Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1. The angles make it hard to be sure but it looks like a 105mm L119 supplied by the UK. It's not a super long range gun but it's light and "easy" to move.
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  2. Poor old Ivans not happy to have their bubble burst.
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  3. If we did anything good, we did it despite Boris - he ran off to Kiev to hug Zeleinsky every time he got into trouble at home for lying because basically Ukraine is popular here. I'm sure the optics of it were great from outside but not as much from inside since from our point of view he handed peerages to the rich son of a KGB officer and his party took lots of money from Russian oligarchs - who he also gave lots of time to get their money out before sanctioning them.
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  4. Probably they have to an extent. The Bohdana mobile artillery for example and 152mm shells. They've also spent their money on drones which are not made by the big defence companies. They've developed their neptune missile and so on.
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  5. It's not actually IN Ukraine AFAIK. At least that's not what they are saying. The Ammunition is currently very expensive - possibly because it's new and there's only one gun that can fire it and it might be getting produced on too small a scale. The barrels also had a somewhat low life in the development and we haven't been told how well they have overcome that - because it's obviously a secret!
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  6. He seems ok at the job he has - he's not in charge of the Home Office or the Treasury so his opinions on that stuff don't matter too much.
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  7. He's an attention seeking drama-queen - Zelensky didn't kowtow low enough so there had to be a disaster.
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  8. ​ @normanchristie4524  if nobody voted for UKIP the Tory party would never have changed their tune. This is absolutely the fault of insecure British voters who did it regardless of knowing the cost because they thought nothing mattered more than saying FU to all the foreigners they decided to blame for their problems and fears.
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  9. I see EVs all over the place, they seem very popular.
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  10. Indeed the whole issue was about electing people who were prepared to tell the voters what they wanted to hear - that it was all possible and going to be great. Our system selects people who are prepared to do anything, say anything. How can honest politicians survive ?
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  11.  @kazdean  The high barrel elevation can be achieved without any special design considerations. It's compact so you can fit it to many kinds of vehicle and it's still multipurpose because it can select the ammunition type itself. IOW your IFV can take out drones AND other targets. It doesn't need constant attention from a loader - it has a system that autoloads the desired ammunition type. You obviously need to refill at some point - just like any system. It's going to allow people to get more usefulness out of each vehicle. The compromise is cost.
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  12.  @ianworley8169  this kind of wanking about who did what and whose creative accounting adds up to 2% better than the other's - it all helps Putin.
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  13.  @davidsummer8631  the UK has weaker (or no) growth and the EU countries we compare to usually do have it. They are recovering from COVID and we aren't.
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  14. They did have to beg for missiles from North Korea...
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  15.  @FordFalcon1962nBlue  Yes and you can see the tanks disappearing from the storage locations in satellite photos. Quite alarming for you guys,
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  16.  @s0ycapitan  It hasn't managed to stop the Ukranians producing weapons in quite large numbers anyhow so this is irrelevant.
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  17. It's more about whether we enable the world to become a worse place for ourselves to live in. If we ensure that we get surrounded by authoritarian regimes because we enable them then that could be bad for us in the long term.
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  18. ​ @schnizzyfizz7832  when the British are in a desperate situation they are also capable of innovation. This doesn't mean the Ukrainians wouldn't take an Ajax with a ct40 cannon if they could because it can do more than shoot drones.
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  19. I think we have put in place the measures for quite a large increment in production. Nothing is fast enough because its' all needed yesterday.
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  20.  @jimcronin2043  You seem to object, which is reason enough to believe that opinions matter.
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  21. The nerd doesn't have a car so he can't travel 2000km to attack it.
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  22. That's just a lack of Imagination. The generator could power an EMP weapon. you might be using this in a huge desert with no frontlines where short range drones would be almost useless. We still have to move around with or without drones.
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  23. You're morally bankrupt because apart from being false, two wrongs don't make a right. This is what is meant by saying that you have no Christian values.
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  24. oh yeah Ivan.
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  25. Mainly begging for support of BJ. This isn't BJ's help to Ukraine but the help of the British people and BJ is trying to take credit
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  26.  @antdunning590  depends on what charge you add being the shell. Apparently upto 19 km
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  27. Yes, he's drinking champagne at home so he's very fine.
