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Forum: Military Aviation
10th Mar 2021, 16:42
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

It's potentially a question of time rather than...

It's potentially a question of time rather than finances. If it's decided to make a go of Tempest as land-based-only and keep F35B until carrier OSD, then we might find that operating assumptions...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Mar 2021, 19:19
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Reading the Sunday Times piece again, I note the...

Reading the Sunday Times piece again, I note the wording is that an "order" for 90 F35s will be cancelled. This shows a misunderstanding of the present situation as there is no 'order' beyond the...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Nov 2020, 12:38
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

The mismatch between the MOD’s budget and its...

The mismatch between the MOD’s budget and its desired outputs is the unavoidable issue behind this and most of the other procurement issues, and no amount of carrier expertise is going to fix that.
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Dec 2019, 20:00
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

... because it has to come back more often for...

... because it has to come back more often for fuel, and doesn’t take as long to fill up when it does? ;)
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Dec 2019, 10:59
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

weemonkey said “homeland security” which pr00ne...

weemonkey said “homeland security” which pr00ne twisted to “home defence”; I don’t think they are quite the same thing as ‘security’ has wider scope and includes such things as protection of shipping...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Dec 2019, 11:19
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Shipbuilding is in a different space to aircraft...

Shipbuilding is in a different space to aircraft and weapons, which have underpinned our export ranking on the basis of our willingness to export to the Gulf and our past success in doing so. But we...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Dec 2019, 09:06
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Cummings saw off the Remain establishment and he...

Cummings saw off the Remain establishment and he will have the military establishment for breakfast, lunch and dinner if it takes him on in the political arena (of which the press is part). A better...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Dec 2019, 07:50
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

For balance, I will add that the RAF should be...

For balance, I will add that the RAF should be just as (if not more) worried about the degree of scrutiny which Cummings will apply to ‘Tempest’. And there is a great deal more future expenditure...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Dec 2019, 07:00
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

It won’t be about scrapping. It’ll be about how...

It won’t be about scrapping. It’ll be about how to allocate future expenditure. So the arguments will be over deployment cycles, readiness, numbers of escorts and aircraft, mission types, etc.
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Dec 2019, 22:52
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Carrier supporters should be less worried about...

Carrier supporters should be less worried about the flaws in Sir Max’s screed and more concerned by the timing and nature of its publication: in a Conservative mouthpiece just one day after an...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Nov 2019, 00:53
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Yes, I know that this is now the favoured...

Yes, I know that this is now the favoured narrative among carrier supporters, hence my comment about 'blue water ops'. And it's absolutely not what the Government had in mind when it agreed to invest...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2019, 00:43
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Engines, you won’t find any disagreement from me...

Engines, you won’t find any disagreement from me on 99% of your excellent post. The B is a magnificent piece of engineering, in particular the flight control system that does so much to reduce the...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2019, 21:43
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

I was only going by what the Corps Director of...

I was only going by what the Corps Director of Aviation reportedly (https://news.usni.org/2019/04/04/marines-accelerating-f-35c-procurement-support-carrier-deployments-f-35b-buys-slow) told Congress...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2019, 14:51
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

What on earth is this on about and why is it...

What on earth is this on about and why is it being reposted here? Assuming there are 2 bombs internally, the so-called ‘beast mode’ carries 3000lb of weapons plus 2 ASRAAM. Which is one-seventh of...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2019, 21:59
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Also the drag of the door is less than it would...

Also the drag of the door is less than it would appear because suction causes the airflow to curve down into the fan rather than impinge directly on the door. The airspeed scheduling of door angle...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Aug 2019, 17:52
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

You appear to be confusing ‘control of the...

You appear to be confusing ‘control of the agenda’ with ‘decision-making’. And following a speculative ‘if’ with a definitive ‘then’ and a concluding ‘so’ makes for a very poor straw man indeed. Of...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Aug 2019, 00:30
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Off topic, but in the light of recent events I...

