Malkster1

@thinkdefence Taking away representative sport would probably impact recruitment and retention

@thinkdefence Well the Army has pretty much no ops on and we have minimal operational assets so I think we can handle circa 70 or 80 all told playing a bit of rugby :)

Can we afford this now?

@John_ForemanCBE The problem is neither Dartmouth nor Raleigh, it is the lack of operating platforms for Officers to learn their trade at sea.

Given BRNC successfully trained highly aggressive and successful officers for WW1, WW2, and the Falklands etc, how will this move make new officers any more ‘warfighting’ ready?

@AlexLuck9 For the last 10 years I have been the lead ops planner for both UK and 52 mcm in the Gulf happy to answer questions

Behold the surge of mine warfare experts.

@thinkdefence I think some of your outside the box thinking deserves greater recognition

One day, there will be a global crisis that needs an expert on talking shite on the Internet and the difference between a Mk2 Inglis Bridge and a Mk3. My day will come

@FennellJW Every single maintenance period has different readiness profiles throughout the period. The ship will move move between them depending on the nature of the work ongoing at the time. In 2003 WEST had 2 DGs on the jetty but we put them back in and sailed 4 days later

Apparently from being at 3 days readiness the RN found 6 weeks work to do before HMS Dragon left today. The reality is she was three days away from completing her upkeep period, but nowhere near ready to sail.

@SandyofSuffolk @Keir_Starmer God bless the peado says the married woman.

Call a general election @Keir_Starmer and go now. You're an utter shameful embarrassment to our country. God bless America and Donald Trump for seeing what a pathetic PM you are. 🇺🇸

@TiceRichard Perhaps your brown nosing the peado. President is worse. Remember he is home in 4 years. We will remember those that supported his child sex rings.

Starmer has utterly humiliated the UK in the eyes of our long standing allies The international community is aghast how far we have fallen and that we cannot be relied upon Starmer and Labour are unfit to govern

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce

@afneil The IDF operates over a very limited geographical AOR which hugely simplifies C2.

Seems to work well enough for Israel, which spends less on defence than we do but has much more formidable and effective armed forces. Nor are there any admirals leading armoured brigades. Or colonels manning subs. I’m advocating a BDF based on IDF structures and experience.

@NileGardiner How would he have viewed the peado felon in the white house though?

The most humiliating put down of a British Prime Minister since the Suez Crisis of 1956. Churchill would have viewed Keir Starmer as a treacherous, weak-kneed and cowardly socialist who is destroying Britain and the vital partnership with the United States.

@RobProvince There is a difference between a war of aggression and a fight for the nation's survival. Sometimes I forget the US is a mere child in historical terms with a poorly educated and barely travelled population.

Ben makes it very clear he does not support war…..

@AlexLuck9 Very possible to disconnect both from the fire control system manually

@Malkster11 Nope, not possible for box launchers or VLS. Even if it were, it is still ready to use on the vessel when needed.

"I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless." You were told wrong. End of story.

@AlexLuck9 To be "safe to train" ammunition is often struck below so effectively without a manor evolution no weapons are ready to use.

No naval event anywhere in the world mandates foreign warships to not carry arms or ammunition. If it did, you could spot such events by the empty list of participants. So if accounts like OP claim as much, they are either incompetent or intentionally misleading. Pick one.

@RobProvince @Dtemp91 @meredithllee @NoahCRothman @politico Russia killed more kids in a week than Iran has killed US service personnel in a decade.

@Dtemp91 @meredithllee @NoahCRothman @politico I’m not a fan of us going to war anywhere. But I am curious why the country that blew our guys up for 20 years isn’t to be touched while we have been shoveling billions to Europes problem.

NEW — Republicans confront the massive cost of Trump’s Middle East war The estimate so far? “A lot.” Some Rs have heard $2 billion per day. But most are still in the dark as admin preps an emergency funding request - a major fight ahead. politi.co/4rhsN2N via @politico

@thinkdefence Support for a peado felon and a criminal conman is a sight to behold .

Trump and Farage Derangement Syndrome is a sight to behold, it really is

@AllisonPearson @Keir_Starmer The quote was false and you have no background or clearances to make that comment Allison.

The United States has stopped sharing a lot of intelligence with the British government because we are no longer a trusted partner. Serious and devastating. All the fault of @Keir_Starmer and his student Cabinet.

@watcher_zero @ModernNavy BULWARK sailed from Barcelona having just finished a 3 day delivery compression visit following a 6 month E of Suez deployment.

@ModernNavy As there were no nearby Royal Navy ships this involved diverting ships from the Indian Ocean and cancelling HMS Illustrious planned return to Portsmouth from Gibraltar carrying service families onboard.

Operation Highbrow was a British operation to evacuate civilians from Beirut as a result of the escalating 2006 Lebanon War. Initially, helos ferried the most vulnerable to Cyprus with several Royal Navy ships later transporting evacuees across the Mediterranean Sea to Cyprus.

@stuey_beef Well let us examine the evidence. Vietnam no plan Iraq no plan Afghanistan no plan Libya no lan. Blowing the shit out of a place and then either leaving a humanitarian disaster or fighting a COIN war is not a plan, well not a good one anyway.

Let’s be honest about what just happened. The British Prime Minister told Parliament the US has no “viable plan” in Iran. In the middle of a war. When did undermining our closest ally become British foreign policy?