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Veteran Hawker Hunter jets have returned to RNAS Yeovilton to help train warships fend off air attack.
Three of the one-time fighters – which were based at the Somerset air station for nearly a quarter of a century – are flying from there in a trial run, working with Hawk jets to test the Fleet undergoing training off Plymouth. |
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The most powerful weapon in the Navy’s arsenal, ballistic missile
submarine HMS Vigilant, sailed for the first time in more than three
years today.
The nuclear submarine departed Devonport to begin trials after a £300m revamp which means she is effectively a new boat inside. |
Maybe we can get the Brits to sell us the ballistic sub! We got the Harriers (which were practically brand new...did you know they just got finished upgrading them?!?!?!?!) for a song...We got such a great deal that the British Ministry of Defence embargoed their personnel from discussing it! Forgive me Grand Logistics, Grim, Darren and TD! Couldn't help myself!
rub it in why dont you!!! you f&*$er,!! What a moronic decision to sell off the harrier.
ReplyDeletesorry daren!
ReplyDeletebut i just read a report on all the work that had been done to those airplanes and i'll be damned if you could just give them a paint job and fly them into combat! they're like brand new and we got them for pennies on the dollar.
its good to know that your government is as fucked up as mine!
Rubbing salt in the wounds for your loyal readers as ever Sol :P. Even bigger travesty that those shiny refurbished aircraft are going to be ripped up for parts because they aren't USMC spec.
ReplyDeletelol yeah!! we spent , i think £600 million refurbishing them, then sell them for £120 million, what a moronic bunch of loonies. conservatives (republicans), would never vote for them, in my life, the're the bunch of idiots that where selling our carriers just before the last falklands war, to australia!!!
ReplyDeleteFRADU Hunters - good times! I thoroughly enjoyed my six months on that unit, flew in two seaters on numerous occasions. They were owned by military and flown by contractors (Flight Refuelling Aviation Ltd) and were replaced by much more modern Hawks. I wonder which company is flying them now?
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