Comments by "the truth hurts" (@thetruthhurts7675) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1.  @ieuanmorgan5110  That is the Russian army, as they have proved time, and again.
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  2. That is two weeks longer than Ukraine was supposed to last. Nice point mate!!
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  3. Beautiful lady, Beautiful sentiments. More like her are needed. I wish you safety and more help from the European sector of Nato. Medical suplies do seem to get overlooked in a war, especially one of attrition such as this is becoming.
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  4. How? let us not forget that Russia cannot alone handle the Turkish Nvay (which is whu they are holed up in the Crmea today, and during this Ukraine illegal Russian invasion.) So just how is so weak a navy going to make your claims true here?
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  5. Sweden (SAAB, and GKN) are still a part of Tempest.
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  6.  @antique-bs8bb  Losing badly? They have recovered over 30% of the land Russia took, and are pushing back on all fronts, only Russian drone infantry are appearing to win. However even those loses are unsustainable for Russia in the long run. Mean while the Challenger continues to obliterate Russian armour unabated.
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  7.  @danielhutchinson6604  Yes correct, we are witnessing the demise finally of Mother Russia.
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  8.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  Dp provide your evidence for your claims see I can prove you wrong, buy it will be more fun to see a politburo bot squirm whn caught out.
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  9. LOL. Like that will ever happen!
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  10. We, as in the UK, have the 25th largest population in the world, and the third most powerful (on paper) armed forces in the world. For example the RN has greater tonnage than Spain, France, Germany, and Italy combined. The RAF is only smaller than the Russian airforce in Europe, while the Army is effectively the most powerful in Europe given the show that Russia has shown their paper tiger power to be. So despite a commitment by this government to spend 3%of GDP by 2025, what more exactly is there to do, other than modernise, and improve? We are the largest spending nation on defence in Europe, last year Britiain actually spent £71.4billion on all aspects of defence, honestly what do you want from the UK here? Not counting research (which is actually a seperate budget), Service and civilian costs (another separate budget), and Boris's 2 now £20.9Billion uplift for the armed forces we spend on defence (actual costs of training, running, and servicing equipment, and sailors Royal marines, soldiers and airmen, and women) £45.9 Billion a year. Only China with $193.3Billion, and the USa with $738Billion spend more than the UK. Raising the total defence budget to 3% of GDP will mean that in 2025 we will be spending quite a bit over £100Billion a year on defence. keeping us as the third biggest defence spender in the world!!
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  11. Actually you are incorrect here. These combined forces were not used in Afghanistan at all under the UN mandate which strangely Russia agreed with. Russia was hoping that the US, and Uk would face the same as they did in the 1970's onwards. Russia has never beaten Afghanistan, and still tries. Now though the Russians are facing an even bigger humiliation in Ukraine, and the border regions along your countries southern borders aren't they?
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  12.  @edwardburroughs1489  It is defence of our way of life!
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  13. Both the UK ,and France are giving away to Ukraine all of their older stockpiles, because the future cruise missile (another British/French colaberation, and I must admit I am beginning to like these collaberations between our countries more and more) is due to come online earlier because of the Ukraine war. Germany is considering sending soem of it's upgraded versions as well, though as always they seem to be prevaricating as normal!!
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  14.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  Yes OK. However Russia has lost ground in Kherson, and will loose the city in the next few weeks. Isn't that an offensive? Plus kicking Russia nad it's belorussian ally away from Kyiv was an offensive. So you just losyt that one quite convincingly. Russia couldn't take Kyiv just 236 miles whilst in WW2 Germany took Kyiv from a standing start and pacified it in just 1 month and 3 days. Russia is just going through it's death throws now thankfully the MOST aggresive, and most hated country in the world will be gone in the next two to three years because of the terrorist Putin.
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  15. Boris is the only PM to put money into the British forces for Decades. With his increased spending we are now spending more than Russia, which makes us number three in the world. Boris has modernised the British forces so that the equipment is the most up to date anywhere, the Royal navy is the largest European navy, and the most modern, whilst the Challenger is getting complete upgrades, which Labour would all turn around and squander that money on unecessary ideas that all fail. The RAF has the most modern aircraft fleet in the world, and the Army is getting the most modern equipment, what more exactly could anyone else do?
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  16.  @sticky59  No it is the Russians that have been retreating for months now. This is the firts and last thing Russia trains it's troops in and is the requirement to pass into the Russian army as proved by Afghanistan, Russians run when the going gets really tough!!
