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A CAMM VLS isn't overkill on an enlarged OPV. However, I am concerned on whether or not Tesco can produce combat vessels with sufficient quality and at a build rate that MenHan would be happy with. I would suggest that they partner with a foreign shipbuilder that PAL has not touched yet. Much...

Can't sleep. So I ended up doing this...

They're never going to publicly admit it, officially we're neutral in all of this despite Chinese incursions. But, unofficially, you can likely put 2 and 2 together.

I'm with everyone on this one. The MRTT is just a better choice overall.

It's mostly since the Air Force primarily operates Boeing and US made aircraft. As me and @Gen3115 have said before, the Air Force genuinely prefers American made. The runway study is made for operational range considerations and factors in bases that they can operate out of in case a...

Look at the text, it's an LOI between MinDef and the French. Which means nothing. PAL and Naval Group signed one a couple of years ago for the Scorpene and Gowind, and still nothing to this day...

It's essentially MinDef with Airbus and Saab vs. the Air Force with Boeing.

Ditto, but if Airbus offers their new A320neo M3 aircraft, they would have an edge over Boeing since both the MPA and AWACS variants uses the same airframe, along with a SIGINT variant that Boeing currently does not have a counter for. Whereas the E-7 and the P-8 uses the 37-700 ad the 37-900...

Air force is used to using Boeing, hence why they want the Pegasus. But tbh unless they want to wait another 2 years for the issues to be fixed they're pretty much forced to take the MRTT. It's a better aircraft anyways.

Yep, if the navy DOES end up being forced to take it, then it would likely be the Augsberg or the Niedersachsen since they are the two most recent retirees.

4-7? I'm guessing he doesn't know that 3 was already sold for scrap. Köln was sold for scrapping in 2015 after retirement in 2012. Rheinland-Pfalz was sold for scrapping in 2017 after retirement in 2013. Bremen was sold off in June this year. Lübeck is still in service with the Bundesmarine. So...

Something something electoral college something something checks and balances something something majority rule minority rights something something

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Contrary to popular belief, for the most part it is usually the individual branches that sends out the LOR's and RFI's.

I mean if history has given us a benchmark, the Americans interned their entire Japanese population in World War 2. So who knows?

So you're saying that Prabowo should only spend OUR tax money on the basis of whether or not these countries cater to his ego, and not because he has an OBLIGATION to effectively manage the development of our armed forces on the basis of cost, commonality, networked infrastructure, and relevance...

Actually, I think the "diversification" faction has pretty much settled on the fact that the Su-35 is done. If anything I am willing to bet that they moved on towards the Rafale, since the French aren't exactly clean about their antics here.

There's background chatter about the F-15, and honestly we should take it. It will streamline our operational budget. As much as I like the F-35, the TNI AU is simply not ready to operate something of that magnitude. We don't have AWACS aircraft, we only have 1 tanker, our GCI radar network...

Going back to what Dr. Conie Bakrie said in that interview, I think she was par for the course on this one. Prabowo is letting his own bias and personal politics get in the way of end user interests. Not because he is getting bribed, but rather out of his own spite. That's just very...

Of course they do, keep in mind this whole Bremen issue is more of a political decision rather than a military one. MinDef is behind on the MEF III requirements since most of the things that were bought had been for the Army (I wonder why...) leaving the Air Force and Navy still needing new...