Engaging Strategy

Ex-student of War Studies at King's College London with a continued interest in defence matters, UK foreign policy and military strategy

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New Blog!

Have you ever wondered just how effective the ramp on the front of some aircraft carriers is?

Find out in:

Jumping off the Deck: The Operation of Conventional Aircraft from ‘Ski-Jumps’

https://t.co/xxCV5MCABC

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@R_P_one Leak in the primary Gatorade tank I reckon.

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@hawchcf1 We Stan the IC225, we double stan the BR IC Livery. :D

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@mickeyhynes @BO3673 36 F-35s is the surge number and requires a much reduced helicopter component onboard. F35s, plus Merlin ASW, plus Merlin AEW, plus (probably this time around) Chinook MITL is a pretty credible FOC benchmark for the carrier.

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@GarethDennis Gareth what have we told you about trying to escape the crab bucket.

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@hawchcf1 Wants cheaper energy.

Opposes new pylons.

Make it make sense without telling me they want to dig a 100 mile long trench to save someone from having to look at a power line.

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@ReassessHistory *fans face*

Lawd I'm getting a case of the vapours!

That looks incredible.

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@FennellJW Government has the resources, not deploying them is a choice.

Remember:

"Anything we can actually do, we can afford."

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@FennellJW So this whole market fundamentalist excursion was a dangerous dead end all along, eh?

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@GarethDennis @joncstone @jburnmurdoch If we did that I think the DFT and HMT might implode.

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@kejamieson_ @UkNatArchives "i'm not crying it's just the dust from the 1853 gunnery report in my eye" 😏

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@fightingsailor @thinkdefence The legendary perfect hallowed be its name Type 23 had to have its whole damn CMS fitted post-build...

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@TarryTotter @DavidLarter You usually get a "Dead Cat Bounce" after a sharp fall as people take advantage of the perceived opportunity to buy equities cheap as the panic-driven fall probably led to some being undervalued.

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@alessionaval @chodpollard Local culture's a bit more sparse too.

Although I'll bet Taranto doesn't have an Arctic Convoy Museum!

https://t.co/9uqSNBVE3W

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@alessionaval @chodpollard Scotland has some that are very nice on a good day.

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@chodpollard @alessionaval Beautiful Italy, come and see the stunning sights, experience the incredible culture at *checks notes*

The Taranto NATO Fuelling Jetty

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@olibatt @navalhistorian @mattotele @MontyTele @Telegraph If you size the facilities and supply chains for just what you need to build up and maintain a stockpile, they will prove woefully inadequate for an actual conflict. You need to build-in and maintain spare capacity. On the low end, adding shifts, on the high end shadow factories.

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@olibatt @navalhistorian @mattotele @MontyTele @Telegraph If we had reduced the size of the armed forces whilst retaining the ability to ramp production and expand them again we'd be in a far better position. Russia proved that a second rate power that made some sensible choices around its industrial base could hold off our production.

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@olibatt @navalhistorian @mattotele @MontyTele @Telegraph Just don't look at their 43 SSKs and SSPs, perfectly suited to operations in the areas they really care about. Of which half are brand new serial-produced AIP Yuan class boats.

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@olibatt @navalhistorian @mattotele @MontyTele @Telegraph Russia is not a fabulously wealthy industrial powerhouse. It invested in being able to wage this type of war, one we discounted as obsolete. Now we're all eating the consequences of those decisions. China *is* a wealthy industrial powerhouse & invested in mass arms production.

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@olibatt @navalhistorian @mattotele @MontyTele @Telegraph Ukraine isn't going to win because Russia had the ability to ramp its munitions production prodigiously and we, collectively, didn't because we'd decided years ago that the supporting industry wasn't important enough to save the stockpiles it sustained didn't matter.