The British war industry has reportedly poured millions into protecting Israeli ships in the Red Sea since the conflict between Israel and Palestine first began in October, with British PM Rishi Sunak becoming Britain’s ninth prime minister to use the RAF to bomb Yemen.
A report published to Declassified UK on Tuesday claims that the British public has spent up to £19m in missile costs alone for airstrikes over Yemen.
As many as 53 missiles—some of which costs over a million British pounds each—have been fired by the Royal Navy and Air Force.
However the actual amount that Britain has spent on their defense costs is currently classified, the report clarifies, and will be published when the Ministry of Defense (MoD) releases its annual accounts in July, 2024.
The report also found that British Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps is being forced to borrow money from other departments in order to pay for the war including from the Treasury’s Contingencies.
Fund after having requested funding from the Special Reserve for [the] Red Sea.
Schnapps said in parliament that so far the Royal Air Force (RAF) has struck 40 targets across Yemen in four waves of air strikes since January.
The RAF used Paveway IV missiles which cost about £70,000 each in 2014. If 40 of those missiles were fired, the approximate cost would be £2.8m.
Meanwhile, at sea the British Royal Navy has used its destroyer HMS Diamond to shoot down Yemeni drones beginning on December 16, and used Sea Viper missiles that cost at least £1 m each.
The destroyer fired between three and eight Sea Vipers during a series of engagements in December 2023 and January 2024.
Later the crippled Diamond has since been replaced by a frigate, HMS Richmond, which shot down two drones on March 9, and a video shared by the MoD apparently shows the ship firing four Sea Ceptor missiles.
The report estimates that Sea Ceptors cost about £2m each, and so if the replacement frigate fired four the cost would have been £8m. In total, the munitions Britain has fired at Yemen since December may have cost up to £19m.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Shame on British leaders, for them to have 9 consecutive governments delivering missiles to take part in the genocide against Yemen.
The last desperate moves of an crippling empire?
Its certainly “crippling” the British public very high food prices – very high American LNG prices –the poor going hungry -homelessness due to Tory government policies – its dreaming of being an “empire ” as its now just a third world satrap of the USA.
Nearly £10 Billion spent on Ukraine while the old-poor- sick die and suffer .