Search results

"After 200 years of peace since the Battle of Waterloo, and a century on from the "entente cordiale", it looks like the UK is about to find itself at war with its nearest neighbour. The French navy will, this weekend, mount an invasion of the south coast of Britain. But don't worry. It's...

USNS Montford Point Here's some info: "The Mobile Landing Platform is a new concept, part of the Maritime Prepositioning Force of the future. To control costs, the ships will not be built to combat vessel standards and are designed primarily to support three military hovercraft (such as the...

Two people were killed and 12 were hurt when a helicopter crashed into a crane on a building in central London. The helicopter hit the crane on top of The Tower, One St George Wharf beside the Thames at about 08:00 GMT. Cars and two buildings caught fire after the burning wreckage fell...

Another year, another diplomatic flare up. Argentina's president has called on the UK government to hand over the Falkland Islands, in an open letter printed in British newspapers. While a well known British newspaper has taken out an advert in an English-language paper in Argentina defending...

I've noticed recently that nations around the globe seem to be purchasing or building a large array of flattops be they fixed wing carriers or helicopter carriers. This is especially true in the Pacific region. I'm also wondering how easy it would be to fit a ski-ramp and operate the below with...

I often hear many points for and against membership of the European Union but I'm curious about others opinions on the matter. What do you believe are some positive and negative aspects of the EU? I'm currently neutral on whether my own country Britain should remain or leave.

An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme...

Leading bureaux de change are selling euros at a rate of 1.20 to the pound for the first time in three and a half years. The jump reflects worries about the Eurozone in the wake of the Greek and French elections. But the result is that British travellers are getting 10% more for their money...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4224575,00.html Israel turning into a maritime power because of four small diesel submarines? Perhaps we can ignore that hyperbole. My question is, what is the perceived function of the Israeli navy? I'm aware that these submarines are nuclear capable...

Article lives here: http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_05_03_2012_p0-453997.xml&p=1 I tend to agree with Mr Hammond on this matter, though, I'm curious about what the opinion of other OT'ers may be on this issue.

I've yet to encounter a thread like this so here we go... Scotland is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west...

My top three list is as follows: 1. United States 2. United Kingdom/France 3. Russia What countries today do you believe have the best ability to project their military power?

With rhetoric flying back and forward over these last few months, I'm wondering about the opinion of OT'ers. This is what made me decide to create this thread; "Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, today accused Argentina of colonialism over that countries attempts to gain control of...

I can't help but wonder whether there will be war with Iran soon or not. Headlines like the ones below certainly make me think that there will be; Iran protesters break into UK embassy in Tehran http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15936213 Report: U.K. preparing for military strike on...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15459473 I can't see this as being too much of a bad idea in principle, but is the political will there to stay? I don't really think so. Though that said, from a financial point of view I don't believe it's wise to stay and run up more costs since NATO...

Libyan forces 'capture Gaddafi' Commanders for Libya's transitional authorities say they have captured former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. "He's captured. He's wounded in both legs," National Transitional Council (NTC) official Abdel Majid told Reuters news agency. Article lives...

I thought I would create a thread for the purposes of general chat about all things military, from news and operations to comparisons of equipment both now and in the future. I firmly believe politics should be left out of this so no nationalist flaming, please. To start us off, I'd like to...

I installed Civ 5 this morning, everything went fine and Steam installed the updates it had to and such but when I try to launch the game in either DX9 or DX11 things go wrong. Looking at processes on task manager once I try and start the game, civilization5.exe runs for a few seconds (the...

Has there actually been a sighting or screenshot of aircraft carriers in game yet? I have searched to no avail. While I realise it's pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, I hope they aren't represented as WW2 era carriers.

Any info from the 2K people as to when the demo may be released?