One can just imagine the charge sheet http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/10697895/Navy-warship-accidentally-fires-torpedo-at-nuclear-dockyard.html Here is a story from not long ago, all Stingray related, to see what the incident might have looked like. http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2014/02/torpedo-away/ Please,…
In our recent discussion about the merits, or not, of lightweight artillery systems one lightweight system we ignored (mostly) was mortars. As we know, in the British Army mortars are…
Post the 1998 SDR, when the UK was caught in the grip of the go fast, go hard, go home RMA craze a couple of C130 deployable artillery weapons got…
From ADS Lockheed Martin UK and Team SOCRATES, its industry team, have now completed Tranche 1 of the Field Deployable GEOINT (FDG) – part of the overall PICASSO – programme.…
Two videos, a recent one from Raytheon on the Excalibur guided 155mm artillery round and an older one from Lockheed Martin on GMLRS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ukz5jhXdY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbYGXpnsCJU Consider the deployed infrastructure…
The letters page of the Soldier magazine never fails to deliver the odd comedy gem. 'Far from smooth operators harm recruiting' is the best one in the latest edition. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/2bfdd26c#/2bfdd26c/56…
Is this a trials vehicle, a manufacturers demonstrator or another nations allocation, or, are we really selling off the practically brand new MAN SV fleet? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MAN-SX25-440-6x6-EX-MILITARY-CHASSIS-CAB-2008-CHOICE-OF-2-/161113831393 H/T Paul G
I apologize about my long absence but I have been doing some research and work on my upcoming paper on the social side of the British army during the Napoleonic…