Engineering Technician-Weapon Engineer

[StevenAndrews1983]

Weapons engineering is a lot of sleepless nights with no gratitude.

BUT if you really like engineering and electronics then it is the only job to do.

If your more into simple system such as hydraulics and pneumatics then smash yourself into the ME world

@harvey529 chances are you will be fast tracked if you are qualified as an ME from civvie street

[forget1me14]

when u go a weapons engineer do you just fix them or use them against pirates aswell? im thinking on being one or a air technician but the weapons engineer is more my appetite but i was wondering who uses the weapons somebody else or do the wep engineer use the guns aswell as fixing them and radar and surveillance

[Harvey529]

When i finish school i will have already earned an NVQ Level 2 in Marine Engineering with 2 years work experience from a part-time college course. And im only 16.

[forget1me14]

@Harvey529 m8 u have done well but im 12 and thinking on being an weapons engineer officer and well they wont teach weapons on the college courses so what would be better marine or technical until i go to the navy university for degree exams on weapons engineering in other words im asking whats better to learn until i can get weapons engineering studying marine or technical? also ill wanna add that you will go far with those grades m8 well done :)

[Harvey529]

@forget1me14 It depends, beacuse i still don't know whether i want to be a Weapons or Marine Engineer but if your wanting to be a Weapons Engineering Technician in the navy I would have thought chosing Technical Engineering because weapons engineering involves a lot of electronic (Weapon targeting, radar, sonar, comms etc.) and Marine Engineering is mostly engines and metal work... I would recommend speaking to a naval careers officer first :)

[kayakerAllen]

once you've qualified as a weapons engineer do you specilise in a section and what are the different sections?

[leonard2k9]

thats what im doing when im 16 weapon engineer look after the guns, torpedoes, missiles,radar systems and sonar systems