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UK Royal Navy vessels are unable to attack Houthi positions in Yemen because they lack the necessary missiles, it has been revealed 😂 (www.arabnews.pk)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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$.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Makes me think of that Eisenhower speech. He was a bastard but even broken clocks etc

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

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.