NationStates Jolt Archive

Expect this storefront to rapidly expand as our nation rapidly does. Please note we can do this... we were resurrected.

Beverages

Earl Grey Tea

Cost per 25 Bag Carton: £2.38/$3.98/E 3.48

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Breakfast Tea

Cost per 25 Bag Carton: £2.38/$3.98/E 3.48

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Afternoon Tea

Cost per 25 Bag Carton: £2.38/$3.98/E 3.48

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Books

1984 by George Orwell

A satire on the horrors of totalitarianism, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is set in a society run by Big Brother where people are made to conform to orthodoxy by the Thought Police. Winston Smith yearns for truth and liberty, but he comes to realize that he cannot outwit the forces at work.

Cost: £5.59/$10/E 8

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.

Cost: £6.39/$10.73/E 9.33

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his 'great expectations'.

Cost: £3.99/$6.70/E 5.83

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The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer

The classic epic poems, telling of the Trojan War and Odysseus's ten year voyage home.

Cost: £16.39/$27.53/E 23.95

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Military Devices

Firearms

L85A3 Assault Rifle

While externally indentical to the L8A2, the L8A3 has much greater reliability. Reliability problems plauged the earlier models. Overall, an excellent compact bullpup assault rifle.

On its introduction, the L85 Individual Weapon (IW) proved so accurate that the Army marksmanship tests had to be redesigned.

It is widely regarded as the most accurate assault rifle in the world.

Calibre: 5.56 mm
Weight: 4.98 kg (with loaded magazine and optical sight)
Length: 785 mm
Barrel Length: 518 mm
Muzzle Velocity: 940 m/s
Feed: 30 round magazine
Effective Range: 400 m
Cyclic Rate of Fire: 610-775 rounds per minute
Cost: £476/$800/E 696

Side View

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Action Shot

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UGL

The new Under slung Grenade Launcher (UGL), designed to be mounted beneath the barrel of the L8A3, will be issued to each fire team, replacing the Rifle Grenade General Service (RGGS) and 51mm mortar – significantly reducing the ammunition load the infantry section carries, while enhancing its capabilities. The UGL is able to fire 40mm High Explosive (HE), smoke and illuminating rounds out to a range of 350 m to destroy, obscure or indicate enemy positions.

Cost: £120/$200/E 174

L86A2 Light Support Weapon

A squad level support weapon based on the L85A3.

Calibre: 5.56 mm
Weight: 6.58 kg (with loaded magazine and optical sight)
Length: 900 mm
Barrel Length: 646 mm
Muzzle Velocity: 970 m/s
Feed: 30 round magazine
Effective Range: 1000m
Cyclic Rate of Fire: 610-775 rounds per minute.
Cost: £536/$900/E 782

Side View

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Action Shot

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L1A1 Heavy Machine Gun

The powerful L1A1 12.7 mm Heavy Machinegun (HMG) is an updated version of the Browming M2 'Fifty-cal' - recognised as one of the finest heavy machineguns ever developed. Currently, the HMG provides intergral close-range support from a ground mount tripod or fitted to a Landrover TUM using a Weapon Mount Installation Kit (WMIK) and a variety of sighting systems. The performance of the HMG has recently been enhanced with a new 'soft mount' (to limit recoil and improve accuracy) and a quick change barrel.

Calibre: 12.7mm
Weight: 38.15kg (gun only)
Length: 1,656mm
Barrel Length: 1,143
Muzzle Velocity: 915 m/s
Feed: 50 round disintegrating belt
Effective range: 2000m
Cyclic rate of fire: 485 - 635 rounds per minute
Cost: £892/$1500/E 1305

Action Shot

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GPMG

The General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) can be used as a light weapon, mounted on a bipod. It can also be seen in a sustained fire role, mounted on atripod and fitted with the C2 optical sight.

Calibre: 7.62mm
Weight: 13.85kg (gun plus 50 round belt)
Length: 1230mm (light role)
Barrel length: 629mm
Muzzle velocity: 838m/s
Feed: 100-round disintergrating-link belt
Effective range: 800m light role, 1800m sustained fire role (tracer burn out at 1100m)
Cyclic rate of fire: 750 rounds per minute
Cost: £595/$1000/E 870
Action Shot

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L96/L115A1 Sniper Rifles

Designed to aceive first-round hit at 600m and harassing fire out to 1100m, the superb Accuracy International L96 sniper rifle has been upgraded with a new x3-x12 x 50 sight and spotting scope. Selected units also field the L115A1 Long range Rifle (LRR), which fires an 8.59mm bullet, heavier than the 7.62mm round of the L96 and less likely to be deflected over extremely long ranges.

