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Britain's military has been a favorite target for cost cutting for decades. This is what it has fallen to. I wonder if the Brits have called this a "peace dividend" like American politicians do?
1 posted on 10/23/2010 11:44:02 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: Hootowl99
Buck the Frits.

They've chosen Dhimmitude, hang 'em all.

(That way, at least they won't be beheaded...)

NO cheers, unfortunately.

2 posted on 10/23/2010 11:48:19 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Royal Navy Warship Strength

The Royal Navy, still the largest in the world in September 1939, included:

15 Battleships & battlecruisers, of which only two were post-World War I. Five ‘King George V’ class battleships were building.

7 Aircraft carriers. One was new and five of the planned six fleet carriers were under construction. There were no escort carriers.

66 Cruisers, mainly post-World War I with some older ships converted for AA duties. Including cruiser-minelayers, 23 new ones had been laid down.

184 Destroyers of all types. Over half were modern, with 15 of the old ‘V’ and ‘W’ classes modified as escorts. Under construction or on order were 32 fleet destroyers and 20 escort types of the ‘Hunt’ class.

60 Submarines, mainly modern with nine building.

45 escort and patrol vessels with nine building, and the first 56 ‘Flower’ class corvettes on order to add to the converted ‘V’ and ‘W’s’ and ‘Hunts’. However, there were few fast, long-endurance convoy escorts.


3 posted on 10/23/2010 11:54:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
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>>The humiliation comes exactly 205 years to the day after Nelson’s fleet saw off Napoleon at Trafalgar.
****

Looks like Napoleon got the last laugh.


4 posted on 10/23/2010 11:57:23 PM PDT by max americana (Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
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Now you know what the true meaning of the word “ NIMROD” is. A DUMB LOSER!


5 posted on 10/24/2010 12:09:08 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The Brits need to axe the Nimrods in their government, not the Nimrods in the RAF hangars.


6 posted on 10/24/2010 12:11:58 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Notice that they are cutting the HARRIER vertical lift jet fighter/bomber. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.

Great plane for landing on a short landing strip, in the desert (hint, hint, Afghanistan and Iraq), carriers good firepower, etc.

WE NEED THE HARRIER.


7 posted on 10/24/2010 12:13:27 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The social contract of paying useless bureaucrats for life and giving every brainwashed Socialist C-quality healthcare while letting Muslims overrun their nation is what it is...the cause for CHANGE.

What’s coming isn’t pretty, and too bad I’m not 20 anymore.


8 posted on 10/24/2010 12:18:55 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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Their “finest hour’ was a long time ago.


9 posted on 10/24/2010 12:21:54 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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....laugh....


10 posted on 10/24/2010 12:30:01 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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American P3 Orion jets...

No such plane.

11 posted on 10/24/2010 12:49:25 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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The next attack Britannia will face does not need a maritime force; The pigs who will soon own Europe are well aware that the USN would sink such out of sheer historical courtesy... Or simple live fire training exercise.

The enemy already resides on the island. Their allies have or will pass through Heath row, passports stamped, before any recognition that the assault has started.

Means nothing today, we will sit the next European war out. Relying on the French, who can not even control their teenage anarchists, is laughable at best.

13 posted on 10/24/2010 5:11:04 AM PDT by mmercier (games without frontiers)
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Ungland...
16 posted on 10/24/2010 6:05:08 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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Britain is guarded... by the French

So anybody up for conquering Britain next weekend? We'll grab a few brewskis, head across the pond and negotiate thir surrender. After that we can have a BBQ.

19 posted on 10/24/2010 6:49:25 AM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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The Nimrod is a better platform than the Atlantique. The government could cut the dole rather than defense...
36 posted on 10/24/2010 3:21:36 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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