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Old 26th Jul 2010, 15:31
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StopStart

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diplomatic blunder of naming the Eurofighter "Typhoon"
Nice name, but across the Channel/North Sea it was a reminder of rocket-firing tank and train-busters in WW2 which our NATO allies could well have done without.
Utterly irrelevant O/T point I admit, but I put it you that invading Poland is slightly more of a "diplomatic blunder" than naming a 'plane.... They should think themselves lucky we didn't name the ground attack variant the "FGR1 Dresden"
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