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Invincible, pride of the Falklands, is broken up in knacker's yard
Daily Mail ^
| 15th June 2011
| Commander John Muxworthy
Posted on 06/15/2011 7:37:48 AM PDT by george76
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No wonder we can't even topple a tin-pot gangster like Gaddafi: Invincible, pride of the Falklands, is broken up in knacker's yard
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posted on
06/15/2011 7:37:50 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
All the EU (in fact the entire free world including Latin America and Africa) need not spend a dime in having their own military.
They know that if the slightest thing happens against them militarily, the US Military will jump in, on the US taxpayers’ dime.
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posted on
06/15/2011 7:42:53 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Herman Cain 2012)
To: freedumb2003
Apart from all the US dimes and dollars that went into the collecting tins in the States for Irish terrorists to kill British soldiers.
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posted on
06/15/2011 7:47:33 AM PDT
by
MadMitch
(nemo me impune lacessit)
To: george76
Sad.
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posted on
06/15/2011 7:58:08 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 875 of our national holiday from reality. - Obama really isn't one of us)
To: null and void
To: magslinger
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posted on
06/15/2011 8:03:12 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
To: george76
Anyone know how much she was sold for scrap? We sink our carriers for artifical reefs..a far more fitting end..
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posted on
06/15/2011 8:06:04 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
To: george76
In today’s British Navy, Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey would be on permanent half pay...
To: george76
They retired all their Harriers.
If they ever do get some F-35’s, what are they going to do with them?
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posted on
06/15/2011 8:49:49 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: george76
The posters to the article are very creepy. They sound like they welcome the coming of Sharia law.
To: ken5050
Not necessarily true. Witness the picture below. USS Cabot, CVL-28, last surviving ship of the Independence-class light carriers from WWII. Sold to Spain, and bought back by a group that attempted to make it into a museum (like Intrepid and Yorktown). Money wouldn't come through, so it was sold for scrap, towed to Brownsville, TX and cut up.
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posted on
06/15/2011 8:55:28 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
To: freedumb2003
If you think Britain relies or has relied on your military, your ignorance is off the chart. I am sure 99% of your fellow Americans will think you are talking rot.
To: george76
♫ Rue Britannia! Britannia rues the waves ...
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posted on
06/15/2011 9:23:03 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(They think "just because she's right on every damn issue doesn't give her enough credibility.")
To: smokingfrog
If they ever do get some F-35s, what are they going to do with them? The first new carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth that is now under construction will be fitted with EMALS catapults and will be the first to handle F-35Cs. Current estimates are a 2019 entry into service
If it survives the budget cuts, her sister ship the HMS Prince of Wales will also be EMALS equipped.
There is also speculation that the second ship may be sold to France, and the UK and France will effectively merge their carrier operations, with F-35Cs and Rafales operating from both carriers.
If such an agreement is reached, the RN F-35Cs may first operate from the Charles de Gualle.
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posted on
06/15/2011 9:31:40 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: NonValueAdded
♫ Rue Britannia! Britannia rues the waves ... I believe that is Britannia rule the waves.
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posted on
06/15/2011 9:33:57 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
06/15/2011 9:33:57 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: NonValueAdded
Actually, after
looking it up it is
Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves.
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
I always thought the first line was "rue" as well.
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posted on
06/15/2011 9:40:28 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: fredhead
Neat pic, thanks...Cabot was scrapped, along with hundreds of WW II ships, after the war. Oriskany, CV-34, was scuttled as an artificial reef in 2006.
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posted on
06/15/2011 9:45:00 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
06/15/2011 9:48:52 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(They think "just because she's right on every damn issue doesn't give her enough credibility.")
To: Yo-Yo
My post was not a mistake. Rue, as in regret bitterly, feel sorrow over. Consider the context. No aircraft carriers, the British navy a shadow of its former self. Nope, time to refresh the lyrics. Britannia rues the waves.
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posted on
06/15/2011 9:52:18 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(They think "just because she's right on every damn issue doesn't give her enough credibility.")
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