Apart from the bit when their Army got crushed???

When your knowledge is so poor please refrain from posting crap.

It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Boycotting Israeli products will remain perfectly legal. Except for government funded procurements (i.e. local council). But it won’t change a thing. The same people will be in charge of procurements and there was never much trade affected by that stance in a few councils. However,…

Patrick Stewart is a really nice guy in person as well, met him on quite a few occasions now. Genuinely pleasant.

One thing that never came out of the Soviet Union during the 90's was just how much they did know. We knew they knew a fair bit about nuclear boats for obvious reasons, but I’ve always been intrigued about if they had more than Bill Gunston knew about the stealth programme.

Given it’s size it’s certainly not containing a high end sonar suite....because they’re massive.

Towed array perhaps? Can’t see a winch though... it’s a bit confusing to be honest. The high end sonar gear necessary to track a modern sub is $80m+ (Sonar 2087) and needs humans to interpret it. I think it’s a good 20 years before there is a possbility of a ‘live’ version.

You wait for the B-36...

What does the Goalkeeper do then....

MAD is going out of fashion rapidly, low magnetic content steel makes it increasingly useless. It’s not carried by the USN’s P-8's. Only the Indian Navy has asked for it.

That’s the point through. Combat Engineers lead the way. You can’t move the tanks if there are obstacles in the way. Hence the need for Armoured Engineering Vehicles. Doesn’t matter how many tank’s you have if there is an obstacle in the way. Remember what happened to the Syrians in the Valley of Tears? Hundreds of…

They are exactly the same ploughs. Made by Pearson Engineering in the UK who make all sorts of Combat Engineering goodies. Along with Mabey Bridge and Hesco Bastion they’re one of those defence contractors that really do deliver decent equipment time and time again.

See my post above. We have over 125. The graphic appears to show operational, squadron assigned aircraft. So aircraft in the pool are not counted. There are 45 Tornado listed, but 67 are on strength. With many more knocking around. Half of the Merlin HM’s are missing too...

I thought FOST had 2 Dauphins? Are they purchased or leased though?

Unfortunately thats exactly what they did with the Jaguar GR.3. Which was a superb tactical bomber. It would have been perfect for Afghanistan.

Nope that is this..used bythe US and UK..apparently the users absolutely love it. Terrier is a whole lot more powerful, and survivable.

UK MoD pricing often looks exorbitant but usually includes more than the base vehicle. In the Terrier’s case the cost is the programme cost. This includes simulators, facilities, conversion training, spares, manufacturer support etc. We’ve moved to whole life cost accounting for military programmes. Often the price…

It can swim, but most military vehicles can’t. Most US and UK vehicles designed with swimming capability have eventually had it removed or have ceased to maintain the capability. It just isn’t worth the compromises necessary to the vehicle or the expense. Bridging units are far better ideas

There’s a couple of ways of looking at that. First off the Sherman Firefly conversion was late in the day. It’s doubtful that enough could have been produced to arm the US forces as well. The US also was wedded to their TD doctrine with the M10 supposedly doing the tank killing (although the British up-armed M10's…

Unfortunately it wouldn’t work, hi-vis has been tried...Orange hi-vis.