Comments by "Grave Peril" (@graveperil2169) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1. missed out the main advantage of the HMS Queen Elizabeth only has a crew of 679 and labour is expensive in the UK so lots of automation
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  2. its not the cost its the number T45 has only 48 VLS that can not be reloaded at sea with 21 targets in a day even 1v1 its dry in 3 days sure the US ships have more VLS but at this rate they are all in trouble
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  3. their maintenance bill will be fun with that selection of aircraft
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  4. the UK will not supply cluster bomblets
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  5.  @deanwood1338  73 and 6 (T45)
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  6. you lied on your job application and now want compensation for being called on it and losing your job
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  7. MOD needs to stop wasting it all on vehicle testing that after billions of pounds fails to deliver any working vehicles
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  8.  @peterfeeney721  the bill should be sent to the flags of convenience country's they should not be flagging ships if the are not going to protect them
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  9. So is the UK giving these away or selling them?
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  10. thats what it is under the fancy tacit-col black pain job, the spec was a large work area with power and a crane it lets them test things out at sea without diverting a frigate to do it, its a good idea but the marketing team have gone over the top on it
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  11. first in class plus normaly these thing are stretched out to make sure everyone has work till the next ship to stop skill loss if we built more they would likely be faster
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  12. because they have
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  13. true but its also got the least crew and the smallest price tag
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  14. another cap badge to fight over
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  15. the UK never issued a medal for Dunkirk then again that was only 338,226 people instead of the 15,000 from Kabul
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  16. And what good is this doing the UK?
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  17. problem is giving more money to the MOD is that history shows they will just waste it
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  18. still need food for the crew so still needs resupply and its limited on were it can dock, also refueling takes years
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  19. its a patrol vessel not a warship
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  20.  @billbrockman779  nuking Washington?
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  21. we just paid for these Ukraine get the junk thats going out of date not the good stuff
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  22. no for once its buying off the shelf so it will link with any upgrades instead of being a UK bespoke variant
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  23. well if they are working as hired security i hope they got paid
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  24. I keep hoping for the secret moon base to be made public
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  25. no mention of her close connection to The Life Guards
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  26. once the war is over sure, after all the RN is scraping both of the existing ship classes discussed here with the plan to use fully automated systems instead this could be a good testing environment. would the UN be footing the bill?
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  27. its not a warship its a offshore patrol vessel it only has to deal with refugees, fishermen and on a bad day pirates
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  28. the Blackhawk and the Apache Failed the US in its Afghan war remember!
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  29. life is not safe its not about the risks in the Osprey design but if the benefits out weight the risks
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  30. they are only getting 9k so you may be right
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  31. not even in the same league, lets hope its nice and cheap so we can get a few of them
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  32. I always thought the best way to increase recruitment was to start a war
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  33. no one died and they lost some ipods
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  34. can Grant Shapps justify his existence?
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  35. they will never be swapped each drive unit will have a module and that is the only module it will ever use
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  36.  @arakami8547  just like Ukraine can not attack Russia Germany can not attack the UK, Each nation has to build an force of its own needs and the UK will never be attacked by another country so it has expeditionary forces as all its wars will be fought away from the UK
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  37. The UK only bid was a joke this was the best ship being offered. UK manufactures are always willing to rip off the UK tax payer
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  38. they are buying 9000 so the whole army
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  39. or do you use it to shorten the NHS waiting list and save lives its been 40 years since we needed the navy
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  40.  @Eduardo_Espinoza  no one so long as the goods are cheap and keep flowing
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  41. you can put mines by the side of the road that then chose which transport to attack, and missiles when launched into and area pick their own targets
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  42. then bet to get it lost now and get it done with
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  43. the longer it goes on the more Russia suffers so all good
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  44. if they traveled after being warned not to go do they get a bill for the flight out?
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  45. did it work?
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  46. is it not N LAW?
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  47. forming up for a pincer movement with the Russians?
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  48. how do the crew numbers compare?
