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Old 9th Apr 2024, 18:47
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The problem with the 10 year spending plan is it has rapidly become obsolete due to the massive shifts in technology learnt on the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia.

Rather like the Dreadnoughts of the past, certain equipment procurement is proving to be getting left behind during the rapid pace of development, tanks for one are proving vulnerable and until an effective measure Is found to protect them it is not going to get better, then you look at the numbers Russia is losing in a day, in some cases 40 plus, which make our stocks of a couple hundred tanks derisory.

Drones are paving the way on land sea and air, and I can see the west pumping millions into each UAV when what is needed are cheap disposable items that are impervious to jamming and capable of destroying the enemy.
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