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@FennellJW "@duncanjthomas @hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @Nichola69649408 I don't think a decision has been made but guessing it will be a variant of Thales RAPIDRanger / RAPIDFire Or Skyranger"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 17:21:36 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"120mm NEMO possibly both Ares and Boxer or maybe Patria CAVS. NEMO can proivide both mortar and direct fire. Platoon dismounts will be three infantry sections each of a fireteam ATGW team & systems operator combat pioneer section signals/EW/drone section HQ section"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-21 23:42:45 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"Likely both Ares and Boxer variants - i.e. a Boxer IFV/Arm Cav module with X crew and 40mm CTA (like Ajax) and a Boxer APC fitted with RS6 and M230. Both Ajax and Arm Cav Boxer will have ATGW under armour and Ares and Boxer APCs with RS6 30mm will carry a Javelin team"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-21 23:33:27 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"32 Sqadron's venerable Royal Flight Wessex HCC4s were retired without replacement in 1998. The Royal Family purchased a single S-76C on the commercial register for use by the Royal household which was operated from RAF Odiham"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-15 11:24:34 UTC 3704 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 Add to that XX Boxer MCV with NEMO (28 on order XX new) and new build X repair X recovery and X bridgelayers and that is it for batch X Boxer order"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 15:36:24 UTC 3707 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Nichola69649408 Where will medium range drones/LMs like HX-2 or long range drones fit in - and of course infantry will need small drones FPVs etc. Light could do with some UGVs for fire support engineering ISR"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 22:52:32 UTC 3702 followers, XXX engagements

"@Chris7804813581 @hanlo43790 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 But for a Boxer BCT surely better to have a Boxer with KNDS CTA40 turret (same as Serval/Jackal) with UK specific sensors on the cupola"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 14:35:19 UTC 3709 followers, XXX engagements

"A good example of this is the recent agreement reached with Associated British Ports to enable military use of civillian ports and ferry services for rapid deployment of the strategic reserve. However we could go much further"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 06:47:54 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@inversefox If you were going to be radical (as a thought experiment) the county regiments would be more suitable for conversion to largely reservist home defence units (with the mix skills needed from cyber to protection to CNI CBRN CIMIC) - strong localisation and link to local gov"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-20 16:56:43 UTC 3705 followers, XX engagements

"@FoxTwo2022 @Rotorfocus @Dassault_OnAir Spinning in his grave. Although its also a testimony to how Germany is now the most moral nation in the world - so somehow a success"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 19:01:49 UTC 3704 followers, XX engagements

"A CTA 40mm turret for Boxer has been designed"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 21:07:34 UTC 3703 followers, XXX engagements

"After a short stint at the backwater of Training Command (which he revolutionised) Park would be sent to Malta just in time to work his miracles again during the air defence of the strategic island in 1941-3. Churchill insisted he remain C/O in Malta to the invasion of Sicily"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 08:35:09 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 I flew in one to Libya RAF freaked out about airstrip security and we had to turn back. Ended up being a day late for the mission"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 13:00:48 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"Lightening the logistics load can be done in X ways: X reducing consumption; X maximising use of local/civillian logistics infrastructure and supplies; X prepostioning supply to forward postitions both strategically and tactically; X standardisation (equipment and supply)"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 05:40:57 UTC 3711 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 There were Luftwaffe Transalls too and they also allowed us to back up on the ramp"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 14:11:04 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@thinkdefence Given current potential and actual committments we need to generate two divisions from 70-80k army by 2035 which cannot be beyond the wit of man on a (albeit gradually) rising budget. Heavy mech (tracks) for strategic reserve /JEF Light mech (wheels) for Ukraine/expeditionary"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 06:13:55 UTC 3707 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 The plan in1998 was for X C-17 XX A400 and XX C-130J as a balanced fleet. so much for that"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 12:53:57 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Nichola69649408 If a wheeled mech bde is one bn on boxer one on LMP and one light 'urban phalanx' then arm cav can can be one/two sqns Boxer and one/two on Jackal/Coyote"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 05:41:56 UTC 3703 followers, XXX engagements

