so is Russia??? both sides are loosing an extreme amount of soldiers per day.

@@Trooptalk17 The commonly accepted ratio is between 5 and 10 to 1 in favor of Russia. Col. Macgregor was speaking to Judge Napolitano about it yesterday, and those are the figures he gave from sources inside the US Military. Make of it what you will.

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What’s wrong with the f-35?

@@Trooptalk17 at any one time only 28% are fit to fly

That’s not quite true, the RAF has 2 f-35 frontline squadrons which are ready to fly straight away. Each of these frontline squadrons has around 12 f-35’s. The f-35’s that are not ready to fly straight away is the f35 training squadron and the test squadron which hold the remaining f-35’s the UK has

The archers are a temporary infill for the Artillery Gapped solution and will no doubt be sold/ donated to a third country when the AS90s replacement enters service!

The UK are purchasing 116 boxers not 14.

@@Trooptalk17 Prepare for disappointment on those 116 boxers, also have some recovery vehicles ready to constantly pull them out of the mud

@@Trooptalk17 Granted this is an aspiration, how many will see service though?

Like stated in the video, they only purchased 14 because they are just a filler till the permanent artillery systems come into service. If they purchased lots of them and then the permanent ones come in a year later then that’s a waste of money.

@@Trooptalk17 Right!!!! I thought it was because the Country is broke and run and inhabited by idiots. Any other excuses?

I mean, British troops may be less in numbers but they are some of the best trained in the world so if we went into conventional war, the quality of the soldiers will outweigh the pure numbers. If you have 100 very highly trained soldiers vs 500+ average soldiers, I can almost guarantee that the highly trained ones are winning. Thats what people always forget. It’s not always just about the numbers.

The Boxer IFV can be divided into 2 parts, one mission module that contains the personnel etc and the other part includes the chassis and powerpack etc. The whole vehicle can be taken into a workshop and have its mission module swapped out for a different one to change its role. Now, whilst it's ok for an IFV to do this, it's possible that someone within the MOD has incorrectly thought that this could apply to the RCH and have a load of RCH modules sitting in storage waiting to be swapped over as and when needed! the problem here is that the RCH cnassis is an entirely different beast and putting an RCH Module on a non-RCH chassis is a disarster whait to happen! The MOD is potentially investing in an unproven system (yet again) with all the potentail cost overruns etc instead of buying a quasi off the self system. I suspect that of the planned 100+ systems the BA wants, it will be luckk to get 30 operational systems at any given point in time and the rest will be in storage be it in ether module or as a whole vehicle/ parts!

@@simonallen6427 sounds about right.

Why would we buy Russian equipment? Number 1 they are basically our enemies and number 2 their equipment is worse than ours..

they seemed to be moving away from tracked vehicles because technology has moved on. tracks are much slower than wheels and harder to repair and wheels can tackle harder terrain now.

I don't think it is "cheap" but price is always an important criterium. The Boxer is already in use or ordered by the Forces, so they can score on combined driver training and parts compabilty Another advantage is that it doesn't need lowloaders or trains when quick transfers are necessary. You loose long times being in open spaces loading or unloading the vehicles. It can move dispersed, in small groups on different routes and different times, where trains and tracks are vulnerable targets. A lower price brings an important advantage in endurance. Ordnance is expensive and without ordnance the system is worth nothing. So in one way it is important to have a mix of expensive and less expensive grenades for different purposes, but also the system can not be to expensive. The more expensive is not always better.

There is not much bouncing and if there is it is corrected automatically. Otherwise the RCH 155 could not fire while driving

@@85daniel indeed modern tanks have stabalising equipment. this isn't new stuff, there is a video of a german leopard driving over bumps with a pint of beer on the barrell and it doesn't spill a drop. that was from the 80's i think.

@@dimwitsixtytwelve Wheeled vehicles can't handle soft/ boggy ground in the same way as tracked vehicles because they are prone to get bogged in up to their axles and need to be recovered by dedicated vehicles making them an easy target for counter-battery fire! It doesn't take long to get bogged in.

These vehicles have been specially made with extremely good armour so they should be able to take a few hits from drones before actually getting damaged

Drones are a risk. But don’t let the picture in Ukraine confuse you. Ukraine doesn’t have air supremacy, like NATO would acquire quickly in ANY conflict (barring against China, but hard to see how a NATO-China conflict could arise). Once you have air supremacy everything has to move far, far back. Also don’t confuse the static picture in Ukraine, which enables small drone teams to get close to the front line, with what a NATO/Russia conflict would look like. Drones are a risk. But the conflict in Ukraine is misleading lots of people into believing that nothing will survive against them on a modern battlefield.

Very true.

That is why we must invest in excellent electronic countermeasures and shoot down capabilities when facing the inevitable autonomous drone systems.

@@Trooptalk17 The main reason why the Boxer RCH was chosen is because it has a common platform with the Boxer IFV, with all the Logistics support that goes with it, making it the cheapest option, The Boxer RCH has the same level of armour protection to is IFV cousin, which is saying much during a direct fire mission because at least the AS90 et al has a chance to withstand a 125mm round through the front Glasis plate as a posed to a hot knife through butter with this vehicle!

At least it’s an increase from January lol. It’s the best we can get at the moment

Why only one hundred? When I was in the army we had easily over 100 recruits training in just my section of Pirbright not including all the other buildings down there.

Yea, I think it’s mostly to do with how military personnel are being treated by our current government and that people just aren’t having an interest in joining the military because of the government. I hear a lot of people say why should I join the military and fight for this country when the government is already ruining the country.

Not about the size, it’s about the quality. British soldiers are some of the best trained in the world. If you have a small well trained army against a large but not trained well army then the smaller one is going to win 9/10 times

@@Trooptalk17 got women in the infantry let me know how that goes {standards all across the board have been changed to accommodate them.

Gender does not matter.

@@Trooptalk17 LOL you absolute clown have you served in military before especially infantry ?????

@@Trooptalk17 have you served in the military? "gender does not matter " haha you absolute weapon of a thing

Because the Russians are not trained well.

​@Trooptalk17 really, and you know this how ?

I mean, Russia is loosing over 1,200 soldiers per day at the moment. Russia has lost most of its regular army so most of the people fighting in the Russian military now are the reserves and volunteers. Obviously they are not as well trained as the regular soldiers who have mostly died

@@Trooptalk17 you probably don't want to believe it but that is absolutely bollocks, all you need to do is swap Russia for Ukraine and your pretty much there.

This information comes straight from Russian government figures. Give me proof that you’re right and that they aren’t loosing this many and I’ll believe you. How can you argue about something when you don’t know the facts 100% yourself…