Britain only has a handful of RAF fighters to scramble if nuke-armed Putin attacked UK? 

No, we are not ready. Our military have been underfunded for the past 50 years.

Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what is the purpose of our Defence policy?" PM "To defend Britain!?" "No Prime Minister, it is to make people think that Britain is defended." PM "Who,.. the Russians?" Sir Humphrey: "Not the Russians, the British. The Russians KNOW it's not defended!".

Less than 10 ffs this is completely disgusting

Britain is so incredibly weak militarily. Truth be told. The number of troops in the US Marine Corps alone outnumber the entire armed forces of the UK.

I've got a few airfix kits

Wow that is horrible news for everyone, including nato. Time to spend some money on defense in Britain.

Hello nuclear submarines

Yep, Trump said European NATO was weak.

There is no excuse for the UK to be this poor level of readiness.

How can a fighter jet repel a nuclear attack from a Zircon hypersonic missile?

Its sad when iran has better air defense with a much lower budget than fhe UK

Well thank goodness you alerted Putin to this major problem....just think if Russia had thought you had hundred's available that would have been dreadful!

Shocking state, years of labour and conservative cuts.

UK has 1 squadron on Alert... Germany only has 7 fighter jets flyable. That's what Trump was railing about with NATO underspending each year back circa 2018.

We have got to keep the 30 Tranche 1 Typhoons - spend the £300m

This makes sense letting Ower enemies know our weakness. Well done British press. And trust me our defence will have a lot more than you know about so stop scared mongering

They have friends. In the mean time they need to start production

40 per cent of GDP woild solve the defence and social issues.

I thought Russias military was just a big joke? right?

Wake up UK 🇺🇲💪

I THINK YOU HAVE SOME SPITFITES IN MUSEUMS THAT COULD BE SCRAMBLED😊

Time to stop spending billions on other countries and focus on our own. Make the army and counterparts worth joining as well

The nuclear army flexes its bombs

The UK has 100 F35 fighter Planes. We purchased them from the USA. Do your research first.

No mention of F35 stealth fleet or submarines sounds a bit suspect this Interview to me

Great, let's tell the whole world how vulnerable we are.

All politicians are responsible for this and we have learnt nothing after WW2. We have run down our force to a level that we can’t protect our nation. It’s is unexceptionable to be in position. You do have the money but we are sending it abroad for charities in other countries who don’t like us.

Putin is stuck riding on the back of a tiger and can't get off.

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UK Military exellence🇬🇧❤️

Dont believe this nonsense, Britain has many trained pilots.

Poland is strong. Uk is a joke. Remember Ww 2. ANCESTRY.

from the 1960s to now we have gone from 1 million personal to 70k

Cut benefits and increase defence spending

The only credible defence is an credible offence. The attacker needs to be hold at risk.

War narrows the aperture and insists on focus.

Previous Labour and conservative governments just don’t understand who the real backbone of the UK are, so out of touch. The Army recruitment on TV laughable! Given the time and money I could raise a million man army here in the UK but Russia wouldn’t be my first priority it would be London!

Here's an idea.... Enough with woke crap Thats what you guys usually go for, the government

I wonder why the military has a problem with recruitment when their adverts for the last 10 years have been casting foreigners and women.. But in the last few weeks, now that things are getting serious, the new military recruitment adverts include only white men, its tempting to just let russia have the UK. That has to be better than letting pakistan have it.

all we need is enough warships to defend the island and a powerful air force. We only need a rapid response force and a few specialised divisions in terms of the army

Tories to blame. Forces been cut on every level year on year since 2010. Vote Labour.

I noticed that the political parties have not really addressed this huge issue on defence. If there was ever an obvious warning from history, it's now. Pre WW2 , we were not prepared for the war, ie Dunkirk, and we were in a better pre-war state then ,than now. We have about 6 typhoons ready for action right now, across the UK. ... 6. ... We only have about 150 fighter jets, and we cannot rely on NATO partners totally,as their own air force would be defending it's own air space right? , and the USA has another "front" in China to possibly defend against. So, we need to triple the air force, at least have 200,000 actual soldiers, with at least the same in reserve, the navy has issues to buy I am not fully aware of them so won't comment, but have no doubt.. we are in a pre war state now, if you want peace, prepare to fight. 👍🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦🇭🇲🇨🇰

Limited is an understatement if Putin decides to vent his anger towards the UK?

What about the F35s on the Queen Elizabeth. They would defeat easily most of anything sent against any area they could cover. Agreed not many as some US Air Force on there.

There is so much going on behind closed doors , social platforms bearly scratch the surface

After listening to this, how could anyone vote for Labour or Tory

They retired the FGR1 with only half of their airframe time used. They should have stuck them into storage. BAE said they could be upgraded, but the RAF said no.

