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About the one the united states is sending, specifically the bradley fighting vehicle, it's slightly different to what we would conceive as at tank, how will that help the infantry? it's designed for our mounted infantry, the back of the bradley, and there is a number of different variants of the bradley, but i think the wonder really concentrating on getting to the ukrainians is the one that carries a squad anywhere from eight to ten infantry men in the back of the vehicle, so it offers them armoured protection, also offers rather sophisticated communications capability and if necessary, we h...

So the resources were readily available to the president. obviously tensions had been ramping up for quite some time. no question in my mind they were red i do go. obviously there's existing plans that they probably dusted off and modified for the circumstances for last night. so getting those aircraft in the air, getting those ships and armed and ready, not a huge deal. it's really just a matter of targeting and laying those targets into the systems and the sensors. it's likewise pretty quickly to turn something like that up because the military has such robust communications capability. i'm ...

The weather and where they landed but the fact that they could bring so much armament so quickly, so much material so quickly into those beaches at mulberry harbor, it's a remarkable engineering feat, quite frankly, isn't it. >> reporter: that's right. there is the question of the engineering capability that they needed to have, the communications capability that they needed to have and on the day, a huge proportion of their communications capability was simply lost. so coordinating many different forces that came from many countries that had had for the couple of years before the landing took...

To defend themselves? were they heavily defended or go in in light trucks not expecting much resistance. >> i'll answer the second part because i know and i'll give you in general the first part. so they did not expect resistance on this particular patrol. at least when they first planned it. again, what happened subsequently will be the investigation. because the rules in that part of west africa are that we will only accompany our partner forces when the chances of enemy contact are unlikely. so with that, they were equipped with machine guns, small arms and obviously had the ability with co...

To defend themselves? were they heavily defended or light trucks or not expecting much resistance? >> i'll answer the second part because i know. what happens subsequently will be the investigation. because the rules in that part of west africa are that we will only accompany our forces when the chances of enemy contact are unlikely. so with that, they were equipped with machine guns, small arms and obviously had the ability with communications capability to reach back and get greater larger supporting arms. >> have you learned at all what type of fires they came up? was it small arms or -- >>...