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2025-06-27 Britain

UK is set to buy 12 F-35A fighter jets from the US

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-27 01:01|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [163 views ] Top

#1 And that's gonna be just about their whole defense budget.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-06-27 08:20|| 2025-06-27 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Royal Air Force Goes Nuclear With F-35A

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-27 09:56|| 2025-06-27 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 They still have 12 pilots or they get axed to pay for the maintenance of a pakistani public apartment complex?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-06-27 10:33|| 2025-06-27 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 ^3 women + 9 Pakis

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-27 10:42|| 2025-06-27 10:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Gay woman, tranny, and drag queen

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-06-27 10:59|| 2025-06-27 10:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Purchase was to address the trade imbalance. The planes will sit.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-06-27 12:16|| 2025-06-27 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 One wonders at whom the Sir Keir intends the things to shoot, five years from now…

From the article:

When the UK receives its jets and the bombs at the end of the decade, it will be the first time that Britain has boasted an air-launched tactical nuclear weapon since 1998, when Tony Blair's Labour government shuttered the WE177 programme.

But while the Royal Air Force will own the jets and be able to operate them freely, nuclear non-proliferation controls dictate that the US will retain ownership of the nuclear weapons they come with.

That means that the UK cannot deliver a nuclear strike with a B61 bomb without explicit approval from Washington, raising concerns over Britain's operational autonomy.

For a B61 to be deployed, the strike would require sign-off from NATO's Nuclear Planning Group, the British Prime Minister, and the US President - a complex process that could limit response times in the event of a crisis.

Britain's existing nuclear deterrent rests entirely on the Trident system, in which a submarine carrying dozens of strategic nuclear missiles is always at sea, ready to fire at a moment's notice.

But last year, Trident misfired during a test - the second successive failure after a missile veered off course in 2016.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-27 12:37|| 2025-06-27 12:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Improved window dressing for the the two "aircraft carriers" by having six each prominently displayed as they occasionally sail around the world with their lone destroyer escort to visit the Commonwealth countries while playing "...Britannia rule the waves".

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-06-27 14:46|| 2025-06-27 14:46|| Front Page Top

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