Gareth Mottram🧗🗻

all round climber. Conservation enthusiast, scientist, salesman, military history fan, civilis servus, thoughts entirely my own no endorsements implied

[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@pjw139 @BillKristol @PublicEthicSTL Steam cats are post ww2. But yes

[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@Lazarus_Navy @ForcesNews Also readiness of EMALS issues

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@PaulTanton4 @pegge49 Absolutely, get treasury to unstick the funds to finish and test it this year!

[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@FTusa284 Civil service is already shrinking, at least Whitehall departments are all taking 20-30% reductions. Don’t know about regions or lower AO/EO type roles but grade 7 has seen major clear out and a lot are on recruitment freeze

[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@FennellJW 10% load factor in the south. That capacity is good for about 15TWh . Cheap but low impact. Build 2-4GW of biomethane production to deliver that same energy output,
solar is peak generation at minimum demand time in the uk and zero generation at peak demand, good but insufficient

[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@FennellJW Wow, even the core design has Bull written on it

[Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦(@seththevoz.bsky.social) @SAThevoz]

Any serious British politician doesn’t fear being photographed next to Count Binface at an election count - indeed, for an aspiring Prime Minister, it’s a rite of passage.

[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@Trausselocal @TheGrandfatherX @GuidoFawkes One batch 2 river class. Still a 30mm bushmaster is effective against a luxury yacht…

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@JonathanWoodhe2 @gentleman_once @blagden_david @WarGit True

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@gentleman_once @blagden_david @WarGit The surge force is the retained firefighters (unpaid except when called out) but again limits to available resources

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@gentleman_once @blagden_david @WarGit We don’t normally use them in the uk but when out of the ordinary events turn up they are a valuable source of extra hands to reinforce the system

[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@navalhistorian @bigasaplanet @MtarfaL @TomSharpe134 A brace of paveway IV would make a mess and they are able to hit something moving at the maximum speed of any frigate. The real problem is also the double hatting of all the strike capable aircraft. Nobody wants a brimstone to the face even if it won’t sink anything.

[MtarfaLee @MtarfaL]

Great article from @TomSharpe134 and difficult for the MoD to argue against.

Today is what matters - not the 2030’s

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[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@Fandango831 Better to keep the 40mm imho, much better range and ability to use programmable rounds. More versatile.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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@MarkAyscough @FennellJW The power would have to be upgraded, so it’s probably going to need bigger diesels or a couple of gas turbines rather than the two banks of diesel combined output is about 32Mw which is more than t45 max but in t45 that’s all going to electricity. It’ll want iep mods I suspect

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@niuclasach79535 @FennellJW It’ll become British as did the Bren

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@NavyLookout @PaulKennard18 @FennellJW Speedy?

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@MortenKnorborg @chodpollard @Gabriel64869839 There is significant extra compartmentalisation inside is my understanding

[Gareth Mottram🧗🗻 @drgarethmottram]

@chodpollard @MortenKnorborg @Gabriel64869839 But the compartmentalisation is t-31 so the similarities are mainly external features rather then structural