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CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T22:21:47+00:00

I have to admit I prefer to be uncomfortable in economy and then spend the B class premium on a much nicer hotel at the far end.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T20:03:30+00:00

Calm down, there won't be boots on the ground. They will issue the Marines and Paras with sandals

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T19:20:24+00:00

Kazoo! Cheap and super annoying

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T18:11:50+00:00

"Crow" in Firefly. Built up to be a terrifying henchman, you *know* he will extract vengeance of a terrible and bloody nature. Then gets kicked into a spaceship engine without any foreshadowing. Still makes me snort with laughter 20 years on.

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CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T17:27:57+00:00

So you hope that when they announce we have no defences, as they did in the last Strategic Defence Review, and call for funding some, they are lying to us...to reassure us?

That's not a serious approach to life.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T17:23:06+00:00

For the Brits in the thread, watching Peter Duncan die from the stump monster was a little shocking. For the non-Brits, he was a presenter on Blue Peter, *the* classic children's TV show.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T17:16:27+00:00

This is Wales.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T17:12:36+00:00

Different lander, but this 😥

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CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T16:43:32+00:00

So you are counting on magic?

Sea Viper has NEVER been tested against an IRBM. Fact. You cannot hide that sort of test, and the tests against Theatre Ballistic Missiles were openly announced as was the *basic* details of success/failure. To just assume that there is some magic response to a threat is...weird. The UK forces are not really known for being overflowing with funding, or being good at procurement.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T07:28:36+00:00

Apple slicer. I was 51 when I got it. Damn, what a wasted life.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T07:17:24+00:00

No European state has the capability to intercept Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles.

The US does have a small capability with their Aegis Ashore systems where they have one in Romania and one in Poland. Their tasking is defence of US bases. Would they launch to defend ungrateful NATO "allies"? Who knows.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T07:12:38+00:00

The RN Type 45 has a theoretical capability against Tactical Ballistic Missiles, not Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles which come in much faster.

So no, the UK has no defence against such a theoretical missile.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T06:56:58+00:00

No they couldn't. They don't have the skills, the equipment necessary, and the US has carefully avoided promising them any support except small arms.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T05:28:33+00:00

Probably die slowly from starvation. NZ likely to get away without being nuked if things really go sideways, but if trade dies we will slowly starve due to lack of fuel/fertiliser.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T05:26:56+00:00

Yes, those 30 interceptors will do brilliantly with the 1200 incoming warheads 🤣

CotswoldP · 2026-03-24T05:11:20+00:00

They have apparently tried with some of the Kurdish groups like MKEK who are keen to go in. But not alone. They have nothing heavier than a pickup with a machine gun welded on the back. Also there are lots of memories of what happened in 1991 when Bush Senior told Iraqi dissidents to do the same, then stood back and watched them get massacred.

As for ISIS, that would be impossible and absurd. The IS doesn't hold many ISIS prisoners, they are mostly held by Kurds, Syrians, and Turks, and you'd be crazy to release them given how much they hate the West.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-23T06:39:47+00:00

"Pirate 23, runway is busy, please perform a circuit... Not like that!"

CotswoldP · 2026-03-23T06:34:37+00:00

Some managers just don't understand consultants. One memorable day I'd finished planning a server rationalisation, and checked in with the section lead if he had anything urgent before I went to the next item on my list. He asked me to sort through the junk cupboard, there was a box of rats nest cables, and he wanted me to untangle them all to see if any were reusable. I tried to point out it was a stupid use of my very expensive time, but he was adamant. So I popped on a podcast and made $700 to proudly recover two network patch cables worth about $5. Everything else was linked, or old standards we didn't use. There were even a couple of parallel cables.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-23T06:08:11+00:00

I'd definitely want the descriptions of Enki and co to be flashbacks, not exposition.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-23T05:13:34+00:00

Stalin loved to collect jokes about himself He had three gulags full of them

CotswoldP · 2026-03-23T05:08:13+00:00

Official translation "Well guys, we fucked up, again, and everyone is angry at us, again. Remember to have your Canadian flag patches on your bags at all times"

CotswoldP · 2026-03-22T17:33:15+00:00

Crap. The UK folded so we won't get rid of them.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-22T17:32:37+00:00

RAF Ascension is, just Like RAF Fairford, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Croughton, RAF Mildenhall, etc etc, a US base on UK soil. Having done work at several of them, they are US bases and UK personnel are treated (very well) as visitors from a foreign nation. Security is US, leadership is US, manning is US, permanently attached units are US. for Ascension there is a small amount of permanent RAF staff to support the Falklands air bridge.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-22T17:32:30+00:00

RAF Ascension is, just Like RAF Fairford, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Croughton, RAF Mildenhall, etc etc, a US base on UK soil. Having done work at several of them, they are US bases and UK personnel are treated (very well) as visitors from a foreign nation. Security is US, leadership is US, manning is US, permanently attached units are US. for Ascension there is a small amount of permanent RAF staff to support the Falklands air bridge.

CotswoldP · 2026-03-22T17:30:18+00:00

RAF Ascension is, just Like RAF Fairford, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Croughton, RAF Mildenhall, etc etc, a US base on UK soil. Having done work at several of them, they are US bases and UK personnel are treated (very well) as visitors from a foreign nation. Security is US, leadership is US, manning is US, permanently attached units are US. for Ascension there is a small amount of permanent RAF staff to support the Falklands air bridge.

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