What's wrong with the Merlin HC3? And please don't say "What's right with it"
The same issue i stated above with the Lynx having it's TOW capability taken away (I'm sure some lads out in those sandy places wish they had a TOW now and then on the Lynx when the Apaches have been elsewhere). Is the same issue (albeit slightly different) with the Warrior IFV not being fitted with a TOW Box either.
Look how useful the TOW was/is in Iraq fitted to the Bradleys and of course it would be in Afghanistan against bunkers and other nuisance targets.
The Kuwaiti's fitted one to the Warrior so why didn't we?
The same goes to firing ports, every country utilises these on their IFV, yet we don't and the new Mastiffs we acquired, the ports were covered over so anyone inside can't see !!!! apart from a CCTV image which is blurry because of the movement of the vehicle.
We start to procure equipment half way through a conflict then it's slow in getting there...and .... we have Chinooks sitting at Boscombe with cobwebs just because of an avionics issue....and to get them into theatre we are downgrading their capability to do so.