"Stockpiles always have higher levels of wastage than just-in-time systems yet they offer trade-offs in assymetric systems like military operations which might move from supproting a low intensity small deployment to a large high intensity operation in a matter of hours or days"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 07:45:04 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@_tomlucas @Gabriel64869839 It depdends on the mix of vehicles. If we go for X vehicle platoons with X IFVs with CTA40 we can integrate either the Ajax turret or the KNDS CTA40 turret used by France. The other five vehicles can have RS6 with 30mm M230 + XXXX (and current Ares can be so-upgraded"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 09:38:14 UTC 3707 followers, XX engagements

"@Szlater2 You said repeal all legislation that impinges on free speech"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 16:25:43 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv As another aside one of the heroes of the Battle of Britain the South African pilot Adolf 'Sailor' Malan became an advocate for black and African pilots and after the war would play a major role in the anti-aparteid movement in his native land"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 08:04:34 UTC 3704 followers, XX engagements

"10 Group defended the south coast Salisbury Plain Southampton Bristol and South Wales. Its sector airfields were at Tangmere Middle Wallop Filton and Exeter. Exeter kept one squadron of Gladiators as the airstrip at Plymouth Roborough was too short for modern fighters"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 07:48:43 UTC 3705 followers, XXX engagements

"During the Austerlitz campaign his Grand Armee moved faster and outmanoevred the allies by substituting 'living off the land' for reliance off slow supply trains. Dragoons were trained a foragers to find and buy or requistion local sources of supply along the march route"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 04:55:52 UTC 3711 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 We averted a famine 'though but the American intervention a few months later decended into a war. We did not have any delusional ideas about nation building in those days only what my Austrlaian team called 'The Three Fs': find the fuckers feed the fuckers and fuck off"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 14:46:17 UTC 3713 followers, XX engagements

"@ValkStrategy The act only requires the content publishers and providers to prevent illegal content appearing on their sites. Its up the publishers how they enforce the act. I you are unhappy with how they are doing that you can complain to them"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 17:58:46 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@mattykuk @Mr_Andrew_Fox I'm drawing comparisons about the comments I see about been cold and hard realists about war crimes. I've seen Mladic be cold andhard about the realities of war and in Rwanda and Kosovo too. As soon as we lose our moral compass we have also lost the war"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 21:12:50 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"The beating heart of the system was the Chain Home radar but that deserves another thread - and a conversation ith @MtarfaL. Often dismissed as a dead-end technologically compared to future radar designs this crude but 'good enough' system saved Britain in 1940"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 07:17:12 UTC 3706 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 Its a good point. CAVS only made sense if X Div was on Boxer as it would have made 7X much more capable. If 7X is on Boxer it makes much less sense"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 10:43:07 UTC 3707 followers, XXX engagements

"A balance between the two provides for a just-in-time system for ongoing peacetime committments and sufficient stockpiles to ramp up to high intensity warfare and sustain it until industrial capacity and an expanded logistics system is meeting ongoing demand"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 08:08:05 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@inversefox Its worth looking at how traditions were created - Rifles to - err - fight diferently with rifles - Light Cavalry Lancers RTR Paras Commandos etc. were all created to fight differently. Totally in line with tradition to create new types of regiments to fight differently"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-20 16:47:33 UTC 3705 followers, XX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 Foxhound can be fitted with RS3 or Rapid Ranger to make it more capable Jackal can mount the 120mm ST mortar Babcock are making in the UK. LMs make sense if they have 120mm"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 10:53:19 UTC 3704 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv As an aside the system was also adopted by the Royal Navy and the new Illustrious class carriers given radar and a fighter control room. This proved itself over Crete and during the Malta convoys and was copied by the USN in 1943"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 07:01:18 UTC 3705 followers, XX engagements

"The quietest sector in XX Group was the SW and newly formed Canadian and Polish sqadrons were based at Northolt for training - as anyone who has seen the movie the Battle of Britain knows these were quickly made operational and performed wonders during the battle"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 07:07:07 UTC 3704 followers, XXX engagements

"Conversely the northern sector at Duxford had only a short hop to fulfill its role as the 'wicket keeper' defending Central London from any bombers that got through the first line of defence"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 07:36:39 UTC 3704 followers, XXX engagements

