When I was out in Iraq my heli stopped at a US Airbase. We had a tiny number of Chinook helicopters deployed and we landed at this base with literally hundreds of helis of every type as far as the eye could see. A very humbling experience!

you know the US is a Superpower right?

Yea terrible if civil war broke out the army may hide there barracks 70 000 huddled together 😊😅😊

@@graveperil2169 and the UK used to be....before they started depending on the US for their defense.

@@gtc1961 before it went broke in WW1 after WW2 the US had all our money and most of our ideas with the advantage that none of their city's were bombed out ruins

Yes, and on any one day, three will be on diversity training.

I’d estimate that it’s about 6 jets on alert 😂 (ten at maximum )

Not sure they have anything left to spend.

need to stop spending the budget on rubbish, most of the budget should be spent on jets but hardly any is

For a year or more we have not spent the money or stood up to the threat we are in. Rishy and the Conservatives have fiddled whilst roam burned. There can be nothing more important than our defence. It is getting to the point it is too late. Take care M.

@@cjjk9142if anything Britain could be equivalent to a floating fortress; with proper investment in dedicated land based air defences, a sizeable and highly capable/adaptable fleet of jets and a sizeable navy, the country could be a truly credible force. That combined with a decent sized army (bigger than now) could make significant differences in any fight anywhere against anyone. Let’s just hope they actually do something about it

It's obvious that we should have massively stepped up production of Storm Shadow, Meteor, nlaw, and all missiles two and a half years ago at the very least.

I can 3D print my own aircraft....

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Didn't need that moron to tell us we knew anyway

tRump crapped his pants during the debate... soo.........

Sums up the state of the whole country. The place is a joke with ideas far above its station. Not to mention, the likes of him trying to deliver a totally flawed narrative, by blowing up a threat that wasn't there until ignited by western subversion and then that same collective West or "international community" as they like to call themselves when speaking for the rest of us - with all of its financial and military aid, propping up an illegitimate regime - can't even hold off Russia. This guy delivering on behalf of the military is a 'Bully's Lackey' talking through his ring-piece in order to try and save face and boost recruitment levels.

its called the tory party they made it that way but now that might change

There is. Our Economy has been crippled for years, Brexit, Covid shattering our economy even more. We can barely afford to provide public service, housing and a stable economy, let alone Defence.

How can Putin;s S500 stop Trident nuclear missiles. *Oh wait I forgot Russia's one and only S500 just got barbecued in Crimea by American made Himars"

The question is: Why does Britain not have any nuclear-capable bombers?

​@@Anti_Putin_Russianthat's what the A-235 is for, and after all, Britain's area is not compatible with the nuclear exchange that will eventually occur.

How is Russia going to afford the solid rocket fuel with all their oil depots being bombed, they are haemorrhaging money, losing all their personnel in Ukraine and Putin having to go with his begging bowl to North Korea and China, now that embarrassing and that's the real question, can he do it. Also, why doesn't he send his own daughters to fight rather than other people's kids.

Hardly call it a hypersonic

Most Iranian citizens are living on welfare in london

they have been bombed more recently than the UK so that did not help and are surrounded by enemies go look where the UK is on the map

@@cjjk9142 the UK is an Island just like 1850

@@cjjk9142 we need capable warships to protect our islands

The Russians will already know.

Hey our woke army will sort any one and our huge dependant muslim benifit claiming population will pray to gala that the hard working Christian s keep paying our taxes that's enuf to scare any one off

Don't need tell putin nothing do you really think PUTIN DOESNT KNOW HOW MANY OF EVERYTHING WE HAVE IN MILITARY ?? THATS SO NIEVE

​@@jonathanturnerrhyolite133just said same thing .. crazy that person still thinks its secret.. lol

Not armed up. They have 4 planes

Lol. Germany has about 130 Eurofighter and also other planes

@@user-di1rj2be7w More than that armed up at any one time, Four ready to go in less than 10 minutes. each carrying 4 long range missiles and 4 short range missiles plus a 27mm Cannon.

