“What about Birmingham, minister?”
“Fucked.”
“And Manchester?”
“Fucked.”
“Glasgow? Southampton? Newcastle? Nottingham? Sheffield?”
“Fucked.”
“Liverpool?”
“Oh, if Iran launches missiles, we’ll drop one on those scouse pricks ourselves.”Can we?
Do we have an anti-missile network in Dover or an AEGIS cruiser parked on the Thames they haven’t told us about?
Yeah, we can. The UK doesn’t have much of a land-based interceptor system but we have subs and very competent early warning systems in place. We’ve also got a dozen of NATO countries between us and Iran, and NATO isn’t just going to allow those interceptors to fly past if they can stop it.
There’s also zero evidence that Iran can shoot London. It’s just FUD by Israel to try to pull us into this shitshow of a war. Don’t feed it.
and NATO isn’t just going to allow those interceptors to fly past if they can stop it.
Iran’s current strategy of bombardment isn’t in superior tech, it’s in the volume of drones it can cheaply deploy en masse to overwhelm defences, whilst we drain our resources with our much more expensive defensive equipment
I know what you mean about having other NATO countries in between to whittle 1000 down to 1, but safest countries tend to be at the apex of the parabola, and not at the intercept
^ | o | o o | o o | o o |o o -+---------------------+----> |UK FR DE IT GR TU CY IRIran’s got some pretty high tech booster tech in their top-end missiles which change the missile trajectory at the terminal stage to dodge interceptors.
Ok, how long did it take you to make that diagram?
Very nice.
Would London have fewer missiles it would need to defend against if the UK didn’t help bomb Iran? 🤔
What about a Godzilla attack?
Keir Starmer should be like:
Smash the IRG gangs. Stop illegal missiles from entering the country. Hurrr durrr.
