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Not really - in truth they have come together under the word 'maritime', they may squabble, but they have jointly decided to become two sides of the same coin.

The problem is the political...

The least challenging years the UK armed forces have had for both recruitment and retention were the years we were very publicly fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Aside from the pay, the housing...

its ally. ally saves lives....

Ocean had an out of service date of 2018 from long before the moment she first went down the slipway - and she has been worked far harder than was ever expected of her, and she's now pretty shagged...

The term MRV doesn't mean it can do everything - after all, its not an aircraft carrier, or a fleet oiler, or an anti-air warfare destroyer - it means it's capable of undertaking a number of roles...

You probably ought to talk to Nike, they mustn't be aware that there's a simple, cheap way of getting Chinese factories to stop ripping them off.

So, this Defence Act, the one doesn't apply to...

really?

you don't believe that anyone who can print cloth can do it - you also believe that Irish Law applies everywhere?

are you sure you're allowed a rifle/shoelaces?

Didn't Arktis make the original issues - they may well have a clause in the contract allowing them to keep producing stuff in the IDPM pattern after the original contract was completed.

How is it that pretty much every other western Army can operate quite happily on and from Naval vessels, but the Irish somehow can't?

What's the problem - some genetic issue with seasickness or...

Even better - it means you're talking about a dozen blokes from each Corps. They've probably got more than that off sick with cock rot...

yeah, its much more expensive, time consuming and logistically demanding to equip, train and deploy the former than the latter.

Not really, it's not difficult stuff - unless you're a loon who's thinking about a fourth arm of service, uniforms, regulations, chain of command etc...

You just take, for example, A Coy 2nd Bn...

in which case, going by the teacher of history, the Danish CDS is probably pretty safe...

conversely, without landing craft, all those extra vehicles, stores and troops might end up sat a mile off-shore twiddling their thumbs for a lack of a secure, functioning port...

no one is...

neither does checking the fish buckets on trawlers...

you'd probably be hard pushed to contract a civilian vessel to do a non-combattant evacuation from Libya, or Lebanon, or to act as a floating...

i think that the view that any future vessel should fit in with the current force structure/operations is both self-defeating and willfully ignoring the reality of DF operations since 1945.

the DF...

i'm given to understand that it has the reliability of a French wedding vow...

10 TEU's, to use your example, simply aren't worth the compromise to the ship their stowage would require - at what point should the NS staff just say 'actually, don't bother with the Happy Shopper...

training for what?



i fear you have somewhat failed to grasp what the AC does(n't do).

it has more trainers than operational fixed wing airframes, and it has a frankly massive training...

you are deluded.

you are wrong.

the overwhelming majority of CP courses are an efficient way of chanelling money from idiots. given your complete lack of experience - guarding bananas at Tesco,...

a lot of the stuff is from UOR's that either didn't make it into core, or were superceded by other UOR's or core, were going to be got rid of anyway but they are going sooner than planned (the Lynx...

perhaps time for an Inf COS to halve the size of the infantry - give the PID's and funding to Logs, Artillery, CIS and Armour/Mobilty so they actually put 3 Inf Bn's into the field rather than one...

What?

Like, what the actual ****?

Firstly you could buy a vastly capable and useful A319/320/321 for that kind of money, and secondly how in the name of all that's holy could anyone - whether...

I don't recall anyone ever suggesting otherwise - I wouldn't be surprised if the UK never mounts an entirely stand alone operation of Bde size ever again - and have a Defence budget some 40 times the...

like the PC-9M's, like the AW-139's - the foundation assets are there, but without the brickwork of the additional hardware and the skills and experience of the people, its nothing but foundations.
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