Do YOU really think the UK will be facing Russia ON OUR OWN ?!
J.H.C. !! . . . do you have anything useful to contribute, you simpleton ?!
Please cite all the EUropean armies committing to dieing in a ditch to defend the Sulwaki Gap
Do YOU really think the UK will be facing Russia ON OUR OWN ?!
J.H.C. !! . . . do you have anything useful to contribute, you simpleton ?!
It was explained to me, by a Lithuanian (female) Captain with very nice eyes, that this is actually the Suwalki Corridor, because NATO is trying to keep it open rather than cross it. Unfortunately I didn't get any further than that.. . . Unless we genuinely think we're going to be willing to shed 10,000s of lives to defend the Suwalki Gap - but that's not a policy argument anyone (including CGS or SoS) has made.
Again what was your last trip, jolly in a service tracked vehicle? For balance?I'm playing devil's advocate regarding the role of the media, which has been execrable.
Tusa's got a bone to gnaw and some limelight. But the responses from the MOD/GD have been very poor. The story in the Daily Mail was laughable.
On we go.
It was explained to me, by a Lithuanian (female) Captain with very nice eyes, that this is actually the Suwalki Corridor, because NATO is trying to keep it open rather than cross it. Unfortunately I didn't get any further than that.
They will for a moment.The substantial Russian forces based in Kaliningrad will ensure it is a gap.
But is is not being challenged by anyone credible in any credible forums.
We can bump our gums/tap keyboards here but the level of debate in the mainstream is non-existent.
Well, that doesn’t include me as I haven’t been inside any of the current fleet of AFVs for some years.Well what can we do?
Short of one of us getting made Minister of Defence, about the only thing I can think of a letter, signed by a lot of people* submitted to a lot of local MP's, who will then pass that on to the minister of defence.
*and by that I mean knowledgeable people who have a proven record.
Well, that doesn’t include me as I haven’t been inside any of the current fleet of AFVs for some years.
No, no. It has been decreed that I cannot have a voice.I think it would Just to show a wide consensus of opinion.
If one were being unkind, one could note that decades-old experience would still qualify as current in terms of vehicles.Well, that doesn’t include me as I haven’t been inside any of the current fleet of AFVs for some years.
Last paragraphAgain what was your last trip, jolly in a service tracked vehicle? For balance?
So many detractors of how the military is run, are those with less than recent experience in said military.
Opinions are great, but claiming you are the fountain of all knowledge on IFV, Heavy armour. Is over the mark. Perhaps frame responses in, “my experience” is? Then add the relevant dates?
The armour in the army is in a shit state, it's not getting better any time soon, maybe those whose last jolly in a IFV wa dearly.90’s should look at why the army ended up here?
Why the current strategy is light mobile forces with lots of CAS, with zero assets to extract them.
All that being said no one is going to invade the UK, or western Europe, as they would get nuked, vlad knows the rules, he pushes some, we push back other ways, Germaby will be better served once Angela leaves.
If one were being unkind, one could note that decades-old experience would still qualify as current in terms of vehicles.
This.No-one has got vibration white finger from AJAX either. The Surgeon General was quite clear that said condition is a long term problem and no-one has used the vehicle for that long yet. While there have been reports of vibration induced injury no case has lasted long enough to present to a doctor the following day.
Ear injuries occurred due to problems with the comms system. Not good by any measure, but not insoluble.
That made me chuckle. Indeed.If one were being unkind, one could note that decades-old experience would still qualify as current in terms of vehicles.
That's pretty straightforward.The armour in the army is in a shit state, it's not getting better any time soon, maybe those whose last jolly in a IFV wa dearly.90’s should look at why the army ended up here?