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Portsmouth prepares to receive the Royal Navy’s biggest warships ever
Britain’s Portsmouth Naval Base is preparing to be the home of the biggest warships ever built for the Royal Navy. A specialist rig began six weeks of drilling on Friday, sampling the seabed in the harbour and in the Solent. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA most powerful ship indeed,
Feb 06th, 2012 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A projection of power that will send the message, that Britain,
Can and will, if needed,
A fine ship in deed, alas their will always be some that are envious and think it provocative .
Then let us prevoke with 65'000 tonnes up the river plate ! Boom Boom !
Feb 06th, 2012 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0New planes
Feb 06th, 2012 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.baesystems.com/Sites/Taranis/Newsroom/autoGen_110612124240.html
new ship
http://www.baesystems.com/Sites/Taranis/Newsroom/autoGen_110612124240.html
type 26.
http://www.baesystems.com/Sites/Taranis/Newsroom/autoGen_110612124240.html
HMS Astute
http://www.baesystems.com/Sites/Taranis/Newsroom/autoGen_110612124240.html
its all coming together, just nicely, thank you .
plymouth / portsmouth / falsane
all very busy, very soon .
Tuesday 07 February 2012
Feb 07th, 2012 - 02:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0“American commanders decided the Royal Navy had nothing to contribute to the mission”
“A Whitehall confirmed the sequence of events and described the international negotiations over the flotilla as “humiliating” for Britain”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9064697/Britain-had-to-plead-with-US-to-take-part-in-Iran-flotilla.html
Excellent target for Exocet missiles.....
Feb 07th, 2012 - 03:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0They didn't help you win last time MoreCrap !
Feb 07th, 2012 - 05:29 am - Link - Report abuse 01982 - May 7th - French President, François Mitterrand, talks to his doctor;
“ I had a difference of opinion to settle with the Iron Lady. What an impossible woman, that Thatcher! With her four nuclear submarines on mission in the southern Atlantic, she threatens to launch the atomic weapon against Argentina — unless I supply her with the secret codes that render deaf and blind the missiles we have sold to the Argentinians. Margaret has given me very precise instructions on the telephone …. I have been forced to yield. She has them now, the codes. If our customers find out that the French wreck the weapons they sell, it’s not going to reflect well on our exports.“
@5 Malvinero1 Considering that the Excocet missiles are around 30 years old, and that our new Type 45's, can track and destroy any that you fire, i dont think that any missiles would get within a few hundred miles of the carrier, or your planes for that matter :')
Feb 07th, 2012 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 07THOR94
Feb 07th, 2012 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is very likely, unless many of the components have been changed in the 30 years of storge (and can anybody see Argentina spending money on that) that these missiles will NOT fly.
And any that do will be unable to target modern ships.
THOR94 : Not even that, Thor.
Feb 07th, 2012 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Considering that our anti ship missiles have rougly double the range of the Argentines, goodluck using them.
@ I think that we can all agree that although the RN isn't as strong as it has famously been, it does and can 'pack a punch', and out matches anything that Argentina could possibly field .
Feb 07th, 2012 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Living in a past world, anything of an update is new to these guys,
Feb 07th, 2012 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know like, bows and arrows, sticks and stones,
Ships and harbour entrances, but to be fair to them,
Can you actually fit an exocet to a rowing boat,
Living in a past world, anything of an update is new to these guys,
Feb 07th, 2012 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know like, bows and arrows, sticks and stones,
Ships and harbour entrances, but to be fair to them,
Can you actually fit an exocet to a rowing boat,
Even with those we sunk half of the crap brit fleet...
Can you actually fit an exocet to a rowing boat.
Feb 07th, 2012 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12 Malvinero1 (#) If you say that about the fleet we had, you must really be ashamed of your fleet now :')
Feb 07th, 2012 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you actually fit an exocet to a rowing boat.
Feb 07th, 2012 - 11:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why? The MOD is thinking to fit that,after they run out of oil from uk??
@12 Malvinero1 (#) If you say that about the fleet we had, you must really be ashamed of your fleet now :')
No I am not.But we put the money where it belong: The people.No like those corrupt conservatives you have in uk...Poor deluded brits.....Without industry,running out of oil.....
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
I am GLAD I DO NOT LIVE in the uk!
so are we
Feb 08th, 2012 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0whos running out of oil??? thought we just found a hat load. Dont we buy oil like the rest of the world. I would question your own presidents credentials didnt she along with hubby make a packet on a dodgy deal with land. Premier financial capital of the world vs corned beef & c.heap plonk. Regarding fleet people in glass houses. cant wait for the two supercarriers to come on line, will be worth the wait. Do you want to buy another ex Royal Navy Carrier like your last relic that ran back to harbour.
Feb 14th, 2012 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 015 Malvinero1 (#) Hardly the level of poverty is much higher in Argentina, and we have to have a defense force to protect from the crafty argies such as yourself....Im glad i live in the UK :) A true Democracy...
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