Navy gets big boats to play with...

[Twister_Ken]

Carriers ordered

Fat lot of use they'll be in Afghanistan, where the PBI are dying because of lack of the right kit.

 

[FullCircle]

Well, its an ill wind, and all that.

I will probably be employed on the spinning roofracks for those.

At least they have spent the money on a flash piece of gunboat diplomacy rather than squander it on further support for unsupportable causes

 

[Poignard]

Somebody planning an invasion, perhaps? Wonder where......

 

[jonjo]

I hope the MOD owns a tape measure. The new RN carriers have nearly 3 times the displacement of the current mini carriers. Having watched one of the current generation RN carriers arrive in Portsmouth this year I imagine it will be a tight fit for the next gen ones at the harbour entrance.

Anyhow I predict QHM and other on water law enforcement patrols will be extremely jumpy when one of the larger carriers enters or leaves Portsmouth.

Should Haslar berthholders expect to feel a tidal surge when HMS Queen Elizabeth noses into harbour in 2014?

 

[pyrojames]

I wonder how many billions over budget they will be.

 

[Slow_boat]

It beats spending money on 'aid' for third world dictators so they can get on with the important business of buying AK47s and fleets of Mercedes.

 

[nightjar]

on water law enforcement patrols will be extremely jumpy when one of the larger carriers enters or leaves Portsmouth
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Just realised that I have yet to sight the harbour patrols keeping us all in the small boat channel this summer. Are we all now so well behaved that they are no longer needed ?

 

[pyrojames]

That's what BAE systems do anyway isn't it? Except they don't even pretend that it is aid....

 

[Twister_Ken]

Nice big targets ain't they.

Just noticed - most of the building work will be done in Scotland. Wee Gordie Broon, tak a bow. Oh and the Minister for Offense, Des Broon, is also Jockish. Mmmm.

Not a nice sound, is it, nests being feathered?

 

[FinesseChris]

Portsmouth?

Why should they come anywhere near Portsmouth?

C

 

[Malcb]

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Carriers ordered

Fat lot of use they'll be in Afghanistan, where the PBI are dying because of lack of the right kit.

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Strange, that 'cos my son is there and he is in the Navy. You should have seen the kit he was issued with. Bloody heavy, I don't know how they operate carrying all that weight, body armour, kevlar helmet, plus ammo and rifle.

 

[bilbobaggins]

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Not a nice sound, is it

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Racist agitprop.....


One wonders if the self-proclaimed writer of such offensive stuff would be willing to put his hand deep into his pocket to pay for an entirely Jinglish defence structure? Or put his sorry ass on the line at any point in his miserable and embarrassing existence in the defence of his private home and hearth?

'All mouth and trousers', eh?


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[jonjo]

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Why should they come anywhere near Portsmouth?

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According to the TV news and other internet sources, Portsmouth will be the home port for these full sized carriers.

 

[rhumlady]

When the current carriers were being spec'd the navy was told it couldn't have carriers so they got 'through deck cruisers' instead.

 

[Woodlouse]

You really are a true cynic. Just about every major Royal Navy warship built in the last hundred years has been built in Scotland.

 

[capnsensible]

What is an agitprop? Do I need one? Are they available on line? Should I just stay calm????????

 

[capnsensible]

Um, is that a guess?? Think so. I won't complicate that observation with facts.

 

[jonjo]

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so they got 'through deck cruisers'

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Indeed. I used the term "full sized carriers" because TV news reporting today has been calling them "enormous" and "giant sized". Not one report has mentioned that the current carriers are half the weight of the Rod Stuart vintage Ark Royal.

 

[Woodlouse]

Maybe not most, but more than any other reigon of the UK can boast. Where else in the UK would you propose they build a ship that size?

 

[capnsensible]

Barrow in Furness. That has built all but one of the SSN's All but 1 of the SSBN's and tendered for those carriers years ago. Strange but true.