What about the merch they / the RAF flogs?
And, while much harder to quantify, the many pounds worth of free advertising they earn, saving the recruitment budget.
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This is really important for them. A lot of young children seeing how cool it would be to join the RAF.
Hmm. Is it RAF or RAFA that “own” the merch?
(I have no idea)
No idea, was a genuine ask.
Royalties are paid on all licensed Red Arrows products to the Ministry of Defence.
Not sure how legit this is but if you search for official Red Arrows merch this is what comes up!
That is a quite a jump based on the £9million figure from 2015…!!
i can’t for £15 but as you can see i have for £9 million
Has anyone heard anything more about the review
??
All I have seen is an additional 5 frigates be the end of the decade and an increase in nuclear warheads.
Nothing on raf or army changes
Most of that likely to be in the Command paper out next week.
Still reading through the main document.
Lots of words and ambitions but I imagine the details come later
This is interesting, is there a connection or is it coincidence?
In the Euro-Atlantic, the UK will be oneof only two NATO Allies to bring to bear nuclear, offensive cyber, precision strike weapons and fifth-generation strike aircraft.
That’s, to me, been the case since the first UK pilot climbed into an F-35: there are only 3 nuclear armed states in NATO, and one of them - France - is only at the fag packet stage of acquiring a 5th (6th?) Gen LO strike aircraft.
The military stuff - cuts and add-ons - will be in the command paper out next week.
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So today’s great announcement was all wind…
Hopefully we actually see a massive increase in spending of equipment
The only thing I could see was a commitment to more F-35s by the end of 2025.
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I think there’s going to be significant cull of older systems that have higher maintenance requirements, and I think that some of them are going to be difficult to swallow - it also looks likely that light infantry Bn’s are going to take a hit, the Warrior upgrade programme is being binned and that they will be scrapped, that the two oldest T23’s are going early, and the RAF’s146’s are off.
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The 146s were put up for sale a few years ago. No real surprise for them to go.
Other rumours are that the C-130’s are going early, the 24 Tranche 1 Typhoons will go, AS90 and 105mm light guns will go, and the Challenger 2 tank fleet will be reduced by 70/80 to 150/160 and then upgraded to 2.5/3 standard.
There have been persistent rumours that the E-7 AWACS buy will drop from 5 to 3, and it looks pretty sure that the total F-35 by will drop from a theoretical 138 to around 80 with a big push to get Tempest/son-of-Tempest in service for 2038 or so.
There are also rumours that the RAF Regiment will go…
Interesting, so no real artillery capability beyond the missile based systems?
Shame. Spent a lot of my early career working on the light gun!
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I have heard the rumours but
The additional 5 frigates wasn’t expected
I am wondering if we are going to see an increase on defence spending and an overhaul of how we procure equipment.
The last weeks statements of old and antiquated equipment was that to clear the way for some serious spending?
If C-130 is binned, that’s SF up the swanny without a paddle!
Those were the rumours doing the rounds a week ago.
The one he hasn’t mentioned is 41% of rotary capacity to go; the whole Puma fleet and some of the oldest Chinooks.