sootyj
Tuesday 17th July 2012 12:50pm [Edited]
51,287 posts
So you can go on operations and slot some Hajis in the field?
Come back with a necklace of ears (or willies) before demanding more guns!
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 17 2012, 1:26 PM BST
Because Britain has become so pussy-fied, the meek general public don't seem to get too upset whenever there are big cuts to the armed forces.
The defence budget is comparatively huge for our size and wealth.
Cutting it isn't so much the issue in so much as shooting people for idiotic decisions.
UK built HMS Ocean as a helicopter carrier, for a small fee it could have had a catapault for launching light jets.
Instead we're getting 2 aricraft carriers at 6 billion a piece. One of which we hope the French will buy at a firestore price.
The MOD is too busy selling Typhoons for buttons to tyrants. Too seriously consider modifying the 100s of surplus ones for carrier borne operations (doable aparently).
Instead the UK is buying the f35 except we can't choose which model and each time the price goes up.
And the person who pays the cost is the poor sacked infantry man.
I mean in the last 3 wars against an oponent with any sort of airforce.
Kosovo, GW1+2 the UK has gone in with ancient Tornadoes that were never good enough when they were built. And needed to have air defence provided by an European airforce with US jets. Whilst the sodding Typhoons were being built, repaired, painted in stripes and used as maypoles.