So, we had 40 MCM vessels in 1987, and now we have 14 - have mines become less of a threat over the intervening years? Still, it's not all that gloomy, the USN appears to have...24 MCM vessels, so maybe mines really are no longer a viable weapon...
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Glo - there's nothing argumentative or abusive in what you say. In fact given that your profle shows being in Torquay (God's waiting room) and must therfore be at least 70, you are entitled to be argumentative/grumpy/abusive (now that's verging on abusive
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Oh Gawd, I've just seen that he's back from his electro-convulsive therapy session (FOD - it sems you are wrong; it is neither Straits nor Strait, but "Straight"...and probably narrow too)
Mister B