UK has a top navy, and i assume a top airforce, thats quite sufficient.
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UK has a top navy, and i assume a top airforce, thats quite sufficient.
You could be right, the number does seen low though, maybe they have a quick change facility in something like IL76's where they can put essentially a giant tank in the hold and have a drogue type system - I might be wrong but didn't the US try something like that with C-130's?
The UK has a Navy comprising of a total of about 60 ships, most of which are tiny patrol types!
Or put another way, Britannia doesn't rule the waves!
The air force is better but has a fraction the number of aircraft it once had and some of those are actually leased!
I don't know anything about that but there are many different versions of Hercules tankers, they are called KC-130 and are mainly used by the Marines.
Well, last i looked the UK was ranked at 4th best navy in the world, has to count for something.
Also, numbers alone isn't everything, let alone the most important thing, context matters.
You make it sound like UK basically don't have a navy, seems ridiculous.
Also the commander of the eastern group visited Bakhmut earlier today. Either they evacuate now or they decided to hold the city and turn it into Mariupol 2.0. They definetly could hold the city even surrounded for a couple of weeks probably and keep on inflicting massive losses to Wagner. But they'd lose all their heroic defenders in the end. We'll see his command pretty soon.
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And why would Britain need a bigger navy?
I was promised a Brexit benefit. Gunboats would do.
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And in the event, admittedly unlikely, if Argentine did what they did in 1982 could the Navy do what it did then, probably not
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Isn't there like an actual RAF base on the islands?
Yes it has 4 RAF Typhoons based there + a Voyager anker and a transport A400
More on the previous post I wrote about Russian forces building trenches along the (western) coast of Crimea.
Some of those trenches would easily get flooded on the first high tide.
Some of those trenches would easily get flooded on the first high tide.
The navy is pretty good. The RAF is also under equipped.
They also look really useless being right on the beach. If an amphibious assault would happen, these trenches would be taken at once.
Once said the listen to the old wise women, well not in Russia..
When you get all your news from the same place and they keep on pumping the same garbage out, well it's to be expected.
I can't decide between believing the Russian population is brain washed beyond hope and thinking that the public opinion will eventually reach a tipping point once the sanctions and war efforts start to hurt them personally. Sometimes it seems there's a silent majority who is against the war and sometimes you think that's actually a minority.
I also wonder how to deal with that in a future in which Russia has (hopefully) lost the war. Here in Germany, I think the occupation and associated awareness and information work did much to counter the extreme propaganda and brainwashing of the nazi time but that will obviously not happen with a nuclear power. So there will always be propagandist and right wing extremist building on that basis.
There's really no way to say at the moment, with no independent sociological institutions left in the country and the war-time censorship with criminal consequences for saying stuff out of line being introduced. But from the subjective point of view it feels less and less possible that this constriction is going to fall down any time soon. My most realistic way of communicating with general public outside my own little bubble is a sports news website and at there are certainly way more aggressively pro-War, anti-Ukrainian comments there than there were, say, a year ago.
And yeah, I have no idea how we're going to deal with all that shit when the war (and, hopefully, the regime) is over.
What next ? A 9/11 tweet questioning how the towers could've possibly fallen due to planes crashing into them ? I wonder if Lavrov approved this.
"Hey it's kind of a tense geopolitical situation, do you think we as the official government voice in a foreign country should stay a bit under the radar?"
"Naaaah"
Fantastic 2 part documentary about the first year of the war by Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Komarov including interviews with Zelensky and many of the top generals.
Part 1 focuses the defensive operations around Kyiv in the first months of the war.
Part 2 shows the liberation of Kharkiv and Kherson among many other things.
It's in Ukrainian but English subtitles are available.
Part 1 focuses the defensive operations around Kyiv in the first months of the war.
Part 2 shows the liberation of Kharkiv and Kherson among many other things.
It's in Ukrainian but English subtitles are available.
MT-LBs developed in the 50's retrofitted with 25mm naval turrets developed in the 40's.
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This has to be a joke.
Thank God that the US Department of the Navy never considered putting a 5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun on top of an APC for the Marines.
A good example of how powerful domestic propaganda can be. Here, what is ostensibly a facsist totalitarian state, have convinced an easily led demographic (aka older people) that fascists are coming for them. Successful gaslighting of the highest order.
If true, that’s hilarious.
Some post apocalyptic looking monstrosity
It is from idiots. If they can’t work out that they have a dictator brainwashing them with propaganda though, despite others around them managing it, that’s on them. People also tend to believe what they want to believe, as shown with the media over here in recent years eg brexit.
It’s not just older people in Russia believing this either.
And a further example would be Fox News in the US, the reality is some folks don't want to hear the truth
I find that line of thinking problematic. You could have become the same if you grew up in that environment.
I mean, there's really only two ways about it. Either you think it is because of the propaganda they've been exposed to since probably decades or you think it is genetics - the latter I'd say is a racist concept.
We've just been lucky to be born in a different part of the world.
How do I get english subs to work? Using my phone.
I tend to agree, though. Its too easy to write people off as "idiots", but when people like Trump get elected to in the US, national decisions like Brexit go through... It doesn't matter where we're born. Quite simply, propaganda works, the global money spent on marketing and advertisements is enough proof of that. We're all products of our environments and the information we absorb.