James Fennell @FennellJW
Stabilisation practitioner, interested in military tech, history and literature - writing a novel. 130 countries, wars and counting. Lord Byron is my dog #AVFC Ukraine (for now) Joined May 2023-
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Radical left-wing activists have set fire to the summer home of Rheinmetall’s CEO Armin Papperger in Lower Saxony, Germany. english.nv.ua/nation/radical…
Good point. 'Guardian' was proposed by Hawker Siddeley in the '70s (a land based version of Sea Dart), but Bloodhound solidered on, some even being bought back from Sweden and Switzerland as they took them out of service in the '80s, to keep the system going.
Good point. 'Guardian' was proposed by Hawker Siddeley in the '70s (a land based version of Sea Dart), but Bloodhound solidered on, some even being bought back from Sweden and Switzerland as they took them out of service in the '80s, to keep the system going.
The new electrically powered Leonardo Blaze30 autocannon chambered for 30×113 mm ammunition is designed to replace 12.7 mm heavy machine guns in RCWS systems. KNDS Ammo Italy SpA (formerly Nexter Arrowtech), which is developing the 30×173mm MF-ABM cartridge for the X-Gun…
We've spent the past decade eating our own tail, time to wake up and smell the coffee. We miss Blair, Major and other sensible politcians who understood how to wield British power.
We've spent the past decade eating our own tail, time to wake up and smell the coffee. We miss Blair, Major and other sensible politcians who understood how to wield British power.
I’ve never seen this clip, from a few years ago. The best articulation of simple geopolitical reality I’ve seen in a long time. Even a simpleton could understand it, if only they’d listen. God I miss grown up, well-read, pragmatic and convincing leaders.
It makes sense if Tempest is going to be a large very long range optionally crewed platform - a combined Tornado-like 'bomber' and F-22 like 'air dominance' fighter in old money. Smaller, shorter ranged, tactical platforms should be uncrewed.
It makes sense if Tempest is going to be a large very long range optionally crewed platform - a combined Tornado-like 'bomber' and F-22 like 'air dominance' fighter in old money. Smaller, shorter ranged, tactical platforms should be uncrewed.
How the #GCAP compares to the #26DMU, the final version of Japan's F-3 fighter study meeting the 1,000 nm combat radius. GCAP grew much larger than Tempest to fulfill Japan's range requirement as much as possible. x.com/buchmaru/statu…
How the #GCAP compares to the #26DMU, the final version of Japan's F-3 fighter study meeting the 1,000 nm combat radius. GCAP grew much larger than Tempest to fulfill Japan's range requirement as much as possible. x.com/buchmaru/statu… https://t.co/f42LcNwajD
@Doha104p3 @JustTheChuck2 @Hunterr1 From what I've gathered in chats with some of the BAE folks at Warton, Captor-E is seen as a stepping stone, it almost brings Europe in line with US capabilities. The only very slim lead they think we have is in the situational awareness & sensor suite for Tempest Vs NGAD
The Russian perception of the lack of credible Western will to use nuclear weapons or to accept casualties in conflict further reinforces Russia’s aggressive non-strategic nuclear weapons (#NSNW) thought and doctrine. Latest IISS research: go.iiss.org/3S80295
What has Britain donated to Ukraine? - The UK has provided extensive military support, including missiles, drones, tanks, artillery, and munitions, here are the specifics. Click the image to read more. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/what-has-brita…
Councils are badly short of money. They have to tax people more to pay for services that few of them use, while squeezing spending on the things they do use econ.st/3WgF5ww 👇
History Repeats Itself As Communists Run Out Of Food buff.ly/4dirV8f
NEW: The UK is increasingly vulnerable to the threat of missiles and drones after decades of cost-saving cuts eroded its once world-class air defences, military sources and Cold War veterans have warned. 1/🧵 news.sky.com/story/uk-incre…
Manta Ray #UUV prototype completes full-scale, in-water testing off the coast of SoCal. DARPA program exhibits modular, first-of-kind capability for an extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle. Built by @northropgrumman. darpa.mil/news-events/20…
The Flush Toilet! Thomas Crapper!! 🇬🇧
‘I appreciate you’re a direct entry DI with a degree in Portuguese poetry, but I’m not taking on a 4 handed GBH’.
Farewell Paul Auster, who has died aged 77. There's a character named James Joyce in The Brooklyn Follies. In an interview about the book in 2009 he said Joyce "was my God when I was 18" and Ulysses "came as a sledgehammer."
I feel like I need an Automatic Pointing System, but not sure why?
I feel like I need an Automatic Pointing System, but not sure why?
No, he did a lot of good for public services and our global influence, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Kosovo -the culprit in the 2008 financial crisis - seeds were sown during the in 'Big Bang' City deregulation but not just in the UK but across the western financial system.
