UK vs French military: Who'd win that war? (2021) 

UK vs France is such a classic it deserves a remake every 4-5 years.

I love how the message in most videos is that it would be overly costly and pointless to fight

He failed to mention that UK and France have 5 wins each in Eurovision Song Contest, though both have diminished performance in 21st century. UK has shown more aggression with such titles as "Boom-Bang-a-Bang" albeit in a tied result. Difficult outcome to predict now with social distancing and no (French) kissing.

Love UK from France. Very beautiful country, love London, the clash rock band and beef Wellington!!

**UK vs France** Germany: **this is one of the best movie i ever seen**

This war gets more sequels in history than fast and furious

UK and France:*go to war with each other* Litteraly every single country ever: *Ah shit here we go again*

An excellent report as always Commissar Binkov. Let us hope it never comes to pass.

It could take 100 years to decide between them.

*Everyone Gansta till James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond cross the channel with an amphibious pick up truck*

Okay so i'm going to go all mushy and stuff, but i'm french i've learned english(maybe not very well) because i respect our allies/enemies/frenemies, we are like two old neighbors on the same block, we sometimes talk in eachother's back, but in the end we are both not really mean towards eachother, we like to learn about eachother's culture, we travel and marry between countries, and in the end we would fight to help eachother because only us have the right to fight if another attacks us we fight together :) peace.

I think if the UK has shown anything, being outnumbered somehow does not affect them in a way that makes them lose

The war on fish: Now this should be the next COD

Germany: "Alright, they're distracted! Third time's the charm. And make sure those leopards have reliable transmissions. . ."

If they're gonna fight I want them both to fight on horseback with spears swords and arrows, like in the good old days.

The Uk and France are better fighting together than against👍

The Virgin US-Soviet rivalry vs the Chad Anglo-French Rivalry

Well well well if it isn't the RU-vid algorithm and it's perfect timing

Sorry to tell you that but the Mirage 2000 D is an excellent aircraft too. He was just made for AIR to GROUND missions. A 2000-5 is maybe as good as a rafale in air to air missions by the way. It just has only 4 air to air missiles. So dont tell us that mirage 2000d is awful or that mirage2000-5 is mediocre because it's false

We love each other really, The toxic spats we have just make the makeup sex all the better. Love you frenchies x

Last time I was this early the maginot line still held the tide!

just watching this after France threatens to turn power off on Jersey over fishing rights. 🤣

Me and my French mate were watching this together and said: "Meh, it's just Wednesday"

Support France from Greece.

UK, Germany and France vs the rest of Europe excluding Russia would be cool

It will be a weird day when Binkov starts including Drone Swarms in his matchups.

Love the U.K. amazing powerful country from 🇵🇰

If you are fighting in a full on war with an opponent a few miles away it doesn't make sense to go after the far away overseas territories unless you are in a position of extreme disadvantage. The point of the overseas territories is to use as a staging area against far away enemies. In this war the enemy will likely concentrate on lone ships and lone bases which are closer. If I were France I would be using Spec ops and strike forces for attacking radar sites, ports and lone ships in Wales and Scotland and maybe Northern Ireland to force the English to move troops to different parts of the islands and to stretch them out. Then I would use my large forces in large decisive engagements.

Britain vs. France The original Peter Griffin vs. Giant Chicken.

Can you do a video on the technology gap between world powers. and how many years they are apart from each other in the different fields?

Its nice to hear someone who isn't native to the country talk the stats

Pffft I love how this is coming up after the whole fishing thing xD

These two never stop fighting each other do they 😂

Blast from the past. Nice remake of your first ever video!

Love France from UK ❤️

Great video, but no consideration of war goals. What would each side define as victory? This would define their deployment. Eg. If France felt taking Channel Islands and Gibraltar was victory, Spain would surely join in... etc etc.

Ahhhh started watching this channel with the first 2016 UK Vs France video, looking foreward to this!

