@FennellJW Agreed. Daring has not sailed in 9 years or so. And these are robust, expensive ships. In comparison, the Type 23, although excellent, were cheap and only supposed to last 18 years.
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Bob Bowell
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Realistically, Type 45 have had little use and are being heavily upgraded and Type 83 can move to the right a few years to enable more urgent programmes to be funded first.
Larisa Brown@larisamlbrown
Exclusive: Ministers could push back major shipbuilding programmes and other projects to make £10 billion worth of savings in the Ministry of Defence thetimes.com/article/98990d…
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@Zaphod2042 Quite simply the worst defence secretary in my lifetime. Hr scrapped the Sea Harrier too, by the way….
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Old "Buff" piping up....
The guy who sold off 20% of the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates and...
...insisted, for political reasons, on the cursed WR-21 gas turbine that's hobbled the Type 45 Destroyer fleet, and cost countless hundreds of £££, and reduced availability by decades.
LBC@LBC
'This would double the risk to the West.' Defence Secretary under Tony Blair, Geoff Hoon, says that sending a British warship to the Strait of Hormuz would leave it as a 'sitting duck'.
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@pulsarhelium @scinexx @TheWatchers_ @ZaksTradersCafe @ArneLutsch @Robin25461631 @Investornewscom @ACFER01 @Alan__Green @CrucibleCap @adeerus Thanks for the reply; much appreciated
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@bobbybowell @scinexx @TheWatchers_ @ZaksTradersCafe @ArneLutsch @Robin25461631 @Investornewscom @ACFER01 @Alan__Green @CrucibleCap @adeerus 7/7 Finally, from an operational and cost-efficiency standpoint, commencing a coordinated testing program across the wells at the conclusion of drilling is the most practical approach, allowing us to run the program in a structured and systematic way.
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#PLSR RNS: Pulsar Reports Completion Of Jetstream #7 & Commencement Of Down-Hole Logging @ The Topaz #Helium Project, USA.
🔹Preliminary bottom-hole pressure @ apx 953 psi. Visible gas influx observed during drilling.
👉 s203.q4cdn.com/212931576/file…
$PLSR $PSRHF #Helium
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@Robin25461631 @pulsarhelium @scinexx @TheWatchers_ @ZaksTradersCafe @ArneLutsch @Investornewscom @ACFER01 @Alan__Green @CrucibleCap @adeerus Three month delay.
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@bobbybowell @pulsarhelium @scinexx @TheWatchers_ @ZaksTradersCafe @ArneLutsch @Investornewscom @ACFER01 @Alan__Green @CrucibleCap @adeerus Nature of the beast, always delays in mining and oil and gas. It’s about 6 weeks delayed, that is nothing.
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@NavyLookout @RachelReevesMP @LDO_Helicopters FT reporting that the order had been signed off by the Treasury
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The Chancellor @RachelReevesMP has refused to sign off on the New Medium Helicopter contract.
@LDO_Helicopters had set today as the deadline for a decision otherwise the Yeovil factory to be closed with the loss of at least 3,000 jobs, ending UK helicopter manufacturing.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@Gabriel64869839 @Gabriel64869839 is the most craven appeaser on X. And that takes quite some doing.
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It is wrong, but it was also spectacularly stupid to send troops in what was, despite the retroactive attempt now to claim otherwise, the macho response to Trump. For the UK in particular it was a premature and dumb decision. All to lose and absolutely nothing to be gained.
Ben Obese-Jecty MP@BenObeseJecty
This threat by President Trump to impose tariffs on the UK and seven NATO partners because we’ve deployed a single Army Officer to Greenland alongside our allies is wrong. This constant pressure from the US towards Denmark, and now its military allies, is a huge concern. President Trump risks weakening the very foundations of NATO. Thule Air Base used to have c.10,000 US personnel, now (as Pituffik Space Base) it has c.150. If the US assess Greenland to be strategically important to their flank, we should query why they have drawn down personnel by 98%? As an MP with two USAFE bases in his constituency, one of which hosts US European Command’s Joint Intelligence Center, alongside NATO’s, I question the wisdom of the US in adopting such an aggressive stance towards us as allies when we facilitate its eyes and ears across Europe and Africa as well as significant US air assets, vital to US operations in both continents. Keir Starmer must defend Britain’s interests, something he has consistently failed at regarding Diego Garcia and the Chinese super-embassy. This is a critical test for the Prime Minister.
