Born Hunter
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I cannot believe I’m having this conversation Definition of SILENCE WWW.MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM forbearance from speech or noise : muteness —often used interjectionally; absence of sound or...
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They’re literally called silencers too. Same as the section of an exhaust. It’s lazy naming just like “stealth fighter”.
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Silence… silence. f**k you’re thick
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Does it really
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Says THLs foremost defence specialist!
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Do you think a silencer makes a rifle silent too?
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Imagine a plane getting shot at in a war! They're not invisible. Or do you think they are?
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Catastrophic losses for a country that has like 3000 combat aircraft and achieved total air supremacy…
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The F-35 was damaged so little it flew all the way back to base and landed safely from what I have read. Frankly with such a massive air campaign it’s amazing they haven’t lost a dozen. Holding the big assets back is just tactically sensible. They don’t need to be any closer and force Iran to expend their best weapons attempting to hit them.
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Trump is very different for sure. But how is he fighting this war differently to Bush jnr or JFK? Would you support a full scale invasion and 10 yr counter insurgency? Should young British paras, marines and riflemen be involved in that? Maybe that is the correct thing to do but if Trump and that wanker Hegseth were honest about that I’m quite sure the American public would destroy them. I find this a bizarre time line where I’m cautioning against interventionism and you share views with Tony Blair, albeit for very different reasons. That’s not intended as in insult btw, it’s just me
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The neocons and Israel-first lot have absolutely had Iran on the to-do list since at least ‘01, probably since the Islamic revolution. But does that make it smart? Do the US public really want another 5k dead sons and daughters (and god knows how many mentally ruined) to achieve some sort of aligned Iran? Because that’s not the deal they’re being sold. Super pragmatically, the yanks are fighting the same war they have for the last 50 years, at this stage with way less commitment. I don’t know why everyone thinks the outcome will be any different to Vietnam’s, Iraq, Afghanistan.
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As good as that sounds it just feels ignorant to the last 50 years of US war and regime fuckery. The longer this goes on the more likely it will require 200k troops to complete and a 10 year counter insurgency to extinguish the remnants of the fanatical IRGC imo.
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The great warrior nation of Europe, standing up to the Americans have arrived.
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They would be killed before they got anywhere near one of those. The yanks don’t leave their base security entirely to the British.
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Non stealth fighters and bombers now flying completely immune over Iran showing that in a matter of a few weeks the yanks have achieved air supremacy. Compare this to Russias efforts in Ukraine and to this day they still have not achieved this.
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Came on here to post the same
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The reality is that the most stable price at the pump for us is about 1.30 a litre. Less than that means the oil industry is struggling and will probably stop investing leading to an undersupply later on and a price boom. If you want to get the price at the pump down in a sustainable way either we need a game changing technology to arrive or the government need to cut the tax.
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Decent piece on what we could do even if we wanted to in the strait. If called upon, what assets could the Royal Navy send to the Gulf? - Navy Lookout WWW.NAVYLOOKOUT.COM Donald Trump has called for allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz (SOH). Here, we consider whether...
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And that’s just the cost at the pump. The oil company that extracted it from the North Sea pay something stupid like 85% tax on profits! Why would anyone want to increase domestic production to reduce the oil price when the government rinses the f**k out of them for being good at it. The British government f***ing hate oil&gas!
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General high level answer, yes in terms of people and platforms. Politically they lack cohesion and will. Supply chain and logistics I really wouldn’t know, so much dependence on global supply chains I would be curious to see how resilient Europe is there. As innovative as the European defence industry is, I fear we don’t have the production capacity right now to sustain war. But generally, in the face of a serious threat then I would say Europe could withstand. The Polish forces alone would be a formidable land force. The UK and France combined bring a decent enough navy and nuclear
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That is exactly why imo. Entering the straits now will not be without serious risk. A lucky ballistic missile or a sneaky UUV sinking a warship would be politically catastrophic, and potentially the turning point for completely dragging the US into a long war. Having international support going into that and of course the midterms would be a huge boost for Trump.
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Do you think Trump would see the difference between “we can’t” and “we won’t”? It’s a real simple decision for Starmer because none of his voter base want it, he looks principled at a time when he’s 20 u-turns deep. The yanks started a war unilaterally, have spent the last several years telling us how weak we are, after 20 yrs of ME clusterfucks and now expect us to wade in with them. Even I find that outrageous. Add to that the fact that our carriers have no real standoff offensive weapons right now because of Lockheed continually delaying the integration of our weapons to the UK lighte
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They have to do a certain amount of drills and exercises before deploying. They could of course forgo these but that would then introduce risk during the deployment. I guess that risk has been deemed unacceptable given the assets already in the region.