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  49.  @ipdavid1043  at a straight thats 20km across the range of the weapon hardly counts
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  50.  @OiOi-Jim  the RAF are not dropping bombs on London and Manchester and that is where those killers came from
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  51. when you look at what Poland is planing for their land forces you wonder why we bother, Maybe time to scrap the army and focus on Air and sea instead of failing to deliver on all 3 the UK is and Island lets use that
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  52. they still need ground crew and a pilot, They are not unmanned just remotely manned
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  53. its a sneaky scout after they are deaf they will never hear it
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  54. lets just hope the tanks the Russians are fielding are as old as ours
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  55.  @bobdylan7120  unless you want to go back to WW1 battles it has its place
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  56. @Goat the UK army gutted its self playing at COIN for the last 20 years
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  57. HAHA
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  58. these were bought and paid for years ago sending them off to Ukraine gets rid of the storage costs this is a tax saving measure you should be grateful
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  59. you would think CIWS would eat them alive
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  60. give it a rest will you
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  61.  @karlmunford7000  and what has that to do with the navy?
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  62.  @karlmunford7000  problem is UK waters touch french waters there is no international waters to play in, so they are either in french territory in which case only the french can deal with them or they are in UK territory so can claim asylum
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  63. have you seen Ajax and how we got there? the only reason this exists is because it's under the RAF
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  64. it costs money to store these thing may as well let the Ukraines use them
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  65.  @mightvedroppedjury5324  do that and one day it may be sent of to war to die bravely
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  66. it already is
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  67. my taxes bought the ammo and its being used to kill the enemies of the UK so I have no trouble with it, better fired in Ukraine than on a UK beach
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  68. at least one never made it back from the moscow parades and had to be towed
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  69. prefer the Lord of war intro
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  70. they have been going to Saudi Arabia for years
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  71. but we have a different Prince of Wales now
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  72. the IFF check is it just matching the image to known profiles? As I would think with somewhere like Ukraine it would have issues with the same aircraft being used by both sides
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  73. true and land forces suck you in for the long term best invest in a Navy and Air force as tanks still do not swim
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  74.  @mylex817  shame they don't recognise Taiwan as existing
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  75. bring back Prize money all those multi million drug hauls have to be worth something
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  76. its not the MOD its the Army the Navy and Air Force is able to plan ahead for equipment
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  77. should have done that 70 years ago
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  78.  @catfishfortesque-smythe437  of course it does how does a country with 67M aprox population have the 5th biggest employer in the world
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  79.  @dovidell  because it works
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  80.  @meme4one  so long as we stay insink with them nice money earner for them
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  81.  @d-rob5513  look at the loss data for both sides helicopters are sitting ducks for MANPADS designed to take out jets, going low may defend you from the area defense but it brings you into the MANPAD range
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  82.  @grahamthebaronhesketh.  crowns we have a few spare one but ships we do not
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  83. has Ukraine not shown that peer to peer the days of the Helicopter gunship is over when every bush can contain a 5km+ MANPAD
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  84. it does but Artillery System for the 1990s is a bit of a mouthful and in 2023 1990 does not sound that great
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  85. safer than using newer versions that have not been vetted and are constantly updated, Its there to run equipment
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  86. Its known software that runs the required equipment
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  87. do we have 100+ pilots?
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  88. no bridge?
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  89. we are already sending weapons that kill the exact type of weapons hardly matters the only mission creep would be to actively attack/kill Russians in Ukraine ourselves
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  90. Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH great idea scraped in 1969
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  91.  @1chish  tell your friend I just think the RAF is a blunt tool to be killing terrorists no matter the location
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  92.  @mikeycraig8970  less than the Italians
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  93.  Ivan Itchzikok  so that's Europe covered what do we do about those other places in the world that we own
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  94.  @blackmantis3130  British Overseas Territories ie Bermuda, Cayman Islands and a few other places including that one in the South Atlantic Ocean
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  95.  @blackmantis3130  so no need of an army then
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  96.  @blackmantis3130  but its all light stuff if for the big events its all going to be NATO why worry about a token force of the heavy metal and instead stick the funds into the navy/airforce
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  97. no one is going to invade the UK so unless we are planning on taking a more active role in the Ukraine war we may as well send it all
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  98. "British Army's monster new battlefield vehicle" not how i expected the new scout vehicle to be described
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  99. we have nukes for defence, every thing else is for politics
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  100. Challenger 3 can be pushed back
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  101. C3
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  102. AUKUS and Tempest are both safe due to the international element
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  103. when we have nukes do we really need them?, they are only to play at war in other country's
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  104. entered water for first time and did not get wet
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  105. the UK Army just throws its dead troops into a hole and if they are lucky they may be moved to a graveyard later for 9 Fusiliers in Belgium that move took over 100 years. maybe being cremated is not that bad
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  106. if the ministers want the UK to send people to go die in Africa they better start funding them better
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  107.  @JnglyL3g3nd  no what i am saying is IF its as bad as allan says then its best its sunk now, do you think its that bad a ship??
