Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE

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TRIGGERnometry · Britain Isn't Ready For A Real War - Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

Didn't hit it.

Anyway, the thing couldn't drop its thing.

But that was 11 years ago, or 10 years ago.

You wind forward to now and what we're seeing, and what has really kept Ukraine actually in the game is...

the way that they have developed drone technology to an area where I find it really significant.

When Iran started firing drones and missiles at the Arab states, Zelensky and the Ukrainians were over there showing them how to defend against them, selling them Ukraine drones.

Ukraine now makes 50% more drones than it needs, which is unbelievable.

Ukraine has developed its own cruise missiles.

You might have heard of the Flamingo, which has a range of over 1,000 kilometers, a warhead of about 50 to 100 kilograms, not dissimilar from a Tomahawk cruise missile.

Oh, by the way, it costs $500,000, not $10.5 million.

And when you can do that sort of stuff...

I'm sure people might argue that a cruise missile is more effective than a flamingo missile, but, you know, 10 flamingo missiles.

It's a bit like when I talk about tanks in the Second World War.

There's a great scene where Patton, who was commanding the Allied forces at Salerno in Italy...

came up against the German general, whose name escapes me.

And the German general said, you know, Patton, you're struggling, aren't you?

You're losing 10 Shermans for every one of my Tigers.

And Patton said, no, I'm not struggling.

I've got so many more Shermans than your Tigers that ultimately we will win, which of course they did.

So it goes back to my point about flamingos.

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