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Originally Posted by Neil
What value do you put on a soldiers life?
We use missiles and bombs so we don't have to send in men, men who could have lost their lives destroying the equipment you listed.
Does it still look like a lot of money or would you have preferred a few squaddies died if it cost less?
What is the cost per man per day when deployed in the field?
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That wasn't my point. I'm against any of our people going back into Iraq. We trained their army who now run away as soon as they get shot at- it's up to them to sort out the ground forces.
My point was why are we using 21 Century £175,000 missiles, designed to take out massed tank formations moving up to 70mph,which can be fired from 7 miles away from 20,000 feet, to hit a stationary pickup truck?
And why on Earth did we need 4 of them to take out 2 pickup trucks?
The Tornadoes carry the Mauser 27mm cannon-each shell over 1 inch across, 1700 fired per minute, 4 kg of them fired in 1 second. Wouldn't they do the job?
You can't avoid the cost of the flights but this isn't using a sledgehammer for a nut- it's using a 500 ton press. Before we know it we'll be running out of missiles just like we did in Libya!