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by Tiny Toy
06 Jan 2016, 15:07
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
Replies: 706
Views: 277968

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...
by Tiny Toy
05 Jan 2016, 15:19
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
Replies: 706
Views: 277968

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...
by Tiny Toy
05 Jan 2016, 15:11
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
Replies: 706
Views: 277968

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...
by Tiny Toy
05 Jan 2016, 08:18
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
Replies: 706
Views: 277968

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...
by Tiny Toy
04 Jan 2016, 16:31
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
Replies: 706
Views: 277968

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...
by Tiny Toy
04 Jan 2016, 16:17
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
Replies: 15443
Views: 4408784

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...
by Tiny Toy
04 Jan 2016, 15:31
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Dreadnought Class SSBN
Replies: 706
Views: 277968

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...
by Tiny Toy
23 Dec 2015, 15:08
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
Replies: 284
Views: 152145

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...
by Tiny Toy
23 Dec 2015, 12:11
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
Replies: 284
Views: 152145

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 ...
by Tiny Toy
22 Dec 2015, 16:18
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
Replies: 284
Views: 152145

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...
by Tiny Toy
22 Dec 2015, 15:29
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
Replies: 284
Views: 152145

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...
by Tiny Toy
22 Dec 2015, 13:13
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
Replies: 284
Views: 152145

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...
by Tiny Toy
22 Dec 2015, 12:22
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fantasy T31 and Fantasy Fleet Builder [New]
Replies: 1811
Views: 76338

Re: Royal Navy Fantasy Fleet Builder

Engaging Strategy wrote:Okay, so the way I see it Missiles, Railguns and Laser CIWS are the way of the future.
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.
by Tiny Toy
21 Dec 2015, 12:05
Forum: Deployments
Topic: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
Replies: 255
Views: 17828

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 ...
by Tiny Toy
21 Dec 2015, 10:27
Forum: Royal Navy
Topic: Should the royal navy have a real hospital ship?
Replies: 284
Views: 152145

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.
by Tiny Toy
21 Dec 2015, 08:32
Forum: Deployments
Topic: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
Replies: 255
Views: 17828

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.
by Tiny Toy
21 Dec 2015, 08:24
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: USA Armed Forces
Replies: 2089
Views: 108794

Re: USA Armed Forces

arfah wrote:This is shocking!

http://forces.tv/52602983
Colour me not surprised at all...
by Tiny Toy
16 Dec 2015, 16:53
Forum: Deployments
Topic: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
Replies: 255
Views: 17828

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...
by Tiny Toy
16 Dec 2015, 12:17
Forum: Deployments
Topic: Operation Shader - Iraq, Syria
Replies: 255
Views: 17828

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...
by Tiny Toy
08 Dec 2015, 14:30
Forum: Personnel and Units
Topic: UK Civil Defence
Replies: 59
Views: 5392

Re: UK Civil Defence

SKB wrote:Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and not part of the UK. UK does not have a land border with Spain.
I guess it depends on what "we" referred to then.
by Tiny Toy
08 Dec 2015, 10:40
Forum: Personnel and Units
Topic: UK Civil Defence
Replies: 59
Views: 5392

Re: UK Civil Defence

shark bait wrote:We do have the luxury of not having and land border
We have a land border with Eire and Spain :)
by Tiny Toy
01 Dec 2015, 12:10
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Russian Armed Forces
Replies: 1022
Views: 64178

Re: Russian Armed Forces

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..?
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.
by Tiny Toy
30 Nov 2015, 18:36
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Russian Armed Forces
Replies: 1022
Views: 64178

Re: Russian Armed Forces

arfah wrote:Russian aircrewman denies any warnings were given by the Turks.

He also denies being in Turkish airspace.
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.
by Tiny Toy
30 Nov 2015, 18:21
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Top Ten Favourite War Films
Replies: 10
Views: 488

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
by Tiny Toy
30 Nov 2015, 18:14
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: DENMARK
Replies: 79
Views: 4639

Re: DANEMARK

arfah 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.
Danemark is how it's spelled in French, for what it's worth :)