Ox and Sir Torquil
Although this post does not really have a military angle I thought it interesting enough to float, with a name like Sir Torquil Norman and a tenuous link to an…
Not Enough Ships
Lord West of Spithead, former First Sea Lord and Labour Peer has criticised the Government for allowing the Royal Navy to shrink to its current size. We have insufficient escort…