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  17. It could have been a SCALP, however theuy are exactly the same weapon, and Britian has been supplying them for over a month now, whilst the French SCALP, has only just started to arrive. ALL News reports will name it Storm Shadow for that very simple reason.
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  18.  @Jonesy-0  The SBs were formed in the second world war and have been a fully operational unit continuously since then, In 1947 the Navy took over the Army Specil Boat Section, and everyone was transfered, and they were renamed the Special boat Company in 1951. In 1974 they were renamed the Spaecial Boat Squadron, the and in 1987 they were finally called the Special Boat Service. Unlike the SAS who were disbanded Totally in October 1945!! Do buck up here, the SBS is the only SF unit in NATO to have continued operations from WW2.
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  19. Possibly as many as you have had hot meals to be honest.
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  20. @roberto lang Well to be honest defending your country is far more noble than making stupid childish statements on YouTube like you are doing here.
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  21. Why exactly? There are plenty of people from South of the border who serve in the Irish Guards.
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  22. Beacause the ski jump on the QE class means that in beast mode the F35c can launch with 22,000lbs of weapons, whilst the F35C (with a much heavier airframe) on the Ford or Nimitz class can only with CATOBAR launch with 18,000lbs. Plus the angle of the top of the ski ramp is such that in an emergency the pilot can return to deck without touching the controls because of the angle of the aircraft on launch, it will slowly turn to port, and return to the rear of the ship, which you also cannot do with CATOBAR. Plus CATOBAR has to be maintained and inspected every single day at least twice taking the deck out of action for a minimum of 2 hours a day if nothing is found wrong. Finally with CATOBAR ypou either launch, or land, on the QE/POW you can do both at the time! OK?
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  23.  @GEARNINTH  The SAS are sent in if the SBS are busy. They do more per man, and have a much broader tasking, than the SAS.
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  24. In the UK anything with TWO decks permanently above water is a ship, anything else is a boat, thus submarines are boats. What is so difficult to understand here? The edited bit I spelt Permanently incorrectly/and UK!!
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  25. Defeated by whom exactly? Go on do give us your take on the world you inhabit!
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  26. We do have glide bombs in the west. The best known is the US JDAM, the Uk equivalent is Paveway which costs less than the Russian version on here.
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  27. @e5497 So the country that has fought more wars with Russia AKA Turkey should NOT be a part of NATO? Really? Just what gives you the right to say this?
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  28. The departmnts who use the defence people for strikes should pay each individual Sailor, Soldier, or Air force personn £20 per person per day. They save the money by NOT paying those on strike at all. This should be bought to parliament as soon as possible.
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  29. The breakthrough is a tad like Lawrence of Arabia in the first world war, he effectively for Britain and France broke through the Turkish ruled parts of the middle east, and lead to Gemany and Austria being isolated. Slava Ukraine from the UK.
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  30. Speed is NOT everything in the fighter aircraft world, it is still about agility. The F15 Eagle (1976) was the fastest US fighter jet ever built, and the Mig 25 was the fastest Russian jet ever built. The English Electric Lightning was faster than the F35, ot the Typhoon, it could do mach 2 whilst the others only Mach 1.6 fot the F35 and Mach 1.8 for the interceptor version of the Typhoon. Aircraft have been getting slower since the Lightning, F14, and Mig 25 foxhound
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  31.  @godsucks6391  That is called sonabouys, and sonar. Radar doesn't have a chance to detect underwater submerged boats. AKA submarines...
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  32.  @imwelshjesus  Useless is the answer. My son wanted to join the RAF, after Capita lost his medical documents for which he charged them through a court for the cost of replacement papers, and then twice lost all of his papers he went to university. He is now a Junior CEO of Microsoft for Europe, based in the Tech centre of Europe in southren England!
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  33. The total spend on procurement, and research is NOT Covered by the UK military budget. They run as seperate budgets and in total the amount spent on the military last year was £117 Billion making the Uk the forth largest spender on defence. Only the USA, China, and India spend more. We currently spend 5.9% of GDP on defence expenditure, which is £71.4Billion. Defence is the fith largest part of government spending.
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  34.  @aa-up4sf  Yes but from 1914 when hey were effectively one of Britain's enemies, they are now one of our staunchest allies.
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  35.  @freethinker284  Massive losses for Ukraine? Thus far Russia has lost a round a third of it's active service gound forces, Ukraine has to date lost up to 20,000 troops, mainly injured, not all deaths, but those able will retun to the front for Ukraine. Not the case for Russia, most of those who were injured haven't actually returned to the front as of yet.
