Yes, the sort of opportunist attacks that the IRA and other Irish terrorist groups used to carry out on UK servicemen out of uniform on the grounds that they were “legitimate military targets”.

Terrorism didn’t begin in September 2001 in the USA, you know.

Do not lecture me about terrorism, you seem to have a habit of patronising people you think are American.:mad: 😡

The IRA had a vague sense of western Military honor. The UK’s domestic Islamic terrorists do not and despise there fellow Britons (servicemen or otherwise) for not being Muslims.

Agreed in a planned attack ,may be not in a unplanned one.

An unplanned attack?:rolleyes:

Its still a raw memory for alot of folks the attacks on service personnel, who were not on the front line at the time and may be god forbid ,its only a matter of time that it happens again.
May be its not down town baghdad and i agree the risk is low but still a risk none the less for our uniformed personnel.

That would be no more at risk than if they were not in uniform.

Not much life. By the mid-to-late 1970s the Soviet Union had a ballistic capability that would have been able to ‘take out’ most of the Blue Streak force, giving the latter an effective service life of only a decade or so. (I’ve done the yield/CEP/hardness/SSKP sums, but would want to check them with an untired brain before posting them.)

Creating the planned silo network would have been a real problem for the UK, given that much the contemporary construction industry was becoming tied up with building the UK’s motorway system.

No myth – a strategic role against Russia was spelled out in the introduction to GOR.339, the requirement TSR.2 was designed to meet.

Absolute myth. That role was spelled out for political reasons (and part of the RAF’s love affair with overly complicated requirements), not practical ones. 1000nm with 2000lbs does not make a strategic bomber, it makes one that can fly from West Germany to the Soviet Union.

The notion that TSR-2 was to be a V-bomber replacement is absolutely false.

You need an air rifle (perfectly legal without license in the UK) and a good torch. If he comes out during the day skip the torch. Put down some bird seed, take up a comfortable position then just wait until he arrives. A gentle pull of the trigger and problem solved. You will have one air rifle and probably 499 pellets (they come in tins of 500) left for when his filthy disgusting disease spreading, egg eating, vermin friends return. Alternatively you can use it to extend your diet to Pigeons, Rooks, Rabbits and Squirrels.

I think i would be nice that service personnel could walk freely around in uniform outside of their respective camps.
But as a security risk that a large target of uniformed personnel ,gathered in one place would present ,surely out weigh everything else.

Why would they present any more of a security risk than any other group of people?

Outstanding idea. The public of the UK has become distanced from the Armed forces, what they do, how the do it, what they see, what they feel etc etc. Anything that pushes even the slightest reconnection the public and the armed forces is a good idea. The whole concept of home coming parades was formed around this idea. The cynicism expressed in this thread is symptomatic of the problem. Serving members of the UK’s armed forces should not have to hide from anti-war protestors and the fact that certain people here think they should is disgusting.

As for cheap recruitment tactic, well its better than an expensive one.

More importantly, do you know the limited range of a torpedo and its rocket based delivery systems? :rolleyes:

But that doesn’t matter right, the US subs and ships can roll right past all the shorter ranged Russian/Soviet weapons because they have force fields . . .

I suggest you go and find out about submarine warfare.:rolleyes: