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All these nay sayers about bombing Syria should think of the bigger picture... a successful campaign will be a boost and a useful shot in the arm for beleaguered British arms exports companies... buy your shares now and stick 'em in your pension fund... 
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Export sales[edit]
Around £10 million of Brimstones from the RAF stock were sold to the Royal Saudi Air Force for use on their Tornados. In April 2011, the RAF's Assistant Chief of the Air Staff Air vice-marshal Baz North reported that the missiles were "being sought by both the United States of America and the French" in the light of Brimstone's success in Libya.[42] France's DGA procurement agency held meetings in late May 2011 to discuss a lightweight air-to-surface weapon for the Dassault Rafale; Stéphane Reb of the DGA would merely say that "Brimstone is a solution, but it's not the only option". In early 2014 the US Congress' House Armed Services Committee showed interest again in the missile; high-ranking members of the US armed services have stated they "like it" and if they do choose it they "need it out soon".[43] The French Air Force were still thinking about a purchase in March 2012, with a prime consideration being lower collateral damage[44] compared to the AASM. India has made a request for information about integrating Brimstone on their Sukhoi Su-30MKI fleet.[45] MBDA hopes that firings conducted in the U.S. intended for the U.K. to test the feasibility of arming British General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper UAVs with the missile will persuade the U.S. military to purchase the Brimstone 2.[46] In July 2014, it was revealed that the United States Navy was beginning environmental and integration analysis of the Dual Mode Brimstone for use on the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.[47] The United States Army also considered the Brimstone as "an option" in its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program,[48] but selected Lockheed Martin's dual-mode seeker upgrade for the Hellfire missile.[49] In September 2015, MBDA displayed the dual-mode Brimstone for the first time as a helicopter-mounted weapon to fulfill the British Army Air Corps' need for a future attack helicopter weapon for the AgustaWestland Apache.[50]
from wiki:
Export sales[edit]
Around £10 million of Brimstones from the RAF stock were sold to the Royal Saudi Air Force for use on their Tornados. In April 2011, the RAF's Assistant Chief of the Air Staff Air vice-marshal Baz North reported that the missiles were "being sought by both the United States of America and the French" in the light of Brimstone's success in Libya.[42] France's DGA procurement agency held meetings in late May 2011 to discuss a lightweight air-to-surface weapon for the Dassault Rafale; Stéphane Reb of the DGA would merely say that "Brimstone is a solution, but it's not the only option". In early 2014 the US Congress' House Armed Services Committee showed interest again in the missile; high-ranking members of the US armed services have stated they "like it" and if they do choose it they "need it out soon".[43] The French Air Force were still thinking about a purchase in March 2012, with a prime consideration being lower collateral damage[44] compared to the AASM. India has made a request for information about integrating Brimstone on their Sukhoi Su-30MKI fleet.[45] MBDA hopes that firings conducted in the U.S. intended for the U.K. to test the feasibility of arming British General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper UAVs with the missile will persuade the U.S. military to purchase the Brimstone 2.[46] In July 2014, it was revealed that the United States Navy was beginning environmental and integration analysis of the Dual Mode Brimstone for use on the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.[47] The United States Army also considered the Brimstone as "an option" in its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program,[48] but selected Lockheed Martin's dual-mode seeker upgrade for the Hellfire missile.[49] In September 2015, MBDA displayed the dual-mode Brimstone for the first time as a helicopter-mounted weapon to fulfill the British Army Air Corps' need for a future attack helicopter weapon for the AgustaWestland Apache.[50]
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I await the new model called obviously - Fireand...
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What the h*ll is your stupit point, selecting some massive piece of wiki and suggesting that somehow it makes it a part of some US arms conspiracy, because they considered it or something?
Brimstone is actually fanastic... My taxes, used well. I have no complaints. |
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btw stupui[t] as a deliberate misspelling for exageration, I just realised this may be lost :)
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Fatheadz, who make designer sunglasses for people with abnormally large heads which don't require guidance software upgrades and can be sent via standard post yet still turns over 3 million dollars a year , so there.
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Just Checking. I am just suggesting that our leaders are telling us, with a straight face, that UK involvement in Syria is necessary because we have got these weapons that nobody else has. Well the Saudis have got them and the Yanks knocked us back when we tried to flog some to them.
Are we to believe that we are the only military power with a special magic weapon that the US and coalition forces don't have access to, or a better equivalent of? If so then shirley heads must roll in the Pentagon Procurement Department for spending lots of money on the "wrong type of bomb"... |
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Eight out of ten Kalashnikov owners who expressed a preference, said they would rather be blown up by a Brimstone than a hell fire missile.
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Brimstones are far more accurate than what the russians as using, great for pedestrians, but lets face it, it is all political at this point, I'm not denying that.
But regardless of that, your point seems to be some wild "military industrial" conspiracy ****.. |
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hold yer bets.
the uk is in potential hot water for supplying saudi in their current war.... |