Russia Invades ukraine

[GarethM]

7 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Why did the Arrest Blair campaign fizzle out?

He's called Teflon Tony for a reason!.

[Steven P]

But this story should be a star to make you happier, a £20 billion budget

 

New weapons tsar will have £20bn budget to rearm Britain

UK.YAHOO.COM

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A new weapons tsar will be given a £20 billion budget to rearm Britain, the Defence Secretary has announced.

 

[Mark J]

22 minutes ago, Steven P said:

But this story should be a star to make you happier, a £20 billion budget

 

New weapons tsar will have £20bn budget to rearm Britain

UK.YAHOO.COM

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A new weapons tsar will be given a £20 billion budget to rearm Britain, the Defence Secretary has announced.

 

The mind boggles. That's just shy of 3k per person in the UK. 

[GarethM]

Well the new KS1 army rifle is just under 10k each excluding optics and they've ordered 1600

Edited February 18 by GarethM

[Mark J]

17 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Well the new KS1 army rifle is just under 10k each excluding optics and they've ordered 1600

Robot armies coming to a battlefield near you.

It's all a waste of money, albeit a profitable one. 

Either kill each other with nukes or don't. 

[GarethM]

2 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Robot armies coming to a battlefield near you.

It's all a waste of money, albeit a profitable one. 

Either kill each other with nukes or don't. 

Doubtful, if it was going that way you'd just get a few more EMPs and reduce the world to the dark ages.

[Johnsond]

2 hours ago, Mark J said:

From the link you posted above, why stop at Blair?

You might want to check some of those details Mark 

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, GarethM said:

Well the new KS1 army rifle is just under 10k each excluding optics and they've ordered 1600

Proper piss take if that’s what they are paying 

top line civilian AR15 2K max 

[Mark J]

6 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

You might want to check some of those details Mark 

Which bit? Given you posted the daft link up from Linked In. 

Edited February 18 by Mark J

[GarethM]

7 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Proper piss take if that’s what they are paying top line civilian AR15 2K max 

Yeap, that seems to be the general information I've seen, it's just a fancy almost off the shelf Knights Armaments fancy AR15.

 

Especially after the gargantuan amount they've spent on the SA80A3 upgrade.