R western countrys should be like when my dad was a boy ,all school students should be trained like the army reserve so they are ready for action,and help students get a trade at the same time

Yes this is speaking the truth 👏

Britain forces coulld.t scramble an egg. We need a strong NATO

Sadly our armed forces have been systematically gutted since '91 and no longer fit for purpose. Before options for change the RAF had around 400 front line fighters, now were down to less than 133. Not that all of these are availble at once. Plus the shortage of new pilots, poor personnel retention and recruitment makes it difficult to field any meaningful force. It is about time the government woke up and put a plan together to revitalise our military. Moving away from impossible diversity quotas, recruiting the best candidates, making staying in the forces attractive and treating families better should be their goal.

They should stop with the big ticket stuff and rebuild their stockpiles

UNBELIVABLE!

Partly down to the RAF themselves who are retiring 40 Typhoon jets right now as Russia are sabre rattling

So that's why they are called "the few".

Think there is only about 35 operational tanks 😂

Wew have 130 typhoons in active service and 29 f35b in service

'Short wars of choice' he says. Meaning NATO's attacks on weak countries.

This isn't new.The RAF has been effectively wiped out over a period of decades.Although at the end of the the day the strategic nuke deterrent is all that matters and that's delivered by ICBM.Any major war will escalate to that regardless so why not just cut to the chase and save the cash.

Look at Poland in comparison.

Just stop getting involved look after our people in England

It's possible we would be flooded by attack drones rather than bombers.

UTTER RUBBISH" Who makes this crap up,!!!

....and China ?

Most of these discussions are absolute rubbish, of no value to anyone with a couple of working braincells.

Don’t worry, the U.S. will step up & save you….again!

Its quite crazy, eg the type 23 frigate is an excellent surface ship,cost abt £120m, ... been replaced by the type 26 frigate..costing £1,3bn... yet structurally, performances the ships arr very close? Whoevers buying the retiring type 23s are getting an excellent ship at a ridiculous bargain price. Why? The Spanish have an excellent surface helicopter/aircraft carrier, as with the french, costing €400m, carries abt 12-20 f35s. Yet the QE2 class carries 40 f35s, costing a min of £3,5bn... could weep...

150 jets and less than 10 work what is the point .

I bet the readiness rate is going to get worse under your new PM.

Frankly I think you misjudge the whole situation, assuming you are honest.

I totally agree 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🌎❤️

Can UK intercept Sarmat Heavy ICBM loaded with 150 megaton

Every reason to sign up for UK military and no reason for people to want to do it. Me neither.

It’s time the government got the finger 🖕 out of there A??? , And rebuild our country’s Armed Forces

I think scrapping the tranche 1 RAF Typhoons needs to be stopped. NOW. Also there needs to be a new batch of both Hawks and Typhoons ordered for the RAF. If it is at all possible to get any Harriers and Sea Harriers back into service that needs to happen NOW. The GCAP needs to continue as planned though new aircraft we can put into service NOW need to be prioritised and that means Hawks and Typhoons. The defence budget needs to increase in yes, you guessed it, NOW. Spending NOW on armaments will prevent an even bigger outlay in expenditure in the future. Just hoping things get better is not going to work. Resurrecting the UK artillery design and build capability with new land and naval as90 variants needs to start NOW. Plus restarting a UK based design and manufacture capability of ship diesel generator sets needs to happen NOW. Thirty years of incompetence and corruption needs to end NOW.

No we are not!!!!

Why can they not put air defence up all around England not just aeroplanes?

Of course we arent. Worse we've been bragging about it for years. 😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧

...quite a lot less than 10. ..... 4? .. we had 800 + in cold war

Rubbish

Great Britain has been chit chatting for the last two and a half years isn't it? I hope that they see more realistically that they need to rearm and quickly create from the ground up a serious military in all three areas to face Russia or any threat when confronted.

Why report this Doh telling to all world!!!!!

Is britain READY LOL WHAT COMEDIAN WROTE THIS .. FUNNIEST JOKE HEARD IN LONG TIME

No

And who's fault is that?

To get to the UK they need to come down via Sweden, Norwegian, Dutch & Danish airspace. So through the airspace of 4 other nato nations. So just how does the russian bomber fleet arrive here unannounced & in a position to lob missiles ?

I’ll tell you what, there is NOTHING like telling the Russians what we are, ore not capable of.

The Russians can simulate a hijacking of an airplane with a nuke.

Hey here’s an idea, make more, buy more! There’s no money, that’s all you hear then when there’s a world problem we find billions to help other countries! But we can’t find the money for real air defence, a larger army and more ability to produce weapons/ammo in country in mass! If we had the ability to produce more in the case of war, we can sell that or use the same machines to produce other equipment in pace time but at least we can if it comes to it! This all seems fundamental

RU bodycount: 541k, 1000+

Weve given our weapons to Ukraine

How have you let your forces become so few and incapable?

Shadow of its former self very sad

Run down since the 60’s. Intentionally. Labor.

But we have a new laser that costs ten quid a target. Or is that just hype?

Can't defend are borders and the sun newspaper backs Labour 😮 we are fkd thank u the sun

4 aircraft on QRA

Perfekt 👌 😂😂😂😂

They have an Uncle Sam

Tbh, it's natos fault