@pinstripedline It’s fantastic, read it in a weekend. As a next read, I can recommend Ghost Nation by Chris Horton. A very thorough and informative history of Taiwan.
@thinkdefence It’s also a shame we don’t know anyone who could make one of the best CSAR assets currently available (and imagine how lucky it would be if our pilots were already trained on very similar platforms)
https://t.co/13BhvEKBo2
@thinkdefence If only we had an organisation that was military, but practised these skills all the time saving civilians in peacetime……
https://t.co/ECozTAWMSD
@UnimportantO Royal commissions (made up of MPs in ratio matching the actual in the GE) Health, Defence, Energy and resilience. 20 year plan, 10 year funding.
@Posted_to_BAOR@FryRsquared I hear a lot of moaning about industry and equipment, but in my experience brand new kit kit is rarely maintained in accordance with issued documentation as some bright spark always knows better than the OEM…..
@thinkdefence And this is where you outshine most defence commentators, knowing your area of expertise and asking the audience when it’s outside your lane. Well done, that’s a very rare skill!
@wraggi74@HGWellsHouse@thinkdefence Yes indeed, a lot gets said about what the defence industry sells, but people are always quick to forget how many projects get started by the MOD and then stopped. This all takes effort, time and money, a lot of which industry doesn’t receive all of its investments back…
@thinkdefence Focus on contracts accumen, not trying to mark industry with engineers, logistics etc. Buy the best off the shelf, we can no longer afford Saville row solutions.
@brad90688@thinkdefence And the alternative is? - only UK design, manufacture and test facility for rotorcraft in the UK, therefore the only people to bother to invest in UK. PS - Leonardo (not been Westland -singular not plural, for a very long time)
@wraggi74@HGWellsHouse@thinkdefence Tandem Lynx was on the table in the 70s and 80s. Leonardo/Westland gets a lot of flack, but the designs and capabilities have always been in Yeovil, it is just the orders weren’t there…..