MOD £160 billion plan to equip Armed Forces

[Swanny]

Aren't they in the process of laying off soldiers???? :-?


The equipment plan includes the following major investments in state-of-the-art military capabilities and their support over the next ten years:


• £35.8 billion on submarines and the nuclear deterrent, including a total of 7 Astute Class attack submarines, and developing a replacement for Vanguard Class ballistic missile submarines;
• £18.5 billion on combat air power, including Lightning II and Typhoon fast jets and unmanned aerial vehicles;
• £17.4 billion on ships, including Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, 6 new Type 45 destroyers and the development of the Type 26 Global Combat Ship;
• £13.9 billion on aircraft for air-to-air refuelling, passengers and heavy lift, such as Voyager and A400M;
• £12.3 billion on armoured fighting vehicles, including Warrior, Scout and other land equipment;
• £12.1 billion on helicopters, including Chinook, Apache, Puma and Wildcat;
• £11.4 billion on weapons, including, for example, missiles, torpedoes and precision guided bombs.


Where exactly are they going to get this money???

Maybe the MOD has been given it's own printing press :D


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mod-reveals-160-billion-plan-to-equip-armed-forces

[redken1]

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. ~Louis Lecoin

Yet we still refuse to accept the lessons of history :'( :'( :'(

[Conehead]

A new tax will probably be invented so that we can pay for all of this.

[Swanny]

Yep here you go
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/new-poll-tax-blow-for-uks-poorest-8473963.html

:)

[Conehead]

And it starts........

[Senna(Dan)]

The aircraft they are replacing are very ageing kit, anybody remember Pan Am when they were actually flying?
1960s aircraft still being used today.

The contractors building these aircraft have got it well screwed in because if we pull out it will cost the UK more than the actual contract is worth. Scary but true, this is why they binned off the Nimrods and Harriers because the refurb programme was cheaper to bin out of.

[Dex]

The funny thing is that a load of things on the list have been promised for the last ten years and never delivered. So a lot of it is just delivering the overdue kit, not "new" ideas.

[Swanny]

If we stopped interfering in other countries we wouldn't need any of it :)
Our troops could stand at the gates and stop more immigrants coming in

[Col]

Lunacy.....someone left the 'spesshuul' room door unlocked again :-?
Who's getting backhanders for this :-?

Ain't the MOD just ordered 20000 :o [why that many?] pistols to replace some errrr perfectly adequate pistols and paid 10% more than getting them over the counter ..

nicked 'Last July, the MoD announced it was looking for candidates with “heavyweight procurement experience and a proven track record of managing multi-billion complex spend and major suppliers” to fill a number of new senior positions'

oh dear !! seems they been shopping have they?

...as has been pointed out by Senna those charged with 'getting stuff' are lousy at the job and cost us a fortune :'( :'(

...maybe the new head bananas are better but I wouldn't hold out much hope :P

[Senna(Dan)]

Col the head bananas haven't got a clue.

Take for instance a recent occurrence regarding printer cartridges, anybody with any sense would be compatible cartridges at half the price of genuine ones.

Nope the MOD pay full whack and a bit more for genuine cartridges.

[Swanny]

Ain't the MOD just ordered 20000 :o [why that many?] pistols to replace some errrr perfectly adequate pistols and paid 10% more than getting them over the counter ..



I was talking to a couple of squadies today about that, they reckon the new pistols being bought are rubbish.

[Jon_W]

Can someone plese give timescales or this spend???

[Swanny]

From the link above

The Ministry of Defence has today published details of how it will equip the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force over the next 10 years and how this will be funded.