Our Harriers were fantastic and i'm still missing them hugely! - honestly, as much as anyone still does, even though I feel it was absolutely the right decision of the still relatively new, massively deficit burdened, wiser (imo) government to retain our mightier punching Tornados instead. How many ...

pikey01 wrote:Anyone else want to bet we will get P3's eventually?

Nope! Same as quite a few suspect, I reckon we'll end up going for P-8s.

SKY NEWS is also there - report on telly right now.

Spoke to the crew on the C130J. They can't fly over mainland Spain due to 'politics'. Takes nearly 5 hours to transit back to the UK!! Dave. Wonder if they'd mend their stupid attitude if all the millions of Spanish economy helping Brits that went there each year for holidays threatened to stop goi...

Argentina has now turned away 2 Cruise ships from one of it's ports as they had come from Stanley in the Falklands!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17184955" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Just as well the desperately acting idiots are now resorting to taking things ou...

Viper28 wrote:Oh dear back to personal attacks again are we?

Don't be daft. I'm only surprised that after you "actually attended a Lockheed Martain presentation on the F35" they didn't then offer you a job with them on the spot!

It's 64-14829 - should touch down just after 6am.

At the end of the day, its a "strike fighter" and using a cannon to strafe a target brings you into eyeball sight anyway so Stealth is out the window no matter what. It's temporarily "out the window" - for the duration of a strafing attack. Stealth can still give that hugely important element of su...

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/pictures-f-35b-flies-with-gun-pod-installed-368756/ Or to put it another way "there goes your stealth configuration" - little advertised fact that only the "A" model has an internal cannon! The pod is stealthy. http://www.f-16.net/news_article3837.html" onc...

I was at a talk on global marine conservation issues last year and it was interesting to hear the speaker draw a link between the surge in piracy and the plundering of fish stocks by European and Asian trawling fleets along the Horn of Africa. This has decimating fish stocks and the livelihoods of ...

Yes, by the great Mrs T. Funny how ship yards and all those coal mines and everything didn't get reopened in the thirteen long years of the last all mouth and nearly bankrupting LIEbour shambles. Also, Daewoo get ships out of their yard ten to the dozen being the biggest ship builder in the world an...

RichC wrote:Illustrious would be sent if they want to use Apaches.

And/or USMC Harriers.

For totally unbiased and ACURATE news try Russia Today/Tonight. RT.com Brilliant and tells it like it actually is. Which might be true if they werent part funded by the Russian Government... Like the anything but impartial * leftie stuffed BBC is part funded by its beloved leftie stuffed EU. (That'...

Excellent stuff!

Episode 4 starting now.

(This is a great series to watch as well by the way.. Bullets, Boots and Bandages - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ing_Alive/)

i've certainly never seen any similar type and size jet get out of a pilot boo boo and drop rate like this before.. ] Rafale display from a few years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNvm_1chN3A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NbVd70fV5E" onclick="w...

Jesus Murphy count me in! When can I start?

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rafale-deal-questioned-by-ministry-of-defence-officials/1/174178.html Interesting. I must say.. would most people buy a car that they could only get more knowledge of or spares for from one place ? In the long run, given how notoriously frequently the Indians stil...

Uuuurgh..

Yes, doo.

Never went there, unfortunately, but you sure as hell weren't wrong with the "utterly superb"! Just absolutely fantastic! Those were the days..