"@hardlianotion Still need trucks for rear echelon but sending truck convoys into the battlespace is close to suicidal these days"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 10:04:39 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 That will deliver X Ares and X Boxer Bns on X vehicle platoons and X Ajax and X Boxer Arm Cav Regts. to current ORBAT with XX vehicles each. RCH155 for X Div and 1Div M270 for X Div and HIMARS for X Div. SHORAD could be Rapid Ranger with 30mm and HVM/LMM on Boxer or LMP"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 15:46:21 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"Relentless lobbying from RAF for more F-35A in the DIP. tiresome inter-service crap. This really must end"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 12:58:40 UTC 3713 followers, 5341 engagements

"@duncanjthomas @patricklittle19 @Gabriel64869839 No its based on the identified requirement to have combined arms at the doctrine at the lowest possible level and specialist capability in the platoon including direct and indirect fires ISR/drones pioneers. CSS. Enables dispersal & long range weapons can concentrate fire"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-23 17:50:33 UTC 3705 followers, XX engagements

"@Nichola69649408 @Gunbust09696378 @Keir_Starmer Agreed also the demonisation of a segment of the population will inevitably lead to moral failures you only need look at the excesses of the ICE deportation programme or by Netanyahu in Gaza to see where this leads and we will all be shamefaced if we let it happen on our soil"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 16:36:06 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"And the defended depot supply system provides a means for a small force to sominate and control an frontage which would require a much larger one using a traditonal deployment. We can learn from our experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq on establishing and holding these CoGs"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 19:11:03 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 Yes its the modern Ferret. Very useful. They also showed a 'double cab pickup' (for want of a better term) utility variant recently. Good for light CSS and maybe platoon commanders"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 16:03:00 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"Each of the four Groups (10 in Southwest XX in Southeast XX in Midlands and XX in North and Scotland) was divided into sectors and each sector had three sqns at a primary airfield (which handled maintenance) and several dispersal airfields for forward deployment"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 06:40:55 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@patricklittle19 @Gabriel64869839 NEMO can also provide direct fire so its a wasted capbility if its held back in second echelon role"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-23 16:25:35 UTC 3703 followers, XXX engagements

"@golfsalot2 @Tonkafanxv @thinkdefence Another likely threat is an amphibious assauilt on Svalbard and even Iceland or Faroes/Shetland. Countering surface ships remains a naval priority"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-12 09:07:23 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"James is telling me that ideally RCH155 for both X and X Divs with HIMARS or EuroPULS for GMLRS PrSM and MBDA's Land Precision Strike missile for X Div M270 for X Div"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 21:38:50 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"This enabled the Group Commander (Keith Park for XX Group in London and the SE) to see the air picture at a glance and make command decisions to reinforce sectors if very large raids developed in one sector. Dowding could also reinforce XX Group from XX and XX Groups if needed"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 06:37:23 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@FoxTwo2022 @Rotorfocus @Dassault_OnAir Yes agreed"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 18:17:59 UTC 3704 followers, XX engagements

"Each 'sector' had a fighter control team linked to the radar chain by telephones from a filter room (which filtered out plots which were unrelated to the sector) and controlled interceptions by the three sqns in the sector by radio. It was very advanced for the time"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 06:26:20 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@patricklittle19 ORBAT will need; 1./ 135+ Ares APC w/ RS6 M230 30mm option for dozer blade 3+ X. 2./110+ Ares IFV w/ CTA 40mm ATGM 3+7. 3./ XX NEMO 120mm vehicles. 4./ 70+ Boxer IFV w/ CTA 40mm ATGM 3+7. 5./ 80+ Boxer APC w/ RS6 M230 30mm"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 08:47:17 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@basher12150 @TBrit90 It's illegal to sell or distribute porn to anyone under XX. Since 2017 porn sites have had to implement age verification"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 22:00:44 UTC 3713 followers, XX engagements

"Rheinmetall and Lockheed Martin have developed GMARS - a MAN HX derivative of HIMARS"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 21:41:28 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Nichola69649408 SHORAD is interesting - Skyranger seems great but eyewateringly explensive if we get it only a few and perhaps the bulk made up by Rapid Ranger on LMP or maybe the Moog RWS with 30mm and HVM"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 08:50:11 UTC 3704 followers, XX engagements

