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Argentine training frigate ARA Libertad at last moment suspends annual trip
Argentina’s flagship the tall mast frigate ARA Libertad which last year was retained in Ghana for 77 days, unexpectedly suspended until 2014 the beginning of its annual instruction trip which was scheduled to leave Buenos Aires this weekend. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe first thing I thought was no money and there it was, all the way down in the 7th paragraph after all the shite.
Jul 08th, 2013 - 06:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The motive for such an event and show of Latinamerican integration is the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Montevideo”
Jul 08th, 2013 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0And a reminder that 200 years ago their ships didn't break down.
Yup, they've run out of money alright.
Jul 08th, 2013 - 08:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0The walls are crumbling badly now, it's just a matter of time before the roof collapses in.
Could it be that this is being kept in home waters as it is vital to the countries defence as its first/last/only line of defence against the British nuclear armed subs that Argentina repeatedly insist are patrolling the South Atlantic.
Jul 08th, 2013 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0They a reclassifying the vessel as an anti submarine warfare vessel.
@4 RICO, I'm not sure about as an ASW vessel, it doesn't even have the (welded shut) gravity-fed torpedo scuttle that ARA Presidente Sarmiento has.
Jul 08th, 2013 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Possibly reclassify it as a mine countermeasure vessel (it's got a wooden hull so it might be some good against magnetic mines), or as a single-use minehunter (any ship can be used to detect one mine after all, it's trying to have it in working order to detect the next mine that's the problem).
And we were told they had HOW much: 39 Bn dollars was it?
Jul 08th, 2013 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Botox treatment must be absolutely prohibitively expensive!
5 Rufus (#)
Jul 08th, 2013 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jul 08th, 2013 - 01:21 pm
ARA Libertad is steel hulled, not wooden!!!!!!!
@7 Simon
Jul 08th, 2013 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, that's it promoted to single-use minehunter proper then...
Perhaps the armed forces are keeping in port so they can hang certain folk from the yardarms?
Jul 08th, 2013 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina ships shock: Less than half of the country's navy vessels are operational
Jul 08th, 2013 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/390027/Argentina-ships-shock-Less-than-half-of-the-country-s-navy-vessels-are-operational
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@ 10 Briton.
Jul 08th, 2013 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I clicked on that link as my daughter came into the room, she saw the picture and said “what's wrong with that lady?”
http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/590x/argi-390027.jpg
I snorted tea out of my nose.
11 Anbar
Jul 08th, 2013 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Out of the mouth of babes!
@11
Jul 09th, 2013 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brilliant!!
Briton,
Jul 09th, 2013 - 04:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Actually small coastal patrol vessels are functioning fairly well. The subs they have are declared unsafe by their German builders and for some reason, the Argentines are having difficulty servicing the Rolls Royce turbines on their frigates.
The navy is tight lipped about their current plight, but it's no secret that their fleet is decaying away, just like their aircraft carrier that was secretly scrapped years ago...
@8 lol
Jul 09th, 2013 - 07:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0I believe the most “seaworthy” vessel is the yacht:
Jul 09th, 2013 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fortuna III
They've run out of wind lol
Jul 09th, 2013 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, canvas!!!
Jul 09th, 2013 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0thanks chaps,,
Jul 09th, 2013 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we see the spannish are at it again..
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER INCURSION
An incursion by the SVA over the weekend prompted yet another diplomatic protest from the UK to the Spanish Government
http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=29983
sooner or later..
@11
Jul 09th, 2013 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That is really funny-thanks for that.
the wrong type of wind??
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