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  28.  @sundog60  there were no trenches there. İt was street fighting. You're cruising for a big ego bruising really though because it has happened throughout history.
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  29.  @sundog60  You like to make statements about things you don't know with great confidence. What is the point of that? just trying to confirm your world view?
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  30. Try it on the really big arms providers first. e.g. the AK-47 tax is going to be a big deal.
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  31. That comment about Zelensky taking up the issue being "unnecessary" was a filthy excuse.
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  32.  @r200ti  If Russia spends a large percentage of it's GDP on war it probably will break its own economy but we don't want it to "win" before that happens - so we have to increase our effort - just not as much as them in percentage terms.
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  33.  @paulpaisley5291  That is how you Orcs behave but the reason that the rest of the world is more civilised than you is because it's not how we behave.
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  34. A perfect Putin-supporter "meme" for the UK. i.e. you want to concentrate on internal conflicts and stay away from Ukraine - just perfect from the Russian point of view.
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  35. The Russian's haven't been able to attack like that for a long time - they've had to wait and build up - so the average requirement is much less.
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  36.  @georgejohnson1498  Not facing up to problems until after a catastrophe is rather typical of democracies. The situation in Crimea should have been the trigger and it wasn't. I am almost surprised that we have been as supportive as we have. Putin has been festering as a problem for a long time and if we had let it go on we'd be in a much worse state from Russian influence in our politics and economy to the inadequacy of our defence and friction with countries that are allies. This is has been a huge wake-up for us. That might prove to be important.
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  37.  @Observer-xc6fp  If you're riding your bike on an attack at the frontline yes, if you're driving 1000km across a huge desert to set up your own drone recon then maybe it's a different equation.
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  38.  @catinthehat906  It should not be forgotten. Everyone needs to see their own capacity for evil exists so that they are ready to guard against it. Most nationalists try to pretend that their history is full of nobility and use that to argue that their view of the world is justified and should prevail. I've seen Irish people behave badly in Africa just as the English do - when they have the upper hand you find out what people can be like. The English think they're right and the most ridiculous conceit is that they think they're fair. On the other hand it's important to believe in fairness so other people can show you when you're not. The conceits are almost a saving grace because showing them to be tainted elicits shame and it would be worse to be unable to feel shame. One cannot go around feeling shame all the time and I don't think we should ask anyone to do so, also I don't think you can ask people to not feel that they are "better than you" because EVERYONE feels that at some level. All one can do is to ask everyone to remember that we are all human and fallible and that although we lean on the crutch of conceits about ourselves we know they are crutches.
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  39. @@user-nu6bl4ru2q I'm a conservative as in the Thatcher sense not as in the current set of bullshitters. İt is embarrassing to be played by a man like that when English is your first language.
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  40.  @APW554  the conservatives kicked him out because her was losing them votes. That means losing popularity because unlike some foreigners we don't generally admire a cheat.
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  41.  @chrism415  What hype - there were only 14? nevertheless I did read that they got used in Kursk. And that's the story - everyone needs to move around without having to walk.
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  42.  @jim-es8qk  How much of that price increase is inflation? Just using the BOI's inflation calculator 250p in 2015 would be 389 in 2022 and we're now into 9%. The CPI might not be relevant to farmers - their situation might be much worse. The cost of their exports may be higher. The currency has devalued etc etc. Your statements really aren't definitive.
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  43.  @jim-es8qk  And inflation has helped to make that devaluation less useful.
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  44.  @2ebarman  I don't know if the launch vehicle is the major part of the price. If you have a lot of satellites on one launch it might be the satellites themselves and the cost of the insurance which dominates. I personally would like us to build Skylon. :-) It was a bit sad for that company to go bankrupt.
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  45.  @fredmercury1314  Yes it's the fault of brexit because the number of staff needed is gigantically more. Who needs to pay the cost of this? Obviously us since it's our choice.
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  46.  @fredmercury1314  it clearly does.
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  47.  @fredmercury1314  it takes longer to process people because they cannot be waived through anymore. I should think you heard that.
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  48.  @fredmercury1314  it takes much less seconds to not check a passport so.....the relative cost increase is very large. Thanks to Brexit.
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  49. 3d scanners are a thing - so you scan one of the components that you have that's intact and then make more.
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  50. They're defending all sorts of values that I think you'd call "woke". If you want to be "not woke" you might find that Russia suits you better.
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