Vulcan resurrection
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Vulcan resurrection
Now they seem to be resurrecting a Vulcan, are we to get a repeat of the 'Cockpit' article of how the crabs won the Falklands war with a single mission? Remember, according to leading academics, the RN won the Battle of Britain......
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I have no doubt you would have found some other topic to latch on to to start vitriol between the Services.
Grow up.
If we've got any sense guys, we'll leave this topic alone and let it swiftly descend into obscurity.
Our Forces have enough on their plates [JOINT OPS] without this kind of drivel.
Grow up.
If we've got any sense guys, we'll leave this topic alone and let it swiftly descend into obscurity.
Our Forces have enough on their plates [JOINT OPS] without this kind of drivel.
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No mate, yr not quite right there. The RAF won the BofB all right but the RN saved the country from invasion by the Nazis....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5281238.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5281238.stm
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Vecs point is valid. The Germans said themselves, that even if they achieved total air superiority, they could not have prevent the Home Fleet interdicting the invasion lanes, thus ending it.
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And Churchill himself said (somewhere!) that he would never have allowed the Home Fleet to expose itself in the narrow seas. He would have withdrawn it to bases in N America to "live to fight another day".