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Old 14th Jul 2018, 05:30
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Originally Posted by tartare
Just came back from Nu Zuld.
Sister tells me the un-informed bleating has started already about spending all this money on aircraft that can be `weaponised.'
And a P-3 couldn't be???
FFS.
One of the main things they'll be doing is making sure sneaky foreign fishing boats don't try and pillage one of the world's largest EEZs!
Surely even a lentil munching greenie can't object to that?!
Bunch of whingers.
Need a Mark 54 right up their jacksies they do...
I've got a few friends of the lentil-munching persuasion, and I haven't heard any complaints about this. Wellington, was it? They do go on about stuff there.
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