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Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-disgrace.html
Type 45 destroyer has been put into service WITHOUT its primary weapons system operative. Whats the point? Considering the vital importance of keeping the Atlantic under control you would have thought the Navy would have been pampered beyond belief. They must have forgotten how close the UK came to starvation in WWII due to the U-Boat threat...
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Leave it to the Americans. That's what NATO is for.
People like to think of NATO as an American-led alliance, but it was actually put together by the Europeans. They wanted to have security from the Soviets but they didn't want to pay for it. So they got the Americans to do it. They're still doing it today.
It's a pretty good deal for them - the Americans pay for the guns, and the Europeans enjoy the butter.