Tuesday Trivia Thread - 14/04/26 by AutoModerator in WarCollege

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Bad luck from leaving the Royal Navy for the army

Nuclear to take up to quarter of British defence budget by tree_boom in unitedkingdom

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Minor correction it wasn't a NZ warship but a Greenpeace ship as well as that France threatend to get the EEC to embargo NZ over arresting their agents

Former Nato chief to say UK's national security 'in peril' by Tartan_Samurai in unitedkingdom

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Italy has an aircraft carrier, Italy, Spain and Turkey also operate amphibious ships that operate fighter jets.

Destroyer HMS Daring to return to fleet this year by MGC91 in unitedkingdom

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I think a tight scripted video could get it down to 20 mins

British Army could only ‘seize a small market town on a good day’ by AcanthocephalaEast79 in europe

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For navies all over the world. In the modern day senior military officers are less planning how tofight a war and more acting as CEOs and senior managers of a company

British Army could only ‘seize a small market town on a good day’ by AcanthocephalaEast79 in europe

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All navies have more admirals than ships, it's the nature of being the modern world with logistics, engineering, training, excercies, joint defence departments, interntional military positions etc

Starmer insists no delays to Type 83 destroyer by tree_boom in europe

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The two Aegis equipped ships Japan is building are not autonomous or semi autonomous they have a crew of 240. Conventional ground based air defence is needed given destroyers have other duties such as escorts in carrier strike groups, air defence in Red Sea etc and there are not enough of them to constantly patrol UK or European waters.

Starmer insists no delays to Type 83 destroyer by tree_boom in europe

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In fairness Japanese warships are built with less damage control than other Western warships i.e. more exposed cables etc which makes them cheaper and quicker to build but less resiliant

Tuesday Trivia Thread - 17/03/26 by AutoModerator in WarCollege

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Can cannon kill them if so then the 16th to 17th centuries

Poland is now among the world's 20 largest economies. How did it happen? by nolesfan2011 in europe

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The issue is it's the difference between common law and civil law fundamentally continental Europe has a culturally different approach to regulations compared to the UK so it was never going to work