Jesus wept! Must confess to not usually reading the Telegraph, but I seem to recall in the dim and distant that it took defence seriously and recruited accordingly (well most of the time).
Battleships (12 of them apparently!) ballistic missile cruisers (really?) are part of this huge armada. Our permanent presence of 4 MCMV, a log support ship and the usual DD/FF appears to be part of a massive build-up......
As far as I can make out, the only real increase has been the four additional Avengers heavy-lifted over "recently". Perfectly sensible risk reduction, given that more and more sanctions are being applied and that I'maDinnerJacket and his boys have cranked up the rhetoric recently.
Last edited by Not_a_boffin; 16th Sep 2012 at 12:13.