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Can anybody tell me why this isn’t a bigger story? Essentially, the government is buying 20-odd new Chinook helicopters for the RAF support helicopter force, and transferring the existing … more →
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chopper
yorksranter wrote 3 weeks ago: Can anybody tell me why this isn’t a bigger story? Essentially, the government is buying 20-od … more →
on my radio
yorksranter wrote 6 months ago: OK, so there’s the magic army vehicle project that spent more on powerpoint presentations than … more →
powerpoint tank watch
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yorksranter wrote 8 months ago: I don’t know what the cancellation of FCS, the US Army’s whizzy all-things-to-all-men, f … more →
quack quack oops
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yorksranter wrote 9 months ago: The Guardian leaps in on the Nemesysco lie-detector crapware story, and misses; notably, they are ap … more →
XV230 consequences
yorksranter wrote 9 months ago: It took a while, but somebody finally acted on those 38-year old gaskets. The BBC is reporting that … more →
PFI does not mean "public flying initiative"
yorksranter wrote 9 months ago: David Axe: For instance, which of these is better: * An air-superiority system comprising, say, 381 … more →
giant armoured bus considered harmful
yorksranter wrote 9 months ago: But not to the right people. Via Jason Sigger’s blog, the US Marines have second thoughts abou … more →
but what do the poor do with their lives?
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yorksranter wrote 9 months ago: The times change; children don’t respect their parents, and everyone’s writing a book. H … more →
They have the watches, but we have all the time
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yorksranter wrote 10 months ago: Ha. Ha. Ha. So, how are those ID cards going? It seems that despite the government’s fanfare, … more →
UAV cost scissors watch
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yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: I’ve long been sceptical of the UAV future. Basically, back in 2005, I reckoned that as the th … more →
is there anything stupid going on at Tim Worstall's?
yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: We’ve blogged before about the NHS’s computer project. So I’m not at all happy abo … more →
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yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: Late to the party, I know. But is this the worst example of biometrics as a religion yet? So the Shi … more →
The Guardian Is Not Serious About CVF
yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: There hasn’t been much progress on my long-term beef with Martin Kettle for a while. But it … more →
A Truth Moment at the CRB
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yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: According to the BBC, the Home Office really, really doesn’t get the basic truth that 0.01% of … more →
No. Just No. Just No.
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yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: ACPO is no longer tolerable as an organisation. It’s a freefloating lobby for ever-greater aut … more →
French FRES Flop Forecast
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yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: Continuing our Weekend of Defence Procurement, we’ve bashed the FRES vehicle program enough in … more →
UOR: Unimaginably Orphul Reid
yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: John Reid. Thank God we managed to avoid the nightmare; Prime Minister Reid. That really worried me … more →
Rosyth RUSI Rant
yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: I promised more serious content; here goes. Right, everyone is vexed about the RUSI report (PDF down … more →
The Defence Crisis; BAE Are Still Hopeless
yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: It appears that the defence procurement stories we’ve been tracking are coming to a head. Rece … more →
