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HMS Portland on South Atlantic patrol after successful visit in Brazil
HMS Portland has taken up station in the British Forces South Atlantic Islands Joint Operations Area in the Falkland Islands. The Type 23 frigate took over from HMS York South Atlantic patrol duties. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI forget, did Brazil come out in support of Argentina's spurious claim to the Falkland Islands??? It's not very obvious :-)
May 18th, 2010 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Buy hey, nothing has changed so NO PROBLEM :-)
A little behind the times, Mercopress! Portland handed over with York... in the Falklands... nearly a weeks ago!!
May 18th, 2010 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is this the great British threat which is pointed practically at the heart of latin America that Jorge bangs on about? A type 23, so threatening to the peace of Latin America that it hosted a working lunch a few tours and secured a couple of Defence contracts for British companies!
May 18th, 2010 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Either the Malvinista's are just picking on any info to make a point or they are genuinely afraid after the last kicking of any significant British military presence no matter how token.
In which case despite Nicotines ramblings about not having enough to buy an Air Rifle, we have nothing to fear, judging by the performance of Argentina's armed forces in 1982 a very sharp potato peeler positioned strategically should be a sufficient deterrent, although I would imagine the Parliament of Tierra del Fuego would have issue with the sharpness of it.....
Seeing as BAe have been contracted to design the type 26 frigate (to eventually replace the type 22s and type 23s), with a view to having them in service from 2021, and seeing how the Brazilians do like their frigates British-made (they already have 6 x type 21 and 3 x type 22) possibly the lay-over should be viewed as advanced marketing as well?
May 18th, 2010 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know what? If I were president, I wouldn't waste too much money on airplanes and ships, just on a couple of good nuclear submarines and a few long-range missiles, yeah, that would be enough!!!!
May 19th, 2010 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would like some 14000km range missiles. I woul call them London I, Manchester I and II. What do you think Rori?????
The Potatoe's peelers that scary is it Jorge? I wonder what Damage we could do to your submarines with a tin opener?
May 19th, 2010 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By all means take out Manchester it's a dump..... and so long as you bomb Brixton and Bromley in London I won't mind to much.
However I wouldn't get yourself to worked up with these wet dreams that you have you know it's never going to happen? LOL!
coming soon to a cinema near you Jorge Rios stars in “Type Hard”
LOL. Wet dreams, yeah, sure. Take care!!!!!!
May 20th, 2010 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0jorge, sorry to inform you, but your entire defense budget equals to 2billion a year, you would have to save up for about six years without paying the troops you currently have in order to research and build those types of weapons.
May 20th, 2010 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes. we have a low budget in that area and we need more than six years to renew it, but my point is, we can do it slowly for, i don't know, 50 years, we are not desperate to do anything, the islands are just here, they are not gonna move out! :-)
May 21st, 2010 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know you are very nationalist but seriously, how likely is that going to happen?
May 22nd, 2010 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0You aren't going to take them by force, it's just not an option you have.
So in 50 years time Argentina would have finally developed an ICBM capability, in the same space of time, Britain will probably have developed orbital lasers and the Islands will have a GDP twice that of Argentina's and a population from the oil boom that will be about 50,000 and alot harder to dismiss off hand as eccentric little englanders with no human rights because they aren't Argentinian.
May 26th, 2010 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0But anyway I stand by my prediction that by 2033 Argentina would have dropped it's incestuous claim to the islands, so those missiles would seem distinctly pointless to enforce a claim that is going the way of Ireland and Spain over their irredentist claims, abandonment in the face of common sense and a common respect for human rights, not some bizarre quasi colonial 18th century lust to satisfy a slight to national ego.....
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