Comments by "David Houseman" (@davidhouseman4328) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1.  @stetomlinson3146  Variants on a base vehicle is standard and well attested. While you may argue modularity doesn't bring much up side it also doesn't bring much down side as it's just a slightly different way of making those variants.
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  2. We can't compete with China alone, it has 5x our GDP, 20x our population. We would be contributing to an alliance in the context of China.
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  3. Very little kit that wasn't sent by the UK is mentioned.
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  4. The STOVL gives it even more legs as they don't get designed as often, but 30 years build is quite normal.
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  5. There's clear progression with this. From radars to theoretical papers on the physics to F117 to B2.
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  6. Field kitchen?
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  7. The British did win the Crimean war, and in that ill fated order the British made the Russian guns. What lesson were you thinking about?
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  8.  @stephencockett9959  why? There's so much risk. New York would go straight up if anything went wrong. Somewhere like Iran would be a much nicer target even accepting your banking control premise (which of course I don't).
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  9. You said you weren't going to lie.
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  10. As far as I've heard Merlin Crowsnest is still awaiting official IOC (though it has been used).
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  11. He is a former serving military officer.
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  12. Different planes for different jobs. Need speed and height to say intercept a Blackjack. You want the Typhoon. Attacking in uncontested space or stood off with a storm shadow, Typhoon is perfectly capable. Breaking enemy air defences you do want the Lightning. So we have both.
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  13.  @dashikashi4734  thus is Estonia.
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  14. No, it's gunning for the trainer role, not tempest.
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  15.  @danlugo4365  that would be mad but it isn't true.
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  16. Ajax is covering that role.
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  17. Interestingly the language most similar to old english is Dutch rather than modern English.
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  18.  @kyle12111994  Have you got a source on that becasue it doesn't make sense with having F35s for the next generation?
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  19. Nope, but for the F35s it's a joint force. 617 is even commanded by a Navy man at the moment. The next squadron will be 809, a FAA one.
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  20.  @hb9145  If it still existed, it would just be a place for countries to moan with no power to enact anything. And Frankly taking out countries like China and US it would even start to lack legitimacy as that's a lot of worlds population missing.
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  21. You'd almost think is was a display and not a training exercise...
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  22. We never got to the stage of what the type 32 but an adapted type 31 was a likely candidate.
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  23. The cycle is perpetuated by hate not money.
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  24. If it was leaving port you may have a point, but your entering to do stuff like maintenance.
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  25.  @MrErnestsKarlsons  your not sorry your lying.
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  26.  @mnds1476  that's because with info the S400 could get on the F35, Russia could build a system to deal with the F35.
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  27.  @1chish  I agree cuts had to be made but it wasn't the decisions 10 years ago that got us here, but there reversal 5 years later.
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  28. Ramps are newer than catapults. And lots of nation use them. Everyone but the US and France.
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  29.  @MrHowardMoon  ah yeah, back c. 2012. When they were thinking of changing QE to cats it might have meant PoW being mothballed.or even scrapped.
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  30. Catapults are better in the abstract but the decision is what best on limited budget with CATOBAR requiring a lot of extra training and crew as well as the system cost. There are a lot of arguments on both sides, if you compare with the US they use catapults on the 100k tonne ships and don't on the 45k tonne ships.
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  31. Oil (and gas) are certainly important, but the deep water port on the Indian Ocean (over say Bahrain) speak to it not being the only reason.
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  32. Russia may have been overestimated but it wasn't considered close to on par with the US since it was the USSR.
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  33.  @TheMarineGamerIGGHQ  what's not to fear about the US, it's had no trouble with conventional wars and a decade long insurgency is frankly more terrifying.
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  34. No it isn't, 2% is the agreed aim.
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  35. It's not the era of procrastination but of complexity. A plane of the past is a shadow of today's.
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  36.    Russian feels attacked because it can't bully it's neighbours in peace?
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  37. Drones are used in uncontested air space. These aren't.
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  38.  @gilbert7794  Troop number are irrelevant, it wasn't an army that stood in the way it was the Royal Navy, the largest navy in the world at the time. The UK ended the battle of Britain with more planes that it started with, it wasn't that close but if you want to go that route it was Luck/Incompetence that saved Britain not Russia. And Russia didn't even choose to fight, it was invaded.
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  39.  @gilbert7794  How will pissing off Russia end badly. Are Russia going to invade us and face NATO, which as I said out numbers it militarily and utterly dwarves it by economic and population terms. What are their mechanisms to make it end badly for us? Also again "entered the war" suggest it was in anyway there decision, they tried there best to avoid with Ribbentrop, but were invaded, inevitably based on Nazi idealogy.
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  40. In maintenence doesn't stop ships existing. Every navy always has skips in maintenence you don't stop counting them.
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  41.  @sausagejockyGaming  a country is never perfect. It is however a lot better off than many. Do you not feel any compulsion to help the less fortunate?
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  42. You've not understood strategically important. Basically every place is on the way tom the next place. Something strategically important is like Mariupol linking two areas and being important in itself.
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  43.  @matthewbaynham6286  the remainder will follow soon because? I'm presuming so you can moan? Tranche 1 aren't worn out they are just not worth the upgrade and still they'll be about 20 years when retiring. Our youngest Tornado retired in 2019 was 26 years old and Germany are running there's to 2030, USs F15C are averaging about 35 years old. So given our last Typhoon was delivered in 2019, by Tornados 26 year standard I'd be 2045 they retire but could easily be stretched another decade by others standards.
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  44. Never as it stands, Tempest is being designed for traditional airfields not carriers.
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  45. Past the stealth, the F35 is faster, longer range, larger weapons load and generations ahead in avionics, EW and communications.
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  46. That is Ajax
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  47. Why do people like you say "only"? Biggest would give you a point to argue. Only just makes you sound really stupid.
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  48. It's not a race issue, it's a nationality issue, there are nationality restrictions on the rest of the army too.
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  49. By your own statement 40% are working, how's that none?
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  50. Banks don't care, they don't make weapons, they money in peace or war.
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