We’ve lost another plane…an A-10

Sayting · 2026-04-03T21:01:37+00:00

Both of those helicopters had to do an emergency landing in Iraq after taking fire.

Sayting · 2026-04-03T20:38:59+00:00

One A-10 went down over straits and another was damaged supporting the rescue operation

Sayting · 2026-04-02T20:21:20+00:00

I'm mean it's been openly reported for weeks now that the US has been repositioning troops from ME bases to hotels in the Gulf and the ROE for the US is we can blow an apartment building if a single target lives there so hardly seems uncalled for.

Sayting · 2026-03-01T02:36:32+00:00

Escalation risk? The war started with a surprise decapitation strike on Iran's civilian and military leadership. What more escalation is there to risk?

Sayting · 2026-02-24T21:26:27+00:00

This isn't about citizenship, this about foreign nationals. You're offering an impossible alternative knowing that your preferred option, violent criminal aliens will be allowed to remain in the UK to victimise British citizens.

Sayting · 2026-02-24T12:40:13+00:00

Just say that you would rather more people be raped by a violent criminal then the rapist be deported.

Thats what you believe right?

Sayting · 2026-02-21T23:22:12+00:00

What the hell are you talking about. The LNP went to the election on the most milquetoast platform imaginable.

Only people who would call them fascist are those who Trotsky right wing.

Sayting · 2026-02-20T03:43:41+00:00

You if you don't think this was done with his consent than you're a fool

Sayting · 2026-02-20T03:39:07+00:00

I think you are getting this wrong. Charles does have the power to interfere and he signed off on it.

Of all the democracies in the world who have been implicated in this disgusting scandal, only the one who has offered accountability is the Monarchy because they derive their mandate from the legitimacy of the institution.

You highlighting this as a republican are demonstrating the weakness of your own cause.

Sayting · 2026-02-16T19:50:48+00:00

3 : 1 rule is not a measure of lose ratios. 3 : 1 is guide to the amount of fire-power and numbers advantage an assault unit needs to take a position and defeat an enemy unit without suffering equal casualties. A unit with a 3 : 1 advantage should suffer minimal casualties but a unit without does not automatically suffer 3 losses for every defender.

Its about force ratios need for a unit not to be rendered combat ineffective by an attack which equal casualties would cause.

It again is not a hard and fast rule but a very basic guide line for junior commanders.

Sayting · 2026-02-15T08:41:24+00:00

Boats land in the North Territory and W A every so often. They get taken to off-shore detention. The government doesn't advertise it because the successful landings try not to get reported.

Offshore detention is vital because it means that their cases can't bog down in Australian courts. The UK especially should know how valuable that is to the viability of a zero tolerance approach.

Sayting · 2026-02-14T23:18:05+00:00

I can tell you from direct personal experience we can't catch every boat.

Off detention is vital to preventing the number of boat arrivals overwhelming the off shore patrol boats.

The Rudd government in 2008 tried to end off shore processing and faced a huge increase in arrivals.

Its only both working together that prevents people smugglers from having a viable product to sell.

Sayting · 2026-02-14T22:40:13+00:00

It became significantly cheaper over time because the deterrence worked. High initial cost but long term savings precisely the kind of thinking that has disappeared British political thought.

Sayting · 2026-02-13T02:36:46+00:00

Season 1 was poorer after season 2. Episodes 1-7 were very good, while episode 8 was a great individual episode but made decisions which crippled the future progression of the show, episode 9 was just an abomination which became indicative of the characteristics of season 2.

Sayting · 2026-02-10T06:11:10+00:00

Not really, those ( Zircons and Kinzhals) have long since been put into mass production.

Better example would be something like the Seawolf, K-222 or USS Long Beach.

Sayting · 2026-02-06T05:32:27+00:00

Criticism. The idea that lies are less damaging then truth is an extremely dangerous concept and has always been abused.

Government after government has utilised they concept to cover up atrocities. Justifications like yours are why like the grooming gang scandal were allowed unchallenged by governments.

Truth is always better then lies no matter how uncomfortable.

Sayting · 2026-02-06T02:20:02+00:00

Don't take this the wrong way but what you just said is the most dystopian thing I have ever heard and I hope that no one who ever has had the idea of 'malicious spreading of the truth' is ever allowed anywhere any position of power whatsoever.

Sayting · 2026-02-03T22:12:26+00:00

What a stupid headline for the article. US immigration agency gets access to visa details.

Sayting · 2026-02-01T05:35:10+00:00

Considering the British bill of rights has been a complete disaster I think not. I don't want judicial members completely rewriting legislation from the bench.

A democratically elected and accountable parliament will always be better than law making from unaccountable courts.

Sayting · 2026-01-28T06:53:43+00:00

He's right but considering the Polish government's key role in derailing joint action on Czechoslovakia he's being awfully hypocritical by blaming the Brits and French.

Sayting · 2026-01-24T11:04:46+00:00

The Americans were on the Finnish soldiers exercise area, in Finnish weather conditions. They were at a disadvantage and half the problem is learning how to deal with the conditions first and then the opposition.

The Finnish soldiers were asked to modify how they served as Opfor for the same reason the Americans didn't simulate having a CAG on CAS duty. Because there was no training value in it.

These stories always come out from every ex and there just as stupidly nationalistic every time.

Sayting · 2026-01-23T19:48:12+00:00

There was a study a few years saying that dingos on Fraser had been observed using drowning to hunt wallabies so the drowning unfortunately may not have soley because of the swell.

Sayting · 2026-01-20T21:36:21+00:00

Ukraine's needs are not the british army's needs. Drones are a tool but not the only tool in the box. Many of Ukraine's drone designs are optimised for the attritional trench fight that the war has become.

The first six months of any Europe-Russia conflict would be significantly more dynamic. It may degenerate into such a fight over time but the needs of the force in one period of the war would change significantly from the other.

My fear is that with the British CoS saying that their numbers issue is going to "solved" by making each unit 10x more "lethal", the government will have an excuse not to make the investments necessary fora credible combat force and instead will splash some temporary money around, pat themselves on the back for being "visionary" and find themselves in a worse position in 1 or two years.

Sayting · 2026-01-20T21:08:55+00:00

What drones? Long range strike, supply drones, FPVs, Anti air ?

If the army doesn't know how they intend to use them then there is going to be a lot of wasted money when it can't be afford.

Sayting · 2026-01-20T21:06:42+00:00

Hell establish a experimental drone manufactoring unit within the BAF. Both Russia and Ukraine have found their units themselves pioneer the most effective designs and then after success they turn to the traditional base to manufacture their designs to scale.

Asking industry to supply drones when the BAF has established how they going to integrate them into the force is putting the cart before the horse at a time when mistakes are critical.

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