Yes they do occasionally...

Not at all.

The main link to the UK is the ferry to Liverpool, which has been a very multicultural city for 100 years. So they’re not that isolated. Basically, if you’re a nice friendly person you’ll have no problem, its a very friendly place.

It was well reported at the time in the defence press. Ultimately, the Danish were bringing into service a massively advanced helicopter far in advance of anything they had previously operated and larger too, with a shortage of maintenance personnel (a lot of whom had left to go civilian due to pay) and to compound…

And in under 2 tears it loses its better strike aircraft than Eurofighter reputation. As soon as Storm Shadow and Brimstone are integrated. Typhoon will also be carrying superior targeting pods.

And it has problems. Look at the mounting of the pylons and the weapons and tanks mounted there. They’re canted outwards so that stores can seperate without hitting the aircraft, a dreadful design blunder. The effect on the aircraft and the shelf life of weapons carried by the F-18E and F is not good. Proper…

Your numbers are way out. Denmark ordered 72 F-16 in total. But there has been attrition. And that was during the cold war.

I’ve not heard of anyone who actually thinks AIM-120D is even close to Meteor on maximum range, let alone NEZ. Don’t be fooled by any UK published data. The UK MoD has a reputation for deliberately underplaying all range measures for missiles. Asraam was listed as 30km for years, now it’s commonly accepted as 50km+.…

Most people think that Asraam is good for 50km+.

The low serviceability of the Danish Merlins is more due to how parsimonious they have been when it comes to buying spares. If you actually keep some spares in stock your aircraft will fly. If you have to order a part every time it breaks or needs replacing they’re going to spend some time in the shop.

And if it’s stealthy I’ll eat my hat.....

I don’t think their tugs have the range....

There is zero danger of this story being true. Personally I don’t think the US has pissed them off that much. It also ignores Jordans other longstanding ally, the UK. King Hussein was schooled in the UK and supported by them. The current King Abdullah, is half English and served in the British Army.

The lack of build of the W class definitely caused problems. And the US did have problems on the Virginia class. It has turned out all right in the end, but the loss of the 8th boat will cost us in the long run. Same as the loss of 2 T-45's (whether we could man them is another thing).

The MoD have had a recent outbreak of common sense, that seems to be sticking. The Astute and Nimrod MRA.4 fiasco’s have seen to that. They’ll stick with a fairly normal spec, don’t expect MAD booms like the Indian ones, but do expect Stingray integration and some UK comms gear (which makes sense). Whether or not we…

Personally I think they missed a trick when they didn’t develop the 37mm....makes the GAU-8 look puny...

Not sure about the 1B, but Phalanx in the early versions was well known for not working that often. By the sounds of it it’s now effective, but in it’s early days the RN trialled it after the Falklands and weren’t that impressed. The Goalkeeper was picked instead. Phalanx is now carried primarily as Phalanx is…

‘Rods from God’ I believe it was nicknamed. But weaponising space is an all round bad idea, the US and USSR saw that. All it does is add a lot of money onto the defence budget.

JDAM’s are cheap. One kit is $18,000. Add in a bomb at $3,000. Total outlay $21,000. Now if those Tu-22's drop 12 bombs each thats 24 in total.Lets be generous on Russian bomb costs, say $1000 each. Thats a minimum of $24,000. Now factor in the cost of flying the aircraft per hour. An F-16 is around $23,000 per hour.…

They do. The French make their own as do the UK. Norway makes a lot of rocket motors for everyone, including the US. A lot of warheads for everyone are made in Germany...including for US weapons.