Marmite!! Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Future Rapid Effects System (FRES) Interesting stuff here http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2011/06/a-brief-history-of-fres/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 FRES Scout may well have only been a paper design at the time the article was written, but oddly enough this afternoon I was looking at some photos of a prototype hull on a noticeboard at Abbey Wood! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 There are quite a few mistakes in the text, for example they did not fit the Cummins engine to the UK vehicles till the early 2000s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Still a good read though and fascinating to see all the time and money wasted while poor old cvrt's soldier on long after they should have been enjoying a cosseted existence on the show circuit... Ho hum at least i will be able to get road wheels for a few more years..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankmaker1 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 a very jumbled document as some of us in Industry were working on FFLAV long before the dates stated. And industry didn't get that much money from MoD to be involved.(sum total nil!) VERDI happened after FFLAV had started and did not include all of the vehicle manufacturers as one was very busy tat the time building a real combat system - Challenger 2. Panther was re-configured for the UK in Newcastle not Telford so not sure where the sources used to generate the document are. Biggest problem MoD had was they wanted everything but didn't really have the money. Now they are getting a vehicle which weighs about the same as a Warrior -which wasn't the ideal option when this all started so why didn't they just update more Warriors/ build some more? As was proposed by DA Warrior turret and DA Warrior hull eons ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpltomo Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 And not a word on sabre i liked sabre it was a good cvr"t" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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