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’Stripped’ is the optimum word, Tories have been doing that to Defence for 14 years now.Yeah. 30 scrapped for parts. no idea if this means they are no longer flight worthy tho.
UK confirms plans to strip early Typhoon jets for parts
The retirement of the Tranche 1 Typhoons will leave the Royal Air Force with just 107 Typhoon aircraft in total – 67 Tranche 2 jets and 40 Tranche 3 jets.
They don’t seem to have been around that long, must be about 20 years, no where in service when I left in 2000
How time flies, only seems like a few years ago I was doing consultancy work at Warton on them, unbelievable that some of the first tranche are already out of service.
I don’t know mate look what wars they been in since 2001!
Tories?
18 billion sent to overseas aid..For me 6 Billion into NHS 6 billion into pensions and 6 billion into defence...
They’ve been there for a while but the point made was about ‘stripping‘ the services. If you were Air, you’d note that our aircraft holdings are derisable. For the Senior Service, they have 2 aircraft carriers with no crew and not enough of those aircraft to scale it. As for Land, it’s either out of date armour and no replen’s to cover what has been given to Ukraine, or no ammunition to cover either.
You’re right, in some case, but the Labour era learned from their mistakes of sending us into Afghan and Iraq unequipped and poured money into the problem to support the troops. We now haven’t even got a Defence that could credibly manoeuvre in support of the USA, and would have to lean on the EU to cover the shortfall.