Gareth Jennings
@garethjennings3.bsky.social
Aviation journalist reporting on all aspects of international military aerospace and wider defence issues.
Good news is that my Agile Combat Employment feature sourced largely during a visit to the #Sweden last year (thanks #Saab) is now available to read for #Janes subscribers at customer.janes.com/Janes/Displa.... Bad news is my #ACE Off Base headline suggestion did not pass muster, I'm afraid...
February 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Good news is that my Agile Combat Employment feature sourced largely during a visit to the #Sweden last year (thanks #Saab) is now available to read for #Janes subscribers at customer.janes.com/Janes/Displa.... Bad news is my #ACE Off Base headline suggestion did not pass muster, I'm afraid...
Another very interesting tidbit is that #Stinger is by far the most effective #MANPADS in Ukraine. Partly because of the numbers employed, but also because (for reasons I confess I didn't fully understand) Russian helicopters can't recognise when they're being targeted by it.
February 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Shots fired towards #FCAS/#SCAF today from BAE Systems on call to discuss new #GCAP joint venture, with official positing, “Hopefully you will agree with me that the GCAP programme is the only credible sixth-generation programme out there, outside Russia, China and the US.”
December 13, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Shots fired towards #FCAS/#SCAF today from BAE Systems on call to discuss new #GCAP joint venture, with official positing, “Hopefully you will agree with me that the GCAP programme is the only credible sixth-generation programme out there, outside Russia, China and the US.”
With the GCAP treaty now ratified by all 3 parliaments and the GIGO and now the JV agreed, the programme is on course to transition from the current concept and assessment phase to the full development and design phase towards end of 2025. Onwards and upwards...
December 13, 2024 at 1:30 PM
With the GCAP treaty now ratified by all 3 parliaments and the GIGO and now the JV agreed, the programme is on course to transition from the current concept and assessment phase to the full development and design phase towards end of 2025. Onwards and upwards...
Will be a 33.3% each way venture. As with the #GIGO joint governmental office, the JV will have its HQ in the UK. Consequently, the first CEO of the GIGO will be from Japan, while the first CEO of the JV will be from Italy.
December 13, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Will be a 33.3% each way venture. As with the #GIGO joint governmental office, the JV will have its HQ in the UK. Consequently, the first CEO of the GIGO will be from Japan, while the first CEO of the JV will be from Italy.
The good news is the partners have agreed an industrial joint venture to deliver #GCAP. The bad news is we are all going to have to wait a little longer to learn its name. Promised it will be something "iconic", a la #SEPECAT #Panavia #Eurofighter but still to be decided...
December 13, 2024 at 1:30 PM
The good news is the partners have agreed an industrial joint venture to deliver #GCAP. The bad news is we are all going to have to wait a little longer to learn its name. Promised it will be something "iconic", a la #SEPECAT #Panavia #Eurofighter but still to be decided...
March of the KC/C-390 continues, as #Slovakia to join the #Millennium programme with LOI signed 10 December. Set to join Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden in an ever growing European user community.
December 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM
March of the KC/C-390 continues, as #Slovakia to join the #Millennium programme with LOI signed 10 December. Set to join Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden in an ever growing European user community.
For the bumps, the airframe now has the two side and one underbelly blisters, as well as a pitot at the top of the fin under Phase 1 Installation. With these verified in flight tests, Phase 2 will see radar and chin fairings, and a larger aft underbelly blister, and wingpods.
December 10, 2024 at 6:13 AM
For the bumps, the airframe now has the two side and one underbelly blisters, as well as a pitot at the top of the fin under Phase 1 Installation. With these verified in flight tests, Phase 2 will see radar and chin fairings, and a larger aft underbelly blister, and wingpods.
New claim to fame is that I was the very first journalist ever to step foot on the Leonardo UK #Excalibur Flying Test Aircraft for #Tempest, by virtue of being faster up the stairs than the others earlier today! Full Janes story to come...
December 10, 2024 at 6:13 AM
New claim to fame is that I was the very first journalist ever to step foot on the Leonardo UK #Excalibur Flying Test Aircraft for #Tempest, by virtue of being faster up the stairs than the others earlier today! Full Janes story to come...
Now, I'm not saying that the drones buzzing US Air Force bases in England are an SAS prank, but they do have form and maybe someone should ask them where they were and what they were doing last week...🤔
December 2, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Now, I'm not saying that the drones buzzing US Air Force bases in England are an SAS prank, but they do have form and maybe someone should ask them where they were and what they were doing last week...🤔
In the wake of the recent UK defence cuts and being a bit of a masochist, I have had a quick look at the Janes inventory for the Royal Air Force in 2004 - 405 frontline combat aircraft, and on the cusp of receiving 232 Eurofighters! Read it and weep...
November 22, 2024 at 12:10 PM
In the wake of the recent UK defence cuts and being a bit of a masochist, I have had a quick look at the Janes inventory for the Royal Air Force in 2004 - 405 frontline combat aircraft, and on the cusp of receiving 232 Eurofighters! Read it and weep...
#Sweden defence minister Pål Jonson says that the #Gripen spares package promised to #Ukraine covers parts for 14 aircraft (not sure I've heard a number given before). Restates that F-16 is current priority of the international fighter coalition, with Gripens to follow...
November 22, 2024 at 11:32 AM
I won't mention the award for inventing a ladder for the F-16 that entered service in 1979, as that is actually quite clever...
November 21, 2024 at 3:53 PM
I won't mention the award for inventing a ladder for the F-16 that entered service in 1979, as that is actually quite clever...
In a #GCAP update, @JohnHealey_MP says that following ratification of the treaty by all three countries, the #GIGO trilateral management construct and the 'Panavia-esque' industrial JV to both be signed off by Christmas. Clears way for full development and design phase in 2025.
November 21, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Today's 24-hour news cycle...
November 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Today's 24-hour news cycle...
10 yrs since entering service and having never been used on ops except for a few days at the end of Afghanistan (briefly 'Stopping the Boats' in the English Channel in 2020 doesn't count), the plug has now been pulled on the #Watchkeeper by the UK gov.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
10 yrs since entering service and having never been used on ops except for a few days at the end of Afghanistan (briefly 'Stopping the Boats' in the English Channel in 2020 doesn't count), the plug has now been pulled on the #Watchkeeper by the UK gov.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Snapped perhaps the very same one myself a few years back...
November 20, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Snapped perhaps the very same one myself a few years back...
"Hop up on the wing" 😆
November 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
"Hop up on the wing" 😆
