Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Under (financial) pressure: Royal Navy’s uncertain future" video.

  1. It was this or let our entire infrastructure for building our own warships and submarines at all completely disappear, far from not doing enough joint stuff with other countries we've done far too much of it to the extent we can barely make or do anything ourselves without them anymore, and if you don't know why Britain being entirely militarily dependent on France and America is a bad thing, read a f*cking history book
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  2. I assume those dots mean you're joking?
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  3.  @Scraps_Underscore  148 not 100, but yeah it is a very small number, what do you expect with our penny-pinching Conservative government though; It's enough to be a worthwhile contribution to a coalition force however, alá Iraq & Afghanistan (especially given with the new guns, new armour and Trophy APS the Challenger 3 should be a considerable improvement over the already-formidable Challenger 2), and that's all they're likely to be used for- like you say we're highly unlikely to be fighting a near-peer-level opponent by ourselves anyway, and if we DO ever end up having to go it alone again like in the Falklands War chances are our navy and air-force will be doing most of the heavy lifting- small though they may be compared to those of somewhere like America or China, the Royal Navy and RAF have gotta be a pretty terrifying prospect to any country a lot further down the military ladder, especially those big new carriers with their F35's
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  4. Well yes but a big part of that is as you say the damn Conservative government we currently have, it's why the sooner there's a General Election the better as Labour WILL win in a landslide, and while that probably won't make things much better for the UK military right now it sure as hell can't make them much worse
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  5. Aaaand it's exactly that kind of unbelievably arrogant attitude that's why America has so many enemies in the first place
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