Soldato
Nobody wants to join the Forces and nobody wants to pay for it.
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Nobody wants to join the Forces and nobody wants to pay for it.
Soldato
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
Soldato
Rubbish im afraid. Year long waiting lists for all branches. Tank regiments are dead mans shoes for promotions
Soldato
I think we would have to disagree on that. It’s not going to be known information.
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.
Plenty of people want to join but crapita does it's usual excellent job of ruining the process.
Soldato
Enough people on this thread have actual hands on with the current kit the lads have.
Soldato
And they wouldn’t be posting about it here.
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
Caporegime
Always makes me chuckle the way people on here think they know every type and number of military hardware the UK has.
Soldato
I've got a close friend who was in the Royal Engineers but left (along with others) due to the sheer "traditional" incompetence in the way it is run
Soldato
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)
Army recruitment goals not met since 2010
Figures reveal a cumulative deficit of 22,350 in the Basic Training Starts (BTS) targets for the British Army, compared to the total recruitment goal of 119,530 set over the period from 2010 to 2023.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
Soldato
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.So we can pretty much say with certainty then that the test failed and that it did not enter service in September
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).
I’ll give you one big clue why the army is crao at recruiting and retainingThe 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)
Army recruitment goals not met since 2010
Figures reveal a cumulative deficit of 22,350 in the Basic Training Starts (BTS) targets for the British Army, compared to the total recruitment goal of 119,530 set over the period from 2010 to 2023.
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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Soldato
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.
Soldato
Bang bang
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
Was this one of those cardboard drones the us is very annoyed at Australia for inventing? Or was it something else?
Bang bang
Soldato
Ahh the home grown version.
How is it with all the west’s money and resources, that Ukraine is still producing better kit like this.
Shows why Russia wants Ukraine, they were the brains behind most of the soviet special equipment
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