France ups the ante on defence spending, or does it?
The reaction to the news that France has increased their defence budget by €2.3 Billion this year and €3.8 billion by 2019 has been met by what I think are…
Active Suspension for Armoured Vehicles
BAE have a news story doing the rounds today (H/T Sol) about incorporating their active damping suspension system into the CV90 armoured infantry fighting vehicle and how this is a…
Trident – An Election Problem
For the past several years there has been an on and off debate about the future of the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent, commonly referred to as Trident. It is the…
A Ground Based ARTISAN
The BAE/ROKE ARTISAN (Advanced Radar Target Indication Situational Awareness and Navigation) Radar is now in service with the Royal Navy, designated the Type 997. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl9JmItkR-A It is an advanced…
Fixed and Rotary Aircraft in Service Numbers and their Pilots
Between Parliamentary Questions and Answers and the always interesting Freedom of Information response it is possible to determine just how few aircraft the UK has in service. Although this answer…
What if the UK spent less money on defence instead of more?
In the loosely themed SDSR 2015 series of posts I started with a look at the depressing inevitably of leaks, service-centric opinion pieces and general jockeying for position that has…
521 STRE – Water Development
521 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (STRE) Water Development are the Army's well drilling specialists, now part of 62 Works Group RE, in turn, part of 170 Infrastructure Support Engineer Group,…