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Well Roy Castle didn't smoke. He still died of lung cancer before his time. Reckoned he got it from secondary smoke in clubs when he played trumpet, and one of the main drivers behind the smoking ban in pubs, etc.

i have noticed certain threads on the ASB board to be beset by gun aficionados discussing the respective merits of either a particular calibre bullet (or lack thereof) or a particular handgun. Now fascinating as it might be it can tend to end up derailing and sometimes downright frustrate the...

Only problem was the existing missile technology available wasn't advanced sufficiently to replace everything that a manned aircraft could do. He should have said instead that rationalisation is needed and give missiles another 30 plus years of development.

Someone was asking what the British public thought about the Belgrano sinking? I was in secondary school at the time in 3rd year (current parlance that's Year 9). We (well ok the boys) were following it avidly. I can remember a sense of jubilation when she was sunk and then later on what was up...

Regarding cutlasses, they were withdrawn 1956, which is saying something. Regarding the OP, well HM Forces certainly in the modern Rees are the same thing as the USMC, just with fewer helicopters and landing craft...oh and collectively smaller too.

So in the general scheme of things where would the ARH lie in between say the Canadians suoerdoopa new ASW helicopter, the RANs SH2s and (at random) the RAH66?

Under Thatcher we VERY nearly had an IRBM force as there's was the idea of shipping some Cut down Minutemen missiles over to the UK that would be operated and sort of owned by the UK.

As in popping one into every vehicle as a standard requirement.

There can't be much wrong with the BV as correct me if I'm wrong but I believe it's now a standard fit in most modern US vehicles as well? In particular the Bradley and the M1. Although thy also have the mobile KFCs and so on. The BAOR had that certain wurst wagon following them around...

Now I would've liked to have seen the MRA systems mounted on a more modern airframe, oh hang on a mo....

What about the CVR series taken up by the US Cav? It did have its fans if you read old copies of the Armor magazine. One young gun had dozens of Spartans parachuting in a la BMD basically light armouring up the 82nd! It'd be nice to see a Spartan with a .5 and TOW.

Pretty sure the nuclear cruisers would have been kept on for another 5-10 years too, suitably updated with AEGIS of course. Not so sure about Long Beach as she was an old girl by the late 80s, I'm thinking more the Californias etc.

If I remember correctly ASMP was pretty much a done deal, kind of linked in with Storm Shadow in a bit of jointery stuff.

Which more than likely would've been ASMP

RN would have got the W class sub. RCN may, just may, have got its dozen Trafalgars.

Heavy TRIGAT is another, which included telescopic mounted RWS on Leopard 2/3, Challenger and others. Go on the Secret Projects forum.

The funny weird thing about Sealion, is that people were genuinely in fear at the time of invasion and saw it as a very real possibility. All of us now, with hindsight KNOW it just wasn't feasible at all. I mean, imagine, D Day took years of prep, a massive build up of new innovative machines...

Yes you'll be jealous of me. As a lad aged about 10 (might have been older) or so I happened to one day have a play with four prototype models that a friends father had brought over from ROF Barnbow, one of those was rather Chieftan like but looking rather different... Also once got taken on an...

Go to Elvington museum near York. They have a Gannet and assorted Buccs. They also happen to have a Nimrod, Victor, Hunters, Mirage III, Lightning, Spitfire, Dakota and so on. Highlight though is a Halifax bomber. Oh one of the Bucaneers you can get very close to, it's a big beast. (Elvington...

Poldark....oh hang on....