First post on here guys, so please be gentle!!
I was looking through some old military photos recently when i came accross a picture showing banks and banks of Bloodhound missiles at an RAF base. It got me thinking that the UK has never really replaced these missiles since they were retired in the early 90's.
Virtually every other country in the world relies on a system of ground/airborne early warning, ground based interceptors and then a SAM envelope when all else fails. Being an island, do we in the UK rely on the sea as a natural barrier?
The ex-soviet block SA-2 Guideline to the S-400, the US MEADS, Patriot, THAAD, SM2/3 all are SAM systems with consdierable range and performances, what do we have - oooo some Rapier systems that if we are lucky might hit something up to a range of 6km.
Is there a system that i'm not thinking about, or do we not need one??
Your thoughts........
I was looking through some old military photos recently when i came accross a picture showing banks and banks of Bloodhound missiles at an RAF base. It got me thinking that the UK has never really replaced these missiles since they were retired in the early 90's.
Virtually every other country in the world relies on a system of ground/airborne early warning, ground based interceptors and then a SAM envelope when all else fails. Being an island, do we in the UK rely on the sea as a natural barrier?
The ex-soviet block SA-2 Guideline to the S-400, the US MEADS, Patriot, THAAD, SM2/3 all are SAM systems with consdierable range and performances, what do we have - oooo some Rapier systems that if we are lucky might hit something up to a range of 6km.
Is there a system that i'm not thinking about, or do we not need one??
Your thoughts........