View Full Version : Army & RN get money, whats in it for the RAF
bluetail
1st Sep 2015, 12:12
With seemingly the Army getting their Apaches upgraded to AH-64E standard for a couple of billion, and the Navy getting money to update Faslane, what do we think the RAF will be getting money for, if anything.
what do we think the RAF will be getting money for, if anything.
A couple of helmets and a cardboard cut out F35 to drool over, that should come to a few billion.
Lets just wait and see if a P-8 order materialises......
Jumping_Jack
1st Sep 2015, 13:21
I did see an option to double the Rivet Joint fleet...that would be quite expensive!
Tourist
1st Sep 2015, 14:33
bluetail
Do you have kids?
Have any of them ever said "It's not fair!", and you have felt like telling them to grow up?
Just wondering......
To be fair, £500M at Faslane wont actually buy very much. Compare that to the cost of HS2 - projected at between £43 and 80 Bn depending on which report you read. And it may buy you about 3 miles of a 3 lane motorway.
Heathrow Harry
1st Sep 2015, 14:56
that £ 500mm is over 10 years as well - a classic "Gordon Brown" announcement
it's about the cost of one F-35 over the same time period.............
Hangarshuffle
1st Sep 2015, 20:45
Neither of those two "stories" are worth a can of baked beans. Trident base upgrade story deserves better than to be released on a wet UK Bank Holiday, without the approval (in fact with the seeming apparent disapproval) of all the resident SNP MPs in London Parliament. It will never, ever happen.
Hard to see a positive future for the RAF at all. Drone development? UK anti drone-attack squadron forming up?
MATELO
2nd Sep 2015, 08:23
Army & RN get money, whats in it for the RAF
The Boeing P-8.
Shackman
2nd Sep 2015, 08:31
More Fitness training:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/566856-senior-officers-fitness-test-announced.html
TBM-Legend
2nd Sep 2015, 10:28
Now is the time to move any P-8 types to the RN and be done with it...
melmothtw
2nd Sep 2015, 10:53
Now is the time to move any P-8 types to the RN and be done with it...
And support helicopters to the army perhaps?
At the risk of regurgitating past discussion, P-8, no decision but probably in the pipeline, good capability, etc. But where will it be based? Anoint it as an ISTAR asset and shoehorn into Waddington? Or shoehorn into Lossie or Brize? Or, can it go into a former but still active airfield like Kinloss or Leuchars? Crikey, we could even christen either of the latter candidates "Joint Bases" just like our US cousins are increasingly doing...
I think you have had enough out of the MFTS budget already, and, don't forget all the Typhoons, CH47-6, hotels...etc you got.
Stop being gr(n)eedy!
reds & greens
2nd Sep 2015, 20:42
Those top end curtains and carpets in the VSO areas must be due for a change now; must be at least 6 months since the last 'fitment schedule'...
alfred_the_great
3rd Sep 2015, 05:21
I've heard the fruit machines need changing in the Officers' Mess.
Autobahnstormer
3rd Sep 2015, 12:36
Reds & Greens,
No more curtains - now included in Disturbance Allowance (Overseas anyways). But I like the cynicism:E
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