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**antilt** · 07-05-2008, 03:07 AM

Our current aircraft carriers will be 30+ years old by then, so it is a timely replacement given our force projection requirements.

What we do need to do however is to stop treating our army as a bunch of minimum wage cannon fodder that can be sent willy-nilly into the battlefield with substandard or non-existent equipment.

Seriously, our army is treated like the equivalent of dogshit on your shoe - it is a ****ing embarrassment the way our government doesn't give a **** about our armed forces in this country...

All we need to do is downgrade our nuclear deterrent to a minimum level (as that is something we are slated to spend at least £10bn in the coming years on keeping it up to date at its current levels), and that could pay for all the upgrades necessary in all our armed forces - including these aircraft carriers!

Oh, and that figure for the carriers...

Probably double or triple it by the time the MOD has got its incompetent hands on it and the carriers are finally delivered...

07-05-2008, 03:07 AM	#10
antilt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 338 Senior Member	Our current aircraft carriers will be 30+ years old by then, so it is a timely replacement given our force projection requirements. What we do need to do however is to stop treating our army as a bunch of minimum wage cannon fodder that can be sent willy-nilly into the battlefield with substandard or non-existent equipment. Seriously, our army is treated like the equivalent of dogshit on your shoe - it is a **ing embarrassment the way our government doesn't give a ** about our armed forces in this country... All we need to do is downgrade our nuclear deterrent to a minimum level (as that is something we are slated to spend at least £10bn in the coming years on keeping it up to date at its current levels), and that could pay for all the upgrades necessary in all our armed forces - including these aircraft carriers! Oh, and that figure for the carriers... Probably double or triple it by the time the MOD has got its incompetent hands on it and the carriers are finally delivered...
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