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If you want to apply any reasonable effect, you have to have vehicles, ok, ok, not you light infantry people, yes, we know you like to walk everywhere.
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MtarfaLee
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MtarfaLee
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Political orphan, opinionated amateur, defence and intelligence background, disruptive thinker and not so new to the Twitter anymore
London, England Katılım Şubat 2020
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To view it in simplistic terms, you can't apply any effect unless you are physically there, stand fast all you information operations and air power folks, we get it, no need to constantly bloody well go on about it.
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25 May 1982 // Destroyer HMS Coventry was attacked by Argentine aircraft north of the Falklands and hit by three bombs, two of which exploded. She flooded, capsized, and sank with 19 men lost and one man dying later from his injuries. (Images @I_W_M, details below) #RoyalNavy
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Monitor Monday!
Lord Clive class monitor HMS Lord Clive.
Commissioned 10.07.15 under Cdr. Norman Hunter Carter, RN.
The only Royal Navy ship ever named for Lord Robert Clive.
She was fitted with a single BL 18-inch (457 mm) Mk I gun in August/September ‘18.
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Anyone live with a partner than comes in to nearly half a million quid & not notice? No me neither..
Reuters@Reuters
Former Scottish National Party chief pleads guilty to embezzling $540,000 reut.rs/4v3c3yn reut.rs/4v3c3yn
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@BearJFK @felix_sears It’s called the slow managed decline
Dependency is next - hidden under the guise of partnership and “load sharing”
Don’t get me wrong, through NATO and AUKUS that can only be a good thing but through other mechanisms then we start down a slippery slope….
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Has to be repeated: the British military is in the process of continued silent capability cuts. The de facto cutting of the once mighty SSN fleet (once 3rd behind the USN and Russia) is a big one.
Britsky@TBrit90
Ambush last at sea 1392 days ago. (3.81 years) Artful last at sea 1119 days ago. (3.06 years) Neither in an official refit, like Audacious which is at 1149 Days (3.14 years). Astute is in refit at 328 Days, with no dry dock yet available due to the former. Only Anson active, and likely about to have a long maintenance period in Faslane post deployment.
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Final part of our podcast on the loss of HMS Coventry on this day in 1982.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/shi…
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@DailyMail This is how you “spread the blame” so that “no one person will be found responsible”, “lessons will be learned” and “processes tightened”
He’s got away with it 🤷🏻♂️
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Cabinet Office under fire after it kept no record of Morgan McSweeney's phone theft or bullying claims against Whitehall chief trib.al/eE0XKJH
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"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."
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May 25th 1982: With the order to abandon ship, the crew of HMS Coventry dive into the water as she begins to roll over. It has been less than 20 minutes since she was hit. Nineteen men are killed and 30 injured...
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It’s all about optics. It looks pitiful even if they didn’t need it. 8 F35, 8 Merlin?
Mark D@Mark1_1984
@MtarfaL @felix_sears Though I don't think every carrier, ever, has done every deployment with its full Air Group. I'd like to see carriers at sea normalised and what its got on the decks as being part of routine peaks and troughs of maint periods (well aware of the difficulties of a 'full' Air Gp)
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May 25th 1982: The keel of HMS Coventry is now visible as she begins to roll into the sea. By a miracle, by good evacuation drill and by having nearby ships and helicopters, the surviving crew are picked up in record time...
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May 25th 1982: At 15:30 five Pucaras perform an aerial display over Stanley harbour to celebrate Veinticinco de Mayo. They bank and weave, fly out then back in again... only this time there are four... they fly out, come back again... only three left now... Locals get suspicious.
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On this day in 1982, the loss of HMS Coventry.
A complex and well executed attack that could have gone either way except for one fatal decision. Grab a beer and listen to SME’s discuss the strike. There’s more to it than you know.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/shi…
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May 25th 1982: A painting of HMS Broadsword rescuing the crew of Coventry, as meanwhile, helicopters from other ships come to help. HMS Broadsword rescues 170 men from the sea, and rescue efforts are rapid and effective...
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@UKDefJournal @FennellJW Slowly but surely…..
We live in a country where governments are changing faster than progress on “in-service” weapon systems 🤷🏻♂️
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The Sting Ray Mid-Life Upgrade programme has advanced to its next phase, with the Ministry of Defence intending to award BAE Surface Ships a contract for the Demonstration and Initial Manufacture stage, the UK Defence Journal understands.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=69542
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