Got any more on the EU RRF? It sounds interesting!
Pop over to the old
EU Referendum site (now retired for obvious reasons) and poke around. I've linked a search for articles on the rapid reaction force. Richard North had a lot to say about military procurement in this country, none of it particularly approving. We've been a wreck in that regard for sixty years or more.
But what I don't understand is why the UK has decided to cripple itself in such a manner? Were the Vulcan bombers really that expensive?
Yes. Vulcan was ahead of its time, design wise, but its mission profile was tied to the days before viable ICBMs, when the first strike expectation was that a high speed, high performance bomber would nip in to Russia as fast as possible, drop its bombs, and then try not to die on the way home. The moment it was possible to put a nuclear missile in a submarine, they were relegated to conventional bombing, a role to which they were not well suited at all. They were obsolete long before they were retired. Vulcan was only used in Operation Black Buck because the RAF had no other aircraft capable of flying the mission, but it pushed them well beyond their operational limits.
What confuses me, an American, the most is that many in power (mostly labor and greens) seem to think they have the power and influence they once had.
Oh believe me, it confuses us as well. The problem seems to be that Westminster is soaked in the trappings of Empire, and the City gives us an outsized influence over finance and commerce (nearly all maritime insurance still runs through London, for instance), so I suppose it affects the mind of anyone who spends enough time there. They want to
decolonise everything now, seemingly working from the same belief that the UK is supremely powerful but in the opposite direction. It's all a bit silly.
I've derailed long enough. I should have been in bed hours ago.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/iran-c...s-debates-thread.240265/page-77#post-23963893
