Sam Cooke

Views are my own.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@pinstripedline I read it as Challenger 3 is funded - extending the remaining Challenger 2 beyond current assumptions is not.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@DanKaszeta Pretty sure there was an occupation of the Philippines aswell ?

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@LogisticThinker It’s a modular construction method not portacabins? !!

[KNDS UK @WFEL_bridges]

WFEL awards sub-contract to Wesco Anixter for supply of components for Assembly/Integration of Boxer armoured vehicles being produced for @BritishArmy A number of UK jobs at Wesco Anixer will be created & sustained. More info: https://t.co/xPzRomPS3t
#TeamBoxerUK @DefenceES

[ben moores @benmoores2]

Great to read and now see RGT going so well with multiple Ajax's zipping about. Due to Putin's aggression it looks like its going to be the exactly right vehicle for the exactly right time. And within the £5.5bn which is nice during a time of inflation.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@thinkdefence The Army have a £33Bn plan for modernisation that has remained stable post Ukraine. We would all want some of that faster (as the threat has appeared earlier than planned) but it knows what it wants and NATO knows what it wants from it. Expeditionary Combined Arms Land Warfare.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@FTusa284 @NAOorguk It’s not a criticism - you are great at calling the institution to account - I am just saying there is a big difference between what we say we are going to spend and what we actually do. In an honest democracy - I just think that reality needs real clarity.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@FTusa284 @NAOorguk I agree, we are all passionate about the Army - you have been a consistent and positive challenge to the institution. I just think the accounts hide the reality - I would be happier if we admit that we have not been able to put a decent order in to uk industry for 25 years.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@FTusa284 @NAOorguk It’s not an attitude it’s a question. Let’s get the figures. What did we plan, what did spend, what were we allowed to spend. There has to be more to this than the Army are deliberately incompetent.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@FTusa284 Through life or UPC ?

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@FTusa284 @NAOorguk Probably need plans and actuals for us to all to come to a fair view - I think you just have planned figures. +EPP or ESP IS ? Really easy to solely blame the Army. Expenditure controlled by HMT & MOD, delivery thru agents. Army have issues yes but can’t be blamed for everything.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@thinkdefence @ArmouredSapper Still made in Stockport UK so that’s at least something.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@thinkdefence A potential oversimplification - all capability was run from the MOD at this time. Army was force generating and fighting. Boxer, AJAX and CR3 now being built in UK - Note the politico-economics have changed. HMT rules changed - LIS launched - Army are on it - good stuff coming.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@Simon_Gowing @RLCRunners @ArmyAthleticAAA @RLCCorpsSM @4RegtRLC @ArmySportASCB @UKArmyLogistics Great job - thank you so much.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@thinkdefence Pilots and ground crew are expensive. (All people are) Full cap rates for 6 additional crews plus ground crew - probably another 40-50m / 10 years. Worth thinking about.

[Jack Watling @Jack_Watling]

A privilege to have worked on this study with Lieutenant General Mykhaylo Zabrodskyi, Oleksandr V. Danylyuk and Nick Reynolds for @RUSI_org. An incomplete, but hopefully useful baseline for learning lessons in conventional warfighting from Ukraine: https://t.co/KGm6j5iXsB

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Just had someone ask me “what kind of adult wears pyjamas?!” so can we get a retweet from every adult currently enjoying their pyjamas please?

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@thinkdefence There are entire sections of the Army and Defence doing just that, all of the time, every day, every week: @LWC_UK, @Int_Corps @MOD_DCDC. Furthermore CGS has told to the entire Army to mobilise for war in Europe - I think the Army are paying attention.

[Sam Cooke @samcooke78]

@MilitaryBanter Happy Birthday !!