No, he did a lot of good for public services and our global influence, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Kosovo -the culprit in the 2008 financial crisis - seeds were sown during the in 'Big Bang' City deregulation but not just in the UK but across the western financial system.
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400 Followers 3K Following ...His last thought was of his Mauser, and he pressed it against his chest with his folded, fingerless hands...
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@FennellJW @MortenKnorborg @Gabriel64869839 Hmmm. Guess we will just wait and see. Genuine issues always find there way out into the open in the end, I just hope its not people dismissing Archer just on the basis of Boxer 155 being technically better, without considering cost impact.
When you add a comment and the OP edits the post, your comment gets lost. 😥
@smaja79 Sweden has new build ones on order on MAN trucks, the ones for the UK would all be "old" ones on Volvo.
@FennellJW @MortenKnorborg @Gabriel64869839 Bedding in with new equipment isn't really what I associate with "issues". I assumed you meant "issues" as in, "Ajax vibration which makes it undesirable to have" type issues. Although the lack of BV is of considerable concern naturally...
C Battery, 3 RHA exercising in Estonia. Photo shows a freshly upgraded and remanufactured M270 with new armoured cab. Not the highest resolution, but seems safe to say UK-specific camera for driver air/situational awareness is the TRAILBLAZER as found on CR3, BOXER, Warrrior...
Which is precisely what I've been told by senior USN personnel - "you do that, and it frees *us* up to cover the Pacific".
@BardnanGael There was a great RAND piece saying "please just patrol the North Sea and your half of the Atlantic and leave the rest to us." No-one in the UK read it or listened.
Handsome chap, like all God's chosen
Today in 1944, Sapper D Lewis of the Royal Engineers shows off his 'extraordinary physique' built after four years' training. From a series of photos entitled 'Building bridges builds muscles'. Photos: @I_W_M H-series.
@GarethJennings3 @FennellJW "Germany can add Sea Lion" I have a sudden urge to set the Channel on fire...
BREAKING: Highly-regarded US Lieutenant General HR McMaster tells @WilfredFrost cost-saving cuts to the UK armed forces - @RoyalNavy @BritishArmy @RoyalAirForce - since the end of the Cold War “broke my heart”
US General @LTGHRMcMaster - “It broke my heart to see degree to which the UK have reduced the capacity for [their] armed forces." "I think it would be difficult for the UK to sustain operations at sufficient scale & ample duration to fight & win.”
#Rheinmetall hat der #Bundeswehr am heutigen 2. Mai 2024 das erste nationale Nachweismuster des „Schweren Waffenträgers Infanterie“ für Entwicklungs- und Erprobungszwecke präsentiert. Die symbolische #Schlüsselübergabe erfolgte am Rheinmetall-Standort #Unterlüß in Anwesenheit…
@Gabriel64869839 For everyone talking about crewing in the comments section, a Type 23 requires a crew of 185, while the Type 31 only needs 105 and the T26 - 157, so the current fleet of 11 T23 = 2035 Crew, while future (13 Frigates) 8 T26 and 5 T31 = 1,781 Crew. So crew isnt the primary issue.
@Gabriel64869839 What isnt spoken about enough is how the Norwegians operate in the same area that is strategically important to the RN/UK safety, so the 1-2 year delay of deliveries to the RN will be largely mitigated by the Royal Norwegian navy operating ASW patrols in the N Sea and GIUK Gap.
Aside from the earth shattering news this is I personally don't think he should be allowed back in the club this easily.
Every time you’re told you must wait months for an NHS referral or that there’s no mental health support available for your child, remember they found hundreds of millions to spend on this pointlessly stupid policy.
Sending the first 300 migrants to Rwanda costs £1.8m each. To put that in context, school funding is around £7,600 per child per year. So the cost of sending one migrant to Rwanda would get 234 children education for a year. Is that a good use of money?
Europe’s elites are gripped by the same fatal complacency for which Marc Bloch condemned the French after their defeat by the Nazis in the 1940s, Emmanuel Macron tells The Economist in an exclusive interview econ.st/4aXAmEx 👇
"The US, Canadian and Australian armed forces maintain much higher percentages of reserves to regulars: the UK’s Reserves are less than 40% the size of the British Army, compared to 105% in the US, 95% in Canada and 70% in Australia." rusi.org/explore-our-re…
'In Ukraine, air and maritime power have not been felt to the degree that they would be in a conflict between Russia and NATO. [In 1991] almost a quarter of the Iraqi Republican Guard had been attritted before it made contact with Allied land forces' rusi.org/explore-our-re…
.@TheEconomist's science section has a series of excellent articles on disinformation this week. "Since May 2023 the number of ai-generated news outlets peddling misleading information has risen from 49 to 802, according to NewsGuard" economist.com/science-and-te…
History has proven that the world is safer when Britain stands up to bullies - and that’s exactly what we’ve done. 📺 Watch @TheSun’s first World at War podcast in full: youtu.be/t0VQvnVgQQU?si…
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