Gabriele wrote:Eglin...? To keep the housing grouped with that for F-35 personnel's families, i wonder...? The P-8 area shouldn't be Jacksonville...?

Jim is talking about Elgin, which is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Elgin

not Eglin...

arfah wrote:Malvinas class sloops have arrived from Russia.

http://en.mercopress.com/2015/12/07/rus ... ntine-navy

Ugly little ships, I suppose it's all they could afford.

Little J wrote:Would they include the one parked at Duxford?

Even though it's on British soil doesn't mean it isn't still Argentinian

It's quite surprising the old hag Kirchner didn't spend the last 10 years complaining to the UN for the return of the Pucaras as well .

Little J wrote:

Looks like their future air force will be made up of paper airplanes the way they are going.

They still have some Pucaras to pretend they still have a real Air Force with .

Previously the percentage of Argentina,s defence budget as a proportion of gdp was estimated below 0.09 percent a historic low which the new defence minister has criticised ,Christine for all of her bellicosity was against her countries military , I suppose that was a nod to the past, the stronger ...

Argentine defence news. So every time Argentina tries to purchase some jet fighters it can be posted here instead of the Falklands thread ;-) http://www.janes.com/article/56248/fadea-tests-first-ia-58h-pucara-with-new-engines I hear they are going to purchase them with potatoes this time. :twisted:...

arfah wrote:Coffee isn't 'Army?'

I presume you've missed all the fuss #coffeegate #jesuiswebber?

SKB wrote:I hope five of these T23's can last until 2030 when the five "Light Frigates" finally arrive.

I'm sure I've read the final OOS date is mid-2030's (HMS St Albans?)

arfah wrote:There's plenty of UK equipment in the P8.

Additionally, the aircrew drink Yorkshire tea and the biscuits they dunk with are Scottish highland shortbread bought from the NAAFI.

What about the Taylor's coffee and Jaffa cakes? Or is that purely army?

Cameron also discusses the additional Typhoons and F35s. Without doubt the most optimistic couple of paragraphs I've seen on this forum in a while. From his previous, quite possibly, but he normally leaves himself wiggle room to back out by just announcing the same money over and over, to actually ...

Cameron also discusses the additional Typhoons and F35s. Over the next decade we will invest more than £178 billion in buying and maintaining equipment – including doubling our investment in equipment to support our Special Forces. We will create two new strike brigades, forces of up to 5,000 person...

Sky News are now reporting (source as 10 Downing Street) that 9 P8's are to be ordered. Telegraph wrote the same in an article. We'll see. Nothing on their website yet, but discussed in the report about the announcement of the increase in anti-terrorism funding and the F35's. Seems number 10 is bri...

Sky News are now reporting (source as 10 Downing Street) that 9 P8's are to be ordered.

The portion of the Times article that's visible states it's from an interview with Osborne, so it's from the "horses mouth". THE TIMES Osborne pays out for 138 stealth jets Tim Shipman and Mark Hookham Published: 22 November 2015 Comment (0) BRITAIN is to buy 138 stealth fighter jets in a ...

That is awful and quite unexpected. RIP...

One would hope as a Royal Naval Reservist she should know better, perhaps that is just a load of PR crap too. Penny Mordaunt is an ignorant idiot who has no clue about the Royal Navy, according to her HMS Queen Elizabeth was due in Southampton from December 2015. @PennyMordauntMP: For those interes...

SKB wrote:The Study includes not only military power, but also 'soft power' such as culture, media, law and finance.

As a package it does make sense, the U.K. wields international financial power way over its size, as an example.

Don't the telegraph and mail predict snowmaggeddon every year? I'm not saying that they're going to be wrong, just pointing out that it's not an unusual prediction and eventually they're bound to be right. The Express predicts weather Armageddon of some sort every month, it's more that the Met Offi...

And if it doesn't snow? Yes I have heard they are pretty good tyres always liked Michelin. Supposedly as good as normal Michelin in the dry/wet. The Michelin CrossClimate is a revolutionary new type of tyre that answers two regular questions: “Should I switch from summer tyres to winter tyres in No...

^ Exactly. Fact: Wales is not and never has been a country. Wales is now a region of England. Before 1542, it was a Principality. And before that, a group of mini Kingdoms ruled by various ancient celtic kings. total bollocks to be honest, Wales was an independant united country for a very short wh...

Just had Michelin CrossClimate tyres fitted to the car, supposed to be really good in the snow .

A quick search would seem to indicate that the 1535 and 1542 Acts made Wales a part of England. The first Act noted that Wales was already “incorporated annexed united and subject to and under the Imperial Crown of [England]”. It sought to replace this relationship of control and subjection with one...

Case appears to be conducted quite strangely by the investigators. Shoreham air disaster pilot is seen for the first time since he left hospital three weeks ago as it emerges police have still not spoken to him over the fatal crash The pilot of the Shoreham air crash in which 11 people died has been...

I don't know if folks here remember, but a few years back, RR proposed an MT50. Quietly dropped later, it presumably was just too powerful. But can you imagine a Type 26 with one of those beasts? Another 25 or so MW. Not to mention you suddenly have plenty of excess power for all the new goodies li...

Tiny Toy wrote:Giraffe is having an update to improve UAV detection. Thought I would mention it here, although it's unlikely UAVs would feature heavily in any kind of Argentinian offensive.

Their economy is not that bad, I'm sure next time Maplin has a sale they might be able to afford a DJ Phantom .