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1 posted on 02/04/2024 7:17:05 AM PST by leopud
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Yemen has greater operational effectiveness than does the UK.
Dear Lord...


2 posted on 02/04/2024 7:18:38 AM PST by EEGator
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..significant issue with her starboard propeller shaft..

Somebody screwed up.

5 posted on 02/04/2024 7:37:54 AM PST by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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The UK political intelligentsia has been leading the war cheer-leading a long while now.

This is because it is easier to cheer-lead than to actually prepare for war. The size of the actual fighting force would not fill Wembley stadium.

Grant Schapps is rather like Josep Borrell and Jens Stolenberg. Lots of talk, as long as someone else does the work and does the paying....

Please recall that that same UK intelligentsia urged the lockdowns during Covid, much to the detriment of whole economies.

6 posted on 02/04/2024 7:39:11 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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If somehow, someway, if the US was being assaulted,say a Chinese attack on Hawaii and Alaska, does any rational person really believe that the other NATO nations would come to our aid?


7 posted on 02/04/2024 7:40:17 AM PST by allendale
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Props and prop shafts for large ships have been routine engineering for over 100 years. This is unforgivable.


10 posted on 02/04/2024 7:52:09 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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Shaft problems yeah that’s the ticket...


13 posted on 02/04/2024 8:21:11 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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The Admiral Kuznetsov crew needs some good news.


14 posted on 02/04/2024 8:27:11 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb6W61bpZrc

Can The Propeller Shafts (And the Screws) of the Battleship Still Spin?


15 posted on 02/04/2024 8:30:32 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Still haven’t ironed out the kinks??? Saw a documentary on her maiden cruise. They had a few problems to iron out then.


20 posted on 02/04/2024 8:35:20 AM PST by mware
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Thank god for our valiant allies provinces.

The unwillingness of NATO members to arm themselves indicate that they are unwilling participants in the American Empire. I don't blame them a bit.

24 posted on 02/04/2024 9:03:28 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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The RN has instituted additional checks on the aircraft carrier’s shaft lines as a result of the painful lessons learned from past experience with HMS Prince of Wales

Any Brit sailor will tell you that you have to work the shaft. Run helps.

26 posted on 02/04/2024 9:50:15 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Next week on The Bickersons... )
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Complex systems breakdown. Welcome to the third world. Gradually, then suddenly.


31 posted on 02/04/2024 11:08:02 AM PST by JZelle
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Bent shaft doesn’t bode well.


35 posted on 02/04/2024 11:38:35 AM PST by Gaffer
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Neither of their carriers have proper escorts.

I have thought that Iran (or Yemen) sinking a US fleet carrier might be too risky - but if I were the UK I would not let either of those ships anywhere near the Middle East.


41 posted on 02/04/2024 3:49:39 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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