Oh arse.

Battlefield nukes aren't a nuclear 'deterrent' and I'm not 100%
certain but I don't think we have a delivery system for free fall
nuclear weapons so your arguement fails at the first hurdle.

Our only viable nuclear deterrent is the Trident based missile system
and the missiles aren't ours and we can't use them without permission.

 

I'm pretty sure there are Kt class free fall weapons which can be deployed
from Tornado's BICBW. Wouldn't surprise me to find out we sneakily sold them
all to Israel.

 

Tornados pah. While we have XH558 then we have a delivery system.

 

Andy Bonwick wrote:

And that constitutes a viable deterrent!

"S'cuse me Sir, we want to nuke the ragheads!, No? Ok, then. 'As you
were chaps!'".

 

If Port Stanley is anything to go by, you'd need something with the
blast radius of a large hydrogen bomb to ensure that a Vulcan would hit
its target.

 

Details, details...

 

If only they hadn't cancelled the TSR2.

 

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:03:20 +0100, ogden wrote:

This has nothing to do with Terminate and Stay Resident, right?

 

Nah. That's what lonely old people do.

 

Christ, that's a phrase I've not heard for a loooooong time.

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We don't need it, though.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,

More importantly, we can't afford it.

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Having it is detrimental - how can we demand that the rest of the world
plays ball with nuclear non-proliferation without looking like complete
hypocrites when we sign up to buy ourselves a new set?

 

Since we can't/won't ever use it there's sod all point in having it
and paying bunches of matelots to wonder around in circles for 3
months at a time.

 

You too huh?

It's a sign you are getting old. Daddyo.

Phil

 

Too right. Plus some of the money would be better directed to stuff
we can use to kick ass in the next 12 months. Helicopter gunships and
armoured personel carriers to blow up Afghans with, for example.

Plus we could clean a **** load of moats.

 

http://speechification.com/2009/01/08/the-human-button/

Well worth a listen, if you haven't heard it already.

 

I need to be able to buy new motorbikes whenever I want to so the
country needs new submarines.

 

6 months. You must remember that they will be drinking Portsmouth into
oblivion and going in confused circles around town whilst ratarsed.