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Old 12th Dec 2010, 20:38
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davejb
 
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You're all overlooking the Reds, who will now become a sizeable percentage of our front line FJ strength.

(Before anybody queries the FJ bit, somebody started the ball rolling with the Bruggen Jaguars....)

I can see our next unexpected conflict is shaping up very nicely - hastily camo'd up, GPMGs bodge taped under the nose, while the central band play 'selections from the films of Jack Hawkins' as they counter march up and down the nearest sand dune....

The problem with rapid rearmament is that you can't train a modern pilot in a few months, there's unlikely to be time to resurrect a capability from the cold ashes. I wonder if Dave et al are actually aware of the fact that you can't give a guy 12 hours on a Tiger Moth and expect him to bolt a modern warplane on?

Dave
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