Sadly I dont see this happening. Despite current global situation, we are still pushing ahead with cuts and not investing as we should. The planned raise in defense budget over the next decade has already effectively been allocated to cover current projects from what I have read.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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UK armed forces now smaller than anytime in the last 260 years, the army just dipped under the numbers for 1760
Its a horrible state of affairs. I am seeing the real world effect of the low numbers. We are trying to have the same output as 10-15 years ago with over a 1/3 less people. Guys are completely burnt out, sign off rates are through the roof. Positions are gapped all over the shop. People are double and triple hatting positions just to get by. Our vehicle fleet is on its **** with no short-medium term solution. Recruitment is at a huge deficit. They guys that have come through training in recent years are to no fault of their own, useless due to training deficiencies from depot. Whisch puts an increased stress and training burden on field units.
The only reason the Army hasnt fallen flat on its face in recent years is due to our complete stubbornness to push through and complete tasks at all costs regardless of the impact/effect on the lads, hence the skyrocketing sign off rate. It can only go on so long before it all collapses and we are found out, and the country see the real situation we are in.
The scary thing is... This is not a situation that is unique to us, all NATO countries are facing the same recruitment issues and resulting strain on remaining personnel. Albeit to varying levels.
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They may not have air superiority but eighty years ago they also didn't have flying drones
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Battle winning Tank regiments are now squadrons and Old Infantry Battalions are now platoons. Its a joke it really is. Would horrify the country if they knew the truth about all those big pageants and who we had attend. And no we couldnt retake the Falklands.
Thankfully we take security down there a bit more seriously these days. i doubt Argentina could just waltz on over and occupy it these days. However if they were to, I do agree it wouldnt be an easy task to retake. We'd likely be crawling with our tail between our legs and invoking article 5...
or the USA offering shittyhawk without aircraft or crew - again
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Please do some research before posting comments based upon opinion not fact.
Among other assets we have 4 euro typhoons stationed there that would remove from play any asset Argentina tried to even get close. They haven’t evolved much since the falklands war themselves. Then on top of that occasional Royal Navy assets including nuclear submarines.
Outside of the US and potentially now china, no country has military that has plenty of manpower and/or modern gear to fight a protracted modern war.
He said retake not defend... In the hypothetical situation where Argentina took control of Falklands, we would simply struggle to get the required forces into position to retake. We have retired/sold so many vital assets that would be key in regaining control should we lose the islands. However thankfully we have enough assets in place to stop an assault with Argentina's current capabilities.
Sorry matey, my lads were never sent down south, spent my days in Germany at Dempsey Barracks , or on Granby or at the end in Cyprus....
However as Steve said, i specifically said RETAKE aka another oppo like `82.
Surprise surprise this war has revealed that Russian hypersonic missiles don't travel as fast as the bots like to claim... albeit that might make things more difficult if they manage to get them closer to the headline speeds given a real world situation to refine them against.
Well there's some answer on the speed, Ukrainians are saying the Kinzhal speed is picked up on radar as 4464kmph or 2773mph, otherwise known as Mach 3.6.
Given the range that the operators say the radar picks up the missiles, it means they have 2 minutes to shoot it down before it hits the target
Is 2 minutes from target terminal? Mach 3.6 at terminal is still quite some speed and mighty impressive for Patriot to intercept it
And yes this means its not really a hypersonic missile as it would need to be over Mach 5 at terminal to achieve that claim
Given the range that the operators say the radar picks up the missiles, it means they have 2 minutes to shoot it down before it hits the target
Is 2 minutes from target terminal? Mach 3.6 at terminal is still quite some speed and mighty impressive for Patriot to intercept it
And yes this means its not really a hypersonic missile as it would need to be over Mach 5 at terminal to achieve that claim
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I believe the problem the Russian's had was that their speed gun maxed out at 3600KPH so they had to guess their missile's top speed. 4464KPH is not great but it's not terrible.
Which I believe is still an issue for hitting ships as compared to a static land target you need to recalibrate in terminal even with the short time from launch to hitting and the interference from plasma generated on the leading surfaces is far too high at the headline hypersonic speeds for the sensors required for that to operate accurately.
So the missile needs to slow down in terminal to achieve conditions for accurate targeting making it easier to track and hit.
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The third image is an insane amount of water gone
Ukranians are reporting the Iranian shahed drones are now manufactured with fewer western components, but the western components have been replaced with Chinese components and so manufacturing still continues and is infact expanding
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That is not supprising - naturally Chinese manufacturing will be very happy about this.
Russia have seen how useful drones and cheap production of missiles is - it will replace their cheap use of bullets and shells that the old Russian 1900s strategy of shell it into oblivion.
The west are, naturally, in need of basic resource and manufacturing in the long run to be reliant on Chinese manufacturing. China will be happy to play both sides of the table as long as it suites them - just as the US and most countries if they can get away with it.
That explains it. I would expect them to be HIMAR'sing the crap out of the fortifications in front of them.
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