Comments by "ZIPZ" (@zipz8423) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1.  @0penminds  Next you are going to tell me NLAW has an overfly attack mode rendering active defence systems useless, arent you?
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  2. Those aircraft fly around with equipment that makes them more visible to radar. That’s what you do in peacetime. The Stealth is saved for sanitised training airspace or deep inland over friendly territory. No need to make it easy for Russian threat libraries.
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  3. Think yourself lucky you don’t have to look for the golden rivet.
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  4. At least you can get a beer on a RN ship.
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  5. I think everybody knows what a peacetime intercept is.
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  6. Show us the damage done by Kinzhal, I mean you must have seen the pictures to believe in what you are writing?
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  7. Stupid comment.
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  8.  @davidhouseman4328  "It is a tech demonstrator".
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  9. David Houseman pay me now it’s just a tech demonstrator.... .P
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  10. 100 quid says this aircraft will never fly.
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  11. Well we don’t like the EU or Germany now do we?
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  12.  @bulletproofguy5112  Who would fly those F-16s? The RAF are short of pilots.
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  13.  @bulletproofguy5112  I’m not sure about that pal, the US Mil is 60% smaller than it was in 2009.
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  14.  @bulletproofguy5112  good luck equipping them there’s zero chance of that happening.
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  15.  @soulsphere9242  agreed, the USA does not hand over entire submarines to other countries that’s never going to happen. America is in the deal as an enabler and to control exactly what technology is shared via the U.K.
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  16.  @jaysonkmendoza  the U.K. T26 will be threadbare for financial not tactical reasons. If the RN has a choice they would have mini Sampson radars - single face AESA and all of them towed arrays.
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  17.  @TheBooban  the U.K. doesn’t have the yard capacity to build ships for the U.K. Canadá and Australia plus submarines for the Aussies & the RN. I think you already know there would have been no GCS sale unless local building was included anyway.
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  18. This is what happens when people vote for the Conservative party - they make people redundant and shrink the services.
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  19. Deluded post Brexit thinking, the U.K. is a bit part player in 2021. The days of big navy are over. We can’t afford a bigger navy and we certainly can’t crew it. Young people don’t want to go to sea anymore.
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  20. It’s a fine FFG but in truth the reason why they will be under equipped in U.K. service goes back to the 1990s when the RN made its choice to build 2 big CVF carriers - they knew then hull numbers for future DDG, FFG and SSNs would be significantly reduced. The U.K. has the Navy it can afford, the hope we are going to build a larger Navy is deluded.
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  21.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Well yes of course, which ably demonstrates my theory that everybody takes part in the Great Game.
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  22.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Well two can play at that game and often do.
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  23.  @BroadHobbyProjects  he’s had NATO on his borders for 20 years and can’t do anything about it without entering a conflict that would bankrupt his own country. Putin is more than anything a realist. He once said “A war with NATO would be madness.”
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  24.  @BroadHobbyProjects  Putin doesn’t want war. If he did Kiev would already be in Russian hands.
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  25. Who are you planning to fight?
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  26.  @davidhouseman4328  yes they did you’re just a Tory in denial. It makes me laugh, ex forces chaps moaned for 13 years under labour governments then when your beloved Tories got into power they made everybody redundant. Karma.
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  27.  @davidhouseman4328  then in January they announced cuts.
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  28. Get past it, the U.K. is a middle ranking power and the days of big navy are over and will never return.
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  29.  @davidhouseman4328  yes in December 2019 then there were cuts announced in January 2021 that everybody knew were coming. That’s the hypocritical lying Tories for you.
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  30. Actually the radar is a downgrade. The RN wanted Sampson on both the carriers and the T26. Second hand Artisan units will be removed from T23s and fitted to the T26.
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  31. I would say armed to a normal standard. It is the U.K. ships that are going to be under equipped, courtesy of a defence budget 3 times smaller than it was in 1990.
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  32.  @paultanton4307  MTU or Wartsilla?
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  33.  @G1NZOU  How many?
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  34.  @paultanton4307  MT 30?
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  35. The U.K. can’t afford it.
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  36. CAMM will fit in Mk-41.
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  37. In bandit country middle east, probably the most difficult mission ever attempted, they had balls to try.
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  38. @Alien industries, no, its just that we Brits dont require this reverence of the military you guys seem to need. We just get on with the job and get satisfaction from a good career we can walk away from in one piece, the only thanks I needed was from my wife and kids, colleagues. I didn't need the public to kiss my arse in any way, I just served them and the Crown because that was the job. I wasn't Army I was RN by the way.
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  39. The Brexshitters have landed.
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  40. @@JimCarnerthe Aster block 1 conversion is underway. The issue that concerns me is countering those MRBMs - the anti ship ballistic missiles. Without ABM capability (Sampson) they could be challenging. I’m glad the USN DSG-51s are there with the “ROTA” fit.
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  41. @@JimCarnershe really needs a 57 mm mount great for anti air. And 40 mm auto cannons instead of those DS-30s. Great for drone work.
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  42. Granted, against a peer force but the Houthis aren’t that. Diamond used her guns against some of those drones. So it’s all pretty benign stuff. The Houthis most advanced armed UAVS only have daytime optics.
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  43.  @stephenobrien5909 you can’t replenish a Sylver VLS underway, that has to be done in port and it takes hours.
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  44. I would love to see these things happen with T-45 - some of them are in the pipeline. Aster 1NT, BMD capability - drop the 30 mm autocannons for 40mm. Replace the 4/5 with a 76mm Oto Melara or a 57mm cannon. Remove phalanx and replace with RIM-116. Add a 16 cell Mk-41 instead of the mushroom farm for Sea Ceptor - then we can use lots of different weapons instead of only Ceptor. Fantasy fleet I know but the T-31s are showing the way with their fit.
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  45. Every hull is a potential missile sponge. The Navy had a choice, lots of escorts or 2 CVF.
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  46. What would you like us to name them after?? Marvel characters??
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  47. Could have worse and been called Collies Mother, then it would be REALLY Fugly.
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  48. He wanted Boaty Mc boatface 2.
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  49. Well believe in miracles, its flying.
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  50. If we had to fight a peer adversary you'd be having the same bullshit rant with "Where are the carriers and subs" instead.
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