David Manley

Another trip to the islands :)

Bad luck on the timetabling of this after all the other students have gone home for Christmas ;)

Hold fast!

Bringing these guys in from the field when you are on a walking stick is NOT fun - but all completed successfully, hooves trimmed and the boys back to their field and hay with no drama. Thanks to the ladies at the yard for their help, and for Neil walking Dob Dobs back for me :)

I just covered this with my MSc students on my maritime survivability module

Oh, and you can't say "torpedo" - thats solutioneering:)

Members of the Platform Agnostic Network Centric Single Platform Multi Domain Attritable Effectors Project Team are going to need bigger business cards

The subject of today's discussions :)

My ASW frigate has a Merlin and ASROC :)

Designing a boat that could carry the vehicles, surface through ice and deploy them was OK, but the ice would be too thin to support the vehicles so the students put the battery on the submarine.
My favourite design that year :)

Yes, it was the student's answer to "how do we land an S-300 battery in the ice from a submarine?" (a requirement that fell out of some wargaming that we were doing with some interesting people).

That was a good year :)

After a hard day's wargame planning, a chance to unwind at NATO's favourite pub :)

Because they enjoy the same fun that you do :D

The player (if they stick with it) gets a good impression of the huge sense of relief if they get their ship home from the 25th mission

B17 QotS being a good example I think. The game runs on rails, players have little to no control as to what they can do, they just have to survive. It is quite an "accurate" representation of the life and death of a bomber crew in the 8th Air Force, but is quite compelling.

10mm per hex? Wow, the resolution for the tactical game is achieving hitherto unknown levels ! :)

LOL, first time for everything :)