The Times: Britain risks ceding to France the title of NATO's leading military power in Europe

France and Great Britain fought for hundreds of years for a leading role in Europe, and the residue from this struggle remains today.

According to the British newspaper The Times, the French army may soon be the strongest on the European continent, pushing the British army into second place.

Britain risks ceding to France the title of NATO's leading military power in Europe

- notes the publication, referring to the data of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The newspaper writes that this can happen, despite the fact that Britain spends much more on defense than France. According to the Times, last year's British defense budget exceeded French defense spending by a whopping £13bn.

However, the British newspaper notes, the French armed forces still have a number of advantages - they have more troops (about 200 against the British 000), frigates, aircraft, and France can launch nuclear missiles from both submarines and aircraft. At the same time, France is inferior to Great Britain in quantity tanks and aircraft carriers, writes the Times. For reference, France has 1 aircraft carrier, and the UK has 2, although technical problems cannot be solved with one of them.

Britain and France are the two European members of NATO with nuclear weapons. Recall that France has been a member of NATO since 1949, and in 1966 the country withdrew from the military structure of the alliance and returned to it only in 2009.

Comments

[Vasyan1971]

Britain risks ceding to France the title of NATO's leading military power in Europe

Here, just like children are measured, who is higher on the wall pissing ...

[smart ass]

They are measured by aircraft carriers and drones and artillery decide)

[dorz]

Worse can only be diarrhea and coronavirus.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: Vasyan1971

Here, just like children are measured, who is higher on the wall pissing ...

And let them measure themselves in frontal butting.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Vasyan1971

Britain risks ceding to France the title of NATO's leading military power in Europe

Here, just like children are measured, who is higher on the wall pissing ...

In fact, how small are they? As if they don't read Ukrainian news...
If they read it, they would know that the strongest army in Europe is Ukrainian. In second place is Polish. Well, in addition, from the flank, the whole of Europe is protected by the Estonian army.

And then, in fact, like children in the sandbox. They find out what is more powerful - one aircraft carrier or one and a half.

[rocket757]

The Times: Britain risks ceding to France the title of NATO's leading military power in Europe

Yes, do not care, their affairs ... sho those, sho others, all the same, the ENEMY.

[Uprun]

Well, yes, the Germans have already been written off, but they didn’t see the grown psheks .....

[fima_tut]

That's who needs to be pitted against each other.

[kor1vet1974]

Yeah, "The beetle and the cancer came together by the river To speak words, Find out who is stronger, Who has a longer mustache" (c).

[rotmistr60]

Britain risks ceding to France the title of NATO's leading military power in Europe

While France and Britain are fighting for the pennant of "Production Leader", Poland is already finishing up its own - "Drummer of NATO Labor". True, the Poles do not have their own nuclear weapons, but they really hope that the United States will give them to them.

[oleg-nekrasov-19]

and after that is ready to give way to the "palm" of arms supplies to Ukraine

[svp67]

At the same time, France is inferior to Great Britain in the number of tanks.

This is the number ...
- 227 tanks "Challenger 2" Britain, against
- 222 French Leclercs, plus up to 100 French AMX-30s in storage
And someone takes into account the fact that France can independently produce them at the moment, and Britain is forced to install new equipment on old hulls in order to "produce" a new tank. So, with this thesis, not all the rules

[Sergej1972]

Wow. And so the majority of experts, both 10 and 20 years ago, considered France a country more powerful militarily compared to Great Britain. At least this applies and applied to the ground forces, air force and strategic nuclear forces. According to the Navy, other layouts are possible.

[Maks1995]

"and returned to it only in 2009. "
And here Lavrov and K blew ...

[Graz]

I would not say that the British for the last thirty years have been nominally stronger than the French

[Daishi]

Where is Germany?
oh yes, I forgot, they are sucked by the Poles

[Div Divich]

It would be better to compare whose weapons are better, French or British.

For example, self-propelled guns CAESAR or self-propelled guns AS-90.

ACS CAESAR - more nimble on the highway and hard ground, long range.
ACS AS-90 - higher off-road patency, more ammunition and better protection.

So for shooting from long distances, CAESAR is better, and for shooting at the forefront of the front, AS-90

CAESAR can destroy a warehouse or other enemy object, but it will not work to win a war with it.

AS-90 can destroy enemy targets, and can move the front, so it can help win the war.

The output is something like this:
The British produce little, but the approach is more thoughtful.
The French produce a lot, but the mass product is optimized for sales.

It also seemed interesting to me that in some Western countries shipbuilding companies are engaged in the production of armored vehicles. It turns out that the production of armored vehicles is not always necessary, and they can reorient production to another type of product, as a result of which the shops do not go bankrupt.

[Kok_Ivanov]

[/ quote] Britain risks losing the title of NATO's leading military power in Europe to France [quote]

What a twist!!
Interestingly, besides the British themselves, did anyone consider the Angitskaya army to be the first ??

[I dare to_notice_]

"France and Great Britain have been fighting for a leading role in Europe for hundreds of years."
And the union of Russia and Germany (two kindred peoples!) Could stop these "competitions" forever.
And eternal peace would reign in Europe.
But Gauls with impudent Saxons are still smarter ...

[art having]

Why France? For what merit? For me it's Germany and Turkey!

[Normann]

France and Britain were once powerful countries, but that is history. There are only three countries in the world who decide everything, the rest are so)

[andrey682006]

Yes, the Poles have already bypassed you. Or bypassed with American help. They will overstrain, of course, but how they will amuse their noble ambition ...

[Petr_Koldunov]

What is Britain afraid of? It has long lost the status of the coolest military power in Europe. France has long been the first in the army ... well, from the countries of Europe in the sense.

[Shooting]

The author, the comparison is not correct, since there is no European continent . There is the Eurasian continent, and there are many more countries on it - Russia, China, India, Iran, Turkey, and many more countries whose army will be larger than the English one !