Germany has 3 Quick Reaction Alert groups on high readiness 24/7 in germany, each with 4 Typhoons with light air policing payload. In addition to that, germany provides 3 more QRA Groups for Lithuania, Slovakia, Poland and Romania with 4 Typhoons each with full combat ready load to patrol NATO Airspace on the russian border and Ukraine/Black Sea. Of the 141 Typhoons of the Luftwaffe at each point in time there are around 120 operational and capable of being readied within 24/48hrs for combat. So yeah... the Luftwaffe is significantly larger than the RAF and alot more combat ready. (the Uk operates 107 Typhoons with a 75% readiness and 26 F-35´s with 55% readiness)

@@zhufortheimpaler4041 == It is a myth that Germany fields 120 operational fighters, although Berlin might make that claim on paper.

The Russians already know this and we know their weaknesses

Trust me, your politicians have already sent Russia everything there is on your readiness, probably the day after the classified docs came out.

Everyone knows your weaknesses.

Vengeance, Vanguard, Victorious and Vigilant

they need to report it so that constituents pressure politicians to react to UK's military weakness

Tory cuts. Labour funded the military or have you forgotten the started Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Mostly conservative cuts when it comes to defence

@@ffrederickskitty214 the fact is they both cut defence

@@cuckoojack mainly tories, dont forget they have been in control of Britain since 2010.

​@@ffrederickskitty214labour created a structural deficit in the boom years that took 9 years to clear. Labour caused the funding issue by bad financial management

It’s going to be all about cost, refurbing, keeping what you have and buying more. Every plain becomes invaluable when it hits the fan. It’s the missiles and radar systems that have to be cutting edge, the rest it just carrying the long range weapons. Take care M.

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in the last 40 years you got 34 years of conservatives. there is a a single party clearly at fault here.

@@cjjk9142 CAMM/CAMM-ER/Sky Sabre is a short range to medium range system and CAMM-LR in full development and the hreats are not only ballistic missiles but also drones cruise-missiles helicopters fighters bombers etc. If the UK does not have enough fighters then it must increase its SAM-systems and CAMM/Sky Sabre is produces in the UK thats something the UK can solve itself. Its a combination of available fighters air-defence ships and SAM-systems and the UK hardly has any SAM-systems also Patriot or SAMP/T must be added to the inventory.

The UK does not operate mid or long range SAM systems outside the few still operational Royal Navy Frigates and Destroyers. Its Airfleet is getting cut back and in a sorry state plus underequipped for Interceptor Dutys. So yes, the UK is someone entering a firefight where all sides are using 7.62x51mm NATO caliber assault rifles and MG´s with a 9mm MP5. Good enough for close quarters, but sadly the other side only fights on 400m.

@@zhufortheimpaler4041 Why are you lying? Sky Sabre is not a full midrange ground based system but a short to midrange system and already in use. 16th Regiment Royal Artillery has 4 battery's that use the short/midrange Sky Sabre system! This will be increased to 6 batteries total. British forces already use Sky Sabre in Poland. CAMM-ER is already tested and in production the already existing Sky Sabre systems in active duty could be expanded with newly developed launchers for CAMM-ER. CAMM-MR is sill in development...

@@preude1 does the UK operate systems with a range of more than 50km? (so mid to long range) We are talking about systems wth ranges of 50-200km, like Patriot or S300. Systems with a large stand of distance. last time i checked, the UK did NOT operate such systems but primarily SHORAD. CAMM-MR is not developed yet and CAMM-ER only does 45km range. A small reminder: a typical GPS/GLONASS guided glide bomb like the GBU-39 has an average range of around 120-130km after being dropped from its carrier aircraft.

@@zhufortheimpaler4041 What excactly is CWIS, short range, mid range and long range is open for debate! StarStreak is a short range system. NASAMS IRIS-T and Sky Sabre are called short to midrange systems. New systems like NASAMS 3, IRIS-T SLA and future Sky Sabre systems operating with CAMM-ER are in my opinion midrange systems. In navy's RAM SeaRAM are CIWS, ESSM CAMM and Aster 15 midrange, SM-2 Aster30 and SM-6 long range. So what is excactly what is all open to interpretation. In my opinion Sky Sabre is a short to midrange system. And yes the Uk also needs SAMP/T or Partiot PAC-2/3.

