Comments by "Bob thebomb" (@bobthebomb1596) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1. @SplurbBat Yawn.
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  2.  @MrBlaxjax  I know we will pay either way, that's not my concern. My concern is that money is not taken from the defence budget.
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  3. No, reaffirming that the troops are there to defend Poland not attack Russia.
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  4. The fact that we are not planning to send them to sea with anything like a full compliment of aircraft does not mean that the carriers are useless (though there are certain limitations to them) but that the bean counters are.
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  5. The UK and France said the same in the twenties/early thirties, look what happened in 1940.
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  6. Manufacturing EFPs takes a lot more knowledge and effort than filling a YPOC with HME though.
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  7. If you are going to make a comparison with weapons programs, then it would be the medical equipment used by the NHS, not the organisation itself. There is no shortage of long term R&D for medical equipment. Your NHS analogy would be with the Armed Forces themselves and no, neither are blessed with reliable long term planning.
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  8.  @jjthomas2297  I am fully aware of the money and effort that goes into weapons development. I am also fully aware of the amount wasted on programs that either never see the light of day or come in late and/or over budget.
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  9.  @fastfreddy19641  Not always, I bet you don't measure temperature in Kelvin?
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  10.  @davidhouseman4328  Let's be honest, even with NATO support and when we had our own E3s we never had 24/7 AWACs cover. A SAMSON co-located with our long range radar assets, linked to ASTER 30 and CAAM cells would give some hope of retaining radar coverage. Invulnerable? No, but one SSGN in the N Sea could hit all of our main search radars and airfield radars in one strike as it stands.
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  11.  @davidhouseman4328  For the one scenario maybe not. However the additional range, performance and reach of the Sampson/Aster combination, along with its ballistic missile tracking capabilities, make it a serious upgrade over Sky Sabre alone.
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  12. The point is not "Equality" but "Equality opportunity"
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  13.  Michael Doolan  As with anyone else.
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  14.  @Nowanthen  The only use of an EMP pulse that would affect fighter aircraft is as a prelude to a nuclear strike, by that stage we were all doomed.
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  15. The process was invented over a hundred years ago.
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  16.  @davidkersey2414  Probably the specific catalyst used is commercial in confidence .
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  17. I would have used them on day (night) one to take out the Ukrainian air defence systems and establish air superiority, in the same way that the US did in Iraq. It was Russia's inability to control the skies that gave the Ukrainians the chance to hold them off.
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  18.  @teatanks6481  They have not done a very good job then.
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  19.  @sj8099  Why wouldn't they? The losses in men and equipment sustained so far should tell you the answer.
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  20.  @EvidensInsania  You guessed wrong then.
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  21.  @EvidensInsania  I have neither loved nor hated drug companies like Pfizer. Neither do I sheepishly follow conspiracy sites.
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  22. Maybe the angle let you see inside the unit?
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  23. ​ @tamefroggy  It was only speculation, I don't know if there is anything particularly sensitive or different about UK birds.
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  24. It wasn't really the nuclear bomber that caused chaos. Both America and Russia worked on a nuclear powered bomber. The US produced two engine designs; one was underpowered the other too dangerous to use. The Russians actually flew a modified bomber with a nuclear engine (of the type the US considered unsafe), but it was not a viable system. Both countries eventually came to their senses. The bomber that caused chaos in the US was the original Bison A, a four jet strategic bomber. At the time the US was shocked by it's (supposed) performance, which lead to the apocryphal "bomber gap" As it turned out both the performance figures and production numbers were wildly exaggerated
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  25.  @heybabycometobutthead  They are used in the US though.
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  26.  @heybabycometobutthead  TOW is a US missile system, therefore it's specs will have been issued in imperial measurements.
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  27.  @heybabycometobutthead  ?
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  28.  @romeisfallingagain  Yeah. That I couldn't tell you I'm afraid.
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  29.  @michaelfraser5723  Evidence?
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  30. Have you seen the latest UK Forces recruitment figures?
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  31. All depends on the drone; how large, what is it carrying?
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  32.  @johnallen7807  Or you could just look at those Asiatic countries that implemented strong lockdown and mask wearing policies. The ones where for some reason Covid has had much less impact.
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  33.  @eternaloptimist2840  They were given authority, but then the US pulled the ITAR card. Storm Shadow contains some US proprietary tech 😡
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  34. @sprmdnr-t9m ?
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  35. Ouch!
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  36.  @snowtfl5617  Neither, but NVG technology and performance has always been restricted access for obvious reasons.
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  37. My bad.
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  38. Yes Ivan
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  39. Yes it does.
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  40.  @1chish  RAF lost their Merlins due to their poor performance under hot and high conditions.
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  41.  @1chish  Only that it was given as the reason the Merlin was withdrawn from Afghanistan.
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  42.  @1chish  It's not a bad helo, but not suited to the RAF; who might be called upon to support ops in any location. Fine for the navy.
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  43. What Brexit? Will not be allowed to happen.
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  44. More than one line?
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  45. What frigate?
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  46.  @Randomstuffs261  There was no frigate listed
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  47.  @Randomstuffs261  They didn't say that T23 was up for sale
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  48.  @veryrevrufus  We have a lot of sea area to cover. Conventional subs are great for shorter ranged tasks and especially in shallow waters. Nuclear powered vessels have longer range, are faster and can cover large areas while remaining deep (where they are harder to detect).
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  49. I wonder how many years it will be before that new analysis centre is working properly?
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  50.  @davidrobertsemail  Although the primary weapon, the SM2 missile, does not have active terminal guidance and is launched in pairs.
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