Originally Posted by
99 Change Hands
How many GR1s lofting dumb 1000-pounders would have been needed to achieve the recent action in Syria?
This is quite an old argument now, does anyone actually sit down and calculate just how many GR4s are needed as compared with the number GR1s? Are the possible and probable scenarios where HM Forces could be deployed fed into a computer somewhere which then spits out an answer saying something like you'll manage with just x number of GR4s, just don't be careless and allow any to be shot down! Military assets and personnel are given the boot for one multi-facet reason.. Primarily to save money, the driver is the next facet; to secure expected votes by spending savings on other government departments. And of course, the government will always fend off criticism of some unsatisfactory state of affairs in the nation's defence arrangements by saying in a 'lets have no more of this nonsense' tone; We have the fourth/fifth largest blah blah blah budget in the whole wide world! So there!!
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