Agreed, Putin has his hands full trying to deal with Ukraine let alone Nato.

We ? Lol. Russia is a nation who wants to fight wars. Google all the wars russia has started

the F-35 has a 55% readiness rate. Meaning of the 26 F-35´s shared between Airforce and Navy, only 14-15 are operational at each time. those are next to irrelevant. The submarine fleet is struggling. The Uk has managed to produce a launch failure of every Trident II test launch since 2007, meaning its doubtful that the vanguard class SSBN´s would do their job in a proper war situation. The Astute class is only 5 ships large, over budget and also has some problems. 40% of the british defense spending are absorbed by the british nuclear weapons programm, meaning effectively the UK has a defense spending on the non nuclear forces of about 33 billion instead of 54 billion. Thats not sufficient to fulfill even the basic needs of the british armed forces, like maintaining barracks in habitable conditions.

@@zhufortheimpaler4041 Our war readiness is an absolute shambles. Britain was very fortunate to be able to retake the Falklands. We were two/ three days away from having to withdraw, due to serviceable fighting machinery being unavailable. Governments never learn - particularly the UK’s.

ITS CALLED THE Army Cadet Force, repete for the navy and airforce there is 1 in every town

Woke?

not hard information to find

And Labour would just surrender.

Labour won't buy more jets but will improve conditions for our troops at least

I totally agree where is all our old gear them tornadoes and harriers we had wars before where’s all the goodies gone 🤷‍♂️

It's old gear. OLD. You need less if you have an alliance. Russia can't even get through Ukraine let alone a single NATO country. Frankly Russia is a joke.

​@@jasonboydgg6316A Harrier wouldn't last long in the air,the technology in it is old,it doesn't even have modern ECM pods on it.

@@galvinstanley3235 yes but still has capability can fly low land anywhere and can be modified same with the tornado still a capable aircraft used right they should be stockpiled

We don’t have money for defence. We spend it all on welfare for illegal black africans

Its slowly happening. $13bn is being spent on rearming just ammunition/missile stocks at the moment after donations to Ukraine. Largest amount of naval ship building happening since the 1960s. Multiple programs pushed forward. But its not with enough haste. Politics always getting in the way. Although, it is happening faster than say France or Germany, but much slower than Poland.

You are assuming the UK is still on your side! The demographic of Britain has changed, no longer white and Christian. We are a decade away from becoming a Muslim Caliphate.

most nukes will explode when he tries to launch them anyway...

but they can make a jolly decent cup of tea...so there!

His point is how few of those fighters are on Alert status, not that the UK has no such fighters.

43 F35 actually + a few in the USA

Oops when they are all delivered

Only 34 delivered with 2 in usa, some likely still don't have trained pilot. Budget for 48 in place with projected budget for 78. We are never getting the original order of 138

Far too few. The RAF has a serious training backlog, with many trainees being put on hold for extended periods of time. This is due to inadequate purchases of training aircraft over many years, and poor retention of experienced pilots who see well paid jobs with the airline industry as a more attractive proposition.

We lack enough F35 pilots and just unfortunately lost one to an accident a few weeks ago

Said like a true politician

Poland relies on nato air policing

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Yep Poland a land locked third world country with no capacity to move troops, no navy and no N force. Yep look at Poland, a bit of a joke just like in WW2 where the Brits and French had to go to war for them!

dude the russians know that already.

easier done than you think. its also not just home defense for the RAF, the RAF has NATO obligations in the baltics and romania for Air Policing etc.

107 typhoons, 26 F-35´s. Typhoons have an average readiness rate of 75%, meaning around 78 aircraft are operational and can made ready within a few days, F-35 has a 55% readiness rate, meaning aroudn 14 aircraft are operational at each time.

148, about 210 inc reserves

We are an island 🤔

@@GrooveTasticThang with NATO obligations on the mainland. so you need an operational and sizable army with good equipment.

@@cjjk9142 thats the inventory, currently there are only enough for a bataillon (44) operational.

@@zhufortheimpaler4041 peace time

Ukraine and Israel took everything bye bye West!

