yes , but what about your navel defences on your ships , new AA systems . the US has not faced a formidable foe since the korean war .
so while much your ground kit is tested and ground attack planes etc your navy isnt tested .
[quote=“SirWarriant, post:3563, topic:21032”]
I hate to break it to you but the Falklands war was over 30 years ago. I would assume we’ve upgraded since then…
[/quote] indeed which was my entire point how do we know that the we could experience the same kind of issues with the new kit .
bit like bug testing a game really . you can test and test and test and the game is flawless . then the general public start playing it , in different ways , different approaches that you didnt expect and suddenly bugs appear . when that happens in a war the consequences can be quite huge . but that works both ways of course with russia’s kit which is alot less combat tested than ours (their new kit )
[quote=“SirWarriant, post:3563, topic:21032”]
You should read some of the memoirs of Soviet leaders at the time. Many of them assumed the U.S will leave Europe quickly and they had their sights set on taking the western half.Same deal with China and Japan. But the nuclear blast sent a clear message that if they tried for China or for Japan they would be obliterated.
[/quote] maybe so . but they didnt so its pointless adding it to a debate
[quote=“SirWarriant, post:3563, topic:21032”]
Yes and many of them were bitter they never were able to wage the war of their dreams.
TheDivineInfidel:
[/quote] i dont think putin and his generals were around in the 50’s
not at all , was a war of bluffs neither side wanted an all out war with each other .
interesting though , you say this as how would you expect your military to react to Chinese or russian spy planes sitting just outside US air space ?
i can tell you for fact the US airforce would be sent up and would be warning the Chinese planes to back off or they will be shot down .
this happens almost weekly .
you spend way too much , you could achieve the same results with a lower better costed budget .
i think you spend to much on wankers behind desks . as we do here . way to many high ranking officers that funnily enough always dodge can redundancies.