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HMS Illustrious, command ship in tough Arctic weather training
Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious is in the midst of NATO Exercise Cold Response, based in the Arctic. Illustrious is the command ship for Major General Ed Davis, Commandant General Royal Marines, who, with his Commander Amphibious Forces staff, is directing the movements of allied warships. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA NATO exercise, based around an island taken by a hostile nation. What could they have been thinking?
Mar 18th, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Mar 18th, 2012 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL.
@1 Hahahaha, dunno. I guess the SATO version was last year.
Mar 18th, 2012 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1Anti-Fascist yes I wonder an exercise involving made up names/countries, like Nerthus and Borgland! I'm sure there is another country in the world that uses made up names for other areas and islands that don't belong to them ether.
Mar 18th, 2012 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They could have been really subtle, and called it fictional names like Argentina and Malvinas... but then everyone would know they were really talking about 'Mar de Mierda' and the 'Falkland Islands'.
Mar 18th, 2012 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Coincidence and nothing more.
Mar 18th, 2012 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the Argentines got their knickers in a twist over one young prince, one new destroyer and one sub that may have or may not have sailed for the South Atlantic, what's going to happen now?
Mar 19th, 2012 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentine war veteran refuses to dance with Falkland Islands female partner in Argentine TV show bailando por un sueno (dancing for a dream)
Mar 19th, 2012 - 01:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9149395/Argentine-veteran-rejects-British-Falkland-Islands-partner-for-dance-show.html
This is a fascinating story as it doesn't give the name of the Falklander who is living in BA and taking part in this weird TV show so does anyone know who it is?
C'mon you can tell me as I promise not to tell anyone else.
Whoever she is she must be errrr...sort of open minded, shall we say as this TV show is more like pornorgaphy.
Check it out :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9149395/Argentine-veteran-rejects-British-Falkland-Islands-partner-for-dance-show.html
Dreyfuss, This goes to show how dull your life must be if you think that is a fascinating story its Boring story about a TV dance comp. and not relevant to the above article!
Mar 19th, 2012 - 05:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0why not go to the telegraph forum and dribble on there?
they need the Russian help......!!
Mar 19th, 2012 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ahh diddums, didn't want to dance with the nice lady because his Country committed a war crime and then got thumped good and proper so that his Country became a “democracy”, letting him choose his dance partner.
Mar 19th, 2012 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway enough of that silly shit, the BBC showed a programme last night on how a Cold War RAF Vulcan bomber flew from Ascension to bomb the airfield at Port Stanley. Designed to attack the Soviet Union with Nuclear bombs, it needed refueling a number of times on its 8000 mile round trip. Such daring, such courage, these chaps flew through terrible weather conditions and Argentine Flak to deliver their payload. On the return leg, as they approached the oncoming Task Force, steaming south, they had to hurriedly impart the friendly code sequence to avoid being mistaken for enemy scum and be blasted out of the sky.
UK Armed Forces are indeed the best in the World.
'didn't want to dance with the nice lady' ... because he feared a knee in the nuts more likely......
Mar 19th, 2012 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0I've heard they raise em tough on the Falkland Islands, no weeping willows so to speak.
Mar 19th, 2012 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#8 - Was the former FI resident the one and only James Peck who has undergone a sex change and is now Janine Peckado???
Mar 19th, 2012 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 014 Jedi389
Mar 19th, 2012 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thought he had changed his name to Janine Peckless.
11 Be serious
What programme was this? I'm wondering if its on iPlayer?
15 Anti-Facist
Mar 19th, 2012 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's was a Channel 4 programme called “Falklands - Most daring raid”.
When they first found out what they has to do they were fine thinking that their chances of survival were a bit better over Port Stanley than Leningrad. At that point they hadn't quite got to the actual detail of the task ahead of them.
16 Be Serious
Mar 19th, 2012 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was an interesting show but if you want to get a lot more detail about the raid I recommend the book Vulcan 607 by Rowland White. Some fascinating photos in the book also.
they would like to change history to grab all the glory, if they could,
Mar 19th, 2012 - 11:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the argie busters
battle of the islands
the desert argies
battle of argentina,
the islands landings,
still we can all dream lol.
I want to know why there is no fuss about the following: (malvinero, i expect some sort of a response from you!)
Mar 20th, 2012 - 05:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao are either part of the Kingdom of The Netherlands or overseas countries of the same nearby the South American coastline
French Guiana, which is an overseas department of France and is therefore part of the European Union
19 Brit
Mar 20th, 2012 - 07:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Also don't forget the other British OTs such as BVI, TCI, the Cayman Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat and Bermuda. They're all thousands of miles from the UK but Americans (the Geoff Ward PC version of Americans that is) aren't claiming those islands as theirs.
17 The Falklands are British
Mar 20th, 2012 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'll have a look for that.
Many thanks.
distance is irrelivent,
Mar 20th, 2012 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0stealing for is not your, is relivent,
they think, that by getting others to do their dirty work, and there backing, they will get the islands, but they will not,
as long as CFK and her followers are anti democracy, then they will get nothing,
8 dreyfuss
Mar 20th, 2012 - 11:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentine war veteran refuses to dance with Falkland Islands female partner in Argentine TV show bailando por un sueno”
Think carefully about this. A Falklands female - doesn't say she was opinionated about the Falklands or Argentina, just that she was from the Falklands and the War veteran refused to dance with her just because of her place of birth.
Add this to the ex conscripts who served as Kitchen Porters in Pategonia during the Falklands War rioting for medals for a war they never fought in.
Add this to school children be forced to undertake mandatory indoctrination classes on the “Malvinas”.
Add this to your governments economic terrorism and Mugabe type rhetoric against the islanders and the British. Labeling Falkland Islanders and Brits “Pirates”.
Add this to a long list of tin pot dicator tactics and attitudes.
It is fanatical to the ninth degree.
ANY NORMAL PERSON WOULD BE ASHAMED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS KIND OF MENTALITY.
It is the mentality of a 9 year old, who has just had their place in the sand pit taken.
Look at the money they are wasting. This is why the terrorists will win. For ever 200k terrorist attack the West responds by spending a trillion or two in response.
Mar 24th, 2012 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just a couple more 9/11, Londons, Madrids and Oslos and you all will be as modern as the Roman Empire.
tobias your comments really are amusing please keep them up!!!
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