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Why Does One of the World’s Smallest Navies Want One of the World’s Biggest Warships?
War is Boring ^
| 12/04/2013
| David Axe
Posted on 12/04/2013 9:52:50 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
What a opportunity to aid the anti-islamics, and all this board has done is insult and denigrate the effort.
Just wow
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posted on
12/04/2013 11:10:47 PM PST
by
Don W
(Know what you WANT. Know what you NEED. Know the DIFFERENCE!)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Angola wants an aircraft carrier? Do they have any aircraft to put on it? The entire Angolan Navy is only about 1,000 men of all ranks. The crewing of the Principe de Asturias (R-11) was 90 officers, 465 enlisted + 201 air group and a flag staff of 7. If Angola is serious about this ship, it will consume most of their naval personnel to man it.
To: sukhoi-30mki
LOL
Okey Dokey...
Need carrier group to keep it alive....
Kan’t afford it....
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posted on
12/05/2013 12:03:56 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: TomasUSMC
Why not buy a battlecruiser? That would be impressive too—I am sure their might be a few for sale someplace.
To: sukhoi-30mki
With a deck this size just think how many people can fish with their cane poles and their coffee cans full of worms.
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:16:56 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
To: GeronL
“Can you imagine how big a job it will be to clean the barnacles off the bottom?”
Especially without a drydock!
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posted on
12/05/2013 2:31:12 AM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: GeronL
We have more admirals than ships too.
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posted on
12/05/2013 3:29:07 AM PST
by
jospehm20
(D)
To: jospehm20
“To: sukhoi-30mki
Well, if they do buy it...........”....
It will be with our money as a gift from odumbo.
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posted on
12/05/2013 3:33:44 AM PST
by
DaveA37
To: GeronL
The Royal Navy has more admirals than ships!
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posted on
12/05/2013 3:49:15 AM PST
by
Riflema
To: Don W
What a opportunity to aid the anti-islamics, and all this board has done is insult and denigrate the effort. Just wow Because Angola closed a few mosques they should buy an aircraft carrier? If the trailer park family at your church wins a million dollars in the lottery and tells you they're looking at buying an $800,000 house do you smile and recommend a good landscaper?
The "president" of Angola has been in power since 1979 and was educated in the Soviet Union. Like most of the African dictators he's amassed a large personal fortune in a country that spent most of the last 40 years in civil war. Not the kind of guy you want to lift up as a champion of Western Civilization.
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posted on
12/05/2013 4:14:36 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
(Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
To: sukhoi-30mki
That brings to mind Zambia’s space exploration program in the 1960’s. The training of prospective Zambian astronauts included having them crawl into barrels, which were then rolled down a slope, to simulate weightlessness in space.
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posted on
12/05/2013 7:14:44 AM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Fight on!!)
To: jospehm20; Riflema
wow. I didn’t know that.
I wrote a story about a country that only had admirals once. lol
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posted on
12/05/2013 11:28:55 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Fiji Hill
Kinds of sounds like the NASSA training.
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posted on
12/05/2013 11:57:52 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
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posted on
12/05/2013 12:34:45 PM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Fight on!!)
To: Pan_Yan
The "president" of Angola has been in power since 1979 and was educated in the Soviet Union. Like most of the African dictators he's amassed a large personal fortune in a country that spent most of the last 40 years in civil war. Not the kind of guy you want to lift up as a champion of Western Civilization. Angola's flag:
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posted on
12/05/2013 12:39:33 PM PST
by
Fiji Hill
(Fight on!!)
To: Pan_Yan
The "president" of Angola has been in power since 1979 and was educated in the Soviet Union. There was one other leader that banned Islam in his country: Albania's Enver Hoxha, but I seriously doubt anyone here would want to emulate his rule.
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posted on
12/05/2013 12:42:46 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
To: doorgunner69
Well, if they do buy it and try to operate it on their own, the comedy sure to ensue might be priceless... The words "amateur" and "aircraft carrier landing" usually don't go together, unless they're attached to "flaming disaster". But it'd be a great reality TV show.
To: GeronL
Sad. Count 'em. I only see 26 surface combatants according to their site:
Rule Britannia?
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posted on
12/05/2013 1:38:15 PM PST
by
Riflema
To: Riflema
I did not know they had fallen so low. Wow.
Welfare states can’t afford it I guess. Gotta house and feed all those 3rd world immigrants that Labour opened the door for and Tories never closed.
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posted on
12/05/2013 1:40:54 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Billthedrill
“amateur” and “White House” are two words that have been associated for at least 6 years now.
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posted on
12/05/2013 1:41:31 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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