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https://twitter.com/Destroye83/status/2006102927723618333Sloops carried out day-to-day flag waving and policing duties from all of the major colonial ports, and from 1916 had been built with a secondary capability for use as convoy escorts. This included the fitting of depth charge racks and the earliest form of sonar - ASDIC.
This means building low-cost, attritibel uncrewed systems to the current technology levels, rather than high-risk bleeding edge capabilities. So using proven remote control and AI autonomy on fast-build platforms for escort, ISR, picket dury/outer layers and magazine depth.
Large numbers of Thompson SMGs were ordered from the United States in 1939, but supply could never meet demand, especially after the US entered the war in 1941. The Thompson was also expensive to produce and relatively complex.
Formed in July 1943, command passed to Arthur Coningham in January 1944, the New Zelander who had led the Desert Air Force from 1941-43 and pioneered the use of forward air control, 'cab ranks' and the rapid construction of forward air strips behind advancing ground forces.
UKrspecsystems manufactures the PD-2, Shark and mini-Shark ISR UAVs. Shark is likely to be built in the UK for both Ukriane and the British armed forces.
... more slippery than the Bf 109, the Spitfire or the FW 190.
At its heart is the repudiation of the Christian idea of the universal human condition which underpinned European enlightenment culture. So in a strange way it looked back to pagan myth but in the service of a building a new world, one which rejected the 'brotherhood of man'.
The modern Mark XII and XIV 18" air launched torpedo were entering service to replace the fragile Mark XI (most of which were repurposed for use by MTBs), but the armour piercing bomb dated from the 1920s had a tiny explosive charge and couldn't be carried by Skua dive bombers.
The M4 was initially designed to be built by locomotive manufacturers using a fully cast hull and turret. Casting saved time and required fewer skilled employees to build than welded fabrication. The baseline M4 was powered by a modified Wright Whirlwind 1920s aeroengine.
When the Mosquito entered service it was very fast at 380mph at altitude, but soon pilots found that the new Bf 109G and Fw 190A fighters could catch them.
The key moment was the appointment of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1747-51, 1763 and 1771-83. He oversaw a series of far reaching naval reforms and also invented fast food, both of which came to define the Anglo-Saxon world.
Mail was carried in the port droptank and in the fuselage aft of the pilot. Guns were retained but no ammo was carried to reduce weight. By this time Hurricane production was ending, but they were still used by training units.
The Churchill has its origins in hastily dusted off plans to send a new BEF to France after the Munich crisis in 1938.
Both BRAKESTOP and NIGHTFALL are sovereign developed, ITAR-free and domestically produced capabilities, like FC/ASW, but unlike the Anglo-French-Italian MBDA missile programme and to be low cost and rapidly developed for fielding before 2030.
https://twitter.com/BiancoDavinci/status/1959026633060331987The castle served as an impregable command post, observation post, supply dump and garrison for a highly trained raiding force of mobile (mounted) warriors. These became 'knights'. The Normans, of Viking descent, used them to wrest control of territory in northern France.
All were active, and the 1970s ships considerably larger at 4,000 to 4,500 tons). Three VSTOL carriers were built in the '70s and early '80s and a total of 56 SHAR aquired, enabling a more limited carrier strike capability to be regenerated.
On the 'The Wargame' Sky podcast, Gen. Sir Richard Barrons, one of the SDR architects, said an 'Iron Dome' for the UK would cost £24 billion and is thus unaffordable.
https://twitter.com/Destroye83/status/1939606168428503327The first 300 series squadrons were formed in July 1940 with experienced Polish refugee aircrews.