UK Maritime Patrol Aircraft - An Urgent Requirement
Again, srsly? The concept of having a flying T23, with a pretty decent sonar, and passive capability, that can deploy from a ship, with decent legs, better than anything the USN or French can put up, who have been proved operationally in more than 1 theatre, is
Care to actually defend that statement?
crap
Back in the 90s I remember a defence study which attempted to look at the future in 2015. It was a NATO event and although I haven't dug out the material in years, the one thing it did suggest was that mass movement of refugees / displaced persons / economic migrants from Africa to Europe was going to be a major feature.
It came as a package:
Water shortages/water rights conflicts
Food scarcity
Population expansion
Uncontrolled migration
I used to give that brief to visitors at our HQ. The basics of brief was crafted from NATO HQ and passed down to the subordinate commands.
It was the "shared truth" of sixteen nations.
That the US would start another ruckus in Iraq or elsewhere was not part of the strategic brief, but this was the 90's. I'd be interested to see what the standard brief is now in various NATO HQ's.
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Enjoy your visit home (er, your 'source' that is). Shame it looks like Lossie is too busy with QRA to fit in a few MPA these days. Still, going by some of the random recoveries I've seen since the tiffies arrived, you're better off down there 
Bet you've had your fill of Wendy's by now though!
Bet you've had your fill of Wendy's by now though!
ahem - the panty liner has yet to be invited that can hold an AEO's 'output' 
Still proud I never needed to buy a slab in 20 years. I think I was 'cured' by my first OCU trip to Gib and seeing the bog contents emptied down the clear plastic sausage tube under the port beam window. Fair play to the VAS linies - they sure knew their sh*t!
Anyhoo - do tell more on these purchase rumours - by talking about 'runners' you seem to imply there is a viable 'race'? Would love it to be so but my cynicism dimmer switch is fully on....
Still proud I never needed to buy a slab in 20 years. I think I was 'cured' by my first OCU trip to Gib and seeing the bog contents emptied down the clear plastic sausage tube under the port beam window. Fair play to the VAS linies - they sure knew their sh*t! Anyhoo - do tell more on these purchase rumours - by talking about 'runners' you seem to imply there is a viable 'race'? Would love it to be so but my cynicism dimmer switch is fully on....
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I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Jayland, if you meant warshot against a hostile target then you, in common with many others, show a common misconception about successful Defence.
Success is about preventing the need to use earshot. The Cold War was a prime example of success. The Falklands, while an excellent feat of arms, was a complete failure of Defence Diplomacy which the then Foreign Secretary and Secretary of Defence acknowledged when they offered to resign.
The deployment of F3 before GW 1 were similarly an example of successful Defence Diplomacy as they could well have deferred further Iraqi adventurism.
Wars of choice, OTOH, are not Defence Diplomacy and your target depends on your putative foe.
Success is about preventing the need to use earshot. The Cold War was a prime example of success. The Falklands, while an excellent feat of arms, was a complete failure of Defence Diplomacy which the then Foreign Secretary and Secretary of Defence acknowledged when they offered to resign.
The deployment of F3 before GW 1 were similarly an example of successful Defence Diplomacy as they could well have deferred further Iraqi adventurism.
Wars of choice, OTOH, are not Defence Diplomacy and your target depends on your putative foe.