Reposted from NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
MAY 5, 2021
By Paul Homewood
Is there no end to this idiocy?
From the Telegraph:
I am sure his public demands no such thing. I suspect most people expect the RAF to defend the country, not play silly Greta games. And “diverting investment from equipment and platforms” will greatly harm our defences, not to mention putting the lives of his own airmen at risk.
Achieving 0 emission done easy :
Good luck with that one.
The French army last week made rumbling noises about the increasing wokeness of their government’s policies. Of course they were slapped down by the usual suspects but it will be interesting to see what happens when madam Le Pen gets elected as the next president.
In the meantime it would not surprise me if similar sentiments are going round in UK military circles who for the moment stay mum. There could be very interesting times ahead.
It was a bit more than a grumble about wokeness Ed.
The Generals and other top brass sent a very clear message to our cloth eared incompetent politicians.
A brief extract:
“The hour is serious, France is in peril, several mortal dangers threaten her. We who, even in retirement, remain soldiers of France, cannot, in the current circumstances, remain indifferent to the fate of our beautiful country.
Our flags are not just a piece of cloth, they symbolize the tradition, down through the ages, of those who, whatever their skin colour or faith, have served France and given their lives for it.
Our honour today lies in denouncing the disintegration that is affecting our homeland.”
Where there is a will there is a way. I calculate that a 30cm cross section bungee could be pulled back 3km and launch a radically designed paper aircraft. With a light wax finish for waterproofing and airflow it would easily be the most advanced aircraft in the air. Much cheaper than the current , soon to be obsolete, F35 , it would have almost zero radar and infra red profile rendering it invulnerable. As the Air Training Corps is now the most significant part of the RAF they would have a wonderful future pulling back the bungee to maximum extension using bicycles. Apart from exhaled CO2 it is a zero carbon airforce. Easy.
So, the RAF want to hog-tie themselves with “Treaty of Versailles” like restrictions imposed on Germany. Somehow, I don’t think gliders will perform well in a dogfight, and even if they got a shot off, the recoil would likely stall the aircraft.
Whilst blatantly impractical, this target is just one of many blatantly impractical targets launched in both military and civil enviro-loonery. The sheer stupidity of this target may actually serve to draw attention to the absurdity of net-zero in other walks of life.
For net-zero, the RAF had better make sure that the white flags are made of environmentally sourced cotton.
Perhaps it was a intended as a poorly constructed April fools joke, but publication got delayed by sitting in a committee for a month or so.
OMG – dogfights are just soooo last century. Nobody wants to do dogfights these days – drones are the fashionable and stylish air force accessory for the 21st century. sarc
This is not to denigrate the memory of the brave RAF pilots and crew.
Tim Bouverie tells of an incident during the Phoney War, on returning from a leaflet dropping mission over Germany a pilot was asked by his commanding officer why he had returned earlier than expect.
On replying that he instead of breaking open the bundles he had dropped whole bundles instead the officer retorted ‘good God man you might have killed someone!’.
Just a minute – was this article published on 1st April by any chance? Do you have April Fool’s Day in the US? I fear we have been caught! There is a real move to ‘Net Zero’ for the UK Forces however – Net Zero Forces!
Easiest way: abolish the “Royal” Navy due to lack of marine threat to zero. U?K out of the UN permanent Security Council too.
The UN is an institution long past its use by date
I think the Royal Navy are actually heading into, not only Net Zero but, Completely Zero. Electricity that is, from France and probably Europe
Usually the continental inter-connectors are bring in 6GW but Les Frogz Legz are gonna switch theirs off.
Headline #1: “France threatens to cut power to Jersey amid fishing row”
Headline #2: “UK Royal Navy ships patrolling Jersey amid fishing row with France”
Its all so Monty Python, petty and utterly childish.
I am left wondering, “Which are tastier and/or more nutritious, scampi or electrons?”
As long as they’re either both swimming in garlic butter, I don’t mind.
haha
Go on France, (Belgium and Holland too) switch the frigging inter-connectors completely off.