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  108. was that a BAE dig at the end?
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  109.  @JnglyL3g3nd  well if they are no good the sooner they are got rid of the better
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  110. its ok we have gone back to the old ways and to get someone else to do the land fighting and the UK just supplies funding/weapons while cutting the opponent off from trade
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  111.  @JnglyL3g3nd  no but i am sure allanlees299 would love to
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  112.  @oldgreggscreamybaileys6618  sure you can do both but then you dont fix the potholes we are over spending by £87.4 billion year either way "ask us if we would like to spend it and I’m sure the answer would be yes" is open to question
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  113.  @MrBlaxjax  no idea about Spain but Greece is almost at war with Turkey
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  114.  @peterchapman4729  being an island with nukes its not a defence budget it an attack budget
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  115. if they were full of armed troops I bet they could
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  116.  @diclo383  all of whom are so scared of china they will not even declare Taiwan a separate country
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  117. Taiwan is alot smaller than mainland china, and china can lose a few million population, China will win any nuke fight with Taiwan
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  118. that' why we have nukes no one is invading the UK scrap the army and build up the navy and air-force lets focus on what we need
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  119. why do we need Tanks Russia will be a spent force very soon and Poland will have more modern tanks than we will be prepared to pay for, We are an Island so we should build up the Navy and air force leave the tanks for those with land boarders
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  120.  @californiadreamin8423  we are designing and building Nuclear subs
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  121.  @californiadreamin8423  and how many tanks has the Ukraine war eaten up more than the UK fleet of C2's many time over never mind the C3's the UK is an island we should build forces that reflect that and leave the ground force to those with land boarders
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  122.  @Brookspirit  in part yes, I understand that the war thunder site is also a good place to pick up secrets
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  123. Because China has gone out of its way to recruit them
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  124.  @JammyDodger45  not sure what you are trying to say but none of this is free
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  125.  @alexanderkostiaev9426  at least my gay pride people can drive tanks unlike the best selected tank drivers in Russia
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  126. only their computers
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  127. no but do you want to walk or fly?
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  128.  @nicfarrow  balancing risk with benefit, any kind of flight is more risky than walking
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  129. i think everyone agrees that the most lethal army in Europe will be Poland
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  130. ballistic missile subs are only doing longer deployments due to them being worn out by old age 4 boats is fine if they are replaced when they should be
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  131.  @danielbailey5849  at least its not sitting in a whse as its approaches is expiry date
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  132. mini-guns jam too often
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  133. we already have done
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  134.  @verdebusterAP  but they can not be in 2 place at once
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  135.  @grahamstubbs4962  lasers
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  136. they die, what happens when the evac is delayed due to lack of availability for either the evac asset or its escort
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  137.  @toadsauce8091  be interesting to see how long they last the one thing Russians have is lots of mobile air defence to protect their tanks
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  138.  @matthewwalker5430  all depends on who the target was self defence sure but if they are defending a cargo ship 10km+ away its going to be pure missiles
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  139.  @derekw.9878  send them a bill
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  140.  @Cpt_Boony_Hat  and hardly any money saved design costs stay the same reducing the hull count just made each one cost more
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  141.  @lindaj5492  without an active defence system to counter the top down missiles they are also at risk the top is weak on all tanks
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  142. @Goat the government did not make them buy a scout that was 40 tons so loud it causes hearing loss and twice as tall as the one its replacing, they have wasted billions on on procurement and have nothing to show for it
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  143.  @chrism415  its RN sub captains with Nukes, the ones you have named are just politicians they get voted in and out so are not overly important
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  144. these were bought years ago to fight Russia lets use them up against Russia and get new ones for china lets send all 42 they are not doing any good sitting in UK sheds
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  145.  @philodonoghue3062  If not i am sure people are working on it
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  146.  @markhammond9527  cluster munitions are not in the Geneva convention, they are in their own Dublin convention the list of "rouge state" that have not signed up to it is large including Finland, China, USA, Ukraine
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  147.  @matthewbaynham6286  will by the time they deliver
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  148.  Rui Gaspar  so we are not Russians and we have banned cluster weapons as hey fail to explode and become unmarked mine fields that kill civilians long after the war is over, Also if you can hit what you are aiming at there is no need to throw explosives all over the place making a mess
