Stocking Fillers – The Last Chapter (Eurofighter)

December 22, 2008 at 9:20 am

This article in the excellent “The Register” Lists more of the woes of the jolly old Eurofighter (Typhoon to you & me, but I suspect not to our square headed co-owners), and along with it, the woes of the Jolly old RAF. Apparently we are now “pooing on our own […]

Stocking Filler Ideas (Continued): The Fleet Air Arm

December 21, 2008 at 2:44 pm

In its ongoing campaign to irritate St Crispin’s Day, the RAF is now reported to want to take over the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm and assume control of all Army helicopters. The justification is that it would shave £1 billion from the defence budget. Apparently the Royal Navy clashed […]

The Big Ticket Items

December 17, 2008 at 6:59 pm

The military budget is spattered with a myriad of projects & schemes from £100k to multi billion projects. Each of the services has a big ticket item (to coin a current business speak phrase). These are 1. Navy – Carriers (recently this project has slipped a bit, and looks rocky, […]