"@mickeyhynes @GarethJennings3 Carriers are never a roaring success until you need them. In 1939 we only had enough aircraft for X out of five carriers - the same aircraft that went on to sink the Italian fleet at Taranto. damage the Bismarck cover the evacuation from Crete and keep Malta in the fight"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 05:50:47 UTC 3702 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv There were also significant volunteer contingents of Carribean Indian and Malay aircrews in RAF squadrons. The RAF dropped its unconcionable colour bar in 1939 to allow Carribean pilots into the service"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 08:02:04 UTC 3704 followers, XX engagements

"@RickJames147288 KNDS has a turret for Boxer and Ajax turret can be used for Areas"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 11:15:34 UTC 3705 followers, XXX engagements

"@gregbagwell @olibatt @JonA2i It also finds issues that can be fixed before we need to deploy in earnest. In 1936 we deployed carriers to the Indian Ocean during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia and deisovered we needed more maintenance and replenishment which was put in place in time for the war"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 13:44:28 UTC 3708 followers, XX engagements

"Much can be done to reduce consumption by: - impoving fuel efficiency and use of renewable energy sources; - enhancing equipment recovery and repair systems; - using 3D printing water purification systems etc. to generate supply in theatre; - minimising packaging"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 05:58:29 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"Hunter-killer teams of 'knights' mounted on Challenger and Ajax and supported by armoured infantry can sally forth to destroy the remants of incursions after they have been found fixed and decimated by long range fires resupplied from the firebase by drone or helicopter"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 19:20:55 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"DoD buys equipment solely for these sustainment stockpilesa luxury probably not affordable by the UK but something we should now consider when ordering new equipment - historically the UK ordered more than needed to withstand predicted levels of attrition"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 08:31:05 UTC 3711 followers, XXX engagements

"@Mallard143 @Tobias_Smythe Dismantling of Swiftsure is planned to be completed next year in Rosyth dydock. I'm not sure how they get them there but its not beyond the wit of man either by barge or under tow"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 09:55:22 UTC 3708 followers, XXX engagements

"Is the hull mounted ASW sonar obsolete Both the USN Constellation class and the RN's Type XX class frigates are being completed without a hull mounted ASW search sonar. Recognition that the ranges at which ASW takes place are too long for hull mounted active sonar"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-10 08:51:25 UTC 3704 followers, 40.1K engagements

"Duxford would become notorious for its 'big wing' championed by the Group's c/o Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Douglas Bader and the controversy that generated among post war historians. Dowding and Park were summarily dumped after the battle due to this clash of ideas"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 08:31:38 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@Mallard143 @Tobias_Smythe Defuelling only at XX dock. Dismantling takes place at Rosyth"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 09:51:38 UTC 3706 followers, XX engagements

"@_tomlucas @RickJames147288 We also need for 3Div: - XXX new Ares IFV with Ajax CTA XX turret XXXX + X ATGW. - 138+ new Ares with RS6 M230 30mm + XXXX. - Fit on order Athena/Ares with RS6 M230 30mm +7.62"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 13:52:07 UTC 3708 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 To give 12X and 20X all tracks also need new buy of: - XXX Ares IFV with CTA40 XXXX and X ATGW under armour. - XXX Ares ICV with RS6 M230 30mm RWS. - Fit RS6 M230 30mm RWS to current Athena C2 and Ares or order or delivered"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 15:41:42 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"From September 1940 'Z' batteries were introduced with a new anti-aircraft rocket system. Although not particularly accurate they were cheap to produce and easy to operate and fired ripples of XX 3" rockets which were often enough to divert a bomber stream"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 06:53:46 UTC 3711 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 I remember the RNZAF C-130 crews laughing at the preciousness of the RAF over their C-130s in Somlalia during the airbridge. The Kiwis let us drive our trucks onto the ramp to load but RAF insisted we took it out by hand and then loaded it onto the truck . Took twice as long"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 13:35:35 UTC 3711 followers, XX engagements

"12 Group had the enormous task of forming a reserve for XX Group in East Anglia as well as defending the industrial Midlands North Wales Northern Ireland and Bomber Command's airfields. Sectors were headquartered at Duxford Wittering Coltishall Digby and Church Fenton"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 10:11:03 UTC 3707 followers, XXX engagements

