What happens if Russia invades Britain's territory?

Question

Have you ever heard the term "SPETSNAZ"?

Answer 1

Unless they attacked by Sea, they would have to cross through Europe.
As we are part of NATO, we should get back up from our Neighbours.
The politicians and diplomatic corp will have their work cut out and if they do their job right in the first place there should never be an invasion in the first place.
If all else fails and they invade, there would be war and Russia still has nuclear weapons. Despite a downsizing in their armed forces, they still have one of the worlds largest armies.
America should come in our side, Chinese will take the Russian side until the end is nigh.

Answer 2

I would love to know exactly with what they would fight, There navy is still in an extremely poor state

Jane (recognised as the worlds leading knowledge base of militaries around the world) states that at any time under 10 percent of the Russian Navy is ready for sea far less combat operations.

Spetnazs are probably the poorest trained of all major special forces, Just look at their attempts to retake the cinema and the school, A generic UK infantry unit is more than a match for them

How would they get here? They have no aircraft capable or reaching here undetected and their is not a single Russian aircraft that is a match for the equivilent in the RAF

The British armed forces might be smaller but they are at least 20 years ahead in all aspects of Russia, the soldiers,sailors and air force personnel are far better trained and are professionals.

In the UK we have never had officers begging on the streets because they have not been paid until very recently this was a common sight in Russia

And regarding size being everything Just remember the humilation Finland made Russia suffer

ANd if Russia did threaten with Nukes, The UK can quite easily wipe Russia of the face of the earth

Answer 3

Though this is a hypothetical question, it sounds like the responses to when the USA was planning to invade Iraq. How can people be so definite that Russia would lose?

Remember Rumsfeld's six days, six weeks, six months comments? Never underestimate a determined enemy . Look at what Fidel Castro did in Cuba, Afghanistan in war with the USSR, North Vietnam in war with the USA, Great Britain in the Americas, German in WWII, modern day Turkey in WWI.

Conceit seems to be first step towards defeat.

Answer 4

The current government would ignore it for a bit, consult focus groups, try to blame the 1996 conservative government and then, under pressure, convene a public enquiry with a restrictive mandate. Then, if the public couldn't be distracted by some meaningless speeches or bizarre announcements the treasury would have to be consulted to see how much of a war we could afford. Eventually they'd be forced by international pressure and national shame to take military action and the government would ask the armed forces what capability they had left.........and then? Re-form the Home Guard? Import Polish soldiers?

Answer 5

Only gillon j seems to be living in the modern world.The USSR has gone and modern Russia has not got the armed forces or capabilities it had.In all out war the three most threatening nations are the USA,UK and France all have trident subs and missles and their combined strength is awesome.All are NATO members and have mutal obligations to defend each other if a country tried to invade any one of them.

Answer 6

The British defense is some...if not the best in the world and when the Russian bombers came into British air space the RAF intercepted them in no time.

SPETNAZ vs SAS no contest,SAS win.

Oh and for the people who say the Russians will win,guess who the Russians fear,The British Army baby and history speaks for itself.During the cold war they were going to bomb British troops because they knew they would lose a lot of man power fighting British troops.

Answer 7

I think our armed forces would do well. I wouldn't count on support from the US and would imagine that NATO would collapse after about, umm 5 minutes. 15 Min's without French input.
I reckon we could defend our little Island. We would have to defend Ireland as well and pray that no Euros would let Russia stage in their countries for us to have a chance.
You pathetic civilians would suffer though. You could kiss goodbye to your Ipods and lifestyle choices. You would either be growing something or making something for a living. Not sat on your flabby rump in an office. See what your local council has planned for civil defence. It wont be much. At least you will be able to actually count your food miles and the only CO2 produced will be from your breath.

Answer 8

I should imagine that nato would step in the breech but nato has not got a good track record of backing the british armed forces so it would be the british forces on their own against the mighty russian bear god help us quick anyone got a russian phrase book

Answer 9

Then we will have a war, and the NATO constitution requires all NATO members to defend each other, so they will also be up against Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, USA, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Czech, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia!

Why on earth do you think Russia will invade? I thought these daft alarmist ideas were buried years ago.

Answer 10

If you are talking about a hypothetical war solely between the UK and Russia, well, Russia has a much more powerful Military, and would win.

Only the USA have a fighting chance against Russia at the moment, and they're getting stronger every day.

But the UK would have the advantage of being an island... but even so, Russia has a vast Navy and could very easily launch a huge amphibious assault, drop troops off via air etc. They would conquoer us.

But that would never happen, as war VS the UK means war vs NATO.

No one would waste that many resources trying to invade the UK, he better way would be to get us to surrender by posing a real threat of invasion.

Russia has never been conquoered, and I doubt even NATO could conquoer them even with the USA's help... many countries in NATO have very weak armies, and Russia could take them out easily.

It would be left down to the big players... and think back to Nazi Germany, who would have thought Germany could come so close to conquoering Europe? Britain was very nearly conquored, Germany made tactical errors and gave up trying to invade us and turned to Russia - where he failed.