AlexLaw76

It is part of the ongoing retirement of 30 in total. Those 30 have no replacement.

That is one of my favourite shows!!

Absolutely not, an example. The 6th Astute Class submarine is not that long out of build. It has taken 12 years to get to this point. Not 12 years for 6 of these, but 12 years for just the 6th boat. Once the 7th, and final, boat is fully tested and operational, it will have been about 29 years since steel was cut on the first boat. 29 years! Due to time taken, costs have risen by an astronomical amount, and the 7th was nearly canned. For comparison to the 29 years it will take to complete the Astute Class, the entire Trafalgar Class (7 boats) were all done in 12 years (the time taken to build the last lest SM alone) the logistical and industrial base is just almost non-existent, compared to a time not that long ago. even the flag waving of increased defence spending (we are on a war footing after all), much of that will be consumed with more clever accounting, and laden the MoD with additional costs (Chagos, for example)

We have some F35s (numbers procured about to be cut again), but almost a non existent supply chain behind it, and virtually no weapons for anything other than the odd strike against a soft target. of course, the USA on the other hand…. oh, as the UK is about to “retire” a whole bunch of typhoons, so they can come off the list. you don’t want to see the state of the RN, or the state of the hollowed out army we have left.

Incredible they released the game in this state and with this UI. Let alone charge full price !!!!

Incredible if true. hardly anyone wants the child to be the manager

I think it is more of a case of Silva getting rid of Fulham

He was pretty shit when he had the majority of the team who were nothing to do with RM.

Europe has, on paper, air superiority over Russia. This is however, very much dependant on the USA still. Without them, there would be massive logistical, integration, command and control gaps when even attempting to maintain high-intensity warfare. Everything changes with the USA. But they have long been weary of paying for the defence of Europe (whilst, with this administration, getting shit whilst doing so).

when you say NATO, you mean the USA.... Without the USA, we aint doing anything to anyone.

but we don;t have a choice of Jesse Marsch, do we.

Is Jesse Marsch the manger of the Canada team? absolutely not chance of him leaving that...

Oh they were highly equipped (and trained). And rapidly given significant kit, which was expedited when Germany allowed air lanes over their country for the UK and US to ship 'stuff' into the country

Lowly Ukraine? They have probably the most highly equipped armed forces in the world outside of the USA.

The point about us being able to 'take on' Russia used for a comparison WRT a country with the 3rd or 4th largest defence budget in the world v a country that does not (historically) spend as much. Mere of a piece of self-reflection about a country on a 'WAR FOOTING'. We, the UK, with our horrifically hollowed out forces are the leading the defence in Estonia and committed to deploying a Division sized contingent within 10 days of an invasion. That is simply well out of our grasp, both from a capability PoV and a financial one. And we are one of the leading nations within NATO. This Just highlights the pitiful capability across the European contingent, which is due to sub-contracting out our defence to the USA for decades. We better hope Ukraine can drive Russia out, or Russia down tools and walk away, as the resources currently given Ukraine would be dwarfed by their begging bowl to rebuild the south-eastern part of the country.

I am not sure any country, bar possibly the USA, could "take" Ukraine given the incredible amount of high quality equipment, money, ISTAR, Command and Control it has been given.

Russia now launches / fires c5000 drones a month into Ukraine, as they slowly continue their advance. going to run out of weaponry any day now, right? those sort of figures would be devastating against our own, embarrassingly equipped ground forces. in a peer-to-peer conventional dust up, Russia would have us done over a weekend. Our forces are in a terrible state as the cuts to our equipment and capability continue.

When will it be cheaper?

Jason Mule had some shockers when here

Sir, look no further. This man is adaptable and not fixated on formations

So what?

Bravo. Brilliantly put

No idea where the data is drawn from? But hard to disagree

Netflix takes a bashing in this scenario

A/S/L