FV, totally agree! Know where you're coming from. I don't think that a couple of plastic minesweepers and an Air force with less of a technological edge on modern society than The Ivory Coast could quite pull off the shindigs you mentioned!
But, the argument that they were all fought over fifty years ago might hold some water! One would hope we have learnt something since...........I doubt it!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Especially regarding the Vulcan. As was said, Polaris was all the fashion. We didn’t really have the spare folding stuff at the time, unlike our colonial cousins with the Buff. Simplistic, I know.
Just think, we could be on the TSR2 GR4 now, and it would work!
I would be the first to raise the buntin' if a formation of Battleships steamed up the Solent!
Last edited by Eagle 270; 20th Aug 2003 at 07:02.