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

  1.  @jackryan9712 low standards do yes.
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  2. What a wonderful big target.
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  3. A big shiny target. Great for humanitarian missions though.
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  4.  @bigmatthews666 with about 60% available due to repairs and training we still don’t even have enough for 1:03 one carrier. Even if we had all 74 that’s only enough for one carrier. To make it worse the RAF planes were cancelled so the RAF is sharing the planes. What a joke.
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  5.  @JaneGalvin this one left the US with no planes. Sailed across the Atlantic with no planes and sailed in to port with no planes. It’s an AIRCRAFT carrier with no planes.
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  6. Off the shelf proven Blackhawk.
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  7. There’s money for Ukraine, illegal immigrants and everything else but not the military.
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  8.  @nigg2811  I never said only white males were capable. Pushing diversity is what this is about not merit based. All employment in all walks of life should be based on merit. Your policy is racist and sexist. It also weakens the military.
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  9. Embarrassing. A woke military is an incompetent military.
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  10. Kwek Jeng Yong the design of these carriers was decided by politicians who wanted to save money. They chose to have ski ramps instead of catapults for political reasons not defense driven requirements. That was decided by then chancellor Gordon Brown. The next PM David Cameron wanted to install catapults by because of his cost cutting to the military budget stuck with cheaper ski ramps. Both these governments between them cut the number of replacement frigates and destroyers significantly from the already inadequate number. So the whole history of military spending on these projects has been a farce. The end result is a large carrier with short range jets with low payloads and not enough ships for the navy. Notwithstanding no carrier capability for over a decade and the loss of skills associated with it. The whole thing has been a shambles.
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  11. Mark Cooke we don’t have enough of either frigates or destroyers. 1982 we had 42 frigates now we have 13 and they aren’t being replaced with nearly enough. Hence the cost cutting from 12 to 6 destroyers and the cost cutting measure of the type 31s. Simply put if this shop goes to sea we don’t have any ships elsewhere. It’s numbers that are the problem.
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  12. MidgetDylan the NHS is a joke as is the education system. Overfunded not underfunded. Gold plated pensions in both fields and early retirement guaranteed. Incompetence runs rife in both government run sectors. The military has been gutted for decades. In 1982 we had 42 frigates. Now 13
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  13. Tea Lover 65,000 ton with no catapults? That’s quantity not quality. 13 frigates. With half of their replacements being type 31s That’s neither quality or quantity. I wish it wasn’t so but don’t kid yourself.
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  14.  @DanielsPolitics1 the truth hurts
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  15. Two carriers need a lot more than that. The Air Force are also sharing the planes. 70 odd planes is enough fir one carrier. Operational availability requires nearly double the amount. Training, maintenance and other repairs means you are looking at maybe 60% available at any one time.
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  16. Wow. So much to take in
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  17.  @patterdale4332  we don’t have replacements for the AS90s we have sent and we have a pathetic amount of munitions in reserve.
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  18. So not enough of anything.
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  19. Manic Mute yeah no defense.
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  20. Wonderful the aircraft carrier with no planes is back at sea.
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  21. No planes!!!! You can’t make it up. Not enough destroyers, subs or frigates to protect it either. It’s an embarrassment.
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  22. Of course catapult is better for large carriers. For small aircraft carriers a ski ramp is appropriate. The range and ordinance needed to project power off large carriers is a necessity. The US six Gen. fighters are being designed with 50% more range because otherwise carriers will be destroyed by longer range anti ship missiles. Small carriers can’t go anywhere close to near pier adversaries. The fact that large British carriers have ski jumps is a testament to incompetent government.
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  23. Another stupid decision by our political class which weakens our military. As if they haven’t done enough damage already.
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  24. Not an inch East!!!
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  25. It can’t afford anything because it’s giving it to Ukraine or France!!
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  26. Agreed or enough ships to protect them.
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  27. Never since they cut the order
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  28.  @infinitydoge8819 we don’t have 36 planes available. Planes are used for training and require extensive off ship maintenance. Once 50 or so are delivered we might have enough for a full complement for one ship. Why have a 65,000 ship if you are only ever going to have a fraction of the aircraft? We could have built 3 or 4 smaller ships for less and much quicker. These are white elephants and sitting ducks without enough escorts or early warning planes to protect them.
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  29. We have two carriers and not enough aircraft for one. We have two carriers and not enough ships to protect them. We have two carriers and no early warning aircraft.
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  30. It’s a very nice little boat with one tiny little gun on it.
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  31.  @admiralmallard7500  we only have 31 in total I understand of those only 27 are available if they aren’t being maintained. Each of our two carriers is supposed to have 36 on board or at least close to that number if other aircraft are needed for the mission.
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  32. 50 British fighter pilots were paid to train the Chinese Air Force. Why haven’t these traitors been prosecuted???
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  33. So we didn’t have enough MK1s now we will have even less E variants.
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  34. The only thing worse than a floating white elephant is two of them.
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  35. Not enough planes, escorts or working engines.
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  36. Traitors. Name and shame them.
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  37.  @Orbital_Inclination each carrier carries 36 planes but we only have 27 or so in the UK between two carriers and apparently the RAF is supposed to share them as well. It’s a joke. Add that to the lack of surface ship’s required to protect a carrier and no early warning defense aircraft the whole program is a white elephant. I don’t care what you say aircraft carriers are supposed to have planes.
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  38. Are these the same pilots training the CCP pilots?
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  39. Trump will bring peace. Enough of these endless wars.
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  40. Mac 73 well said. Encounters require missiles. For every ship added you significantly increase your chances of winning. We simply don’t have enough ships.
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  41. So the Apache fleet is being reduced. Only 50 ordered. I wonder if we will even get all of them. Cuts cuts cuts.
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  42. Is it just the one plane then?
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  43. Or the Ukrainians just sell them like they have sold loads of our kit already.
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  44. Giving away equipment that we have very little of and isn’t being replaced.
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  45. We all know that diversity and inclusion is how you win wars. China is shaking in its boots!
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  46.  @regarded9702  I didn’t realize so many of our frigates had already been retired. It’s worse than I thought. Depressing :-/
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  47.  @Digmen1  what’s your point. We don’t need a military? I don’t need car insurance until I do either. It’s a fact our military is stripped to the bone. We have huge gaps in our defense and giving away gear that we need and aren’t going to replace is a bad idea.
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  48.  @Ukraineaissance2014  that’s an emotional argument. The fact remains we are stripping our already stripped military to defend a non NATO country.
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  49. Great ship. Not nearly enough of them planned though. Eight plus five type 31 frigates is half of what the navy needs.
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  50. Jeez. No money and woke.
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