"Maximising use of local and civillian resources is the modern version of Napoleon's strategy. Europe has dense and highly efficient logistics infrastructure which should be capitalised as far as possible to speed deployment and augment force sustainment"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 06:41:08 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 Existing Boxer ICVs can be given RS6 with a 30mm M230 + XXXX and dismounts carry ATGWs under armour. New build IFVs can have the Nexter turret as can new build Arm Cav variant if we go that way to ensure a Boxer Bde has more than Jackal/Coyote. That is XXX new turreted modules"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 15:32:06 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"And the new agreement with commercial ports and ferries will enable rapid sealift to"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-23 05:57:28 UTC 3702 followers, XXX engagements

"@Nichola69649408 @Gunbust09696378 @Keir_Starmer I have no doubt there are serious issues with some migrants and they need to be taken seriously but there are serious issues arounf sexual and gender-based violence across society too and if we let that narrative fester it will result in arbitrary violence against innocents"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 16:39:46 UTC 3703 followers, XX engagements

"To move and sustain a strategic reserve corps anywhere from Norway to Poland even to Ukraine if there is a security force deployed after a ceasefire the British Army will need a flexible and fleet footed logistics model"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 05:24:47 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"Its this CEAFAR or JORN I think we are looking at JORN to partner with Canada and Australia"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 12:03:26 UTC 3710 followers, 1446 engagements

"@mattykuk @Mr_Andrew_Fox The Western allies did all they could to prevent starvation - Operation Manna. It cannot be justified as an act of war I'm afraid unless you want to rip up the Geneva Conventions"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 18:53:24 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 Priotitisation an delegation of command decisions to achieve the mission I'd call it"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 14:14:04 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv The auxillary air force (600 series) squadrons tended to be full of public school boys as they could afford to fly pre-war but most regular squadrons had plenty of Grammar School boys. Both of my father's brothers were Grammar School and pilots with XX squadron in the war"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 08:20:17 UTC 3704 followers, XX engagements

"@RickJames147288 CTA is more effective than M230 in the counter armour role and the turret is protected and can mount the Ajax sensor suite making the vehicle much more capable. Having only two per platoon reduces the number to an affordable buy and X with RS6 with M230 30mm makes up numbers"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 11:14:06 UTC 3707 followers, XXX engagements

"Kongsberg RS6 M230 30mm RWS - for Ares Athena and Boxer APC/Specialist Vehicle and C2 variants"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 21:23:55 UTC 3702 followers, XXX engagements

"@golfsalot2 Why haven't RAF sent them there they've had four years since CSG21 so its not as if RAF haven't had time to play with F-35 too"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 19:01:37 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@basher12150 @TBrit90 One is facial age estimation froma selfie which requires no persomal data the others are a credit card or bank check and the last uploading a photo ID"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 22:46:37 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@Notablogger16 @TerraOrBust We have a woefully large and growing informal gig economy which amounts to XXX million this is providing work at well below the minimum wage and acts as a pull factor. Our lack of productivity in some sectors (retail hospitality) creates demand for cheap unskilled labour"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 13:34:26 UTC 3707 followers, XX engagements

"Forward basing strategic stockpiles in Norway and Germany maybe the way to ensure both rapid deployment and sustainment. Beyond strategic stockpiles operational and tactical logisitics can benefit from the use of supply dumps if we can overcome the drone threat"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 08:39:50 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@McmeekinIan @hanlo43790 @duncanjthomas @Chris7804813581 @Nichola69649408 No Rapid Ranger does not need to be on VAMTAC and it will be on a UK vehicle. The system is made in Belfast"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 18:49:26 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"North Weald also formed a new sector defending North East London and the Suffolk coast"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 08:16:52 UTC 3705 followers, XXX engagements

"@patricklittle19 @Gabriel64869839 A beefier platoon will need more experienced platoon commanders - as its essentially a mini Battle Group capable of independent operations"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-23 16:24:11 UTC 3703 followers, XXX engagements

"@simonrb75 @Mr_Andrew_Fox I have faith in the ICRC having worked alongside them throughout the world and while they don't shout from the rooftops like NGOs as a legally mandated inter-governmental guardian of the Geneva Conventions they are alarmed"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 09:42:11 UTC 3713 followers, XX engagements

