Yet the fastest motorbike in the world is electric. And it’s a beast of a machine. I’ve seen it in person, has a big air channel through the middle where the engine normally would be that pushes it down into the ground and gives it traction, allowing it to be the fastest bike in the world. Proper quality but if engineering.
Yes they are, which means the drop in the rest of Europe is worse than 46%. I think sales in Germany are down something like 80-90%. In addition, you do realise that new car registrations is not the same as new car sales? Isn't it the case that dealers register cars, so it doesn't mean that they've actually sold them to punters?
If so that's us out of it, we have four nuclear subs, and at any one time only one is on active patrol, with rented missiles aboard. We also have an army with more horses than battle tanks. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
The UK has nine nuclear subs, a minimum of one must always be on patrol but usually at least four are and the missiles are leased, not rented (only the missiles are leased and maintained by the US, the nuclear warheads on them are British made and owned). As one of the five Nuclear States, we're far less dependent on the US than most other nations.
They have built some pretty quickly if we have 9.Only 4 carry Trident. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/0...-support-there-are-no-other-easy-alternatives
Ye, nine nuclear powered subs, 4 Vanguards armed with nuclear weapons, 2 of them on permanent patrol.... From memory. The US holds the override codes for the weapons, the UK does not have an override for the US equivalents, which caused some controversy.
The UK currently operates a fleet of nine nuclear submarines, consisting of 5 Astute-class attack submarines and 4 Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines, your article refers to the ballistic missile subs that require US missile maintenance.
The UK has full operational control over it's nuclear weapons, it's a myth about the US being able to override us using them.
