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Old 14th Nov 2015, 14:45
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Jimlad1
 
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God I find moaning about how awful it is that we only have X in the South Atlantic tedious. How many nations sustain forces 8000 miles from home exactly? Try us, the French and the USA and thats it.

More to the point, given the Argentine Navy has no ammunition (its missiles are all life expired), has an average of 19 hours submerged per year for its submarine force and gets collectively less days at sea per year than a single RN hull, perhaps we could take the eeyore blinders off a bit here?
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