L96

Calibre: 7.62mm
Weight: 6.5kg
Length: (adjustable) 1124-1194mm
Muzzle velocity: 838m/s
Feed: 10-round box
Effective range: 900m, harassing fire 1100m
Cost: £595/$1000/E 870

L115A1

Calibre: 8.59mm
Weight: 6.8kg
Length: 1300mm
Muzzle velocity: 936m/s
Feed: 5-round box
Effective range: 1100m plus
Cost: £745/$1250/E 1087

Side View, L96

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Side View, L115A1

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L16A2 81mm Mortar

Calibre: 81mm
Weight: 37.94k
Barrel length: 1280mm
Muzzle Velocity: 225m/s
Max Range HE: 5,650m
Rate of Fire: 15 rounds per minute
Cost: £5951/$10000/E 8698

Action Shot

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LAW

The Light Anti-armour Weapon (LAW) is a 94mm,disposable, one-man-portable, High Explosive Anti Tank (HEAT) rocket system capable of destroying armoured targets at ranges up to 500m. A built-in spotting rifle and low-light sight increase the weapons accuracy.

Effective Range: up to 500m;
Impact Sensor: scrub and foliage proof;
Launcher length: (firing mode) 1.5m;
Launcher Length: (carrying mode) 1m;
Carrying Weight: 10kg;
Projectile Diameter: 94mm;
Temp Range: -46 to + 65 C;
Rear Danger Area: 20m.
Cost: £2083/$3500/E 3044

Action Shot

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Uniforms

All are available in the following colours:

Woodland Camo
Desert Camo
Urban Camo
Olive Green
Black
Khacki
Navy Blue

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Jacket/Pants Combo: £30/$50/E 44
Boots: £27/$45/E 40
Kevlar Vest: £238/$400/E 348
Kevlar Helmet: £119/$200/E 174
Backpack: £27/$45/E 40

Personal Role Radio

Personal Role Radio

The Personal Role Radio (PRR) is a small transmitter-receiver that allows infantry soldiers tom communicate over short distances - even through thick cover or the walls of buildings - without shouting, hand signals or relaying messages. PRR enables section commanders to react quickly,aggressivly and efficiently to rapidly changing situations including contact with the enemy - greatly increasing the effectiveness of infantry fire teams. PRR is issued to every member of an eight-strong infantry section, and will be available to othr troops in due course.

Weight 1.5kg
Length 380mm (longest dimension)
Battery Life 20 hours continuous use
Range 500m
Channels 256
Cost: £60/$100/E 87

Action Shot

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Aircraft

Nimrod MR2

Entered Service: 1969 (as the MR1)

Powerplant: Four Rolls-Royce RB168-20 Spey 250 turbofans of 12,140lb st.

Span: 114ft 10in (35.00m)
Length: 126ft 9in (38.63m)
Max Speed: 575mph (926km/h)
Accommodation: Crew of 13
Armament: Internal bay for up to nine torpedoes, bombs and depth charges; Sidewinder AAMs can be carried on underwing pylons for self-defence.
Cost: £20,000,000/$33,473,436.70/E 29,289,383.84

Orthographic Views

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Merlin HC3

The Merlin HC3 is the first of the next generation of medium support helicopters for the RAF.

The aircraft can be armed with two general purpose machine guns mounted in port and starboard cabin windows, and can be equipped with a wide variety of role equipment, including a rescue hoist and a roller floor to assist loading cargo via the rear ramp.

The Merlin will be the first British military helicopter equipped with an air-to-air refuelling probe, which will greatly increase the aircraft's range and reduce deployment times. An active vibration damping system reduces the level of noise and vibration inside the cabin to a similar level to turboprop aircraft, reducing crew and passenger fatigue and increasing airframe life.

