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1 posted on 11/17/2015 5:25:04 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Let the EU and China keep the Hormouz Straight open.


2 posted on 11/17/2015 5:26:22 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Why announce it? Just do it.


3 posted on 11/17/2015 5:32:55 AM PST by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Nearly 30 years ago, USS Forrestall (CV-59), now razor blades, deployed to the Persian Gulf with nearly 90 planes aboard. Just sayin’. At least our good friends the French have the stones to DO SOMETHING now, as opposed to The Won.


7 posted on 11/17/2015 5:38:45 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Can any of those planes carry nukes?


9 posted on 11/17/2015 5:43:56 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

They’re going the wrong way
They ought to be blockading Calais


10 posted on 11/17/2015 5:47:48 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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12 posted on 11/17/2015 5:50:52 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

They have sent a strong carrier strike group, with a larger than normal air wing.

The Rafaels and Super Etendards will soon send ISIS their messages.

I know Navy Reco personally. Great site and a good military journalist/reporter.

He is also French and is feeling this attack personally.

Go get some FRance!


13 posted on 11/17/2015 5:52:56 AM PST by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
the Charles de Gaulle will deploy with a unusually large air wing consisting of 26 fighters (18 Rafale M and 8 Super-Etendard Modernis). This is above the official limit of 24 fighters and this would be a first in the French carrier history for an operational mission.

The Etendards are ancient platforms - the Argies were flying them in the Falklands with some success against the Royal Navy.

I'd be curious to see what upgrades they've done to the aircraft...

14 posted on 11/17/2015 5:53:07 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Is this the French aircraft carrier that had a propulsion screw fall off?


21 posted on 11/17/2015 7:16:20 AM PST by jim_trent
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