Originally Posted by
DogTailRed2
Are any NATO countries, excluding the USA, laying down any new hulls for ships at present? Increasing tank and aircraft production? Turning out shells and munitions? Training soldiers?
All this talk but with a lead time of several years how exactly will we fight the next war if it happens in the next 12 months?
I'm not seeing much Western activity?
Some are. The further East you go the greater the realisation/real activity. And France seems to be doing quite a bit too!
UK-wise, until the DIP is sorted we won't know but, tbh, the last couple of decades don't bode well for anything much there! Westminster have their collective heads where the sun don't shine when it comes to defence. I kick my MP now and again, more to see if he's still awake rather than in any hope he'll actually
do anything!
Some stuff is being done in the margins (RN drone capability etc) but that's about it. The new helo has, IIR, been contracted for ..... finally. Ajax ....... is still not sorted but, at least, the MoD seem to accept there are issues with it now. Major new programmes? Tumbleweed City really!
Next 12 months? Maybe if we aim within the next 12 years or so!