Britain and France: Fighting each other Germany: Looks like someone's going to be dinner today! Poland: **Ww2 flashback screams** Switzerland: Another episode! Finally I can drink my chocolate milk

Being a fan of history and hearing "such an unlikely war" when referring to Britain and France still sounds weird even though it's been over 100 years since the last one.

England is a former French colony gone bad. "George Clemenceau, 1907"

"Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries." We can only hope.

Nah we dont fight anymore with our brothers north of the channel :) We might like to argue with them but we french are all proud to have the brits as allies. 🇫🇷🇬🇧

🇬🇧 We are quite fond of the French (Jersey excepted)... Would like to see Europe (including British) vs USA.... Russia vs China.... Good video, Cheers 👍🏻

The UK lost more wars against France than the reverse. In the major battles between the two nations, France won 7 times and the UK 3 times. Plus, the UK is just a former French colony conquered by William the Conqueror and ruled for more than 300 years by the French house of the Plantagenet. So all of it is just France against France. ;)

Been waiting all week for this! So excited!

No two nations have shaped the world more so than France and the UK 🇫🇷 ❤️ 🇬🇧

Britain: what was that tactic you used on us again? Germany: Blitzkrieg? Britain: cheers mate! Germany: ...

We may not see eye to eye (most of the time) but when it comes to defence we're the closest of allies.

Big love to France from UK 🇬🇧🤝🇲🇫

And it all started with a blockade of Jersey, who’d have thought...

You should make a civil war scenario; where the conventional forces from France and UK, comes to each other's aid.

Artillery : you forget the french heavy mortar, 191 and 55 MLRS not 13 ; the new range of Caesar is 60km with katana ammo

12:16 I loved it when you mentioned Gurkhas in the British Army.

Love the UK from Italy

Looking in the comments I can tell us English and french haven’t changed in the past hundreds of years haha

Cant wait to see some naval battles between them in real...

Been looking forward to this. I can't help but wonder about the cyber element

Interesting seeing this video in light of the recent UK defence review...

The French being able to do more strikes had me in stitches.

France: “What’re you gonna do about it little man?” Britain: *”Oi kids, the Frogs are at it again!”*

UK: k bye I'm leaving the eu France: so I took that personally

Do one about 80 French fishing boats Vs two Royal Navy warships off Jersey...oh...umm... Nevermind

The big deciding factor is the timing of the initial aggression and who declare war first, if france want's to fight the UK it will start to mass it's ship and artillery near the UK and will target it's harbor full of warship and it's airbase as soon as the war is declared with no time to even be on alert in UK side and on the other hand if britain declare war first it will have done the same. The initial aggression is the key factor in who will win with one side prepared to wage a war with it's assets well placed and the other in confusion of why the other side is attacking them and with not every ship and plane ready to fight as they might be in maintenance.

What were the military implications of the Evergiven?

Binkov is back!!!!!

UK attack France. Spain: Then I take Gibraltar. Ireland: Time to unite. Scotland: Time to independence. Germany: Hold mein beer. Rest of the World: WAIT GERMANY STOP!!!!!

Prediction before wathing the video;France will win almost definitely,although with a significant cost. France has the strongest West European army.Britain will need years to catch up,time they do not have.

Looking back, this is almost like Binkov predicted the standoff between British and French naval vessels (and French fishing boats) at Jersey over fishing rights in the Brexit deal regarding French fishing in the Channel Islands

The Queen Elizabeth class carriers do not lack airborne early warning helicopters at this time. The previous system using the searchwater radar on sea kings has been updated; it is called crowsnest and is fitted to Merlin HM3 helicopters.

The rest of Europe: Ah shit, here we go again! 🙄

Quite topical right now.

2:39 In conclusion, the Eurofighter is capable on paper of being able to point its nose much more quickly in the desired direction. As for the Rafale, is able to evolve longer with a higher angle of attack, and a lower speed.This conclusion could become a fact when we see the results of the various confrontations where the Rafale had to face the Eurofighter, where the latter systematically seems to be struggling during combat simulations in BFM. The lack of vectorial thrust planned at the start is lacking here. But its absence is even more problematic in another area, and it is not impossible that it is on the agenda of a future evolution of the device. Exit the euro-fighter and Iron (f-35). Sky is for us, care your ships.

