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HMS Portland in Falklands’ tri-service exercise and patrolling South Georgia
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Portland lead the Maritime component in a Tri-Service week long exercise “Purple Strike” involving all of the military units based in the Falkland Islands. Exercises are conducted on a regular basis to ensure all units are prepared and capable of dealing with any eventuality, including the ability to defend the Falklands if required. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNavy has been busy latly, working with canadian and US navys n war games, india in submarine wargames, and this.
Aug 16th, 2010 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the royal navy is well and truly in attendence in the falklands.
Aug 16th, 2010 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and the argies, still at home sulking and throwing insults from afar??
Justin you were right!, they are looking for that expensive equipment!!
Aug 17th, 2010 - 05:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0(penguin poop)
“Initially HMS Portland teamed up with the Falkland Island’s Patrol Ship HMS Clyde to deploy the Roulement Infantry Company, currently the Welsh Guards with elements of the Light Dragoons, to investigate reports of enemy troops on West Falkland”
Be aware Paris Hilton is in charge of your ships
“Weapon Engineer “Paris” Hilton who is responsible for Air Weapons said: ”The ability to safely deploy the Ship’s helicopter adds to Portland’s versatility”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton
ROTFLMAO
Thanks, I needed a good laugh
In some weeks time the following patragraph of this article will surely be used by the “warmonger turnips” in here as irrefutable proof of Argentinean agression :-)))
Aug 17th, 2010 - 06:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Initially HMS Portland teamed up .......... to investigate reports of enemy troops on West Falkland”
patragraph ?
Aug 17th, 2010 - 06:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its an exercise, the clue was in the title “tri-service exercise”.
Aug 17th, 2010 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0I see the ad hominem personal attacks continue, from the two contributors who never answer awkward questions.
HMS Portland looks nice, doesn't she? I understand that, with a little assistance from a submarine and RAF Typhoons, she has enough capabilities to destroy what remains of the Argentine “navy”.
Aug 17th, 2010 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0One of my babies, I worked on the Type 23 before transferring to the Type 45 programme. Testing VL Sea Wolf was a blast.
Aug 17th, 2010 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 03 Marco.
Aug 17th, 2010 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lmao, you are a complete idiot.
His surname is hilton, in the british army people are often given nicknames, his nickname is paris on the count of his second name being hilton.
It doesn't mean that the famous woman, paris hilton is a member of the royal navy.
4 Think: No, think we won't. We aren't idiotic unlike some of your fellow country men, we realise that it's just an exercise, because...it says it's just an exercise.
@Think: The ship is taking part in exercises, that's it.
Aug 17th, 2010 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0long live the Patagonian independence, from pirates and colonial oppressors
Aug 17th, 2010 - 10:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good grief Marco run for the hills a British frigate has come to town!!!!
Aug 18th, 2010 - 12:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0If a British patrol ship and a company of marines and Scots Guards sends you convulsing into anti-colonial victimhood fits of hysterics I would hate to see what happens if they added a Ghurka company to the mix!
Rhaurie. Please. Welsh Guards.
Aug 18th, 2010 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yes sorry, Argentines can rest slightly easier tonight it's only the welsh guards .... they can stand down from defcon 5 now
Aug 18th, 2010 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Welsh?
Aug 18th, 2010 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My I mention Rourke's Drift....and “Stop chucking, those bloody spears, at me”.
Chorus of Men of Harlech anyone?
Sorry, Justin. Despite any impression from the film, the British soldiers in action at the mission station at Rorke's Drift were not the Welsh Guards. It was B Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot, although the Regiment's recruitment area may have included parts of Wales. But it is worth remembering that British casualties consisted of 17 killed and 14 wounded out of 139. Zulu casualties, despite their possession of rifles captured at Isandlwana, was reckoned at 351 killed and 500 wounded out of 3,000 to 4,000.
Aug 18th, 2010 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Am I the only one to notice that the first mention of Argentina on this page is all the way down in comment number 4?
Aug 18th, 2010 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Methinks that some people do protest too much.
Harrier, it's a relatively easy mistake to make as the 24th Foot was renamed the South Wales Borderers only a couple of years after Rorke's Drift
Rufus. Don't get me wrong. I agree with what you say. It's just that some of us, usually including Justin who has made just a minor mistake on this occasion, like to get facts right. And anyone who watched “Zulu” without paying full attention could be forgiven for thinking that it was a Welsh Regiment.
Aug 18th, 2010 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Them Warwickshire lads knew how to sing ...... something to do with mines and Warwickshire valleys perhaps :-)
Aug 19th, 2010 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0As we now know, HMS Portland shortly to be relieved by HMS Gloucester, a Block 3 Type 42 destroyer. Longer, faster, vicious.
Aug 19th, 2010 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0In the meantime. Well done to the officers and men of HMS Portland, a credit to the finest traditions of the Royal Navy!!
and to be joined by many more ships, after the october deadline, then we will all find out what is going , if any .
Aug 19th, 2010 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Plenty of space for many more ships .....in the botton of beautiful Argentine Ocean.
Aug 20th, 2010 - 03:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0South Atlantic Ocean, unless Marco knows something more of Argentine ambitions? Ignorance knows no bounds, even when he is trying to be insulting.
Aug 20th, 2010 - 07:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0How dumb can you be to screw up a basic insult?
Argentina doesn't even have any weapons which would work against RN ships anymore, the RN is the only navy in the world whom has shot down anti ship missiles in a combat scenario.
