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Royal Navy orders four 37.000 tons tankers to support renewed surface fleet and attack submarines
A new generation of 37.000-tons tankers has been ordered for the Royal Navy fleet, the MoD announced Wednesday. The new Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) tankers will maintain the Royal Navy’s ability to refuel at sea and will provide fuel to warships and task groups. Read full article
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Feb 22nd, 2012 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
3 million unemployed, no jobs or work to be had and still our government cannot place orders with British companies to give British people jobs. What an example this government is setting. We must be the laughing stock of the world! The lunatics are running the asylum.
Feb 22nd, 2012 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Getting a British company to build what we need might just not be an option. There is a huge issue with availability of things called engineers in the UK, because everyone is told by their parents to be a pop star or a footballer.
Feb 22nd, 2012 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's nothing to do with leadership, that's a societal issue.
Good post 3 and very true.
Feb 22nd, 2012 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also with a lot of Royal Navy ship building going on some suppliers could not fulfill orders so another source mentioned.
@4 Rather than sending them to Tesco to stack shelves, maybe we could use some of those 'Workfare' folks to try to weld up a RFA vessel and see what happens.
Feb 22nd, 2012 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For a country that is nearly broke, and bankrupt, we aren’t doing to badly,
Feb 22nd, 2012 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder what’s new in the argentine locker,, after all they are growing at a great rate , are they not,
Or will they stick to the yellow sub in the bath, in case its provocative lol.
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@6 For a country of Sky TV watching gimps who don't understand football clubs are just businesses squeezing them for cash, and whose only dream is for their daughter to be on Pop idol, and their son to be a Footballer, thereby putting no emphasis on education, we have some problems.
Feb 22nd, 2012 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We need to compete with places like Germany, Japan, Switzerland and South Korea, and so we need educated people who can make new interesting things to sell. We currently have about 4 engineers, who probably work in Tesco. No engineers stay in the UK or stay in engineering after Uni, they all go to switzerland and earn 4 times the amount. Economically, this is a big big problem. You complain about UK not making the boats, but who exactly is going to make the boats? A soccer star?
I agree though that Argentina in comparison is a crying child cr@pping in their own pants, while it retains Peronism.
All the current shipyards are very busy with the carriers, new destroyers, subs, ect.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0None of the other British company's thought they could handle the deal, therefore didn't finalize the deal. So it was sent elsewhere.
... they couldn't handle the deal because we only have one engineer left in the country, and his name is James 'just outsourced everything to Asia' Dyson.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Must be foreigners working on all the other projects i just mentioned, then.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well that was only [4] the navy needs at least another 12, so more orders may well follow later .
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 11:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently they need to be double hulled because of some issues with pollution legislation. Affordability and delivery schedules were important and they're based on a commercial tanker with a few pluses like a helicopter action. The BAE fast fleet tankers are more complex to make, therefore more expensive and take longer.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 11:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well we would all like British company’s to get all the work,
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 11:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But delays over runs, expenses interest and other things, means we get them ten years late, and out of date, and vastly to expensive
If you look at the carrier and astute sites, they are already years late, and the cost is rising,
Mind to it does not help with the government deliberately delaying them all the time,
And wasting billions.
mr Cameron has been asked to bring the type 26, on line in 2012, instead of a 2013 start date, but he wont,, the likes of him that are causing our shipping to be dragged down,
but again I suspect a higher authority who has a bigger interest .??
@13 They've still not delivered the space-based ion cannon they've been working on for years.
Feb 24th, 2012 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Back to sticks and stones at this rate,
Feb 24th, 2012 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What with the Argies with there rocks,
What is this world coming to .
Professional Engineers have never been valued in the UK by anyone from my experience which is why I had to travel the world for contract work.
Feb 24th, 2012 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This work was very lucrative but kept me away from my home and family and I missed out on them growing up more than I wanted to.
My wife and I now live in Uruguay but we still have to pay taxes to the UK on our retirement pensions and other reasons.
But at least we are out from under the laughable engineering disaster in the UK. 7 GreekYoghurt is closer than he knows with his comments.
I used to be so proud of Britain until all the do-gooders and PC brigade banned common sense and self-reliancy. And New Labours multi-culturism leading to British born citizens of Asian origin and Muslim tendancy trying to kill 'all the infidels' aka the white Brits.
Best of luck folks.
a lot more brits agree with you,, more than you think,
Feb 24th, 2012 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yesterday firemen refused to enter a pond 3ft deep as it was dangerouse, and they were not trained, p/c is a joke, the ECHR is a joke,
the british are being stripped of there own rights and customs to suit others .
just my opinion .
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