Just like good ol times, Francis vs Brittania

Full Support to UK! From Bosnia!

Germany: We took France in 6 weeks, lets have beer and popcorn and see how long it will take for UK. haha

More silliness from you!

He wasn't calling robbie and Josh for backup. He was gonna ask them if they wanted to meet up for some beers, so he could tell them about his crazy day.

"The Eurofighter has better agility, speed, acceleration" HAHAHHA what a funny joke...

Not to forget that each army were also using bullpups as their standard issue rifles (although one is reliable, while the other is worst)

British people are more tolerant and generous than french.

Everybody gangsta till Nigel drives a British armored platoon through the chunnel

Result: A very pissed off USA going "what the fuck are my allies doing!?"

Despite the recent commercials issues, we loved each other since 1066.Trust me i'm from the old Duché de Normandie. I know both belligerents

If a war happened it would be a nightmare, I wouldn’t be able to do my eurocamp holiday in France each year :-(

But remember lads, numbers mean nothing. Experience always counts

Canada: *Declares Civil War*

Interesting video, but what about the UK/France land border? The channel tunnel!

This guy: it would be a draw. Britain and France: out of the question

LaManche Classico , update this one every year :D Hello from Czechia

I find it funny that after centuries of rivalry the Brits and French ended up with almost identical economic and military sizes, with small differences in doctrine based on their respective histories.

The French have a much larger industrial capability than the UK. France uniquely builds most of what its military needs, including nuclear submarines, hi-tech warships, superb warplanes, tanks and artillery, whereas the UK buys a lot of hardware from the USA. Furthermore, the UK has wasted literally billions of pounds on badly conceived military purchases. France is a major player in the successful European Ariane space programme. What is the UK equivalent? Because the French are able decide what defence equipment they actually manufacture before its sale to their military, it is likely that they make better decisions as to the use of resources than the UK. France is the third largest exporter of military hardware in the world whereas the UK has fallen to tenth place - behind the Netherlands. France is likely very soon to overtake Russia into second place in weapons exports. Overall France is clearly the greater military power, though soon Germany's huge rise in defence spending will match and likely surpass that of the the French.

the French would wave a white flag after a few hours anyway

These videos aren’t meant to be taken excessively seriously, but it’s sobering as a Brit to consider the advantages France would have in such a conflict (less reliance on the US for military spares etc / ability to keep land trade open with Germany, Spain, Italy etc, / ability to trade with the Far East via Marseille so long as the Suez Canal is open). But that said, Binkov will increasingly need to assess cyber war and drone capability in these videos, and just maybe the UK has an edge there. Last but not least, the 2021 British defence review makes more sense in this light - no real prospect of MBTs being used in such a conflict whilst naval forces and cyber would indeed be at a premium.

I think this battle will all depend on how Pompus the French General is and how many Bodkin Arrows the English & Welsh have.. Lol

Something crucial missed regarding the air War in the beginning... the UK has the Type 45 Destroyer, 6 of them. Only 1 can down an entire airwing in a matter of minutes! It can fire 8 missiles in less than 10 seconds, guide double that simultaneously which means no aircraft comes close to being able to approach the UK mainland. In addition, the home port of the Royal Navy is right in the middle of the English Channel, meaning the Type 45s can operate from home in relative safety. The UK has a superior Submarines and are elite when it comes to anti-submarine Warfare, therefore the sea war would go to the UK there as well, thus pinning the French in place.

they have more planes overall - so did the luftwaffe.

It has only been a week and the video is already out of date. Only this week, a Crows Nest helicopter has joined HMS Queen Elizabeth. This type is based on the Merlin Helicopter, as a posed to the Sea-king. Giving HMS Queen Elizabeth early warning.

Binkov: f35 are better that rafale French : yes, but rafale doesn't shoot himself by accident

What impact would cruise missiles and special forces have on this scenario?

2:40 "F-35B (excellent)" Sorry but I burst out laughing. I stopped looking here.