Aug 20th, 2010 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentine Ocean? I believe that represents an attitude the ancient Greeks used to call hubris.
Aug 20th, 2010 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0However, Marco is close on one point. There is plenty of room for the rest of the Argentine so-called navy to join the last vessel the Royal Navy sank down there.
Plenty of space for many more ships .....in the botton of beautiful Argentine Ocean.
Aug 20th, 2010 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or the falklands ocean, from the yellow ships of the argentine navy,
Aug 20th, 2010 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0even marco cant fail to notice that , sticks and stones marco,
Well seems there is a crack in the F@landers front.
Aug 21st, 2010 - 05:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0A dispute among Welch, Scots and Angle seems to start.
So next time our army should bring flags saying:
Scot soldiers fight like girls according with Welsh Guards.
Welsh are afraid of the argies Scots usually say.
Gordon Brown the best PM ever Welsh/Scots claim.
English are much professional and better soldiers than the Scots and Welch beee guys.
Thank to England Scotland had archived some degree of civilization.
If wouldn’t be for England Welsh still speak beee beee language.
Haha
Nice try nicodimwit, but even the poorest soldier from wherever in the British Isles is far more professional, better trained and better disciplined than anything you care to produce.
Aug 21st, 2010 - 07:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0You see, we all have, to a greater or lesser degree, the Celtic Warrior bloodline coursing through our veins, Whereas you have nothing ... just a bunch of lazy blow-hards!
What is beee?
Something you made up?
Good idea, NicoDoom.
Aug 21st, 2010 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Such a message should ensure a positive response.
No prisoners!
British Forces will solve the population problem you don't know you have. But wait! There are nationalities in the British Army you haven't mentioned. Irish, Tongans, Fijians, Gurkhas.
Make up another verse. In 1982, you were just a job. Keep it up, and ensure that every person in the British Forces actively hates you!
Interesting to read this comments and see how they fight beteween them.
Aug 21st, 2010 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All of them are english slaves.
Slaves?
Aug 21st, 2010 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pathetic, when did Argentina ban slavery, when did Britain.
'nuff said.
Who turn millions into slavery...who else The english!
Aug 21st, 2010 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suggest you look at the history of the slave trade.
Aug 21st, 2010 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The chief architects of the slave trade were the Spanish and Portuguese.
The nemesis of the slave trade was the Royal Navy, that stopped the slave trade.
When the British banned slavery, the Spanish and Portuguese saw it as an opportunity.
In its war of indepenence, the Argentines promised freedom to slaves, then reneged on those promises. Vernet took slaves to the Falklands.
even today argentina is noted as a slave trader in part,
Aug 21st, 2010 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it record on abuse is very bad, it passes so much wind, it wonders why no one want to invite it anywhere,or sit near it,
Best to remember that in the “modern” era, slavery was begun by the Portuguese and Spanish. In fact, the Spanish also began concentration camps. No wonder Nazis ran to Argentina, home from home!
Aug 21st, 2010 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we think it would be better for all, if Argentina changed its name, separated into smaller countries, give back independence to others it stole it from , give up all its weapons, and become the worlds first national monastery with ye old argon monks, peace brother peace
Aug 21st, 2010 - 09:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Best if Argentina is destroyed. One way or another!
Aug 21st, 2010 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0English slaves, bow to the Queen .....
Aug 22nd, 2010 - 05:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Looking at other threads, Margo betrays his intentions for Argentine imperialism. Talks of a trade embargo. Not recognising that no other South American country has the wish, the will or the capability to enforce such an illegal action. Pity the orc child.
Aug 22nd, 2010 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Rhaurie-Craughwell (#)
Aug 22nd, 2010 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Oh yes sorry, Argentines can rest slightly easier tonight it's only the welsh guards” .
Harrier61, Even the dumbest Scot makes fun of you and the Welsh Guard!
P'nawn da
at least they are all british, thats more than can be said for argies,
Aug 22nd, 2010 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0at least they dont run or stay in port,
like the argies, at least they come and patrol 8,000 miles from home, unlike the argies that wont even come out to play,???
Margo. Is there any chance that you will ever EVER come up with an intelligent comment? Just one! Cleasaiche.
Aug 23rd, 2010 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Harry the welsh
Aug 23rd, 2010 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Beth ydy'r Cymraeg am Malvinas Argentinas ?
Sorry, dimmo, wrong language.
Aug 23rd, 2010 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, LIAR.
ARGENTINE LIAR, ARGENTINE LIAR, ARGENTINE LIAR, ARGENTINE LIAR.
LITTLE ARGENTINE LIAR, LITTLE ARGENTINE LIAR, LITTLE ARGENTINE LIAR.
STINKING LITTLE ARGENTINE LIAR, STINKING LITTLE ARGENTINE LIAR.
Anyone wonder about these comments? Check out the trap I laid for the dimwitted dumbo at http://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/17/argentina-uk-relation-must-go-beyond-the-falklands-malvinas-conflict.
Marco
Aug 23rd, 2010 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0like you, niether exist, no one knows where the ,malvnas sunk.
or the lingo you speak, NO [FT] NO COMMENT
Malvinas Argentinas.
Aug 24th, 2010 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 047, I've heard about that place you kept mentioning, but...where is it?
Aug 24th, 2010 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh thats right, it only exists in your mind.
argentino pirates, if you cant have it, you steal it,
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