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- 06 Jan 2016, 15:07
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
- Replies: 709
- Views: 288325
Re: UK's successor submarines
I am simply not buying your idea I see. You believe, as I understand it, that if a nuclear attack occurs then (1) it will be using ICBMs launched from within Russian territory or bombs dropped from heavily escorted Bears, and (2) British intelligence will know about it well in advance anyway. Perha...
- 05 Jan 2016, 15:19
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
- Replies: 709
- Views: 288325
Re: UK's successor submarines
I see, the whole premises of your argument is that British and American intelligence is utter crap, and the Russians could sneak a nuclear warhead into Britain and detonate it without being caught! Straw man. The Fourth Protocol suitcase nuke scenario was yours not mine. Britain and America are ver...
- 05 Jan 2016, 15:11
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
- Replies: 709
- Views: 288325
Re: UK's successor submarines
Have you by any chance been marathoning James Bond films over the festive period? It wasn't me that came up with the Fourth Protocol scenario, it was WhitestElephant. All I have said is that in the event of an incident it is highly probable that blame will be unable to be immediately and definitely...
- 05 Jan 2016, 08:18
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
- Replies: 709
- Views: 288325
Re: UK's successor submarines
I think we would all appreciate that the difference between Russia's actions in Ukraine is in stark contrast to if they were caught trying to detonate a nuclear warhead in London. You're missing the point, which is that in just about any imaginable scenario they are not caught , certainly not prova...
- 04 Jan 2016, 16:31
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
- Replies: 709
- Views: 288325
Re: UK's successor submarines
So what you are saying, is the Russians will plant one or several nuclear warheads within the United Kingdom, detonate them, and claim it was someone else, or keep quiet and hope we think it was someone else. Certainly underhanded, but relies enormously on the assumption that British and American i...
- 04 Jan 2016, 16:17
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
- Replies: 15455
- Views: 4474050
Re: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
It always pains me to think that if the UK could have a truly first class set of armed forces if we invested a similar portion of our national budget in defence as the other Great Powers. But we don't, because for some godforsaken reason the country with the 5th largest economy in the world and a h...
- 04 Jan 2016, 15:31
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
- Replies: 709
- Views: 288325
Re: UK's successor submarines
Agreed that drone warfare or terrorism is irrelevant to this discussion. However, one aspect of nuclear deterrence that has not been seriously discussed is the emergence of Putin-style hybrid warfare (since Russia is basically the only realistic state that we have our nuclear deterrent to deter). In...
- 23 Dec 2015, 15:08
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 160423
Re: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
So it might be that a ship like a lhd may be disarmed painted white with red croses registered as a hospital ship, advanced notice of ten days given to all combatants and be acceptable in that role providing it conforms with the legal requirements of its conduct as a hospital ship Absolutely. As to...
- 23 Dec 2015, 12:11
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 160423
Re: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
Fact3: A hospital ship cannot send those deemed Hors de Combat back to combat without risking its protected status. Fact3 is not a fact, in fact it's not true. Here are the exact and only reasons for which a hospital ship can lose its protected status (Article 35 of 1949 GENEVA CONVENTION (II) FOR ...
- 22 Dec 2015, 16:18
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 160423
Re: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
I already have, and have shown exactly where it should be if it existed. But it doesn't exist. It seems that this is an urban myth based on a misreading of Article 9 of the 3rd Hague Convention , which as I have said we did not ratify in any case. If cannot be arsed to actually back up your assertio...
- 22 Dec 2015, 15:29
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 160423
Re: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
From a mate who's still military. "The Geneva Convention calls for any soldier injured and evacuated from the battlefield to be repatriated via a third country." Whether your mate is military or not makes no difference, they can still be misinformed. Again, the Conventions are widely avai...
- 22 Dec 2015, 13:13
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 160423
Re: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
https://www.icrc.org/ihl/INTRO/195 Website says 'no' The ICRC website is currently down. However your link appears to be to Convention IV which is about land warfare (Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land). The relevant part of the 1907 Hague Conventions is Convention X: Convent...
