Comments by "Billy Bob" (@davidrobertsemail) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1. David Houseman ships can’t stay at sea all the time. That halves the fleet. 6 destroyers and 13 frigates is pathetic. It’s a big world and if we want a blue navy we have to pay for it. What we have is a part time blue navy. We used to have a full time one. Nothing against the people in it at all but these big shiny ships are white elephants without decent aircraft and the ships needed to project power. It’s sad.
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  2. David Houseman also I would add that the decision to only buy 8 type 26s and make up with the 5 type 31s is a bigger cut again. The type 31s won’t be frigates they will call them that but in reality they will be corvettes much less capable. Nothing against them at all they are valuable but type 26s are capable and what is required.
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  3. David Houseman the US operates both With catapults and without. The ones without aren’t deemed carriers. They serve different needs so yes in some instances the smaller America/wasp class is required but it’s certainly not better. The f35bs have low payload and range which defeats the point of two 65,000 ton aircraft carriers. FYI HMS Invincible class was 22,000 tons. If we wanted ski jumps we should have built ski jump carriers a third of the size and built three. This current choice is a mess. Two hulking carriers with short range jets and only enough ships to guard them. Any other blue navy operations have been gutted to pay for them. We are pretending to be one of the big boys with big shiny elephants but we can’t even protect our ships in the gulf as we don’t have any frigates to do so. I’m repeating myself but we had 42 frigates in 1982 and still didn’t have enough to avoid an invasion. Now we are cutting to 8 real frigates and 5 type 31s
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  4. David Houseman 5 31s and 8 26s simply are not enough. It’s not about doing more. It’s about have a full time blue water navy. Building 65,000 carriers without catapults is dumb. Only have 6 destroyers and 8 frigates and 5 fancy corvettes simply isn’t enough. These “Strategic” defense decisions are shambolic. Driven by cost cutting as they are too weak to cut costs where they should. The navy simply doesn’t have enough ships. You can still be proud of those serving and recognize that. In 4 years we may be able to send a carrier group out but any other commitments be dammed. Sustained operations simply are not possible with a carrier group at sea. There is no redundancy for shore leave, repairs or resupply. We need 30 frigates and 15 destroyers. But to pay for that domestic welfare spending would need to be cut.
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  5. People should get jobs based on merit not sexuality or skin colour. This policy is racist and sexist and makes the military weaker.
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  6. Woke and broke. What an embarrassment.
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  7.  Follow the howl  hiring by skin colour, sex or sexuality is a bad way to recruit. You think warriors are attracted to a military that celebrates LGBT?
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  8.  @kalidilerious the “Journalist” doesn’t seem to know anything. That’s what’s awful.
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  9. That’s what I thought!
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  10. £100,000 missile for £400 drone.
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  11. Every day this war goes on China gets stronger and the west gets weaker.
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  12. Finally getting rid of the SA80 and getting the AR platform. Should have done that when we replace the SLR Those optics are very very nice indeed.
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  13.  @Orbital_Inclination so no planes then.
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  14.  @Orbital_Inclination we don’t have enough aircraft for one carrier never mind two. We retired our carriers too early and scrapped the harriers. These two ships are great big white elephants and the navy has half the surface ships it needs fir two carriers anyway. Even if we buy 73 planes in total that’s still only enough for one carrier. I suspect one will be mothballed soon enough. Probably the POWs. You know the one without planes.
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  15.  @adamatch9624  any military analyst knows this. This isn’t journalism.
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  16. It’s a stalemate.
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  17. Steven Homan sorry I wasn’t criticizing you. I’m mad at this video as it portrays this scandal as incompetence as the politicians saved the day. The politician in this video knew of the problem and did nothing. In 2006 he said”In June, when this was first raised in the Lords, the defence procurement minister, Lord Drayson, insisted that these unarmoured Land Rovers provided "the level of protection we need".
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  18.  @furiousscotsman2916 this one has zero planes the other doesn’t have enough for a full load out.
