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Old 25th Jul 2008, 06:16
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BEagle
 
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Off to a nice bar in West Palm Beach
That'll be the Blue Oyster, I guess.....

If the UK armed forces really needed flexibility, we wouldn't have allowed the government to throw away our strategic bombing capability, strategic reconnaissance ability etc etc....and to have contracted out core capabilities to civilian companies.

Some of our clapped out old aeroplanes need replacement NOW. I'm just not convinced that the 2 carriers have such priority in our defence budget.
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