People, training and thinking must always come before shiny new toys High-end equipment spending will be wasted without adequate support, spares and consumable stocks Civilian industry can offer many solutions to defence problems Technology risk taking is to be encouraged UK defence industry must be ...
Granted stuff like Meteor is superior over AMRAAM but look at the larger picture. In case of troubles American missiles are stocked in larger numbers in Guam and Japan. In case of an emergency you reckon the Europeans have large stocks of Meteor and Scalp on hand? We also train regularly w...
In addition, the need to supply Ukraine with much of the army's remaining stocks of weapons and ammunition to help the Ukrainian military fight Russia has increased the pressure even further. The UK is playing a key role in supporting Kyiv, with the prime minister becoming ...
1) It is another different type of which we don’t have the budget (no budget for MIFV/Adnan replacement). And if we do have budget, we should prioritise to buy more Gempita IFV25 1st before getting yet another different type. 2) K-21 has fiberglass driver hatch and rear doors (to ...
We do not place much emphasis on trouble with China for the simple and reasonable reason that the MAF is not structure or equipped to do so; does not have large stocks of consumables [yes yes others do but their threat calculus differs greatly] and the country lacks the resources and the...
11&12. After we ran down the 2 year stocks of parts then what? It seems we are trying to get REM parts from China & India but what about quality, function, & warranty? Our MKMs are as rojak as can be, so if mix in these REM parts, how they function is questionable. 13. His...
The problem is not just the lack of moeny. On hindsight our budget is similar to PHIL. More like lack of political will and marking up prices for the cronies that in turn do election donation and whateva. SHORAD –Spyder python 20km ...
radio station broadcasting from China was something that really annoyed us; we insisted they shut it down when we established relations. When it came to arms the communists were largely on their own, getting a lot of stuff from dealers in Thailand. By the mid 1970’s small stocks of various...