F off Russian trolls.

Easy. cost. Hugely expensive. And the UK chose to spend it to keep the NHS going and free schools and old age homes.

@@DC-ux1dt Tax the billionaires . Loads of 'em in UK.

@@user-nu2lr3xd7b says Ivan , RuZZIa can not take Vovchansk,, bye bye RuZZKi Federation Like ruzzki Soviet Union

I wouldn't count on that either.

nope

The irrational parts is that if Russia want Ukraine neutrality, it cannot be thru a war, unless it's in his calculation that he can overrun Ukraine easily, but then it in itself, is a irrational thought if he really does think his force can overrun Ukraine easily. The issue here is, thru this action. The Russian basically pushes Sweden and Finland into NATO. Essentially loses Ukraine forever if Ukraine remain independent, and also damaging his own economy. Global South cannot replace the West as a source of income, the West is roughly 2/3 of world trade. Global South at best is 1/10. You basically lose out 66% to gain 10% if they all started trade with Russia. On the other hand, China may or may not even engage in a level of Global South as they don't want to lose the contract in the West. Which is where majority of their 40% GDP in Manufactuing base is going to. Russian economy was not destroyed but had set back in several decade and it's only going to go worse because in 2040, the projected median age for Russia is 45-48, and if the loss (both combat lost and emigration) while the other is high 30 to low 40. You are talking about there won't be enough people to prop up Russian economy after 2040 when the median workforce had at most 15 years left to work. On the other hand, with that number of losses, the meaning to capture those area to resettle Ethic Russian in Ukraine become a moot point, Donbas population has been devasted (By the way, not all 6 million moved to Russia, it's estimated 1.2 to 1.5 million moved East). By the end of this war, the male Donbas population may not even effectively exist anymore, and which mean by the time this war had ended, you are left with a heavily damaged region with low to no prospect to rebuild. Putin had not been able to conclude this war in favourable or even neutral term, because to do that, he will need to either able to walk inside Kyiv (ie Russian force took Kyiv) and initiate a regime change to be favorable. Or he would have to somehow make Ukraine drop their NATO bid to be neutral. Taking Kyiv is probably never going to happen in this war, as that is probably the most defended capital on earth. And with the current rate. It would take the Russian roughly 30 years to conquer the entire Donbas, this is not going to make Ukraine drop their lunch menu in the negotiation table, let alone their NATO bid. That is what irrational for Putin to think things will go his way judging from the way this war had positioned.

But Putin's demands were and remain unacceptable. He knows this. His aim in proposing peace on such terms is to give the illusion of "reason". He can say, "look, I am willing to negotiate. Ukraine is not". But, don't be fooled. His overall aim is to regain territories from the Russian Empire thereby restoring Russian greatness. He idolises Catherine and Peter the Great and wants to be seen as they are. A ceasefire just gives him a chance to regroup before attacking again.

Sorry, you are incredibly naive. We have squandered the peace dividend post 1989. Successive governments of all colours have underestimated the threat. A war in Europe was unthinkable 30 years ago but the reality is we have a real threat to democracy right now. He is quite right, this is a potential 1939 moment. You don't appease dictators and negotiate, you provide a credible deterrent.

That’s a fair bit down the pipeline. But also I understand that’s intended for low flying plastic drones, not high flying aircraft.

Because the US has bases in the UK and NATO on front lines

Left won't let us spent enough on defence

@@xaero76 i’m not sure if you’re aware of this. But, there’s a gentleman by the name of Donald Trump that’s running for office in the United States. His opinion is that we should tell Europeans screw off and let you all handle your own defense. You all should start worrying about self-preservation more than you worry about government handouts. Because this nut bag will do what he says, and it looks pretty likely he’s going to be elected. Good luck.

And you know this because....?

@@paulross225 And what makes you think we don"t have the Resources,!!

@davehodges6258 MOD reports and ex service members. Can't beat what comes straight from the horse's mouth. So now , let me throw that question straight back at you. What evidence do you have that these resources are in adequate supply Let's start with something basic, like manpower, perhaps.

Torys cut the budget and wasted money