And that was that, after 13 years the sixth and final Type 45 Anti Air Warfare (AAW) Destroyer has entered service. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/final-type-45-destroyer-enters-service-early It is worth noting the final ship entered…
Back in 2009, Ace Rimmer wrote a piece on the return of the 66mm LAWS in the guise of the M27A9 Light Anti Structure Munition. It's traditional stablemate was the…
A number of people have proposed using a modern offshore platform supply vessel such as the Ulstein X Bow PX 121 as the base platform for so called low end…
For a long time I have maintained that what the MoD needs more than anything is financial credibility and it is for this reason alone that I think Phil Hammond…
The Government Transparency Agenda sometimes throws up some interesting gems like... A list of the daily messing rates for military personnel including supplements and in-flight scales for the period 1st…
Back in April this year I wrote a short piece on the Chemring Centurion naval countermeasures launching system; In that piece was information on a partnership between Chemring and Raytheon,…
Been having a browse through the ever useful Defence Statistics & Analysis web site over the last few days. Did you know… What a DEL is? This is the official…
As I said in the previous post my SDSR wish list is based on the assumption of a new government post 2015 prepared to spend a bit more on defence…