State of the British armed forces

[Wizeman]

Just wondering if anyone else is worried about the state of our armed forces?

The world seems like its on a knife edge and from my analysis we are not ready for war.

I don’t know. You need to ask the army top brass who train logistics specialists to fight and send them to the front line.

Some specialists will be on the front but a majority are behind the front.

Your not answering because you would sound silly

Who would put field hospitals on the front or a bunch of man trucks? The Russians would love it 😂 easy target.

Maybe but that sounds awfully like the "punch above our weight" argument the politicians like to throw around that has got us where are now...

If a handful of your super soldiers become ineffective and the intel is a bit off the odds start to become really bad.

This carries across into the equipment world and the current conflict.

For example there's no doubt the current Type 45 destroyers with long range sensors and medium/long range surface to air missiles would beat the pants of a or even several Falklands era Type 42 with Sea Dart....

But you need to be able to get the ships to sea and on station before they can do anything...and recent events show that we can't reliably do that quickly with the Type 45 because if you start out by only buying a small batch because of the cost, and then have to rotate them through the dockyards with unexpected frequency you can end up with nil stock to deploy quickly.

Similar with the carriers - we have two...much the same as in 82 (Falklands) but unlike in 82 rumour has it we don't have enough crew to have both at sea at once, with both carrying a full air wing.

Common opinion I've heard from many who have served is the Forces a lot longer than I did is things went downhill quickly after Gulf War Two...does it matter? One for the politicians and voters, but if Russia did want to stir things up elements of their Navy and Long Range Air Force are still effective.