Airbus Military C295 MPA
A newly released image from Airbus Military http://www.flickr.com/photos/airbusgroup/12454864124/
UK to spend 2.5 billion on F35
The BBC is reporting a purchase of 14 new F35 aircraft by the MOD. A few interesting points in this article.Firstly the purchase price of the aircraft is understood do…
Future Maritime Patrol – Part 7 (Summary)
This series on Future Maritime Patrol was unplanned but hope you have enjoyed reading what I think are the various options should the UK wish to reconstitute the capability lost…
Future Maritime Patrol – Part 6 (C130J and A400M Options)
Eyes down look in for the final instalment in the Future Maritime Patrol series, apart from a quick summary. We have looked at all the conventional options; large aircraft like…
Playing the Short Game – SDSR 2015?
Are we playing the short game as we get closer to SDSR 2015? Reportedly the Defence Secretary has stated that a 'war-weary' public will only accept interventions which are 'time-limited'. …
Future Maritime Patrol – Back to the future P1
Whilst reading TD's excellent series about our possible maritime patrol choices my mind was taken to one of my favourite films out of the 80's "Back to the Future". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeHFDxKUP4…
Sandbagging in Somerset
In the absence of being able to do anything useful the Government has held multiple COBRA meeting and no doubt come up with the cunning plan of deploying the armed…
Future Maritime Patrol – Part 5 (Business Jet and Unmanned Options)
As we have seen in the previous posts on future maritime patrol there are some difficult issues to address in defining the need and resultant requirement. Having considered aircraft at…