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Royal Navy fires warning shots as Spanish vessel harasses US sub in Gibraltar
Daily Telegraph ^
| 2016, 5 May
| Ben Farmer, defence correspondent
Posted on 05/06/2016 3:38:59 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
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posted on
05/06/2016 3:38:59 AM PDT
by
ScaniaBoy
To: ScaniaBoy
Some things never change.
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posted on
05/06/2016 3:41:10 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: ScaniaBoy
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posted on
05/06/2016 3:41:42 AM PDT
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
To: ScaniaBoy
But defence sources said it was rare for a Royal Navy vessel to fire flares and it had only happened a couple of times in the past two years.
Flares. Terrifying. What ever happened to putting a little steel across their bow?
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posted on
05/06/2016 3:43:57 AM PDT
by
TalBlack
(Evil doesn't have a day job....)
To: ScaniaBoy
it’s like a human body- when the body is weak, even a harmless bacteria can take over. Our immune system is a black Muslim gay pot smoker. Even the spainards are mighty
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posted on
05/06/2016 3:47:07 AM PDT
by
ghosthost
To: ScaniaBoy
After over 200 years, I’d say it’s about time for another Anglo-Spanish war.
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posted on
05/06/2016 3:53:27 AM PDT
by
King of Florida
(A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
To: ScaniaBoy
That is why you should transit the strait submerged. Just find a couple of tankers going your way and slip in between them. Maybe it is hard to find a tanker these days.
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posted on
05/06/2016 3:55:30 AM PDT
by
SubMareener
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To: ScaniaBoy
Gibralter is just a peninsula with a mountain that overlooks the Med at a rather narrow point. It's connected to nothing but Spain. It depends on Spain for electricity and garbage removal. Britain extended the 99 year lease to protect the vicious, nasty, Barbary Apes (so they say). There are really cool caves under "the Rock" with a lot of history. I can't imagine how Brits get anything to Gibralter without being in Spanish waters.
Amazing what one learns on a port-a-day cruise with the guided tour. <^.^>
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posted on
05/06/2016 3:56:50 AM PDT
by
grania
To: ghosthost
Spain wasn’t even worried about us. We were inconveniently in the middle of them hassling the British. Every few decades they try to harass the British into giving back Gibraltar. Every few decades Britain ignores them. This has been going on since it was first signed over and really doesn’t concern us.
To: grania
Ask for your money back. Gibraltar generates it’s own electricity supply and the idea of extending ‘the lease’ is ludicrous given that Spain ceded the rock to England in perpetuity in the Treaty of Utrecht.
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posted on
05/06/2016 4:08:53 AM PDT
by
Natufian
(t)
To: ScaniaBoy
USS Florida...hmmm...Ohio class?
Nice to see those bad boys out on patrol/duty station.
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posted on
05/06/2016 4:31:40 AM PDT
by
Victor
(If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
To: TalBlack
No budget for ordnance, muzzie invader welfare took those pounds.
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posted on
05/06/2016 4:34:55 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Victor
Converted to a cruise missile only sub though.
To: Natufian
Thank you for that information. Did a little research to improve what I thought I knew. Gibraltar water for all purposes now comes from desalination. The Treat of Utrecht ceded Gibraltar to Britain, but it wasn't clear who ceded it. The population overwhelming votes in referendums to stay British.
That's what happens when the tour guides are from the Spanish side to the border. <^..^>
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posted on
05/06/2016 4:42:29 AM PDT
by
grania
To: Victor
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posted on
05/06/2016 4:49:23 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: TalBlack
“...... What ever happened to putting a little steel across their bow?”.........
How about a few feet below the water line and amid ship. That would definitely stop their foolishness.
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posted on
05/06/2016 5:35:32 AM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: Victor
They converted it from an SSBN to an SSGN.
To: ScaniaBoy
Were gonna party like its 1588 !
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posted on
05/06/2016 6:00:29 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
To: Delta 21
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posted on
05/06/2016 6:10:53 AM PDT
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
To: ScaniaBoy
Without the Brits, the sub captain probably would have tried to surrender his boat to the Spanish. That’s the in thing to do in Obama’s Navy.
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