"Drones are going to be at platoon level as LMs and for ISR but a specialist drone platoon at battalion level makes sense for FPV 'pilots'"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 10:45:22 UTC 3707 followers, 1151 engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 That's BS. Blair was in charge and Brown knew it and resented it"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 12:30:11 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 4X to be light infantry but with 120mm on Jackal/Coyote (also for 16X). With organic 120mm mortar both 4X and 16X could forego light artillery for a very high allocation of medium range loitering munitions"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 15:49:47 UTC 3709 followers, XX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @enviro1993 @pegge49 X years to complete a dock rebuild is ok. Its the years of cuts and HMT forced delays before that to blame"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 10:55:00 UTC 3707 followers, XX engagements

"@Chris7804813581 @hanlo43790 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 Need to take into account sustainment training and equipment harmonisation. Boxer with CTA XX turret and Ajax sensor suite would be easier to train/sustain than a completely new type"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 12:08:42 UTC 3707 followers, XX engagements

"@gregbagwell @olibatt @JonA2i Also CSG25 has other intangible objectives not least of them an assurance to Australia in these wobbly times hence signing the XX year AUKUS pact today the trade deal with India yeaterday. Being part of that and exercising with the pacific and Indian ocean powers is useful"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 13:42:11 UTC 3708 followers, XXX engagements

"Building blocks. The Army is going for an eight vehicle combined arms platoon as the building block for battlegroups. X w/ 40mm CTA and ATGW X w/ 30mm RS6 RWS fireteam and and ATGW dismount X w/ NEMO 120mm X w/ Combat Pioneers & dozer X w/ long range comms/drones"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-21 19:47:38 UTC 3710 followers, 9216 engagements

"The largest sector was East of London at Hornchurch covering Essex and the Thames Estuary. It was the only one exclusively equipped with Spitfires as their higher crusing speed was thought to be more useful for ensuring long range interceptions over the North Sea"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 07:33:18 UTC 3704 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Nichola69649408 Is it envisaged as two brigade divisions + DRS bde or three"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-23 12:06:08 UTC 3704 followers, XXX engagements

"@McmeekinIan @hanlo43790 @duncanjthomas @Chris7804813581 @Nichola69649408 Its only on Vamtac as Malaysia selected that vehicle as launch customer"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 18:51:17 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"@patricklittle19 I've heard it from several sources both inside and out - but only recently in detail. Its been coming for some time (and trialled with warrior) which is why LMP and Boxer follow-on orders have been held back and the NATO 'externally driven' XXX% means Army can plan properly"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-21 23:22:55 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 Yes please"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 16:00:36 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 I'm was scarce asset - as scarce as you can be that day which was supposed to be the first international mission into Libya if it had not been delayed due to RAF preciousness"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 13:06:40 UTC 3711 followers, XX engagements

"* each with. Artillery with be RCH155 and M270 for X Div with 'deep recce strike' Arm Cav sqns. Outstanding issue is artillery for X Div - towed truck XXX XXX X div will also need HIMARS or EuroPULS"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 00:14:53 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@FoxTwo2022 @Rotorfocus @Dassault_OnAir And good spinoffs Rolls Royce invested heavily in Germany and I'm sure that all began with Tornado"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 18:21:15 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"Elbit and KNDS offer EuroPULS whic has been selected by Germany and the Netherlands. Both vehicles can launch standard GMLRS PrSM rounds and are compatible with M270"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 21:43:28 UTC 3702 followers, XXX engagements

"@Mallard143 @Tobias_Smythe There is more space at Devonport to store them so I guess they will only be moved when they are slated to go into the dismantling drydock. Longer term Babcock is looking at converting the Frigate Refit Facility for SSN dismantling once T23 goes out of service"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 09:58:08 UTC 3705 followers, XX engagements

"@JonA2i Sort of right - Red Arrows got the offical lable as the RAF's display team and all the foreign tours. Pelicans were more of a part time hobby for instructors at CFS"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 13:29:11 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"In these cases the depot becomes a strongly defended citadel around which a formation can manouvre with its own A2AD long range fires and perimeter defences. The depot is the centre of a zone of control which can be expanded by linking multiple depots"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 18:37:36 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@duncanjthomas @hanlo43790 @Nichola69649408 If 12X and 20X are on tracks and 7X on Boxer then 4X and 16X can keep Jackal/Coyote air mobile light infantry LMP can be pivoted towards more Boxer and fewer MRAPs"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 09:44:44 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@Nichola69649408 @hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas 7X to have X mech infantry battalions on Boxer and X cavalry regt. (possibly also on Boxer). 20X and 12X to have X mech infantry battalions each on Ares a Challenger X armoured Rgt. and an arm cav Regt. each on Ajax. So X Ares Bns X Boxer Bns X Challenger Rgts and X Cav"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 07:44:01 UTC 3712 followers, XXX engagements

