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Any news on the completion of the RFT process, or how it's going?

I have to admit the thought did cross my mind :rolleyes:

Fair play to whoever is driving that discussion.

Waiting for conspiracy theories pointing fingers at sino-russian technology development which hacks american surface radars...

Related? http://army.mil.nz/downloads/pdf/army-news/armynews-485-our-future-force.pdf

tru dat

The John S McCain collides with a merchant vessel in the South China Sea. ...

I was serving with appointment in the same unit but did neither, why...I can't ride a motor bike and I'd had enough gunnery from my navy days but I...

Arty only do it for overseas not disagreeing but priorities - send someone to do 3-4 week 81 YE or 2 x ILSW YE wpns cses (can then do 66% of the...

You need to read a book call Royal Navy Ship Development since 1945 to get a good idea why the RN took some of the steps it did. the biggy after...

I very strongly agree with B20 on this. 81mm can be shot by Inf and Arty and it is very worthwhile qualifying afaics the people who come off them...

I do take your point to a degree, the 81 is a 3-4 week course and mandays would be better prioritised but on the otherhand we don't use them all. ...

I did an AML 90 gunnery and DR course when I was SWA in a Cav unit. The theory behind all arms of the reserve is that they will fill any vacancy...

We trained on the FN when we had the 303, we trained on the steyr when we had the FN, we trained on the GPMG when we had the BrEN. It is all about...

Seem to remember some within the admiralty were glad it got cancelled in the end given how compromised the design had become, that's why I was...

Who remembers CVA01?

From what I've read there was plenty of stupid political decisions involved in that rather than just how the RN ran things, since Ark Royal was...

Problem with these was they were never designed for what they were actually tasked with doing. They were essentially to small and could never operate...

They also did it with the last big flat-tops they had, Ark Royal and Eagle. Even there they used Eagle for spares even if a lot of people though she...

I don't know, I have the feeling 1 or maybe even both carriers will have relatively short service lives with the RN...

I think the classic examples is the RN and its LPDs of Old , Intrepid and Fearless, Build two, run the shite out of one and then reactivate the...