Entered Service: 2001.
Powerplant: Three Rolls-Royce / Turbomeca RTM 322 three shaft turbines of 2,312 shp each
Rotor Diameter: 61ft (18.59m)
Length: 74ft 10in (22.81m)
Max Speed: 192mph (309km/h)
Accommodation: Normally crewed by one pilot, one navigator and two crewmen and up to 24 combat-equipped troops or 4 tonnes of cargo (2.5 tonnes as an underslung load).
Cost: £6,000,000/$10,041,724.66/E 8,788,282.03

Action Shot

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Chinook

Entered Service: 1980
Powerplant: Two Avco Lycoming T55-712 turboshafts of 3,750shp.
Rotor Diameter: 60ft 0in (18.29m)
Length: 51ft 0in (15.54m)
Max Speed: 185mph (298 km/h)
Accommodation: Crew of two to four plus up to 54 troops or 28,000lb payload.
Cost: £10,000,000/$16,735,346.29/E 14,646,528.71

Orthographic Views

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Hawk Trainer

The T1A may also be used as an attack aircraft for smaller nations.

Entered Service: 1976
Powerplant: One Rolls-Royce/Turbomeca Adour Mk 151 turbofan of 5,200lb st.
Span: 30ft 9.75in (9.39m)
Length: 39ft 2in (11.96m)
Max Speed: 622mph (1,000km/h) at sea level.
Accommodation: Two seats, in tandem.
Armament: Hawk T1 - One 30mm Aden cannon pack and up to 5,600lb (2,540kg) of underwing stores (rockets, bombs and missiles); T1A - in addition has inboard pylons for Sidewinder AIM-9 air-to-air missiles.
Recognition: Slightly-swept wings set at the bottom of the fuselage. Top line of the fuselage curves up from the pointed nose to incorporate the long clear cockpit canopy then slopes down to the jetpipe, giving a humped appearance. Engine is internally housed with small circular intakes on the lower sides of the fuselage, forward and above the wing roots. Slightly-swept vertical and horizontal tail surfaces.
Cost, T1: £1,000,000/$1,673,535.32/E 1,464,834.09
Cost, T1A: £1,500,000/$2,510,232.37/E 2,197,251.13

Orthographic Views

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No MILANs? I know the british use them...

They'll be coming in soon. We're building them up for our own forces first.

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This is the first British weapons store I've seen for a while.
We use US and Israeli military stuff mainly part from Scorpion light vehicles.

I'll take 50,000 Woodland Camofluage uniforms...

along with 50,000 walkies...

and 50,000 assualt rifles.

Beth Gellens are generally pleased to see the motherland reducing its reliance on the private sector, and many wonder if Tony's heart finally packed in..

We also wonder if the industries represented in the "storefront" have been nationalised, as they do not seem to be offered by individual contractors so much as by the nation itself.

While there is a strong lobby in The people's socialist Commonwealth (of BG) to purchase British armaments and such, we regret that logistics make it impractical (the armed forces are presently reliant on Soviet/Russian munitions, and adopting western arms could create a supply nightmare)

In an effort to settle the matter, the Final Senate has agreed to form a national cultural historical society based on the British armed forces.

As such we should like to obtain sufficient arms and equipment for 120 men and women as such a group might be organised were they part of your nation's active armed forces.
These will be used in displays, re-enactments and the like.

Sufficient funds are being prepared for transfer as I write.

-CC J.Barrie.

PS. We wonder; have you ever considered that the name "The Kingdom of the United Kingdom..." sounds a tad..redundant? Would the subjects of that kingdom not be happy with "The Constitutional Monarchy of the UK of Great Britain?

(....wait...you're selling Catch-22 on a military store front? Ow! My head!)

Hey, atleast he's not selling M*A*S*H (less well read, but better)

Sara Mar: Order confirmed.
Beth Gellert: How does 120 L85A3 Assault Rifle, 120 Jacket/Pants Combos, and 120 Pairs of Boots sound?
Iansisle: Ironic, no? I picked a few books I had read out of a "Most popular in the UK" list... plus the Odyssey and the Illiad, which were not on the list.

Thank you- I belive that The Commonwealth will go along with that, adding ten (10) L96 and ten (10) GPMG.

What with the Landrovers already in service here, vast northern tea fields, and large western..southern..eastern, and nothern breweries, at last first generation immigrants should feel more at ease.

(You know, your store-front is lacking some authenticity without those things- you need bitter, and you need tea! In the good old days the British government bought up the entire global tea crop every year, and stored enough tea in England for... fifteen trillion, I think, cups at any one time. Mmm. See if you can't restore Bently while you're at it! "Bring back the twenties... only with a communist government!" cries Beth Gellert!)