- 22 Dec 2015, 12:22
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Fantasy T31 and Fantasy Fleet Builder [New]
- Replies: 1811
- Views: 78691
Re: Royal Navy Fantasy Fleet Builder
If that's true then nuclear (with huge overcapacity) is the way of the future since the latter two need huge amounts of energy to operate. However the UK is shying away from nuclear propulsion on cost grounds.Engaging Strategy wrote:Okay, so the way I see it Missiles, Railguns and Laser CIWS are the way of the future.
- 21 Dec 2015, 12:05
- Forum: Deployments
- Topic: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
- Replies: 255
- Views: 19090
Re: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
Thanks to xav for posting this to another thread: "French Navy (Marine Nationale) Rafale M carrier-based multirole fighters may conduct combat missions against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria from a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier as soon as January 2017. The information comes from French ...
- 21 Dec 2015, 10:27
- Forum: Royal Navy
- Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 160423
Re: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
There is a good in-depth rationale of why building a hospital ship would be a good idea here. Especially soft power projection of hospital ships is great.
It should NOT be operated by the RN. It should be operated by the RFA and funded by DfID.
It should NOT be operated by the RN. It should be operated by the RFA and funded by DfID.
- 21 Dec 2015, 08:32
- Forum: Deployments
- Topic: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
- Replies: 255
- Views: 19090
Re: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
I think suggesting PA2 resurrection is a non-starter. Like I say the French like their nuclear propulsion, and all that it facilitates, e.g. CATOBAR.
- 21 Dec 2015, 08:24
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: USA Armed Forces
- Replies: 2092
- Views: 113102
Re: USA Armed Forces
Colour me not surprised at all...
- 16 Dec 2015, 16:53
- Forum: Deployments
- Topic: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
- Replies: 255
- Views: 19090
Re: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
why was sarko saying build 3 carriers for france ie build 2 more ,thought even 2 was going to be a push ?that's why delayed building a second 3 is a pipe dream and there is no reason for it. PA2 was cancelled primarily not because it would have been too expensive, but because the MN determined that...
- 16 Dec 2015, 12:17
- Forum: Deployments
- Topic: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
- Replies: 255
- Views: 19090
Re: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
The Royal Navy warship HMS Defender has joined the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle ready to support operations against Daesh. The Type 45 air defence destroyer met the aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to strengthen the French ship’s ability to conduct air strikes against the terrorist...
- 08 Dec 2015, 14:30
- Forum: Personnel and Units
- Topic: UK Civil Defence
- Replies: 59
- Views: 6097
Re: UK Civil Defence
I guess it depends on what "we" referred to then.SKB wrote:Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and not part of the UK. UK does not have a land border with Spain.
- 08 Dec 2015, 10:40
- Forum: Personnel and Units
- Topic: UK Civil Defence
- Replies: 59
- Views: 6097
Re: UK Civil Defence
We have a land border with Eire and Spainshark bait wrote:We do have the luxury of not having and land border
- 01 Dec 2015, 12:10
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68899
Re: Russian Armed Forces
So presumably they gave the warnings when the aircraft was not yet in their airspace but looked like it was going to be. I haven't read the transcripts.arfah wrote:Well, the Turks state that they gave several warnings over a few minutes.
Yet the jet was in their airspace for 17 seconds..?
- 30 Nov 2015, 18:36
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: Russian Armed Forces
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 68899
Re: Russian Armed Forces
So? The Kremlin swore blind at the time that the little green men were not Russian troops. Denying the blatantly obvious is a key feature of Putin's "ambiguous warfare" rulebook.arfah wrote:Russian aircrewman denies any warnings were given by the Turks.
He also denies being in Turkish airspace.
- 30 Nov 2015, 18:21
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Top Ten Favourite War Films
- Replies: 10
- Views: 513
Re: Top Ten Favourite War Films
I'll give three of my favourites, in no particular order:
Enemy at the Gates
Ice Station Zebra
The Battle of the River Plate
Enemy at the Gates
Ice Station Zebra
The Battle of the River Plate
- 30 Nov 2015, 18:14
- Forum: Defence Elsewhere
- Topic: DENMARK
- Replies: 79
- Views: 5302
Re: DANEMARK
Danemark is how it's spelled in French, for what it's wortharfah wrote:I chose to call it 'Dane'mark as I have served with them (albeit for a very brief spell) in Afghanistan.
They were Great Danes.