"@Charley13Smith @mattykuk @Mr_Andrew_Fox There we disagree. Winning the war and winning the peace are both required. Hamas was finished four months ago the 'war' (counter-terrorism operation now) is decending into moral depravity which will damage Israel for a generation"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 08:07:30 UTC 3711 followers, XX engagements

"In 1953 twenty pre-production F1 Hunters were produced incorporating area ruling on the fuselage and blown flaps followed by XX production F1s with Avon Mk 113s and XX F2s with Sapphire engines (the latter as an insurance policy against failure of the 7500lb Mk 113)"
@FennellJW on X 2025-04-14 08:45:16 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@Chris7804813581 @hanlo43790 @duncanjthomas @Nichola69649408 Would be the KNDS/Nexter CTA XX turret with Ajax sensors (as used on the French Jaguar arm cav vehicle. It has already been tested on a Boxer"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 13:56:48 UTC 3708 followers, XX engagements

"30mm RS6 M230 with XXXX will provide C-UAS alongside 40mm CTA"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-21 23:45:08 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"@_tomlucas @RickJames147288 - XXX more Boxer with RTS CTA XX turret + X ATGW - Fit ordered XX Recce/FSV Boxer with same turret - Add RS6 30mm RWS to XXX Boxer ICV now on order - Add XX more MCV variants to XX on order - all with NEMO - Need XX more Boxer of we want them for Arm Cav. XXX new build"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 13:47:04 UTC 3708 followers, XX engagements

"@simonrb75 @Mr_Andrew_Fox Hamas should but they are a proscribed terrorist organisation not a democratic nation which upholds rule of law"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 09:34:54 UTC 3702 followers, XX engagements

"@clark_aviation Do you know which nations got them afterwards The RAF F-86s mostly went to Italy and Yugoslavia I think"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 11:16:59 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@Nichola69649408 @hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas X DRS BCT to have X arm cav regt on Ajax X regts on M270 X Regts on RCH155 and X regt. () with long range drones. X Div to also have DRS BCT with X lt cav regt. X regt. RCH155 and X regt. HIMARS or equivalent X regt long range drones. DRS also to have long range ISR drone"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 07:51:54 UTC 3712 followers, XX engagements

"@FTusa284 I'm very pro-maritime strategy but we do need a small Tier X Army capaable of fighting and be projected by the RN - as the saying goes. This enables us to take leadership in NATO"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 11:25:16 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@Mallard143 @Tonkafanxv @enviro1993 @pegge49 This is an old and very boring argument for a nation which commands the approaches to Europe through the North Atlantic and has been disproved many times over (Falklands War Gulf War Bosnia Libya anyone). Why are France and Italy Japan and Turkey building carriers"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 11:21:34 UTC 3711 followers, XX engagements

"@Nichola69649408 @hanlo43790 @Chris7804813581 @duncanjthomas 4x to remain light infrantry"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 07:44:26 UTC 3711 followers, XX engagements

"The US have traditionally prepositioned stockpiles of equipment fuel and supplies in Europe and NATO Alliance members have become reliant on the US to meet wartime needs. This is no longer a given and the Army's strategic reserve corps will need to be self-sufficient"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 08:16:51 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"Lets talk supply dumps. One way to lighten the load for the UK's strategic reserve is to preposition supply in forward depots. The desert war of WW2 brought this model to a fine art and modern special forces were first created to find them (LRDG) and destroy them (SAS)"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 04:40:01 UTC 3713 followers, 9073 engagements

