Read your books

Bible, plus others say that " The Yellow man will eventually rule the world"

Everything you buy in the US, UK, France, Germany, Canada says "Made in China"

Buy shares in China or Far East Options

Get rich quick and retire - or become an MP - same game!

As has been said before the SND buys the UK a seat at the big boys' table in world politics. We've got it and I can't see any politician ever risking the global stature that the UK has by getting rid of them completely. Bearing in mind the countries that appear to be actively trying to develop their own capability, I have absolutely no problem with keeping it or developing a successor.

As far as who operates them, there is always going to be an element of single service rivalry about who has the responsibility. The RN have it at the moment and will hopefully keep it in the future. Notwithstanding any of the previous arguments about how secure your aircraft and airfields are or could be, a Vanguard submarine is currently sat somewhere on patrol with the SND on board. Where is it? Only a handful of people have a rough idea and probably only a couple of them who are actually on board can answer with any accuracy. That's secure! Bloody difficult for anyone to try and interfere with it or take it out when you haven't got a scooby where it is.

As far as the argument about tactical vs strategic scale nukes, there probably is a valid argument for the scientists to come up with something that could fit into a SS or TLAM for tactical use. Whether we would ever use them is a totally different argument!

Whatever happened to the airborne laser/counter ICBM project that was being talked about a few years ago? I remember seeing something about a huge chemical laser mounted in a converted 747 that could potentially track and destroy ICBMs before they got too close.

The Russians appeared to trump Ronnie's Star-Wars proposals with plans and a subsequent successful firing almost a year ago of the Topol-M mobile ICBM. Apparently airborne lasers have a capability gap with hypersonic missiles.

buoy15,

Hhmm…………..

Try telling that to the three million people who work in manufacturing in the UK!

As to the “yellow man”, why should the Bible be any more accurate here than it has been elsewhere?

Bluntend,

Isn't the Boeing A1 coming along rather nicely but extremely slowly?