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Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View PostI imagine the software systems are late because the players are only offering 35 quid an hour (at best) when the people with experience can get 65 - 70 in mainland Europe due to the exchange rate
As well as the usual poor design and management regime of course.
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Originally posted by Menelaus View PostShameful as it is to admit, I'm afraid I agree with you here.
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Originally posted by FSM with Cheddar View PostMenelaus, I agree with a lot of your scrappage.
We are still punching way above our weight.
However, can we keep the RedArrows please?
They are absolutely brilliant, they showcase our country, and my kids love them.
PS: I like 'em too!
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Menelaus, I agree with a lot of your scrappage.
We are still punching way above our weight.
However, can we keep the RedArrows please?
They are absolutely brilliant, they showcase our country, and my kids love them.
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Public sector project management. ALWAYS a complete disaster - national disgrace etc, etc..
Gordon can rellaocate some of the "underspend" from some of his other failed efforts.
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Shameless Repost From Yesterday
I'm going to make myself woefully unpopular with this post, and I think that I'll be alienating my core constituency - but before the rush to condemnation, wait up.
The area of government most ripe for cuts is defence, so here's a fairly radical thought program that we could utilise that would severely slash costs across MoD and at the same time not massively impact on defence capability.
Royal Navy
SSBN / Trident - not replaced. At end of life, missiles and warheads SAFELY decommissioned (creating high skill jobs at AWE Aldermaston and in supporting industries) - saves £5bn (per R Garwin to HoC Select Committee)
HMS Queen Elizabeth / HMS Prince of Wales - not built, saves £3.8bn in 2007 money (per That C*** Browne in HoC).
Albion Class - retained as the core of UK defence support (note: NOT expeditionary warfare) activities.
HMS Ocean mothballed and decommissioned, for likely sale to either another NATO country or to a friendly Navy (note: might also be turned into a quasi-civvie freighter).
Type 22 Broadsword Class (Frigate) - scrapped / sold.
Type 23 Duke Class (Frigate) - reduced from 13 to 8 in line with non-expeditionary warfare objectives. Gunboat diplomacy we're not into any more.
Type 42 (Destroyers) - reduced to two (see frigate note above)
Type 45 Daring Class (Destroyers) - currently two built and launched; reduce number on order to four (thus meaning that the number of destroyers remains six).
Current aircraft carrier(s) - scrapped. Anything that flies from Illustrious class can just as easily fly from an Albion class.
SSN - retained.
Survey vessels - retained; given that they can have an educational use and scientific value, increased.
RFA - scrapped. Anything that needs to be shipped can be shipped by the merchant fleet (or what remains thereof).
Army
Guards division - scrapped, entirely
Household division - scrapped, entirely
Cavalry (tanks) - scrapped, entirely
Parachute regiment - scrapped, entirely
Infantry - to be reduced to the level of roulement battalions, using RRS as an example.
Thus there would be a southern English, northern English, Welsh and Scots regiment and that'd be it. All infantry to be trained to be:
airmobile (e.g., helicopters (see below))
mechanised (e.g., capable of operating from Warrior AFV)
foot (e.g., capable of operating on the ground without support)
Artillery - removal of all but highly mobile pieces. No more heavy RA regiments.
Army Air Corps - expanded to include the Chinook, Merlin and Puma helicopters of RAF and RN (Merlin only). AAC to be core of Joint Helicopter Force currently in operation and to be subject to major investment to prevent any more than 5% of the aircraft to be U/S at any time.
Corps:
Royal Engineers - to cease to be expensive infantry and to be used in humanitarian gigs to rebuild water supplies in places like Lesotho (for example)at the cost of the Lesothan government and to rebuild properties in the armed forces Married Quarters (etC) without the use of expensive civilian builders
RAMC (and AMS) - when not on tour to be used in Headley Court, Selly Oak and the to-be-reopened Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot; to also rotate every three years into a humanitarian gig (see Royal Engineers, above) and to the NHS and working with service charities in outreach support
Royal Signals - to provide comms but in a much reduced form. Give everyone airwave radios and no more battlefield integrated comms - we're no longer into expeditionary warfare, remember?
REME - to be subsumed into Royal Engineers
AGC - all elements of AGC role to be outsourced and AGC to be scrapped.
Royal Marines - whilst currently part of the Royal Navy to become part of Army and be maintained at strength, with the caveat that they all become parachute trained.
RAF
A300M project for AAR = scrapped.
Hercules life to be extended to include AAR
Nimrod to be reduced in number
Fast air to be reduced to Harriers and Tornado only: Typhoon, whilst exciting, is wildly cash inefficient
Tucano to be sold-and-leased back from manufacturers; same with Hawk
Tucano and Hawk to be used for the funded by governments (note: non UK) training of foreign aircrews
Multi-engine training normally used to train Hercules/C17/Nimrod pilots to be expanded to be a semi-commercial training school.
RAF engineering to be performed by Royal Engineers (see Army, above)
SAR to be retained at strength
Staffing
All MoD civilian staff to be sacked: there's nothing being done at Main Building that couldn't be done by a person who dresses in green.
All pensions at MoD (civilian and military) to be cash-purchase rather than final salary.
Major purge of "star" ranks - e.g., the number of generals, admirals and marshalls not in operational commands is astonishing. Scrap them and by "scrap" I don't mean send them to a training school I mean sack.
Ceremonial
Red Arrows - scrapped (individual aircraft from squadrons can display as individuals, team costs too much)
Red Devils - scrapped (obviously, given that the Paras are going)
Differing dress codes in regiments / companies - scrapped (take from Canadian forces where everyone wears the same)
Strategic
1. Out of Afghanistan
2. Out of Iraq (we're down to a few hundred now, I know)
3. Everyone back to the UK
4. Out of NATO
In short UK armed forces become based on the Japanese model of a self-defence force. We don't do expeditionary warfare, but we protect ourselves. No need to do power projection as per the US: we aren't the US, we don't have the money.
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http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/cvf/
I read they will start service with Harriers as these new planes won't be ready:
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/cvf/cvf12.html
P.S. UKIP wants to build a third carrier. To be fair it's probably less of a waste of money than Trident or Iraq/Afghanistan.
They could probably pay for them just stopping aid to third world countries that goes on Mercedes limos and guns.
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I imagine the software systems are late because the players are only offering 35 quid an hour (at best) when the people with experience can get 65 - 70 in mainland Europe due to the exchange rate
As well as the usual poor design and management regime of course.
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Originally posted by Green Mango View PostA lot of IT jobs in the defense will be riding on these ships...
Imminent attack warning please choose defensive strategy.
1. Launch missile
2. Evade
3. Watch bollywood movie and shake head from side to side
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A lot of IT jobs in the defense will be riding on these ships...
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Originally posted by Troll View PostHeard late news that the project was already £1 billion over budget... after only a year!
that's a lot of money
Couldn't we just ask the Yanks to build us a couple of Nimitz class carriers ?
That's peanuts in the overall scheme of things. The UK's debts are currently growing by that amount every two days.
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Do you think they will have a pickled Queen's jobby on the HMS Queen Elizabeth like they did on the QE2?
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