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WHAT DO WE DO WITH A SHRUNKEN NAVY? Royal Navy has been reduced to a ‘historic low’ number
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2227005/royal-navy-reduced-to-a-historic-low-number-of-warships-and-is ^ | 21st November 2016 | DAVID WILLETTS, DEFENCE EDITOR

Posted on 11/21/2016 5:08:05 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki

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1 posted on 11/21/2016 5:08:05 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Obvious solution, spend more on welfare! Duh!


2 posted on 11/21/2016 5:20:04 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

The scale of the UK’s untenable welfare state is so great that they must, in effect, surrender their armed forces to a military invasion that has yet to occur.

Of course, they are also dealing with another sort of invasion: the retrograde, murderous cult of Islam. But any large group will have a political gravitational field. As with Latinos in the States, leftists have alienated and oppressed their countrymen and have been rejected. Their revenge is nihilism and undermining sovereignty. Unfortunately, the Tories have mostly played along even in the aftermath of Brexit.


3 posted on 11/21/2016 5:21:07 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Don’t worry - the Americans will protect us.


4 posted on 11/21/2016 5:23:38 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: relictele

“WHAT DO WE DO WITH A SHRUNKEN NAVY?”........

Rid themselves of all the muzzies that have taken over their country and REBUILD their Navy.


5 posted on 11/21/2016 5:23:49 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: sukhoi-30mki

...Ear-li in the Mor-nin...


6 posted on 11/21/2016 5:31:35 AM PST by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Will Admiral Nelson please pick up the red hotline phone ... Admiral Nelson ... ah, fuggedaboutit.


7 posted on 11/21/2016 5:45:34 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident)
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To: BBB333

Stick him in the hawsepipe till he’s sober...


8 posted on 11/21/2016 5:46:57 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rlmorel

LOL! Best rendition...

Irish Rovers-Drunken Sailor

https://youtu.be/qGyPuey-1Jw


9 posted on 11/21/2016 5:50:57 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: relictele

What do you mean invasion “yet to occur”....they have been over-run by muzloids whom they have let in and given welfare benefits to.


10 posted on 11/21/2016 5:54:08 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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...Ear-li in the Mor-nin...

Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that. The answers to the article really should be written in stanzas:

Rid themselves of muzzies and REBUILD their Navy
Rid themselves of muzzies and REBUILD their Navy
Rid themselves of muzzies and REBUILD their Navy
Ear-li in the Mor-nin

11 posted on 11/21/2016 5:59:32 AM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

And the few remaining surface vessels don’t pack much of a punch; the Royal Navy recently announced that its inventory of Harpoon anti-ship missiles has reached the end of their service life and will be retired in 2018. Replacements for the Harpoon should be available around 2028; until then, RN frigates and destroyers will have to rely on their 5-inch deck guns or anti-ship missiles launched from helicopters to attack surface targets outside of gun range. And the chopper-mounted missiles won’t be ready until 2020-2021 at the earliest.

In the interim, the RN will have to look for foes who want to re-fight the Battle of Jutland, pair their destroyers and frigates with US strike groups (which will retain an anti-ship missile capability), or pair them with the new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, which can strike long-range targets with their embarked F-35s.

As I posted on another forum last week, here are RN surface engagement tactics, circa 2018:

1) Form battle line

2) Engage with main gun

3) Maneuver to suck enemy into CIWS range

4) Distribute small arms, cutlasses and prepare to board


12 posted on 11/21/2016 6:15:27 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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Maybe they should sink their navy and make something useful...a reef.


13 posted on 11/21/2016 6:18:37 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Doh!
14 posted on 11/21/2016 6:22:36 AM PST by Spruce
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To: sukhoi-30mki

The headline reflects the best of British wit, but the article is a horror story. The UK’s socialist governments have already put Mohammed in a boat with the captain’s daughter.


15 posted on 11/21/2016 6:41:23 AM PST by Always A Marine
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To: sukhoi-30mki

While not a laughing matter, this....I couldn’t help myself. Upon seeing the title I immediatly put it to the tune of “What do you do with a drunken sailor?”


16 posted on 11/21/2016 6:51:46 AM PST by reed13k
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I've seen Nelson's column and statue but didn't think about how it's oriented or the direction of his stare. Probably looking straight at Paris like the globe pawing lion atop the monument at Waterloo. (chuckle!)


17 posted on 11/21/2016 7:10:31 AM PST by katana
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To: mewzilla

Gonna check that out at home...it is a song somewhat best sang by drunken people!


18 posted on 11/21/2016 8:29:44 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: BBB333

LOL I knew I wasn’t the only one that got that song in my head after reading the title...


19 posted on 11/21/2016 9:09:38 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: ExNewsExSpook

“here are RN surface engagement tactics, circa 2018:”

Nice!

Only now they lack the ships to make those tactics work.


20 posted on 11/21/2016 9:35:51 AM PST by TalonDJ
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