Half of the French one is broken down ### right now anyway. Lets see Boris’ windmills take up the slack. UK coal is doing the biz as it happens. haha
Vive La France, allez vous on, drop Boris and his mistress right in it. Please.
The ‘smelly stuff’ or La Manche, no matter to me.
Do everyone here in the UK ‘The Biggest Favour’ you could ever do, right now that is.
### Wouldn’t that just be sooooo delicious, did A Trawler break one half of the French inter-connect?
Boootiful. Just boootiful
If I smile any more than I am right now, the top half of my head may fall off!!!!
Let me see if I have this straight. Opposition to the Nordstream pipeline centres on Putin who, though never having made such a threat, might switch off the gas flow for political advantage – and Russia has been labelled a rogue state because it might use such a tactic sometime in the future. Macron has issued such a threat publicly and we say nothing? Where are the US and UN sanctions on Macron and his rogue state then? Macron should have similar sanctions to Putin for this.
RAF chief explains his muddled thinking complete with a video —
From https://www.defensenews.com/smr/energy-and-environment/2021/05/04/british-military-aircraft-must-hit-net-zero-target-by-2040-raf-head-says/
In my book Net Zero Emissions equates to Net Zero Levitation which is, I believe, a basic requirement for a viable Air Force.
Could Sir Mike Wigston please explain.?
This sort of thinking infecting our leadership is really very frightening indeed. – Not something to laugh about.
“diverting investment from equipment and platforms”
Nice thoughts! It seems that Brexit did not yet reach the UK armed forces…
“Divert investent” and then, as usual (in the last two World Wars), ask the nice and brave our friend American boys to come die in Europe to defend us and preserve our institutions.
Great!
(things like this make me ashamed of being European)
We won’t be able to assist. Our own Air Force will have to ship one plane over at a time on Greta’s sailboat.
The way things are going at the moment, Biden will send the USAF over to aid the EU against Britain. Something is definitely broken over there.
It’s the local and Mayoral etc elections today and this is a timely reminder of the order of priorities in Westminster: Parliament, Party, Self, Family, Other interests and that there isn’t anyone really worth voting for.
There is 99.99% backing for this madness in Parliament, no potential candidate at any level is going to go off piste.
OMG can this idiocy go any deeper…
Sad to say, probably yes. Woke morons have taken over the military in the same way that they’ve taken over the police.
oh they may well get to zero
zero airforce etc
because by the time they misgender recruits feed em vego tucker or bugs extra for the nonvegans, put em into nylon shoes for nice long nasty training cos leathers banned etc. cancel heating cooling n even warm showers offer then a nice battery tank or biofuel plane(when they cant get the f’d35s to fly on normal juice..bullets n bombs are not climate friendly so its back to sticks n stones chaps! n chap esses
there wont BE a military left
nylon shoes
Surely that’s a no-no being derived from oil?
Absolutely correct – the sustainable shoes of the future will be made from cardboard and paper.
May the farce be with you
Countries such as China, Russia, and NK heartily approve and applaud this. Because they too want to “save the planet”, just perhaps on a different timetable (like never).
Gliders, that’s it, gliders are the answer.
“From the article: “Is there no end to this idiocy?”
Good question!
I wouldn’t want this guy running my military or even serving in it.
Maybe there’s a Stupid virus going around that we are not aware of? Intelligence does’t seem to be a defense against constant climate change brainwashing, for many people.
UK RAF — Eagles led by Turkeys
It does sound crazy but what is more crazy is people in high places who are tasked with defending the country and carrying out the orders of the government are on board with the crazies. Or maybe no one makes that promotion to the high position without being on board with crazy.
If you rule the waves, would sea level rise not work in your favour?
You truly cannot make this kind stupid up.
An army of vegetarians using electric tanks?
Anyone looking for a nation to conquer?
When I was a kid we used to have these toy planes that were powered by twisting a rubber band attached to the propeller and then releasing it. They flew, sort of. A scaled up version might solve the RAF’s climate emergency needs. Well, if they can be serious about an electric tank…
I’m thinking medieval methods of warfare, especially trebuchets. Those are really cool. And archery, spears, swords, etc. Those are all green, right? The good ol’ days!