With that CC Barrie had the infamous comrade Igo escorted from the room. "If you don't mind I'm trying to buy some boots here!"

(Alright, I'll leave you alone now)

Order confirmed. Excellent suggestions... going to find requisite pictures now.

Expect an update with tea soon...

Once we develop a better automobile manufacturing industry, you can expect to see Bentleys, Aston Martins, and Rolls Royces here.

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We take 10 000 of earl grey boxes

Why is his dark matirials not on the list of books. I will take 10,000 of everything please. The money is being wired

Why is his dark matirials not on the list of books. I will take 10,000 of everything please. The money is being wired

funny looking LAW you got there.....apart from that a pretty good store-nice to see you got the LSW :wink:

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100 boxes of afternoon tea, please.

*£238 wired*

Order confirmed.

The Government of Bobghanistan, delighted that someon is selling British equipment, would like to purchase 40 Nimrods for £800 Million. The money has been wired.

El Presidente Bobski, Bobghanistan.

ill buy 10 million packets of tea., make it earl grey

The armed republic of rebel grots would like to purchase 8 chinook transport helicopters, and 2 tons of earl grey tea. Money will (naturally) be wired upon confirmation.

We order 40 of Hawk Trainer T1

(money will be wired when order is confirmed)

Orders confirmed.

Eastern Britain would like to order 50 Chinooks

money wired on confirmation

The Defence Ministry, on behalf of His Majesty King Llewellyn's Victoria Salvadorian Army and Royal Marines, wishes to secure forty five thousand (45,000) L86A2 light support weapons (at £24,120,000), eight thousand five hundred (8,500) L1A1 heavy machine gun (at £7,582,000- are they really that cheap? I might get one ;) ), and twenty thousand (20,000) GPMG (at £11,900,000).

On behalf of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, the order tendered is for thirty five (35) MR2 Nimrod (at £700,000,000), and one hundred and ten (110) Merlin HC3 (at £660,000,000).

The national sector is also prepared to spend £7.14 million per annum on importing equal measures of each available tea for dispersal into the private sector.

The Constitutional Monarchy of Victoria and Salvador hopes that the land of its distant origin remains active in world affairs to-day, and is keen to forge closer ties there-with. His Majesty's government hopes to move towards some manner of official alliance in the near future.

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Vox populi, vox Rex

I will buy 50 L85A3 Rifles and 50 GPMGs plus 10 l.a.w AND 600 Uniforms of desert camo , urbam camo and black and personal role radio.

Thanks

I will buy 50 L85A3 Rifles and 50 GPMGs plus 10 l.a.w AND 600 Uniforms of desert camo , urbam camo and black and personal role radio.

Thanks

i will buy 1000 L86A2 Light Support Weapons
money will be wired to comfirmtation

i will buy 1000000 urban camo with everything with it (backpacks, helmets, vest, etc.) money will be wired to comfirmation

I'll be buying here in the future. As of now I only have a single Black Hawk and a single company of 110 men, and I can afford to recruit god know's how many more with the money I save using a British armament.

OOC: Silvermans (http://www.silvermans.co.uk) is a british military shop I buy from in RL.
Also will you be stocking the new british helicopte. Its the black hawk but they have added better weapons, systems and better engine.
A friend of my dads imports the Black Hawk for the royal engineers to convert. I can't remember what its called though. If anyone knows please tell me.

I suggest you roleplay the confirmation, not just say. "Orders Confirmed"

10 hawk T1A trainers please. painted red if you dont mind
£15,000,000 will be wired once confirmed

i would like 40,000 chinooks deliverable to Justice Airfield, NE Celairdor. The payment of £400 billion will be paid on delivery

Sorry for the delay. All orders confirmed and shipping. Suggestions for new products are noted.

Do you deal in WW2-era equipment? I could use some for commemorative units, wargames, etc.

I would like to purchase 1,000,000 each of the following items
Woodland Camo Jacket/Pants Combos, Boots, Kevlar Vest, Kevlar Helmet, Backpacks. I think the sum comes to 740,000,000. Also I would like a million of the Urban Camo Jacket/Pants Combo's. So I think the new sum is 790,000,000. All money transfered upon acceptance.

By the way, do you think you could print out a couple a million of Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"? I would like to but alot of them. I also know alot of other countries would like to order them.