That's mental. You want to keep an entire class of ownership structure for the sole purpose of creating an investment return for pensions. Thereby taxing leaseholders to pay out pensions. Why? Y… (View Post)

And, that's all Britain has had to do for decades. A couple of short Gulf Wars, the Falklands, some limited air campaigns, and some unsuccessful counter-insurgency policing. But if anything was … (View Post)

Kinda, but it also is a good example of the naiveté with which we've approached defence. The last Storm Shadow missile was manufactured several years ago, and I don't think production has b… (View Post)

Seems to be three Su-27 aircraft damaged in strikes on Belbek airbase in Crimea last night too. (View Post)

There were a lot of big explosions in Sevastopol and Crimea last night, and now the Ukrainians are claiming that they hit two more Russian warships, as well as other targets. There were videos of exp… (View Post)