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jakarta

jakarta

Well-known member
May 25, 2007
15,632
Sullington
Chicken Run said:
He’s being silly, ignore him F35 Trials start next year!!
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Not according to the BBC, they say 2021 before they are deployed operationally and there won't be the 36 they Navy originally thought due to financial considerations.

It will take virtually every destroyer we have to form a Battle Group, a vanity project from the start - kept some shipbuilding jobs for a while I suppose.
 


Chicken Run

Chicken Run

Member Since Jul 2003
NSC Patron
Jul 17, 2003
18,463
Valley of Hangleton
jakarta said:
Not according to the BBC, they say 2021 before they are deployed operationally and there won't be the 36 they Navy originally thought due to financial considerations.

It will take virtually every destroyer we have to form a Battle Group, a vanity project from the start - kept some shipbuilding jobs for a while I suppose.
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[emoji849] Read your post #134 the above is a little different wouldn’t you say?
 


Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Aug 18, 2009
65,515
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
jakarta said:
Not according to the BBC, they say 2021 before they are deployed operationally and there won't be the 36 they Navy originally thought due to financial considerations.

It will take virtually every destroyer we have to form a Battle Group, a vanity project from the start - kept some shipbuilding jobs for a while I suppose.
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The BBC got a lot wrong including calling the next carrier HMS Prince Charles when it will be HMS Prince of Wales.
The ship will have a couple of escorts like Sutherland/Monmouth and Iron Duke plus an RFA.
 




Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Aug 18, 2009
65,515
Beside the seaside, beside the sea


Two Professors

Two Professors

Two Mad Professors
Jul 13, 2009
7,617
Multicultural Brum
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At least this one had planes on.The carrier will mainly be operational under NATO,so will have escorts from allied nations.
 


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The Birdman

New member
Nov 30, 2008
6,313
Haywards Heath
lawros left foot said:
I got my nose broken playing football against the JFK in 76, got a call round though, it was segregated then, blacks up forrard, hispanics midships, and whites aft.
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Around 71/2 it was in Palma the shore patrol carried bigger batons than the Liverpool police.
When we flew back to Blighty we could see the aircraft carrier in the bay.
 




Two Professors

Two Professors

Two Mad Professors
Jul 13, 2009
7,617
Multicultural Brum
The Birdman said:
Around 71/2 it was in Palma the shore patrol carried bigger batons than the Liverpool police.
When we flew back to Blighty we could see the aircraft carrier in the bay.
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Probably 71.I remember the big batons sorting out a massive punch up in the Vic bars at Weymouth June/July time.
 








skipper734

skipper734

Registered ruffian
Aug 9, 2008
9,189
Curdridge
First the Titanic and now this!
 


vegster

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,894
A metaphor for our once great nation.
 






vegster

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,894






vegster

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,894
Thunder Bolt said:
Hyperbole!
We had problems in the 60s, and were sailing in old crates in the 50s. Once great nation indeed!
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True, my mistake we were sailing in awful crates in the 1500's too... Mary Rose for example
 




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If anyone has worked in Engineering / Manufacturing, you will appreciate things go wrong. Problems get ironed out, sorted and things get improved.
 




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