The most puzzling thing about the Land 400 IFV imbroglio is that the main argument against procurement seems to be that the vehicles would be difficult to include in some sort of Tarawa re-enactment on the shores of a Pacific Island neighbor.
@GenGJenkinsRM@RoyalNavy We know how this ends - the drones will rot alongside a wharf meanwhile the few manned ships left will be smashed trying to complete the short of war tasking that requires a crew and which constitutes 80% plus of peacetime tasking for a warship.
@UKDefJournal We know how this ends - the drones will rot alongside a wharf meanwhile the few manned ships left will be smashed trying to complete the short of war tasking that requires a crew and which constitutes 80% plus of peacetime tasking for a warship.
@SwaledaleSailor@NavyLookout@thinkdefence We know how this ends - the drones will rot alongside a wharf meanwhile the few manned ships left will be smashed trying to complete the short of war tasking that requires a crew and which constitutes 80% plus of peacetime tasking for a warship.
@JAParker29@NavyLookout One of the many things that worries me is that all 'the short of war tasks' that warships do require personnel so that a tiny number of command ships will be smashed tempo wise.
@AC_NavalHistory The worst thing is that for all the risk any savings will be a chimera as crew sizes are falling rapidly and even the savings gained by unmanned will be offfset by the increase in tech complexity 😢
@FTusa284 absolute BS a much lower risk alternative is to use low risk tech to push min. manning to the max rather than high risk zero man. like the RAN plans 2 do after alot of analysis
@AligooseQ@FennellJW well said the whole thing is absolute BS a much lower risk alternative is to use low risk tech to push min. manning to the max rather than high risk zero man.