Comments by "Billy Bob" (@davidrobertsemail) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1. Ouch. I was drooling over that. That’s too much for a service optic.
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  2. Did you just read a bit off Wikipedia?
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  3. The British military is no longer top tier. …..but we have lots of diversity!
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  4. Forces TV revisionist history. This is BS propaganda. Shame on you for putting this out. You aren’t a soldier obviously. Our troops were not equipped property because of politicians like Blair and brown.
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  5. We aren’t defending our own borders but we are going into debt to defend Ukraines.
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  6. Manic Mute tell that to the wife of sergeant Steve Roberts who was killed by friendly fire after he was ordered to give up his body armor due to shortages. Or tell it to the parents of the Red Caps that we’re slaughtered because they didn’t have enough bullets to defend themselves because of shortages. Ask Reg Keys who stood against Blair in 2005 because his son died because of shortages caused by politicians like Blair and Brown who refused to fund our troops at war. The snatch land rover scandal is one story of many.
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  7. Calling it a strike group is very generous indeed.
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  8. Fantastic. Now double the number of frigates .
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  9. It’s a great destroyer. But there’s only 6 of them. Not nearly enough. One may be able to track a thousand targets at once but so what? Air defense ships can be easily overwhelmed by missile salvos.
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  10. This is awful reporting. The t90 was on its own without support which is stupid. The Bradley’s and probably two FPV drones disabled the tank. The Bradley’s gun can’t penetrate the tank’s armor. Also the reactive armor doesn’t react from 25mm fire. The t90 used countermeasures which may have looked like the ERA was exploding. The real story here is the incompetence of the Russians putting a tank out on its own.
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  11. A pathetic embarrassment. Aircraft carriers without aircraft. A navy without ships!
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  12. Shame it’s a ski jump. At 65,000 should have had catapults for the proper f35s No frigates either. Sad state of affairs indeed.
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  13. The important thing is we keep putting migrants in hotels. We keep subsidizing wind farms that don’t work. And we keep funding the war in Ukraine.
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  14. Jeez that’s insane! It’s a big fat target.
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  15. The most important thing is diversity. Everyone knows that’s how you win wars.
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  16. I though she was going to include some rubber boats as well.
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  17. I understand they are being upgraded/replaced but with 17 fewer. As to flying them off HMS Ocean they were a token force as we had just scrapped our remaining carrier and sold the harriers early. A stupid decision indeed considering we are now struggling with carrier operations.
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  18. You mean facts
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  19.  @tellyboy17  obsolete just like tanks? Russia is using its attack helicopters to great affect in Ukraine as tanks advance. These attack helicopters are frontline and loses are expected in a real war. We need more not less.
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  20. Tungst the video is BS Drayson was part of the problem. In June, when this was first raised in the Lords, the defence procurement minister, Lord Drayson, insisted that these unarmoured Land Rovers provided "the level of protection we need". Asked why the British Army was not, like most other coalition troops in Iraq, equipped with mine-protected RG 31s, he replied that the Army had used them in Bosnia and found them wanting. He was later forced to admit, grudgingly, that the vehicles used in Bosnia were not RG 31s
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  21. Turkey invaded in 1974. Please state the obvious.
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  22. gjssjg this is BS Drayson was as guilty as Blair. In June, when this was first raised in the Lords, the defence procurement minister, Lord Drayson, insisted that these unarmoured Land Rovers provided "the level of protection we need". Asked why the British Army was not, like most other coalition troops in Iraq, equipped with mine-protected RG 31s, he replied that the Army had used them in Bosnia and found them wanting. He was later forced to admit, grudgingly, that the vehicles used in Bosnia were not RG 31s
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  23. Steve Sheppard it shifts the blame. The whitewash report isn’t trustworthy. This video has plenty of truth in it sure. But it’s redirecting blame. It’s revising history. Hence propaganda. The whole picture is very clear. Government from the top down didn’t support our troops. I blame those at the top down. This lying politician claims to be the hero here when he is responsible for the shambles. Cabinet responsibility means he is answerable to the actions of the government. He’s responsible. The MOD works for him. He can’t blame the MOD then claim he solved the problem. He’s responsible!
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  24. Manic Mute great defense.
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  25. Dreadlocks? How far have we fallen
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  26. Two carriers. one doesn’t work and hasn’t any planes anyway. Not enough assets to protect them even if they could go to sea. Type 45 destroyers don’t work and if they did there’s only six of them. Our frigates are out of date and being replaced by a force half the size. That’s just the navy :-/
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  27. They can’t run a mile or do ten pushups. But they use the correct pronouns and play video games. Scary!
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  28. The colonial power here is China. The port is Chinas belt and road. Those billions come with strings. Britain won’t be allowed to use the port if it upsets the owner.
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  29. Only six ships. When 12 were originally ordered many said 12 was not nearly enough. How sad.
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  30. What ignorant “Journalism” China is not only an economic superpower it’s a military superpower. No mention in this report of the massive increases in its nuclear arsenal or the fact that the Chinese military budget is simply not known. Also no mention of the fact that the dollar number is only relief costs are the same. They are not. China produces military hardware and pays its military at a significantly lower cost than the US. China has a bigger army, marines and a bigger navy than the US. It’s Air Force is expanding at a phenomenal rate as well. This is CCP propaganda journalism.
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  31. It’s got no planes on it.
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  32. So what about the 50 RAF fighter pilots who have trained the Chinese pilots? What about those traitors? Was that your idea?
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  33. No early warning aircraft. Not enough planes. Not enough escort ships. The aircraft carriers are a joke.
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  34. So not less diversity Equity and Inclusion? I’m surprised.
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  35. Sad there’s only 6 of them. When the initial order of 12 was placed most commentators complained that was far too few.
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  36. Royal artillery without artillery.
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  37. Ha ha. The port is being developed as part of the belt and road. Billions from China.
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  38. A carrier strike group! Not enough escort ships, planes and no early warning aircraft! We can’t put our “carrier strike group” near the Houthi’s! Never mind a near peer adversary.
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  39. Winning wars is the important thing. Not diversity and Inclusion.
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  40.  @jp3630 end of the Cold War is when the cuts started. During the Cold War Britain was a force to be reckoned with.
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  41.  @Orbital_Inclination better protected than a container ship.
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  42. Correct about the destroyers and frigates. The current number is a joke. We had 42 frigates in 1982 13 now And they keep cutting back on their replacements. Eg type 31!!
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  43.  @tellyboy17  drones are great but they have not and will not replace tanks, APCs or attack helicopters any time soon. Ukraine shows us that.
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  44. Giving 30 of these away leaves another gap in our defense. We have the money to defend Ukraine but not to replace or upgrade what we have.
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  45. We are giving them away with no replacements for us!!! Insane
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  46. How many will we buy? 20? 30?
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  47. Tungst this video is revisionist history. Lord Paul Drayson was not the man that solved the problem he and his government were the problem. Forces TV should not publish this BS propaganda. He, Blair and the rest of his cabinet are responsible for the MOD. They new they had a problem but they didn’t want to spend the money.
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  48. Paul E don’t believe it. The Labour government didn’t care about dead soldiers. They sent them there without the right equipment and they knew it.
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  49. No planes. It’s just a target.
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  50. I can predict the future…… They will take ages to build and there won’t be anywhere near enough of them.
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