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  36. The QE has left port what are you on about? It may be to go to a repair port, but it is doing so under it's own steam!! Unlike the Russian carrier (OH, OOPS, they don't now have one it destroyed itself in yet another fire!!) hahahaha
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  37. To be brutal here this guy is NOT much of an expert if he thinks Russia would gain from blowing this dam. From where for example does all the water to Russian occupied Crimea come if the Russians blow the dam. It would be the biggest own goal logistically for Russia to do this, Immagine the nightmare of supplying all of Crimea with taker water. Neither side has any vested interest in blowing this dam at all, because it kills the people in Crimea, and ALL OF THOSE RUSSIAN FORCES occupying the region. Russia might do it if they loose Crimea, beyond that I think this dam is of too much silent strategic importance to both sides for either to blow it yet.
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  38.  @rats2864  Losing a lot where exactly, they have crossed the Dneiper, and fought off a complete armoured regiment, the equipment for which now belongs to Ukraine.
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  39. Well Russia wasrolled over in Afghanistan wasn't it? they didn't do very well there. Well done for reminding everyone of that point!!
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  40. Interns don't get paid, and these people are NOT front line commanders, they have to do the command training at sandhurst to do that, and guess what. They aren't included in the British forces numbers anywhere.
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  41.  @limitlessLtd  I have been stating recently that Russia won't beat France, or Britian on it's own. LOL.
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  42. That would be an act of Aggression. NATO does not do aggression, it isn't in it's rules. NATO is purely a defensive operation.
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  43. You do realise that the ALL up weight of the F35B and the other variants in what is called Beast mode from the Ford class, or the QE class is supposedly exactky the same? This is 22,000lb for all three variants, though as 1chish states for some reason the C variant can only take off from a catapult with 18,000lbs. Thus NONE CTOBAR is easily the way to go when this is required. The BIG extra on the QE class is that the deck can be used 24/7/365, unlike the larger US carriers which require time out of the day to inspect, and fix CATOBAR problems.
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  44. Yes but the RAF training is the best in the world, only matched by the US Top Gun school, and it's Us airforce equivalent. Flight training can be done on any type of aircraft
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  45.  @danielhutchinson6604  I don't actually think Goebels was correct about anything partuclarly the military let us not forget that he claimed it would take less than two weeks to destroy the RAF, that didn't pan out so well in the end!!
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  46. Unlike with Labour who just cancel everything I suppose!!
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  47. The world looks on with mild amusement? Really? How so pleas edo expand your stupid thoughts!!
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  48.  @TheBooban  For Poland to even match the Uk forces would require an investment today of over £500 Billion for the next seven to ten years you even have the German tanks which don't work in battles. The Polish Have NO navy, and how much do you intend to spend? Oh yes the New amount is $45 Billion or £35 Billion!! The Uk spends in total just over £71Billion. How is Poland going to spemnd that mush even adding $10 Billion which will give you 4%GDP makes under what the Uk spends just on dfence, not including research, civilan infrastructure, and Munitions, and Equipment spending.
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  49.  @Phil_AKA_ThundyUK  The German military aid is the same in Euros, as the Uk aid in pounds sterling, so this means Germany has sent roughly 3/4 of the amount the UK has thus far. Interestingly Both are commited to exactly the same amopunt in Euros and Sterling this year meaning Germany has NOT sent more military aid to Ukraine. My evidence is directly from both government web sites : The UK : "The UK continues to gift military aid to the Ukrainian armed forces. • So far, the UK has committed a total of £4.6 billion in military assistance to Ukraine. £2.3 billion was provided in 2022 and the Government has said it will match, or exceed, that assistance in 2023/24. All that funding will be met from the Treasury Reserve and will not come from the MOD’s budget." Germany : "How much has Germany contributed to the war in Ukraine? The Ukraine Support Tracker lists the value of past military aid and further pledges from Germany as more than €2.3 billion, while the German government's list from the beginning of December puts that figure at €1.9 billion." So YOU are totally wrong!!
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  50.  @Mark-Haddow  Well said. Also the Queen's mother was Scottish, Bowes Lyon is a Scottish family with a scottish heritage. The Family seat is Glamis Castle, and they are directly descended from the Royal House of Scotland. The previous erk obviously has no idea of the Royal Family's heritage.Just as an aside aren't ALL of the royal families in Europe descended from Victoria? Wasn't she a British/English queen?
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