The British army is unlikely to be useful to the United States in a war with Russia, Forbes admits.
The American publication, referring to the report of the Defense Committee of the House of Commons of the British Parliament, writes that “in 1997-2020 (with the exception of a small number of engineering tanks and protected Viking vehicles), the Ministry of Defense [Great Britain] did not supply a single new armored vehicle from the main procurement program for operational service in the army “.
“Now imagine a war with Russia along NATO's eastern border. The Alliance will expect the British Army to join the fighting. It is not clear what the British, with their dwindling stocks of old cars, could offer, ”says Forbes.
In March, General Richard Dannath, who headed the General Staff of the British Armed Forces (AF) in 2006-2009, announced that the fifth generation F-35B Lightning II short takeoff and vertical landing fighter was devastating the country's Defense Ministry.
In the same month, Konstantin Blokhin, Leading Researcher at the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), revealed the possible consequences of a hypothetical nuclear war between Russia and Great Britain. “It is clear that a nuclear war with a country like Russia is likely to be the last in the history of mankind,” Blokhin said.
