Originally Posted by
Buster15
But....isn't that why we are spending all those billions on the F35???
But we are not buying enough to equip two carriers and one well placed torpedo or sea skimming missile and those billions are forming the next reef for the local fish population. I take it you have seen what damage was inflicted upon the USS Cole by a bunch of Suicide bombers with intent to inflict damage on their target..hi tech no and pretty powerless to react to in a rush.
Bob I was just being realistic, how long would you give the UK forces in a modern war where the opposition had a roughly equal capability in assets? we have sold our souls to the devil and destroyed our capability to produce squat to replace losses, we just do not have the facility to ramp up production to replace losses anymore, look at the current RAF and how much is actually home produced.
Now which first world power might involve us in a war of necessity? Spain is a possibility as are Turkey or Greece over the SBAs
and who will be maintaining the F-35 engines for us??? Ohhh Turkey of course.