Very interesting deal there 😮

That is very good news.

Study conducted by the Royal Society of Medicine that finds NHS as second only to that of Ireland on cost Effectiveness, pretty much states it’s the second best in the world:

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/08/07/JRSMpaperPritWall.pdf

I’ve seen others that more or less state the same thing included 1 that was commissioned by the US Government that also had the NHS as the second best in the world.

Personally think there’s quite a lot wrong with the NHS but an awful lot that is very good about it as well.

Yes, the fact that I misremembered the payload of a Polaris A3 MRV as 100 kt rather than 200 kt clearly invalidates everything I had said. Give me a break.

Eh what?

So you thought it was 100kt rather than 200kt, and yet you still said this:

it is simply a matter of fact that one Vulcan with two Skybolts had at least as much nuclear firepower as a Polaris boat.

100kt x3 warheads x16 missiles=4.8 megatons for an R class boat verses 2.4 megatons for 1 Vulcan with 2 Skybolts.

Even if a Polaris warhead had 100kt it still makes your statement completely wrong, an R class would still have twice the firepower of 1 Vulcan with Skybolt.

Badger asked all of those questions in post 69. Still waiting for an answer.

I’d be pretty surprised if we didn’t see a Warspite in there…..

Outright cheap it wouldn’t be either, since that cruise missile would have to be developed and built, and the Astutes modified and more of them built (12 to 14). Benefit would be that such a cruise missiles could also have a non-nuclear warhead version, and could be based on Darings or even adapted for airborne platforms, providing a useful conventional deep-strike (as in deep into the WestPac islands) capability with nice granularity but the option to escalate nuclear.

This is it though Jonesy has already more or less stated the same thing, I tend to agree with him in that it would probably cost more than what we’re doing now.