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Whilst our army is kind of small, we have nukes. We shouldn't really need a large force.

I imagine that Ukraine will be considering how it can acquire nukes again after this war is over.

Russia has nuclear weapons and currently Ukraine is openly attacking their infrastructure deep inside their borders. Nukes only matter if you're willing to use them. The UK would only use ours, like Russia, if someone were to use them against us or our state was at risk of collapse.
 
17,000 Infantry, 4000 tankers and 5000 Artillerymen. Thats all the UK has as ground fighting strength. Add in that the rapid deployment last year to Europe, around 100 CR2`s actually worked, and many Warriors and other armoured troop movers brokee down. Yup UK is a defence only force now and in poor shape

Nobody wants to join the Forces and nobody wants to pay for it.
 
I think given the sensitivities what is known will be very different to what is actually the case. I would put these kinds of systems up there as some of the most sensitive.
Not really. UK doesnt have any long range, high speed abm kit and the best we have is warship based. Its one reason we are joining the Poles for making CAMM-MR as a european equivalent to PAC3 and Germanybis sending IRIS . Simulations are no substitute for the real thing
 
Not really. UK doesnt have any long range, high speed abm kit and the best we have is warship based. Its one reason we are joining the Poles for making CAMM-MR as a european equivalent to PAC3 and Germanybis sending IRIS . Simulations are no substitute for the real thing
I think we would have to disagree on that. It’s not going to be known information.
 
I think at this point we can make an intelligent decision that the Taurus is in poor shape. Most likely Germany has failed to maintain them to the point they are just paperweights
Erm, they're still in production dude.

If you're looking at the introduction date of 2005 that's when they first entered service not when they were last made.
 
Erm, they're still in production dude.

If you're looking at the introduction date of 2005 that's when they first entered service not when they were last made.
They might be now in production.

If you remember at the start of the war the Germans could only send armour and old East German equipment. A lot of equipment had to be given to Rheinmetal to be refurbished before it could be handed over
 
Rubbish im afraid. Year long waiting lists for all branches. Tank regiments are dead mans shoes for promotions
The army has missed its recruitment targets every year since 2010 so they clearly are struggling to get people through the door. The other services have similar problems with the navy struggling to have enough ratings to deploy the required ships (combination of falling recruitment and people quitting at an alarming rate)


 
So we can pretty much say with certainty then that the test failed and that it did not enter service in September :p


Correction, the USSR demonstrated that capability as early as the 1960s.

The reason Russia has had such trouble with Sarmat is because it's their first attempt at a home grown ICBM, as the USSR used to get them built by Ukraine. This is also the reason Russia have had such a nightmare refurbishing the Admiral Kuznetsov, because Ukraine built all the aircraft carriers and so not only did Russia not have any experienced shipbuilders to task with repairing it but they didn't even have a dry dock big enough to put it in prior to 2022 (when they knocked two together).
A lot of the technical and scientific expertise of the Soviet Union came out of Ukraine, people like Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko who designed the R7 rocket and it's engines that put Sputnik were both from Ukraine.
 
The army has missed its recruitment targets every year since 2010 so they clearly are struggling to get people through the door. The other services have similar problems with the navy struggling to have enough ratings to deploy the required ships (combination of falling recruitment and people quitting at an alarming rate)


I’ll give you one big clue why the army is crao at recruiting and retaining

It’s the pay. It’s ok for a single bloke in his low 20s but when you start earning less than people doing checkouts at Lidl’s…

Plus there’s no decent promotion opportunities, once you get to Sargent your pretty much ******, they don’t want to lose you so they won’t put you forward.

The additional training and uplifts from it are limited or restricted if you get too many specialism you actually get more **** than if you did the bear minimum.
 
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Reform is basically MAGA for the UK. A bunch of knuckle dragging, low IQ idiots who believe any populist nonsense they are fed as long as it appeals to their bigotry.
I wish twitter would force poster to have their ip address country, because most of these “reform” voters speak a form of English that doesn’t sit quite right. If that makes sense
 
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