Who is going to fire mortars at our carriers? Not sure I follow this. Swing and a Miss. No one, but I could see a terrorist (or special forces attack in wartime) on British air bases if they can't secure them properly. I rate this scenario lolwat out of 10 on the reasonable threat scale. But how wo...
Wow that’s Stupid beyond all belief. Even if we accept the stupid and crazy premise that the RAF would be folded into the FAA, if they cut the airbases out they would lose almost all ability to secure the aircraft on the ground from ground attack such as Mortars (This crops up with the USAF decommi...
...So you'd give ALL of the transport, ISR and support aircraft to the navy too? That seems like a real smart idea... Transport is hardly a whole service branch. Though there is merit in most of the land-based helicopters (ie. excluding SAR) and cargo planes going to the Army Air Corps rather than ...
Britain isn't broke, we just don't care about defence. US economy is in a worse position relative to where it was, yet it retains defence spending >2x higher than Britain per capita. Britain would rather keep welfare spending high, which is fair enough from the politicians' vote-buying perspective. ...
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