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Some incredible admissions in this article regarding the state of British military (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are now fewer than 75,000 of active troops in Britain. The UK could feasibly deploy at most a brigade, between 3-5,000 troops, and a Corps level Headquarters which would probably be needed, for between 24-36 months.
The housing program for the military is dreadful. Equipment programmes are always delayed and overbudget, and often produce dreadful kit. Often enough there is no kit at all.
Much of the artillery regiments have no weapons and/or very little ammunition, everything having been sent to Ukraine and only a few replacements obtained.
Many regiments and battalions are still using obsolete equipment while they wait for new vehicles that should have been delivered long ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250220021516/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/18/starmer-british-troops-ukraine-peacekeeping-funding/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's going to be really hilarious if the west proves to be the big paper tiger with a bloated corrupt military budget funding absolute junk that they painted all of their enemies as.

Or at least more so than they already have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

that is ironic now that you mention it

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

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250220021516/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/18/starmer-british-troops-ukraine-peacekeeping-funding/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

thanks updated