The picture on that article is fucking amazing. She looks like Sir Maggie Smith in The Lady in the Van. (View Post)

I have always been of the opinion that the CASD is useless and cripples the Navy with its vast cost. Conventional subs with no nukes would be a more useful defence asset. We don't need the vast … (View Post)

More money is the last thing the MoD needs. It would be possible to get better balanced and more effective armed forces with the same (or even) less money if adjusting priorities and taking some diff… (View Post)

The Trident boats and associated systems cost about 3bn quid/year to run so maybe 20% of the RN's running costs. However, it's nuclear boats in general that are the money furnace. Once the … (View Post)

The problem is that defending the country is some way down the list of priorities for defence spending which looks something like this... 1. Straightforward transfer of public wealth to the capital o… (View Post)