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| March 9, 2006
Posted on 03/09/2006 7:26:29 PM PST by strategofr
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To: strategofr
You are most welcome. My point was simply that this deal is nowhere near as bad as some are making it out to be. Especially once one considers the probable alternatives (i.e. costs restrictions by rabid Libs in their respective parliaments), plus the fact that the ships will meet (and exceed) the requirements put upon them by the two navies.
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posted on
03/10/2006 11:25:14 AM PST
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spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: strategofr
[ Britain and France Build Robocarrier ]
Hmmm a Frogohauler.. sounds like a Rube Goldberg Surrender device to me..
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posted on
03/10/2006 11:31:52 AM PST
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hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
To: Dark Knight
So call me an idiot, but aren't we going towards more UAVs and less pilots? Isn't this like building a better catapult, when the other side is pondering explosives? My comment wasn't referring to the manning issue. It was referring to the carrier not really even being a carrier such as we think of, since the total number of craft it carries is so low.
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posted on
03/10/2006 12:06:49 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: spetznaz
Take Britain for example .....during the Falklands war the UK was able to reach out 8,000 miles away, and win with just two carriers (the Hermes and the Invincible) I'm not even going to tell you what I misread the names of those Brit carriers as...
Cheers!
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posted on
03/10/2006 8:48:06 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
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To: spetznaz
The planes on the carriers will be the new Anglo-French code-named
lâche/citron-vert:
and the light bomber, the cible-victime (currently code named the H5N1)
Both planes are extremely light and take up little space, which is one of the reasons that the carrier(s) can be built so easily.
Cheers!
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03/10/2006 8:51:04 PM PST
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grey_whiskers
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