Britain's imperialist future.

[moss]

What imperialist future :-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...arry-jets.html

Nice article

Sources raised doubt over the lack of carrier strike capability, questioning whether the RAF would be able to secure airbases for its jets if Britain needed to fight abroad. “I can’t see Oman happy to have Tornados flying from its territory to bomb Iran,” said a source.

[Fraxinus]

Nice article

I know it's near Halloween but I think I just saw a ghost!

[moss]

I know it's near Halloween but I think I just saw a ghost!

As in Ahmadinejad

He's not dead yet and may even be rehabilitated, anything is possible.

Seems it's all down to Oman and the cost of big expensive plane carrying boats

[Fraxinus]

As in Ahmadinejad

He's not dead yet and may even be rehabilitated, anything is possible.

Seems it's all down to Oman and the cost of big expensive plane carrying boats

I was talking more on the lines of your good self! When did you re enter the politosphere?

[5intheface]

I know it's near Halloween but I think I just saw a ghost!

He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone. Underground. Nobody has ever seen him since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. "Rat on your pop, and the moss will get you.

[moss]

And I've a pretend limp too

[C. Flower]

Cyber war eh? Hope they haven't found out about my 'Internet Warrior Training Academy' which includes the revolutionary new 'Keyboard Commando Course'; *****, I knew I should have included a Discretion Doctrine....Say nothing, forget everything.

Cyber war, in the main, is about bringing down or corrupting entire interweb systems, disabling weaponry and (oops) psyops.

[Fraxinus]

He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone. Underground. Nobody has ever seen him since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. "Rat on your pop, and the moss will get you.

Kaisermosey? Ahhhh

[moss]

I was talking more on the lines of your good self! When did you re enter the politosphere?

Just left rehab this evening. Ah it's nice to be back

[Art]

From the Irish Independent, Kevin Myers:

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/co...t-2384680.html

Sample extract:

At this moment, an aircraft carrier is being built in Glasgow, the first of two for the Royal Navy. It has no steam-catapults, and so cannot launch any airborne early-warning planes of its own. Its aircraft will be American, vertical landing F-35Bs, which the Americans bitterly regret embarking upon and want to cancel. If they do, the British will have a multi-billion pound aircraft carrier without any aircraft.

No British journalist or politician that I know of has reported these salient facts -- or that (unlike the US or French nuclear-powered carriers) the turbine-driven British carrier only has a range of 10,000 miles before it runs out of fuel, or that the F-35B couldn't even reach Afghanistan from a carrier-deck, or that the carriers are so expensive to maintain that they'll act as a catastrophic and insupportable drain on the British defence budget.'

I have to agree with Mr Myers, Britain has forgotten how to design and make stuff. They invented all the major components of an aircraft carrier, (angled flight deck, armored flight deck, steam catapult, landing system, layout for large carrier), and now they cant design or afford a proper one, its kind of embarrassing.

I wouldn't be too worried by those boats. The French carrier seems to be the real deal though and might come in useful when China starts launching there ones.

[Fraxinus]

Just left rehab this evening. Ah it's nice to be back

Nice one. Just in time for the do or die scenario in the 26 Counties!

[Cáthasaigh]

From the Irish Independent, Kevin Myers:

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/co...t-2384680.html

Sample extract:

At this moment, an aircraft carrier is being built in Glasgow, the first of two for the Royal Navy. It has no steam-catapults, and so cannot launch any airborne early-warning planes of its own. Its aircraft will be American, vertical landing F-35Bs, which the Americans bitterly regret embarking upon and want to cancel. If they do, the British will have a multi-billion pound aircraft carrier without any aircraft.

No British journalist or politician that I know of has reported these salient facts -- or that (unlike the US or French nuclear-powered carriers) the turbine-driven British carrier only has a range of 10,000 miles before it runs out of fuel, or that the F-35B couldn't even reach Afghanistan from a carrier-deck, or that the carriers are so expensive to maintain that they'll act as a catastrophic and insupportable drain on the British defence budget.'

I have to agree with Mr Myers, Britain has forgotten how to design and make stuff. They invented all the major components of an aircraft carrier, (angled flight deck, armored flight deck, steam catapult, landing system, layout for large carrier), and now they cant design or afford a proper one, its kind of embarrassing.

I wouldn't be too worried by those boats. The French carrier seems to be the real deal though and might come in useful when China starts launching there ones.

We should invite the Chinese to anquor their carrier task force off the coast, east and west. We'll supply them with beef and they can help us extract and process our oil and gas whilst keeping us sorted for consumer products. When the time is right they will give the green light for 'Operation Anna Lo' - the liberation of the 6 counties.

[Lapsedmethodist]

Nice article

And all the nicer coming from the Telegraph.... broadsheet of choice of the apoplectic Colonel

Howes about ye ?

[Cáthasaigh]

Howes about ye ?

Is that some form of Geoffreyite curse?

[5intheface]

Anna Lo'

Now they're using that as rhyming slang for Sandy Row.

That's not all either.