Our Typhoon Fighters Look Flashy, But We Are Completely Outgunned By Russia -- The Telegraph
Although the sight of Britain’s most sophisticated fighter jet shadowing the ageing Russian Tupolev-95 gives the impression that we have a military edge over Moscow, this image could not be further from the truth.
RAF Typhoons were scrambled yesterday in an impressive show of force to buzz a Russian bomber flying a bit too close to British airspace for comfort.
Although the sight of Britain’s most sophisticated fighter jet shadowing the ageing Russian Tupolev-95 – a dinosaur from the Cold War – gives the reassuring impression that we have a military edge over Moscow, this image could not be further from the truth.
If the worst case scenario in Ukraine were to transpire, tipping the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation into a conventional war to defend Europe against the advancing massed ranks of Russian tank divisions there is little we could do to stop them.
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My Comment: The British military may be a shadow of it's former self .... but the Russian military also has it's problems.