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GREENLAND: The 1917 Understanding
British Condition: When the U.S. initially sought to buy Danish West Indies (now USVI) in 1917, the UK, concerned about Danish power in the North Atlantic, secured a promise that if Denmark ever sold Greenland, the UK would have the first right to buy it or be consulted.
Therefore, America is at the back of the queue behind us!
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@Gabriel64869839 What the hell is there to negotiate regarding Greenland? And why is the US’s imperialistic desire to steal a territory of the EU somehow Europe’s fault???
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EU provided him with example on this too. "Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed", remember...?
Most recently, that involved snatching fishing rights from UK in exchange for giving London, in a defence cooperation, the same terms readily accorded to Japan & South Korea.
Aki H Heikkinen@akihheikkinen
"European leaders are trying to get the US to commit to peace in Ukraine, but Trump's envoys (Kushner and Witkoff) may use the Greenland issue as a bargaining chip in other negotiations. Confusing but very Trumpian. Give us Greenland and it'll be done." double heist!
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@EYakoby It is factually incorrect that Venezuela is shopping fentanyl to the US. The US government has no evidence that is the case.
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*Tucker Carlson says that Maduro is culturally conservative*
Ben Shapiro: “Who gives a shit? He’s a communist dictator. Everyone in his country is eating dog. He’s shipping fentanyl to the U.S. to kill Americans. Why would I give a shit if he’s anti-gay?”
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What was it that attracted you, Donald, to the oil-rich country Venezuela?
#venezuela #trump #mrsmerton
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Bob Bowell retweetledi
This is legitimately one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of Humanity
Everyone needs to see this
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains.
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@Gabriel64869839 Did anyone ever even ask for this?? Seems like another pointless boondoggle designed solely to fluff Trump’s ego…
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Renders so far available for the new american battleship don't enable a VLS cell count but evidence 3 different MK41 silos plus a number of large diameter tubes for DARK EAGLE/CPS hypersonic missiles on the bow.
Amidships it has 2 large lasers, NULKA banks and 2 RAM launchers.
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Italian media tonight at the news claimed american NSS says "the European Union is irrelevant".
Except it doesn't; it's a flat out lie.
NSS contains a single mention of 'European Union' and a single mention of 'irrelevant'.
But the two things are not even in the same chapter.
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@NavyLookout @LukePollard “At pace”. That phrase sounds familiar…..
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Asked when the (DIP) Defence Investment Plan (that was due in "Autumn 2025") will be published, @LukePollard said: “we are working on it at pace” but would not confirm it will be out before Christmas.
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@larisamlbrown This has the makings of an enormous scandal. Deploying troops in vehicles that were known to be unsafe is unconscionable. The vast, vast waste of money is one thing; the indifference to troops’ health is next level
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EXCLUSIVE: The British Army has been forced to stop the use of its Ajax armoured fighting vehicle after dozens of soldiers fell ill due to vibration and hearing problems thetimes.com/article/b2433e…
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@AWenham1 @HMSDuncan @NavyLookout @WarshipsIFR @WarshipCam @warshipworld @UKForcesTracker @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal Getting NSM?
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HMS Duncan the covers come down.
@HMSDuncan @NavyLookout @WarshipsIFR @WarshipCam @warshipworld @TBrit90 @UKForcesTracker @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal
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@pulsarhelium @ZaksTradersCafe @Robin25461631 @elyecho @SmallCapsCanada @Smudgedann @ArthurBenta @MelissaHamory @Aktien_Olaf @ArneLutsch @BullTwits_ Looks close to their current acreage (which is also in St. Louis county I believe)
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#PLSR RNS: Pulsar Announces Definitive Agreement To Acquire Major Minnesota Land Position.
🔹59,100 gross acres located in the St. Louis and Itasca Counties.
🔹C.1000% increase to Pulsar's gross MN acreage, on completion of acquisition.
👉 s203.q4cdn.com/212931576/file…
$PLSR $PSRHF
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@NavyLookout If money really is super tight (more than likely), maybe two of the Type 26s could indeed be rerouted to Norway and replaced with two Type 31s? Big capability difference, but would save upwards of £1bn.
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Latest analysis article:
The Royal Navy’s frigate gap – how deep and how long will it last?
navylookout.com/the-royal-navy…
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