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

  1.  @authenticmax6350  I'm guessing you completely made that up rather than have some numbers to back it up?
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  2. It stems from the engine exhausts but one is used for the ship, the other the aircraft, though if one is damaged the other can do both.
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  3. A little but of training now stops us fighting a war later.
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  4.  @basemanawakens6089  talking about hypersonic is just propaganda. Hypersonic isn't new, ballistic missiles have travelled at hypersonic speeds for decades, Thaad or S400 work at hypersonic speeds. Also they may defeat air defences but so do large numbers of subsonic missiles.
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  5. An EMP would fry a normal vehical controls too. You just have to engineer against hacking, its not like we don't use drones at the moment.
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  6. Its the size of the very largest WW2 ships, the biggest ever RN vessel.
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  7. 2030 is a couple of elections away, any claim either way it pretty empty. The manifesto pledge of above inflation is the question for now.
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  8. It's a Main Battle Tank, heavy and medium aren't used anymore but in weight it's heavy.
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  9. It's succinct answer to the question, not claiming to be news. That isn't what clickbait is.
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  10. No they couldn't, it wasn't attacking them, but others, phalanx is self defence
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  11.  @ljt3084  WW1 decimated the upper class because officers die with there men, sometimes even more because they are expected to set the standard.
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  12. The original plan had 5 of those 13 being general purpose rather than anti sub. It's a lot of ship for a GP frigate, I'd prefer a larger number of worse ships.
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  13. Don't see why you're saying NATO looks like fools, this is nothing like what Russia was wanting, Ukraine as an EU member and guaranteed by NATO members.
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  14.  @guillerbrady9261  no treaties, no historical ties, not exactly a pristine government. We were never sending in the troops. We could be supplying more military aid but we were struggling to supply our own forces.
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  15.  @andreaaltan3982  and he won't be, because it isn't.
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  16.  @PAllen74  Generally speaking the UK is more focused on the Navy and Airforce than Army, those cost more per person as they have the expensive kit. Our nuclear deterrent is an even more extreme example of this. A lot of other countries, Germany is a prime example, have the same complaints about inefficiency. For the army, rather than the whole military, you may have a point. We've had a lot of bad projects recently and key kit is aging. The other services not so much our air force is running 4.5th/5th gen jets, the navy has new subs, new carriers and new frigates about to come in.
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  17. Tier 1 partner means we get to choose our delivery schedule. We are buying them at a rate our budget will allow. But 6 F35s is easily at an invisible class level. 12 will give us good CAPs. Really looking forward to 24 though.
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  18. Better. Catapults. Better choice. It varies. Budgets are limited, worse but more is often the best choice.
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  19.  @English.Andy1  The whole point is we aren't picking up rifles we allowing others to defend themselves.
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  20. What do you mean, do anything about? It has ten of thousands of troops securing it's neighbours. Do you mean why isn't it invading a country with 1.4bn people and nuclear weapons?
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  21. Its like people can't say Iraq without adding Afganistan. Different wars for different reasons.
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  22.  @thomaspickard4138  That's Challenger 1s record not 2s
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  23. The carrier map is a bit dodgy, only a frigate transited the Taiwan strait and it's certainly not going to have gone between Hainan and the mainland.
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  24. For essential the same reasons Ukraine wasn't in NATO. Ukraine isn't a top draw democracy and does have corruption problems, it was already in a war if a stagnated one and there was genuine pro Russsian sentiment in many areas. The invasion has galvanised things that were much more grey before hand.
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  25.  @acoustic5738  The choice of ships wasn't random, it's a survey ship doing surveying. Nor is it in bad shape, a bit of rust just means it's been at sea.
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  26. A shark with half it's teeth is still scary. What less scary is not having one part of the time. The extra cost would have driven us to only 1 carrier like France.
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  27. It isn't, by role it more covered by Boxer. Ajax isn't for most for troops.
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  28.  @bl8danjil  once your calling it a drone the suicide makes perfect sense (whether or not drone is a good word is now irrelevant, its long been accepted). The argument is drone or munnition, and this comes from the drone line not the munition line.
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  29. In WW3 the SSBN is still king. Carriers are for the wars we actually fight.
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  30. The US is buying more F35Bs than F35Cs, as well as Japan, South Korea, Italy and Singapore buying F35Bs so far.
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  31.  @extremistcontent1337  tanks doesn't at all, it actually points to the exact opposite. There isn't a potential fight anywhere near us. So the overall size of our forces doesn't matter, it's the size of we can deploy at distance that matters. And you can deploy twice as many Ajax or Boxers as Challengers with air power taking out any big threats. We aren't defending our islands with tanks, we're doing it with jets and subs.
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  32. Anyone big enough to run them has there own ship building industry to support.
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  33. For the US Thaad is hypersonic, ICBMs are high hypersonic. There is no fundamental problem, the specific of how good they are is more in doubt. But the Russian have had super sonic anti ship missiles for decades it wouldn't be so surprising for them to be progressed.
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  34.  -KracN-  he didn't sell, it was allowed to be sold. Defence is an international business. You don't think BAE owns companies in the US?
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  35. Protection levels
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  36.  @matthewbaynham6286  Typhoon is flying until Tempest replaces it. The F35 will never be alone.
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  37. Very few countries capable of affording them outside the EU.
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  38. Typhoon can fight it's way through contested space, F35 flies through uncontested.
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  39.  @harrykuheim6107  British politicians elected by British people are what is stopping us leaving, not the EU.
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  40. The sinnews of war are unlimited money.
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  41.  misternovelbro  I wasn't giving you the benefit of the doubt because you just following the rote line. The war in donbas was one incited and supported by Russia. And then in the full invasion they have pounded many places in the donbas like Mariupol. Far from Russia protecting Russians in Ukraine they have caused a massive increase in there deaths.
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  42.  @katerinakempb8217  This is the opposite of Empire which is Hard Power. Countries can decide whatever they want, we work by persuasion and on trust. And the commonwealth is thriving as forum for communication and cooperation. There are a shed load more treaties between members than with neutral nations, and it now even has members not originally part of the empire.
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  43. Both sides are still far apart in there demands.
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  44.  @SJstackinbodys  I'm completely on the side of Ukraine so there would be nothing hard to take about there victory. But if the war stopped now I can't see how the loss of large amounts of territory could be considered a Ukrainian victory. And its Russia taking more not Ukraine. So even if you end up saying Russia is losing it at very least needs a heavy argument it certainly isn't selfevident.
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  45.  @CaliPlays5651  so first off, this isn't about Oman specifically who have relatively little, but the region. Secondly the countries don't want to keep there oil they want to sell it.
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  46. I really like the idea of spiralling technology from the Typhoon to the Tempest. And not thinking of a jet as done, but just the latest iteration.
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  47. How about a normal man with a Kornet ATGM?
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  48. The jets join after the ships leaves port so you are going to continue to see a carrier without jets in Portsmouth.
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  49. There are numerous physical deployments and as noted in the video previous action.
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  50. It not funny, it's reasonable. The UK has precedent and friendly nations joining it. Iran doesn't.
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