NotImpressed3d ago

#UKPolitics
#Starmer #WeaponsPurchase

"Keir Starmer’s plan to buy American fighter jets armed with nuclear bombs whose use will be entirely under the US president’s control makes no military sense, nuclear weapons monitors warn"
"The decision to buy twelve F-35 A aircraft...capable of dropping US B61 gravity, “free fall” nuclear bombs...risks triggering a dangerous nuclear escalation, increasing the threat to British citizens, says the report"

https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-billion-thank-you-to-uncle-sam/

The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam

The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs

Declassified UK
Show threadPeter Brett3d ago

@NotImpressed It's worth bearing in mind that F-35A is just a better aircraft in every way than F-35B. More payload, longer range, mechanically simpler, cheaper, easier to maintain, lower rubbing cost per flight hour, etc.

The reason we bought F-35B originally was because we cheaped out on our new carriers' power plants and didn't install catapults, and then we cheaped out on aircraft to force the navy and air force to share the same tiny number of airframes.

Show threadNotImpressed

@krans

You missed the point, but that's ok

Nov 9 at 8:23amWeb
Show threadPeter Brett3d ago
@NotImpressed You missed my point, but that's also okay.