Yup. We need to get the French on side & start building our own SLICBMs if we want to credibly maintain our nuclear deterrent by the looks of things. Another expense the government could do witho… (View Post)

Didn’t the USA pay for them in the first place? Cutting them off would definitely be a bridge burning manoeuvre, but I guess that’s where we’re at now. (View Post)

Sure: I presume the MoD looked at the likely geopolitics of the near future & decided that having a few of our own imaging / synthetic aperture radar satellites available was worth the expense, j… (View Post)

Just 1 spy satellite right now apparently, with three or four more to come in the next couple of years: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-space-command-successfully-launches-first-military-satell… (View Post)

A friend was commissioned to design rockets for the MoD that they were going to launch up there. Some great stories about the guys running the place: Real old school military types. (View Post)