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Comment by DTOM on August 26, 2018 at 8:31am

@Chris of the family Masters

Chris, I have rellies there, but as always it's the money issue at present.

Comment by Chris of the family Masters on August 26, 2018 at 7:42am

DTOM, are you planning to visit OZ in the nears future?

Comment by DTOM on August 26, 2018 at 7:27am

Brits seem gun ho at wanting to rush up on their defence 'contribution' spending. They should check up on the the quality of the defence first.

@cheeki kea

The Brits have been ahead in many military developments by decades, but any projects that would have upset the balance of power in the faux 'Cold War' were intentionally scuppered.

i.e The BAC TSR-2 strike and recon aircraft (scuppered by the Harold Wilson Labour Govt) and the original Enfield 7.1mm / .280 weapons program (scuppered by Conservative Winston Churchill - he felt that NATO standard was more important - the 7.62 NATO round itself was pushed by the zealous US Army Colonel Renée Studler, head of the US Small Arms Bureau of Ordnance - who was opposed to everything the British program stood for.

Studler stated on record that, any non-American design was "a waste of time", he refused point blank to accept any "foreign" design and had gone so far as to bury reports from Aberdeen Proving Ground that suggested the .280 was superior in US testing.)

Funny that in recent times, descendants of the 7.1mm / .280 type rounds are regarded as the 'way to go' in modern small arms development.

The UK (and maybe other Western nations) would have been ahead with .280mm and the EM-2 and Taden small arms series.

A joke really, when not that much later the US adopted an intermediate cartridge in the form of the 5.56×45mm NATO - which amounted to Earle Harvey at Springfield Armory taking an off the shelf varmint hunting cartridge in the form of the .222 Remington, and lengthening the case for Gene Stoner's AR15 program.

Instead substandard projects that drain money and resources are pushed - i.e Enfield IW program (L85 weapons system - which in the end had to be rectified by H&K)

The US has followed this model with the F-35 program (billions over budget), the Army's UCP (universal camouflage pattern) uniform and equipment (when the Army had already developed and owned both the Desert Brush and Scorpion camouflage patterns - the latter being the mother of the Multicam pattern which is now a global standard - how many US military personnel have been killed or injured as a result of that lurid UCP ensemble? Or was that the intention given its post 9/11 introduction?) 

Comment by cheeki kea on August 25, 2018 at 11:57pm

They have to buy up on 'defence' because if it was called what it really was, say something like The royal war force, - might not look to flash.

Comment by Chris of the family Masters on August 25, 2018 at 10:34pm

I'll never understand why all aggressors have defense forces instead of war forces.

Comment by cheeki kea on August 25, 2018 at 10:18pm

Brits seem gun ho at wanting to rush up on their defence 'contribution' spending. They should check up on the the quality of the defence first.

Comment by DTOM on August 25, 2018 at 5:45pm

What the fuck does the UK need with nuclear weapons?

The enemy has been embedded in both the UK establishment and Govt for centuries and opened the gates to the invading enrichment hordes over 40 years ago.

Yet more weapons, that never function properly, along with the illegal wars that must be fought and weapons (that do function properly for foreign) sales* that are used to drain the pockets of the British people.

*Not really sales since any monies disappear into the pockets of the politicians and arms manufacturers, and the British taxpayer foots the bill.

Comment by cheeki kea on August 23, 2018 at 7:03am

wow, a hacker must have got in and changed the global position function.

Comment by Chris of the family Masters on August 23, 2018 at 4:20am

He's greatly amused...