Ex-British army chief says that British army is unfit to fight Russians
Kathmandu, March 14. Lord Dannatt, ex- Chief of the General Staff has said that the British army is currently unfit to fights Russian due to less defense capacity.
He said that the Ministry of Defense is bankrupted and now the army would struggle to support conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.He also added that they are short of troops and the army could be cut to around 72,000 over the next 10 years.
Lord Dannatt said, “There is no serious money in the Challenger or Warrior [tank] upgrade programmes, our field artillery has a third of the capability of a Russian formation and we’ve no meaningful air defence against battlefield drones.”
The Ministry of Defense has also said that as the threats are changing, the forces also must be changed to confront future threats.
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