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EXCLUSIVEEx-RAF 長，指導者 says Britain's 空気／公表する軍隊 would run out of ミサイルs within DAYS if we went to war - and a new ￡1.7billion drone (n)艦隊／(a)素早い is a 'waste of money' that would be 発射負かす／撃墜する within a week

Published: 13:13 BST, 24 April 2024 | Updated: 16:50 BST, 24 April 2024

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A 最高の，を越す空気／公表する軍隊指揮官 has 爆破d Britain's woeful 軍の spending 記録，記録的な／記録する and 警告するd the RAF would run out of 空気／公表する-to-空気／公表するミサイルs in a 事柄 of days if it was dragged into a 十分な-規模 war.

空気／公表する保安官 Edward Stringer, the UK's former Director General of 共同の軍隊（軍隊などの）展開，配備, 警告するd the nation's 軍の was 'stretched too thinly'.

In a blistering critique, the 上級の RAF 長，指導者 lambasted Whitehall bureaucrats for failing to 備蓄（する） enough 弾薬／武器.

He also branded a ￡1.7bn 事業／計画（する） to 建設する a (n)艦隊／(a)素早い of 16 無人の drones a 'waste of money', and （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the 航空機 would be 発射負かす／撃墜する within a 事柄 of days if Britain entered a war with the likes of Russia or 中国.

Speaking to MailOnline, the RAF 退役軍人 said: 'We have 追求するd a thing called the "balanced 軍隊". It's lovely if you've got all the money in the world. But we don't.

'How many days would it take before we ran out of 空気／公表する-to-空気／公表するミサイルs ? it's perhaps five. It's a 事柄 of days. It's certainly not weeks.'

Britain could run out of 決定的な空気／公表する-to-空気／公表するミサイルs in a 事柄 of days should the nation be dragged into war, a 最高の，を越す RAF 指揮官警告するd (pictured, an RAF jet 解雇する／砲火／射撃s a short-範囲ミサイル)

空気／公表する保安官 Edward Stringer, the UK's former Director General of 共同の軍隊（軍隊などの）展開，配備, 警告するd the nation's 軍の was 'stretched too thinly

The 退役軍人空気／公表する長，指導者 also raised 関心s about the RAF's new (n)艦隊／(a)素早い of Protector drones, which are 始める，決める to 取って代わる the Reaper 無人の空中の乗り物s.?

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Built by General 原子のs in the US, the 航空機 have a wingspan of about 79ft - bigger than most 商売／仕事 jets - and can 巡航する at 40,000ft for more than 30 hours.

It is also packed with 監視 sensors and is 有能な of carrying 500lb レーザー-guided 爆弾s and 空気／公表する-to-ground ミサイルs.

But the cost of the new 世代 of war machines has ballooned from an 概算の lifetime cost in 2016 of ￡1.25bn to ￡1.76bn now.?

The price 引き上げ（る） was 明らかにする／漏らすd in a 一連の大臣の answers to written 議会の questions by the 労働 party in 最近の months.?

によれば文書s, a 決定／判定勝ち（する） by the 省 of Defence (MoD) in 2021 to 延期する the 事業／計画（する） by two years in a 企て，努力，提案 to save cash 追加するd an 概算の￡187m to the programme.

Other 問題／発行するs that led to cost 増加するs 含むd late design changes, which saw the 航空機's main sensors swapped out to 避ける them becoming obsolete.

Commenting on the Protector drones, 空気／公表する保安官 Stringer 警告するd: 'The RAF is gleefully 発表するing it's taking the first of the 16 Protector drones.

The 退役軍人空気／公表する長，指導者 also raised 関心s about the new ￡1.7bn (n)艦隊／(a)素早い of Protector drones (pictured) which are 始める，決める to 取って代わる the Reaper 無人の空中の乗り物s

軍の長，指導者s, 専門家s and 政治家，政治屋s have 以前 called for その上の cash to be spent on 改善するing Britain's 空気／公表する defences, to create an Israeli-style 'アイロンをかけるドーム'. Pictured is an example of how the UK could 反応する to a large-規模空気／公表する attack, and the areas that could be 保護するd?

Pictured is how Russia could 潜在的に take advantage of an 申し立てられた／疑わしい 'gap' in Britain's 空気／公表する defences, as raised by 軍の専門家s during a 会議／協議会 in London last week?

'Billions of 続けざまに猛撃するs have been spent on drones that wouldn't last a week in a war. It's a waste of money.'

He also criticised the UK's ￡1.4bn Watchkeeper 秘かに調査する drone 事業／計画（する）, which has been branded an 'unmitigated 災害' after 非常に／多数の衝突，墜落s?まっただ中に（人命などを）奪う，主張するs the 装置s are too 激しい and struggle in poor 天候.

The 航空機, which are 価値（がある）￡30m a piece, need their own 滑走路 to take off from, before they can start 秘かに調査するing on enemy positions, said 空気／公表する保安官 Stringer.

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'How, when you're under ロシアの大砲解雇する／砲火／射撃, how do you 推定する／予想する to be able to take a couple of days to flatten a field to then 始める，決める up a little 離着陸場 to run the little Watchkeeper ? without the ロシアのs 爆破 you,' the 空気／公表する保安官追加するd.

'It's not a 概念 that 作品 in the modern world.'

労働's 影をつくる／尾行する Defence 長官 John Healey 以前 said the 急に上がるing cost of Protector was an example of the MoD's 'broken' 調達 system and wasteful 態度 to taxpayers' money.?

Tory MP 示す Francois, a former 武装した軍隊s 大臣, was also worried about the 明言する／公表する of the RAF.

Mr Francois, who sits on 議会's 影響力のある Defence 委員会, told MailOnline: 'Not only do we have a 限られた／立憲的な war reserve of 空気／公表する-to-空気／公表するミサイルs, we have no reserve at all of 戦闘航空機 to 解雇する／砲火／射撃 them.?

'That is why it's 決定的な that when the RAF retires its 30 tranche one 台風s next year it abandons 計画（する）s to sell them off but instead places them in 貯蔵 as a 'war reserve 闘士，戦闘機 wing' of three 価値のある闘士，戦闘機騎兵大隊s instead.?