Off topic, but in the light of recent events I feel entitled to a smug rebuttal:



He really, really is not.[/QUOTE]

Oh, he really, really is.
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Aug 2019, 09:03
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

WEBF, I note you didn’t really engage with...

WEBF,

I note you didn’t really engage with the important point that the timeline has favoured the attacker for some time. It’s very well for your analyst to say that it’s better to engage the...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Aug 2019, 22:36
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

WEBF, Where are you expecting this task...

WEBF,

Where are you expecting this task group to operate?

If it’s in the Pacific then yes, history tells us that carriers are practically essential, hence my earlier reference to American and...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Aug 2019, 18:52
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Yes, we agree on all of that. But the trouble...

Yes, we agree on all of that. But the trouble many of us have with the carriers are that they (and their supporting capabilities) soak up so much of the Defence budget that we can't afford ARMs,...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Aug 2019, 18:25
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

It was identified as a strategic risk. That's...

It was identified as a strategic risk. That's different to saying that it would lead to a specific outcome as a matter of policy. But to calibrate: take the response to the Nimrod loss, multiply the...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Aug 2019, 17:36
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Neither airfield you refer to was 'lost'. Bastion...

Neither airfield you refer to was 'lost'. Bastion barely missed a beat IIRC, not sure about Shayrat but a lesson of 1991 was that it was almost impossible to close large airfields for any significant...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Aug 2019, 16:50
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

It is a problem when the game area and threat...

It is a problem when the game area and threat radius are so big that the aircraft can’t get to the fight without tanker support. Rather defeats the point.



Did those attacks have lasting...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Aug 2019, 02:54
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

China and the USA have very different...

China and the USA have very different geo-strategic priorities to the UK. Each has more ability to tolerate combat losses, for differing reasons. And the US has invested spectacular amounts of money...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Aug 2019, 21:26
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

pr00ne, Where there's Gove, there's...

pr00ne,

Where there's Gove, there's Cummings. At least that's what the civil servants I know say! There's clearly a centralising focus because of 31 October, but if the Government survives beyond...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Aug 2019, 20:56
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Explain Penny Mordaunt's sacking, Steve Baker's...

Explain Penny Mordaunt's sacking, Steve Baker's refusal to take a ministerial post and the sea-change on Brexit then. Big decisions have always been the preserve of No10 and the Treasury but they're...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Aug 2019, 18:53
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

I've got bad news for you, Sam. The PM's senior...

I've got bad news for you, Sam. The PM's senior adviser is exercising firm control of the agenda across Whitehall and has the same view of the carriers as andrew...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Feb 2019, 05:47
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

That’s as intended, then. The Government’s stated...

That’s as intended, then. The Government’s stated policy is that any medium or large scale war fighting would be as part of an alliance or coalition.
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Sep 2013, 00:19
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

ISTR at the time of SDSR10 it was being bandied...

ISTR at the time of SDSR10 it was being bandied around that Cameron only agreed to keep the carriers because it would have been more expensive to cancel the order. If this growth in cost means that...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Jan 2013, 19:44
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Or install some arrester wires and... DOH!

Or install some arrester wires and... DOH!
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2012, 22:05
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

Surely no-one's surprised! The whole carrier/F35...

Surely no-one's surprised! The whole carrier/F35 programme is far more about politics (and I'm talking big boys' politics, not the inter-service sort) than it is about capability or sustainability or...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Oct 2010, 10:48
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

THS: :D The RN's insistence on keeping the...

THS: :D

The RN's insistence on keeping the carriers at the expense of wider naval capabilities is sounding more and more like a pyrrhic victory.
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Oct 2010, 09:15
Replies: 7,467
Views: 2,404,473
Posted By Easy Street

We already know that JFH cannot sustain support...

We already know that JFH cannot sustain support to Op HERRICK whilst maintaining contingent carrier ops capability - that was the reason for withdrawing them from KAF (to be replaced by GR4)....
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