Originally Posted by
renfrew
Remember we get our 8 or 9% of military assets at the break up.
Assuming we use the 8% (which could be argued down to 2.5% depending on your metric of choice)....
What are you going to do with 32% of a SSBN or 64% of a C17? How about that 16% of a carrier? You do own almost half a T45, do you want the front or the back?
I guess you could operate your 12.8 Typhoons, but that's not really a large enough fleet to be sustainable and can you imagine the price Westlands will charge to maintain your 5.36 Apaches?
The reality is that 8% of most of the highest value defence assets doesn't result in anything of value. Instead an independent Scotland is going to be trading those assets for more mundane odds and sods. Expect to get a disproportionate number of tanks, soldiers, weapons and anything that the MoD have been looking to get rid of.
Ultimately none of this matters, as long as Alex gets his 8% of flesh by monetary value and can claim to have kept bases open it doesn't matter if any sort of useable military force results.