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  149.  @stpejc1977  £90M for the lot the holidays are already booked
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  150. they have all ready been trained, they have been training on all the systems they requested just been pending political agreement to send them
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  151. were are they going to store all those modules and how many extra are thy going to buy, You just know that they will be bought with one module and that is the only module they will ever use
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  152.  @chrism415  what do you think we bought all the weapons for any way it was to kill Russians so its all good
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  153. they may have pothole but they are not mined
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  154. planned for 2025 the RN are scraping the 2 ship classes in this video to use drones instead
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  155. they were design either way at the start then went STVOL was paused for a while when the government thought about changing to cats till the bill turned up sure they can be converted but its not cheap or easy now that they have been built. would not expect it to change until the F35 goes out of service
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  156. Everyone wants more money well if we are not going to go for growth tell me what are we going to cut
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  157. unlike other nations UK did not nuke their own soil they nuked other country's including the USA
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  158. so does the UK have the record for having nuked the most countries? Australia, Republic of Kiribati, United States nope beaten by the Soviets Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
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  159. is Dover not south?
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  160. shame these display teams could not hold an airfield long enough to get all our allies out, still it looks pretty so money well spent by the MOD
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  161.  @simonhool3073  delusional to think that MOD funding was to defend the nation and not to put on entertainment.
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  162.  @aaronb2779  nothing but by your own description it should be funded by Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport not the MOD
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  163. to start with they did not have the ships by the time they could think about it the US threatened them with Nukes
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  164.  @abrahamdozer6273  wait till the Japanese base F35's of it
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  165.  @Retrosicotte  thought the Falkland's one was the first
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  166. likely to the same level that the UK is planing to Invade Russia
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  167.  @tanner1111  is not pinging them a bit of a give away that some one is about to shoot you?
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  168. stolen from the navy
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  169.  @mylex817  yep the US has no interest in helping Taiwan its just a long standing power play with China
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  170.  @apvial  that shed was part of china at the time its part of china now
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  171.  @apvial  but you did not find another house you moved into my shed at the end of my garden and called it yours
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  172.  @apvial  the ROC is no more its the PRC there is just one China now
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  173.  @apvial  and then there was a civil war that the ROC lost and the PRC took over inheriting the lands of the ROC including Taiwan
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  174. it not the MOD its the Army
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  175.  @tams805  I know I working in retail most of our supply base is now in Bangladesh
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  176.  @Eduardo_Espinoza  US grandstands and China grandstands as a count next week back to the norm
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  177.  @northernhardcore.7899  it has 13 official backers in the UN mostly small island nations, despite all the sabre rattling and rhetoric its not officially supported by the USA, EU or UK every one else backs the one China view of China
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  178.  @whya2ndaccount  if its not deliberately targeted then i think oops does cut it, the idea that innocent bystanders get killed is well understood in war
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  179.  @whya2ndaccount  Clegg was not a war crime it was self defence 1-3 murder 4
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  180. west Germany had automatic guns that fired on people trying to cross the wall, getting the AI to shoot i easy getting it to hot only at what you want it to is the hard bit
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  181. talking to the IRA is bad enough why do we have to deal with Irgun leftovers a well
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  182. as the PRC have claimed this as china for 70ish years as long as they existed i am sure there is a list of places that China claim
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  183. The Germans may have perfected the bunker but it was Wallis that perfected the earthquake with Grand Slam and Tallboy
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  184.  @farzana6676  shall we move on from fighting people with AK's and sandals to some one with a modern Air defence
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  185. if you want drones to replace maned aircraft and to get the same/better performance they need to be the same size as the maned aircraft minus the seat to do that you need a full size carrier to support them
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  186. do we even know how to do that anymore
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  187. storing stuff costs money and we are broke
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  188.  @1chish  they can still only be in one place at once
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  189.  @orlock20  well if it can beat some one wear sandals with an AK it must be good
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  190. AUKUS and Tempest are both safe due to the international element
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