A British defence figure, who is not part of the government, was told privately by US officials that it should “recalibrate” its reliance on US equipment. This was after suggestions were allegedly raised within the Trump administration that the UK was getting equipment too cheaply, a British defence figure privy to the discussion said.
Recounting the conversation in recent weeks, the source said: “They said we shouldn’t be buying US equipment and there was a feeling in the US administration that they should be sending the UK a bill because they have got defence equipment cheaply.”
The source added: “Some think the UK got an unfairly cheap deal with Trident.”
They said that a US administration could put restrictions on kit from the US and that if countries are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly. You have got to be careful.”
The source said: “This is the transactional side of Trump.”
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£500 trillion to BAE Systems, Babcock International and Rolls Royce.
“This was after suggestions were allegedly raised within the Trump administration that the UK was getting equipment too cheaply”
Ok that boils my piss because it is the absolute opposite, the UK got in on the F35 program as a founding member, and never received the access it was supposed to, and gets aggressively nickel and dimed to maintain its F35 fleet as a result.
“They said that a US administration could put restrictions on kit from the US and that if countries are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly. You have got to be careful.”!”
I said this last week as a worst case scenario, that in the event of conflict with Russia, the European F35 fleet would be bricked.
As far as I am concerned the US is a enemy state, and we need their forces off our territory post haste.
If only the “military industrial complex” had the influence people think they do….
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