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This is very much needed, the UK’s Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) is sorely lacking, particularly in the medium and long-range sectors.

The media hysteria about HMS Dragon being deployed to defend RAF Akrotiri masked the real issue, which is the lack of this.

A Type 45 Destroyer was not designed for, and should not be used to defend land-based sites.

That it was perceived as being required in the Eastern Mediterranean (although I dispute there was any military requirement for it there, it was more a political deployment), shows a lack of understanding of what Type 45s are designed for – namely to defend our aircraft carriers.

We need volume.

The UK is paying too many people to consider things and not enough people to work in factories producing air defence missiles.

It’s odd to me that the thing we are basically most vulnerable to in any Russian attack.. ballistic missiles, is the one thing we just never bothered to invest very much into.

Probably should be a top priority really, given we are more likely to be attacked now, than at any point since the war. Especially since Russia barely has to worry about the US joining in.

If we are one of the biggest spenders on defence then how do countries that, supposedly, spend less have more?