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It's even funnier thing actually, RN ships don't have ASuW missiles because they did had murican Harpoons, but they were retired in 2018 due to being obsolete. With no replacement, they are promising it for 2028 (unlikely) so currently RN ship wanting to shot enemy ship must close to the gun range. They did bought some Norwegian ASuW system recently but it's only been fit to few ships at most and was not tested, it's also a short range system.
Some harpoon missiles retired from RN most likely did arrived in Ukraine, where they had so huge success as using two to hit a tugboat.
Why did they deem something as obsolete when they have no replacement for it?
No idea, i guess they were literally crumbling. The lack of replacement is weirder since the need to retire these was known years before, but you know how decaying states can be, for example Poland need helicopters for like 20 years but didn't managed to sign any deal that would be even legal, or how we build a modern corvette which after 19 years of being in construction ended up as barely armed patrol boat.
I'm also wondering about those Norwegian missiles, it must work wonderfully since they dind't even sent that ship that is armed with them.
And so, they have to fly planes from Cyprus 1500km away to strike Yemen. That ship is there to shot down Yemeni drones with Sea Viper missiles - each one of those cost 1-2million$.
Man, what a goddamn waste of resources. Imagine all that put to peaceful use. Fuel, materials in the jets and missiles, manpower it took to make them, etc
Makes me think of that Eisenhower speech. He was a bastard but even broken clocks etc
Jesus fuckin Christ, and It's likely even worse with modern bloat. We could probably house every homeless person worldwide and rebuild entire cities to be renewable and walkable, just on US military budget
Oh easily! Just looking at America it would take an estimated $20 billion to end homelessness according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Marines alone have a yearly budget of over $50 billion. You could completely eliminate the Marines, end homelessness in America twice over, and barely make an impact in the American military's capabilities.