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

be defeating the great Red Army, as it were, because of innovation.

And the other element to this is training.

The other reason the Russians are losing so many people.

An infantry guy recruit conscript is getting about a week's training.

A lot of them don't even know how to clean their rifles.

And when you've got a rifle, once you've fired a couple of hundred rounds through it, it clogs up with carbon and you can't use it.

So these guys, I mean, if they had a couple of hundred rounds to use.

So again, but that sort of perpetuates through the whole thing.

You've got these Ukrainian drone units, a lot of them sitting back, a lot of them with very untraditional military people in there.

We go back to the whole diversity issue and all the rest of it.

If you can fly a drone, then it doesn't matter.

Even if you've only got one arm or one leg or whatever, you can do it.

And I think actually in recent writing, I've been saying to the British military, we don't all need to be able to lift heavy weights and run fast.

We need a few of them.

Entirely, entirely.

And in the video I made for the Telegraph about Challenger 3, you've got a sort of PlayStation hand stick that, I mean, luckily, because it wasn't too different from Challenger 2 that I last fired about 10 years ago, it took me about two or three minutes to familiarize and then in the simulator to get a first round hit.

But actually...

had you been a kid who who playstation you would you just got in there and you wouldn't even need any training at all you know it says lays the line fire i mean daddy's

Yeah.

I mean, I think, as I talked about in the last chapter, where we're going, it's about autonomy, autonomous vehicles, land, sea, and air.

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