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Old 28th Jan 2017, 18:56
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Heathrow Harry
 
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"Germany simply does not have the political, geographic and military conditions of the UK"

You are of course correct - they have a stable govt, a budget surplus, a higher standard of living

When it comes to aircraft they have more Tornados than we have and almost the same number of Typhoons

Their Army has +60,000 men and +400 MBT's - ours has 84000 men and 227 MBT's

Our navy is bigger and better - more of everything and SSN's and SSBN's

I'd still say looking at the numbers that we have a far larger RAF estate than we'd have if we started from scratch
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