New British Overseas Bases
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New British Overseas Bases
On top of the base in Bahrain...
Sunday Telegraph:
”Britain will open two new military bases in the Caribbean and South East Asia as the country looks to step up its military presence overseas after Brexit, Gavin Williamson has revealed........
A source close to Mr Williamson said the new bases could be sited in Singapore or Brunei in the South China Sea, or Montserrat or Guyana in the Caribbean “within the next couple of years”.....
The bases would have service and maintenance staff, supply ships and equipment sites there.......
Sunday Telegraph:
”Britain will open two new military bases in the Caribbean and South East Asia as the country looks to step up its military presence overseas after Brexit, Gavin Williamson has revealed........
A source close to Mr Williamson said the new bases could be sited in Singapore or Brunei in the South China Sea, or Montserrat or Guyana in the Caribbean “within the next couple of years”.....
The bases would have service and maintenance staff, supply ships and equipment sites there.......
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Yay! The return of overseas postings to nice sunny places! 
Montserrat please...
you know the place where half the island is an exclusion zone due to a big volcano!Here is Plymouth City, the old capital, which was wrecked with pyroclastic flows and ash in 1997.
So British Guiana (spelling) makes more sense, with it also being good for a bit of equitorial space launch work.
Mind you, a base there would have less security problems than most.
Where on earth is all the money coming from to pay for this? The treasury normally makes Scrooge look like a profligate spender when it comes to MoD matters so unless it's coming out of the overseas aid budget what's being (further) cut to pay for it?
Note use of the word "may" in the article
It's another mad publicity puff for Gavin Williamson in his demented campaign to run for Leader of the Tory Party when Mrs May goes
He's currently spewing out a couple a week - remember the British Warship sent to frighten the Russians last week? The Chinese threat to UK telephones this week?? Probably activate the QE against the immigrant hordes by Thursday...........
Worse than Heseltine when he was Defence Secretary and started each week by asking what the schedule was for his photo-ops.....................
It's another mad publicity puff for Gavin Williamson in his demented campaign to run for Leader of the Tory Party when Mrs May goes
He's currently spewing out a couple a week - remember the British Warship sent to frighten the Russians last week? The Chinese threat to UK telephones this week?? Probably activate the QE against the immigrant hordes by Thursday...........
Worse than Heseltine when he was Defence Secretary and started each week by asking what the schedule was for his photo-ops.....................
Last tine I looked, Guyana wasn't in the Caribbean; it's on the Atlantic; Tobago would make more sense.
2740m (9000ft) runway, recently upgraded ATC and an ILS installed, regular commuter flights to Piarco (Trinidad), convenient for Venezuala to see what Russian aircraft are visiting.
2740m (9000ft) runway, recently upgraded ATC and an ILS installed, regular commuter flights to Piarco (Trinidad), convenient for Venezuala to see what Russian aircraft are visiting.
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The advantage of Singapore is that it built docks specifically to accommodate USN carriers, so the QE and PoW can moor alongside. Georgetown is just starting to build a deep water harbour with jetties to accommodate the largest cruise liners, so an agreement could also see suitable mornings being available there as well.
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The advantage of Singapore is that it built docks specifically to accommodate USN carriers, so the QE and PoW can moor alongside. Georgetown is just starting to build a deep water harbour with jetties to accommodate the largest cruise liners, so an agreement could also see suitable mornings being available there as well.
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