New Falklands War Brewing
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Apologies if I came over all up myself, but I felt the need to establish a little credibility.
As to taking it too seriously,,,that's seems a little illogical. My first post indicated how seriously I took the idea of 747's landing at Wideawake and disgorging argie troops...ie about a seriously as I take most Hollywood action movies.
So am I too flippant or too serious or just too damm old and therefore of no relevance?
Obviously experience, knowledge and qualifications don't count for much with you chaps so I'll jog on by. Have a nice day.
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Never claimed to know much about Argentina...just implied (seriously or unseriously) that they ain't gonna invade Ascension Island. I'm quietly confident I'm right.
As to taking it too seriously,,,that's seems a little illogical. My first post indicated how seriously I took the idea of 747's landing at Wideawake and disgorging argie troops...ie about a seriously as I take most Hollywood action movies.
So am I too flippant or too serious or just too damm old and therefore of no relevance?
Obviously experience, knowledge and qualifications don't count for much with you chaps so I'll jog on by. Have a nice day.
PS
Never claimed to know much about Argentina...just implied (seriously or unseriously) that they ain't gonna invade Ascension Island. I'm quietly confident I'm right.
Tomahawks, in response to a query above.
1. The Brits AFAIK do not need US permission to launch. I seriously doubt the MoD would have bought them with such a string attached.
2. There is GPS and then there is GPS. Depending upon the mod and config of your Tomahawk (and recalling its original design to use preloaded terrain features to arrive at and hit target) I will say with mild confidence that FAA class GPS will get you close enough, at which point the resident maps and map matching function guides the end game target strike.
I won't comment further, for more than OPSEC reasons.
I am a few years out of date on Tomahawk, but my reading on the topic leads me to believe that they've only gotten better, and more flexible, particularly with the new "loiter" mod. No idea which modifications and features have crossed the pond.
1. The Brits AFAIK do not need US permission to launch. I seriously doubt the MoD would have bought them with such a string attached.
2. There is GPS and then there is GPS. Depending upon the mod and config of your Tomahawk (and recalling its original design to use preloaded terrain features to arrive at and hit target) I will say with mild confidence that FAA class GPS will get you close enough, at which point the resident maps and map matching function guides the end game target strike.
I won't comment further, for more than OPSEC reasons.
I am a few years out of date on Tomahawk, but my reading on the topic leads me to believe that they've only gotten better, and more flexible, particularly with the new "loiter" mod. No idea which modifications and features have crossed the pond.
DADDY-OH wrote,
The Argentine carrier, Veinticinco_de_Mayo, was retired in the late 1990s and went off to the scrapyard a few years later. The Argentines rejected the Brazilian carrier, Minas Gerais, as a replacement.
TJ
I'd give the order to sink the transports & Carrier & pound the hell out of them all the way back home.
TJ
So..... do we imagine that Dave adequate resources to meet current challenges Cameron is at all concerned about the possibility of a second go by Argentina at the Falklands? Or is he perhaps, happier to go down in History as the Prime Minister who handed the Falklands back over to Argentina through his own lack of genuine resolve, preferring to be seen as the Tory PM who cared by substantially increase foreign aid?
Strikes me he "is definitely" going to have to make some kind of revised assessment of the SDSR before too long. Or his fate in the history books will be sealed.
FB
Strikes me he "is definitely" going to have to make some kind of revised assessment of the SDSR before too long. Or his fate in the history books will be sealed.
FB
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According to Admiral Woodward who was quoted in the Mail today we only have '4 ageing and ineffective Tornados' based at MPA - what happened to the Typhoon?????
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According to Admiral Woodward who was quoted in the Mail today we only have '4 ageing and ineffective Tornados' based at MPA - what happened to the Typhoon?????
Mind you with just four birds the season will never last very long
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Argentina launches naval campaign to isolate Falkland Islands
Argentina has launched a naval campaign to isolate the Falkland Islands that has seen it detain Spanish fishing vessels on suspicion of breaking the country’s “blockade” of the seas around the British territories.
Argentina has launched a naval campaign to isolate the Falkland Islands that has seen it detain Spanish fishing vessels on suspicion of breaking the country’s “blockade” of the seas around the British territories.
I hope that the Telegraph have been careless in the use 'blokade' when referring to the Argies. A Blockade is a hostile act - qv the Cuban Missile Crisis when the US established a 'quarantine' around Cuba - even they didn't use the word blockade!
The idea of settling retirees to consitute a reserve force in times of invasion or insurrection is nothing new. In the late Georgian and Victorian Eras, 'Fencibles' - retired regular troops - were granted a house, land, weapons, uniform and acoutrements in return for Parading a couple of times a month, and a liability to be mobilised. In spite of the incorrect entry in Wkipedia, they served in Ireland, India and New Zealand with distinction, and units were alseo established in Southern England to repel teh french. Who knows? There's be a fair few ex Servicement who'd fancy living in the FI, raising sheep and carrying a gun.
The idea of settling retirees to consitute a reserve force in times of invasion or insurrection is nothing new. In the late Georgian and Victorian Eras, 'Fencibles' - retired regular troops - were granted a house, land, weapons, uniform and acoutrements in return for Parading a couple of times a month, and a liability to be mobilised. In spite of the incorrect entry in Wkipedia, they served in Ireland, India and New Zealand with distinction, and units were alseo established in Southern England to repel teh french. Who knows? There's be a fair few ex Servicement who'd fancy living in the FI, raising sheep and carrying a gun.
There's be a fair few ex Servicement who'd fancy living in the FI, raising sheep and carrying a gun.
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There's be a fair few ex Servicement who'd fancy living in the FI, raising sheep and carrying a gun.
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In retrospect we should have given the residents of Hong Kong the option of moving to the Falklands. Given their entrepenurial skills they could have opened up a whole new commercial gateway to south america
And I'm sure the Argies wouldn't have wanted to absorb a large number of Chinese
And I'm sure the Argies wouldn't have wanted to absorb a large number of Chinese
Dont worry...
If the Argies get beligerent again we can send all our carriers down (suggest scuttleing them as block ships in the River Plate estuary - although that idea didn`t work to well for Adolf). We could lease back the Harriers from the USMC, get the Vulcan back in action, tank both the remaining UK Typhoons to ascention to join up with a Tonker and conscript the Portsmouth ACF into the Marines. This would give us the fighting force necessary to defend our territory. Simples!
And.....We should not forget that the French will kindly be helping in our defence as well (At least, they said they would a while ago....before the latest Euro row) and you know we can trust them....
In the words of Armstrong & Miller ......Keep calm & carry on & sh*t
And.....We should not forget that the French will kindly be helping in our defence as well (At least, they said they would a while ago....before the latest Euro row) and you know we can trust them....
In the words of Armstrong & Miller ......Keep calm & carry on & sh*t
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"If the Argies get beligerent again"
I hope the UK mines the hell out of Stanley Harbour and other areas to at least make it hard for them.
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I hope the UK mines the hell out of Stanley Harbour and other areas to at least make it hard for them.
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jamesdevice, was your reference to the Welsh in view of the fact that they lost more men per capita during the war than any other nation from the UK?
I prefer pheasant plucking but each to their own.