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Life on Royal Navy's Falklands-bound HMS Dauntless
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| 1 May 2012
| Jonathan Beale
Posted on 05/01/2012 7:54:07 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Don’t they mean “The Maldives”?
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:57:27 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:57:30 AM PDT
by
Empireoftheatom48
(Let's get the hell rid of Zero)
To: AU72
Let's see. The Argentines had the General Belgrano and the Brits have the HMS Dauntless. My guess is that the islands remain the Falklands.
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:02:58 AM PDT
by
Mr. Lucky
To: AU72
Yep, that would be what the TOTUS calls it.
The rest of the Spanish-speaking world might refer to it as “las Malvinas”.
Heh. And they thought Quayle was dumb.
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:09:51 AM PDT
by
SargeK
To: sukhoi-30mki
The Brits like their sailors to wear those head-face coverings. I assuming it is a for fire protection.
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:30:00 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
they are to protect against flash burns.
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:48:27 AM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
To: AU72
Uh, the Maldives are south of India in the Indian Ocean. Isla Malvinas is the Spanish name for the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
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posted on
05/01/2012 9:15:49 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: sukhoi-30mki
Capt Warrender says it shows that the Royal Navy is getting the best value for money for the taxpayer. Today's navy has a surface fleet of just 19 frigates and destroyers.How the mighty have fallen. Britain ruled the waves, not long ago.
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posted on
05/01/2012 9:22:36 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: C19fan
Our armored crewmembers still wear Nomex balaclavas to protect from flash fires...
...which is really just an update of a concept that goes back to the very first tank crews in WWI who wore chain mail veils to protect from spalling...
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posted on
05/01/2012 9:32:39 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: stormer
Uh, the Maldives are south of India in the Indian Ocean. Isla Malvinas is the Spanish name for the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Tell that to Obama that's what he called it last week.
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:28:59 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:30:39 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: ops33
rivets and steel/lead fragments blown into the tank...
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:45:58 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(If Obama is Lenin....who are Trotsky and Stalin...?)
To: spokeshave
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posted on
05/01/2012 10:48:25 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: ops33
Spalling is essentially the effect of turning the interior of an armored vehicle into anti-personnel projectiles. Even if a vehicle’s armor plate is thick and dense enough to prevent penetration, adequate compression and shock waves can cause the interior of the armor plate to fragment and splinter potentially injuring/killing the crew. US anti-armor rounds consist generally of kinetic (sabot) and chemical (HEAT) rounds for which spalling is largely a secondary effect. The British make extensive use of the HESH round for which spalling is its primary effect.
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posted on
05/01/2012 11:30:42 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
05/01/2012 12:34:21 PM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: sukhoi-30mki
Whoever Photoshopped the graphic forgot the actual long range radar, the BAE Systems Insyte / Thales S1850M radar operating at D band, an upgrade of the venerable Thales Nederland SMART-L.
Unless HMS Dauntless is paired with a Type 23 Frigate, it is a sitting duck with no real anti-submarine or anti-surface capabilities.
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posted on
05/01/2012 4:13:33 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: C19fan
I bet she rolls like a pig in heavy weather. Think of the wind resistance on that superstructure.
To: rmlew
Only if the helicopter is not operational for some reason.
Weather you may say, but 1982 proved that the RN will operate helicopters in more extreme weather than in peacetime.
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posted on
05/03/2012 12:18:16 PM PDT
by
Stolly
To: Stolly
1 or two Lynx HMA.8 can provide anti-submarine cover. But the 4 Sea Skua missiles that they can carry are a joke. What are these going to do against Argentina’s modified Type 42 Destroyer (with Exocet missiles), or 4 Almirante Brown class destroyers (8 MM 40 Exocet SSM). Even Argentina’s corvettes have better anti-ship capabilities.
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posted on
05/03/2012 2:04:47 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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