There were three options for the picture to go with this article; Commander Tom Phillips (Royal Australian Navy), his submarine HMAS Farncomb, or a girl in a bikini. A no-brainer for your genial hosts Our gallant commander is quoted in an interview with Australian men’s mag Ralph saying that that […]

Well, its taken six years to construct but HMS Daring, first of the Type45 destroyers have left Scotstoun for Portsmouth for sea trials before entering service next year. The crew have been on board since 2006. Built in Labour voting constituencies the Clyde shipyards, the project has ploughed £6 billion […]

British WWI veteran dies aged 108 I was sad (but not supprised) to see that one of the last surviving WW1 veterans had died. Bill Stone served his country in 2 world wars. Thank you Bill. There is a lot of commentary about saying that the youth of today would […]

In a story unashamedly lifted from A Tangled Web TheEye is pleased to read: Here’s a sort of good news story for this New Year morning. Britain has defied the Baathist-lovers in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by handing over two Iraqi men accused of murdering British soldiers […]

TheEye was rather amused to see the following series of news items sequentially on the Pravda website. You don’t need to read them really as they are mostly propaganda and tractor production statistics. Just read the titles here…the oldest one is at the top, so feel scared as you read […]

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 […]

TheEye is slightly nervous as to how furious the reaction of the excellent fellow Eye contributor and also individual blogger St Crispin’s Day may be to the announcement today that the Government has sold off our remaining stake in AWE Aldermaston. Don’t tell him or it could all get horribly […]

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, […]

We see today that Russia intends to give 10 MiG-29 fighter jets to Lebanon as a “gift”.No strings attached there, obviously. Mikhail Dmitriyev, the head of Russia’s Federal Military and Technical Cooperation Service, is also quoted as saying Moscow and Beirut are negotiating the sale of armour to Lebanon for […]

TheEye has been promised a Guest Article from the undeniably top bloke who blogs as St Crispin’s Day on this very subject of our new aircraft-carriers so has steered clear of a personal rant on the issue. If this had not been offered then a furious diatribe would have been […]