Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has been pressed to respond to concerns about the RAF aircraft fleet’s capabilities, which were reported hours before by Sky News.
Defence sources told Sky News the UK will be left “dangerously exposed” after omitting special forces aircraft that played a key role in Sudan evacuations and transported vital ammunition for Ukraine.
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Once again we are sitting here sending billions to ukraine while cutting our own army at the same time. Im starting to think we have someone doing an inside job in the government trying to get us ready to be invaded. There is absolutely no sane logic in throwing all your equipment to another country then announcing we wont be replacing anything and even cutting what we have left. Who from russia or china is working in our government?
Paying for Ukrainian military while cutting British 😂😂😂😂😂
Why is our military being destroyed!? We need to increase but all we doing is basically getting rid of our military equipment! 😡
Sell them to Ireland
Didn't we just hand over a load of stuff to Ukraine for free?
Use are forgetting about the C17 !!
We use to have a Empire btw
The conservatives in alberta got rid of the folks who fight wild fires. There is zero foresight with conservatives world over
With Govt cut backs on Armed Forces, CAN the MPs take a PAY CUT or do we send MPs to fight the next conflict ?
We won’t need an airforce soon we will have a massive navy made up of barges.
The money has to come from somewhere, the MPs allowances for food need to be abolished travel unless it’s for flights or train rides removed and there basic salary lowered to a more reasonable amount and all that money needs to go back to the people
When will this government learn!!!
And yet MPs still get free booze in the House of Commons bar.
This government is a joke why don’t we use bmx and a water gun
The RAF is a joke
When this country has to defend itself or it’s territories like the Falklands again only then will the government will see how poor of a condition our armed forces are in
i hate the goverment love the raf
Send more money and arms !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!to Ukraine. What a bunch of clowns hahahahahahahahahaha
Biggest fleet for fifty years
Excellent
The only problem I see with the A400 is it is far noisier then the Hercules and will not be as useful to the special forces whilst trying to be covert .
But that's what the green party and other Eco groups want!!
Did skynews not get the memo about the RAF aircraft causing damage to the environment, especially when they are sent to defend NATO airspace, deliver aid or pick up British citizens.
FYI, first thing that gets cut in a difficult financial period is the military. So the rest of the self entitled assholes can have some money.
ye because all our military weapons is going to Ukraine and leaving us vulnerable kick the Tories out now
fishy rishy hasn't got a mandate we should have a vote to kick him and Tories out
Sky doesn't care if Britain has enough! They only care there is enough to the Zelenskiy regime at tax payer's expense!
I wonder what 5 billion could have bought but Zelenskiy got that!
Thats why Germany and Baltics are buying C130 Hercs from USA !!
Time to unleash Cornish SpacePort’s fleet of world beating Brexit Intangibles…….
14hrs to replace hurc engine 14 days for a400m
We seem to have enough money to supply weapons for a conflict in Ukraine but can't afford our own Force
This Government is a shambles
Have the RAF even received the Chinese Second hand refurbished 737 domestic jet liners to convert to the E7 Wedgetail Spy aircraft yet?
The UK is almost 9 trillion dollars in debt. That's 3 times the GDP of the nation. The UK has been on a spending spree giving away billons in weapons to the Ukraine War. This spending will be on the backs of the average Britain for generations. Rather than suing for peace and promoting trade, the government is spending borrowed money and prosecuting war. Time to kick these incompetent plutocrats out of office.
cut our military but give it away to ukraine
Oh my I couldn't possibly have seen that coming, ridicilous fools.
Cant go past the trusted Herc.
Not allowed to run a government of planes under the Constitution, agriculture is allowed
The reality is the RAF Fleet in total (all aircraft types) is woefully small compared to the the potential global threats that now threaten national , EU and global security as a whole. The whole of the Armed Forces is critically undermanned and under equipped to deal with the hostile actions of an increasing number of countries and this decline has been going on for decades across multiple Governments.
2:17 umm are we sure that it is not just a parts shortage because Airbus is having issues or is failing to build the spares fast enough