"@BO3673 THey are challenging the Online Safety Act in court 'the legal challenge focuses solely on the new Categorization Regulations that risk imposing Category X duties (the OSAs most stringent obligations) on Wikipedia. Wiki is looking for an exemption"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 16:01:40 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@Szlater2 As with all laws many will try to get around them - its not a panacea its a disincentive. And parents with have more control over use of VPNs which need to be paid for every month. As an aside I am using a VPN but only so I can watch the BBC while on holiday in France"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 16:43:45 UTC 3711 followers, XX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 In those days we saw aid as simply an emergency measure not tying to make itto some sort of polical tool to create peace and harmony. Just help some sods to live another day"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 14:48:50 UTC 3713 followers, XX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @enviro1993 @pegge49 This is all wrong. For a start SSN support infrastucture is not glacial it wasonly approved in 2023 already one dock is completed and refitting Audacious now"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 10:52:57 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"Just-in-time only works effectively to meet highly predictable rates of consumption. These are hard to model for episodic events like major military deplyoments unless they settle into long term committments like Afghanistan or static attritional warfare like Ukraine"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 07:49:14 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"So if someone solicits murder online or child sexual abuse you are ok with that"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 16:22:31 UTC 3713 followers, 1144 engagements

"An Ares IFV with CTA XX would be similar to the Ares-based GDLS ASCOD X IFVs bought by Latvia. Boxer would need CTA40 integrated onto the IFV variant"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 18:42:04 UTC 3702 followers, 7097 engagements

"@RickJames147288 40mm can defeat tanks and has airburst rounds for C-UAS and gives the platoon overmatch not just parity. Plus we already have the supply chain for Ajax and have purchased the weapons"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 14:27:58 UTC 3708 followers, XX engagements

"Dowding's design for integrated air defence had three squadron 'sectors' around London - each had two regular and one reserve (auxilliary air force) sqn of weekend warriors like XXX. Biggin was SE sector Kenley S sector Hornchurch E sector Northholt SW and Duxford N sector"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 06:23:00 UTC 3710 followers, 5822 engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 I didn't see any Andovers in Baidoa - and not enough legs to get there from Mombasa I suspect. Both the USAF and Kiwis allowed usto back up onto the ramp only the RAF would not"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 14:07:27 UTC 3711 followers, XX engagements

"I dropped a jar of pickles on my barefooted toe while loading the shopping into the kitchen. I can't tell you how painful that was and also how stupid I feel telling you about it"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 09:16:43 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@Tonkafanxv @Mallard143 @IntercityFC @enviro1993 @pegge49 Or perhaps making a good decision to get the job done twice as fast Even with a ding in the ramp (which they did not get) aC-130 would be fine"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 13:58:46 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements

"3 Division is going to be all tracks. X Bdes with X combined arms mech coys on Ajax/Ares IFV and X armoured sqns on Challenger X. X Div wheels with X Bdes of X combined arms mech coys on Boxer/LMP and X 'urban phalanx' combined arms light infantry coys and X light cav sqns"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-22 00:09:24 UTC 3710 followers, XXX engagements

"Forward supply depots need to be carefully sited and well protected and this introduces a new set of requirements for establishing and managing depots around which fighting formations can operate. On Longcloth and in Vietnam firebases were colocated with forward supply depots"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 18:30:27 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"This new Queen's Helicopter Flight also operated a leased Augusta A-109 from 2006-2019 and both Royal helicopters have been replaced by two more new S-76C+ from 2019 still based at RAF Odiham"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-15 11:28:52 UTC 3704 followers, XXX engagements

"From 1942 with the invasion threat over the Z batteries were transferred to the Home Guard freeing up more skilled gunners for service in the AA regiments deployed to North Africa and France after D-Day. Many women served in AA Command throughout the war"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-25 07:10:43 UTC 3711 followers, XXX engagements

"Developing agreements with a range of civilian service providers and defence contractors in the UK and key theatres such as Norway Germany and Estonia along the supply chain to - as far as possible - reduce the logistics burden on the Army will require careful anaysis"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-26 07:21:07 UTC 3713 followers, XXX engagements

"@mattykuk @Mr_Andrew_Fox I spent time tracking down war criminals in Rwanda and Bosnia who thought they were entitled to murder and starve the 'cockroaches' or 'Bosniaks' they blamed for their ills. Even if they had legitimate greivances murdering and starving civillians was not a justified response"
@FennellJW on X 2025-07-24 20:59:30 UTC 3710 followers, XX engagements