“The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to stop production of the F-22 fighter plane, handing President Barack Obama a victory as he tries to rein in defense spending,” reports Reuters. The Senate actually voted 58-40 in favour of funding the additional Raptors, but alas, the dreaded filibuster threat meant 60 […]

A Defence debate was held last Thursday in the House of Commons. Take a look at the picture of the event itself and look at how many MP’s could be bothered to turn up. A smattering of Tories but one…count them all…one…Labour backbencher present. Scandalous. As a famous Oliver once […]

Admire the USS Reagan next to the USS Arizona memorial. Superb. When the Bridge pipes ‘Man the Rail’ there is a lot of rail to man on this monster: shoulder to shoulder, around 45 acres. Her displacement is about 100,000 tons with full complement. Capability: Top speed exceeds 30 knots, […]

You may want to buy a used Harrier jet for the front lawn as per the previous post, but if Del-Boy offers you a Nimrod then turn him down. The RAF have 18 of them. One tragically crashed in Afghanistan on 2nd September 2006 with the loss of 14 servicemen. […]

As St. Crispin has blogged below on second-hand aircraft, TheEye offers him an opportunity for the ultimate in garden ornaments…a used Harrier GR7 (one careful owner, some scratches). Obtainable from the MoD Disposal Services Authority here, it doesn’t come with an engine so he’ll have to pick it up from […]

St. C has just returned from an interesting trip to Gibraltar, land of “The Eye”. The trip across The Bay was emotional to say the least. The drinking in the town bar was even more upsetting! The crossing was done in a venerable Type 42 frigate named after Scotland’s Capital […]