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  19.  @importantjohn it has less than 20 combat ships. Two of which are aircraft carriers without enough planes for one of them.
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  20.  @matthewwelch3007 not sure I get your addition 5 plus 8 plus 6 plus two equals… Either way we don’t have enough of any class of ship.
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  21.  @furiousscotsman2916 that’s because we sold off our carriers and scrapped the harrier fleet. Another genius decision. On top of huge carriers without catapults.
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  22. ⁠ @furiousscotsman2916 Italy, Spain and the US still use harriers. They are still extremely capable. When we sold them for £35 million to the US they had just been modernized. We sold them for peanuts. It was a terrible decision. The f35s we have are the b variant not the c variant. The 65 thousand ton ships we have don’t have a catapult! We should have bought 3 or 4 smaller ships which would enable us to field 2 or 3 at a time and sustain losses. Instead we have in effect one great big target with shorter range b variants and not enough escort ships to protect it.
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  23. ⁠​⁠ @D-Z321 I know. The point I made was that we should have kept the harriers until we received the f35s. Thus keeping continuous carrier operations. We received our first f35s in 2018. The harriers were supposed to be retired in 2018. They were retired early in 2011 and effectively sold for scrap.
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  24.  @thetruthhurts7675 I agree that’s why we shouldn’t have retired the harriers early. If we had kept them on and at least one carrier we would have had continuous carrier operations.
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  25.  @matthewwelch3007 we would struggle to defend one carrier against any half capable enemy.
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  26. They don’t even have planes!
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  27.  @normanboyes4983  I can wire a plug but even if I couldn’t I could figure out that an aircraft carrier without planes isn’t very good.
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  28. It’s a great plane let down by older missiles and pilots with too little training.
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  29. You take Trump literally but when Biden says stupid stuff …..every day he’s ignored.
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  30.  @unreal4010 watch the video! These ships have literally ferried illegals into Europe!
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  31. Stop beating around the bush. These are traitors. They are telling the CCP how to kill us in a potential future conflict. These traitors need to be made an example of.
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  32.  @furiousscotsman2916 nope. There will never be enough for both carriers.
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  33. Comments disabled on last video. Because everyone knows wokeness damages the military.
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  34. US Army is under strength and can’t recruit. It’s also demoralized all thanks to Biden and his woke attacks on the military.
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  35. Well at least they aren’t crying or praying to mecca.....I suppose its less worse than last years.
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  36. We can thank our stupid politicians for this screw up. Billions spent on crap equipment.
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  37. That upgrade was canceled
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  38. Another moronic decision by politicians.
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  39. Russia isn’t the threat China is and China owns our politicians.
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  40. China is winning in every way. They own our political class. They own big business. They steal everything we have. They are dominating the world with the belt and road debt traps.
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  41.  @davidhouseman4328  it’s been holding up tanks for months. It’s been delaying equipment from the start. Announcing kit and not delivering it. They have been dragging their feet. America has been running down its stocks as mainland Europe contributes a fraction of what’s needed.
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  42.  @davidhouseman4328  there aren’t enough to give away and they aren’t being replaced.
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  43.  @RoninTF2011  army munitions from Israel and South Korea. I quoted the Secretary of the Navy as he accidentally was honest about the problem. It’s across all the services supplying munitions.
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  44. Dumb question. Russia isn’t the great China is.
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  45. Warmonger. Pensioners are freezing in Britain and we are sending billions to fight another war. All on borrowed money.
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  46. Germany is the third biggest economy in the world. It’s expects the US taxpayer to pay for its defense. Europe needs to pay its bills.
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  47.  @rocketassistedgoat1079 actually it’s less cabable and tge navy isn’t growing it’s fleet it’s shrinking it.
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  48. Not if there’s none to give them.
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  49. The “Journalist” forgot to mention it’s a Chinese belt and road port. That’s where the billions come from.
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  50. Another endless war. Except this time it’s with a nuclear superpower.
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