"Small and weak": the British Parliament expressed dissatisfaction with the army

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The British Armed Forces are going through difficult times, their armor is outdated, and there are too few soldiers, said Tobias Ellwood, head of the British Parliament's defense committee. The army is in a deplorable state, he said in a conversation with Sky News.

The army is in a sorry state. <...> For land battles, you have three components - a tank, an armored vehicle and a reconnaissance vehicle. In our case, the Challenger 2 tank, the Warrior infantry fighting vehicle and the Scimitar vehicle, they serve, respectively, for more than 20, 30 and 50 years, and they are not upgraded
 
the deputy said.



He added that he considered the army of the United Kingdom too small, since London had reduced its strength by 10 people.

Sky News on January 30 reported on a private conversation between a senior US general and British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. According to his source, a Pentagon spokesman pointed out that the United States has ceased to consider the British army as a top-level fighting force.

The British army will run out of ammunition "in a few days" if hostilities break out, according to Sky News. So the channel assessed the scale of the problem faced by the British army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.

Sources of the channel in the British Ministry of Defense say that without army reforms, the head of government, Rishi Sunak, risks failing in his role as "wartime prime minister." Moreover, the threats to the security of London are increasing against the backdrop of the Ukrainian conflict.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson uncovered details of the last telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the start of the special operation. According to policy, cited by The Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Putin tried to "inspire fear" in response to a warning about the inadmissibility of conducting an operation in Ukraine.
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  1. Constantine N
    Constantine N
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    30 January 2023 15: 29
    I don’t believe it, the army budget there is comparable to the Russian one. there may be few soldiers, but there may be a lot of missiles and drones.
    1. boriz
      boriz
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      30 January 2023 22: 10
      there the army budget is comparable to the Russian

      It is not just comparable, it is larger (in 2021) than Russian. It's just that they cut it so that ours nervously smoke on the sidelines.
      After the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR, they relaxed and decided that a large army was not needed, they could steal without embarrassment, especially since they buy a lot of weapons in the USA, which means that the price already includes US corruption, which is also screwed up by WB corruption .
      And now they need to collect their currency zone, and even with the opposition of the Russian Federation. To do this, you need an army, and not the stub that they have preserved. Hence the sadness.