Comments by "ZIPZ" (@zipz8423) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1. Methinks they are spinning the trials out for political reasons.
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  2. Wannacry? :P
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  3. Says the ship has no point but wants it to do a pointless coastal patrol task to stop immigrants storming our beaches. Bell end.
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  4. Do you want any help towing the Smokey Joe out to sea?
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  5. It has to be commissioned and fitted out first, that includes commissioning every bit of kit. Coming out of the yard is just the beginning.
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  6. Not really, in fact not at all, the RN has been gutted to pay for it. The other defence cuts are nothing to do with the RN, blame the Tories for that.
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  7. if Theresa May had ordered them, the ships would have been built in Northern island to bribe the DUP.
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  8. It has, they just belong to somebody else.
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  9. Cant fold the F-35 B`s wings I`d imagine.
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  10. "Crowsnest".
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  11. Dont worry about us, your country has some of the poorest people on earth.
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  12. Then maybe we should not have hobbled ourselves with the economic disablement called Brexit including the probable break up of the United kingdom. If that happens we will be lucky if we can afford to maintain 2 CVF never mind 4. We have already gone from global 5th largest economy to 7th or 9th in 3 years. Everything has consequence.
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  13. Russia`s Navy is overhyped their ships are worn out.
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  14. How?
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  15. The diesel engines are made by a Finnish Company......
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  16. No, it makes them carry more in the case of the F-35B.
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  17. Fantastic ship names.
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  18. Wonder how straight the keel is :P
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  19. Attrition, imagine we lose one on an Op, then its time to concede the field.
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  20.  flip inheck  I know mate, but they are still 4 stroke turbocharged diesel engines "used as generators".
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  21.  flip inheck  Diesel generators ARE diesel engines.....
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  22.  @TheHawk1202  I hear the US is putting ALIS into the trash can of history? The Israelis did not even touch it.
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  23.  @britishrail243  Not really.....
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  24. Cant we just be friends? From experience, no matter who the leaders are the cooperation beteen the US and UK military never changes and will always remain solid. Forever friends and brothers.
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  25. Yes. In the form of Typhoon.
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  26.  @nialpollitt3410  No, take a look at the labour manifesto it guarantees the deterrent and the replacement.
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  27.  @sticks5614  I am glad too. Yes, there are a number of articles that have mentioned changes in Russian tactical planning. The performance of the British Army was a surprise for them. Speed of advance and determination being chief.
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  28. Really?
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  29. Thank the Tories for that.
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  30.  @olympia5758  Well said mate. When we need to we can supersize.
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  31. My mates the Donahues were all in the Kings reg at the time, all top lads, respect.
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  32. I think those lads were just better stock than they are today but I could be wrong.
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  33.  @stevenbreach2561  :P
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  34. I know a Chieftain tank that went through a house by mistake, not on the Ex but in winter one year mid 1980s. Must have been messy it skidded on ice and just could not stop.
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  35.  @gusgone4527  Stop with the Brexit delusion it looks like they have brainwashed you very well.
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  36. What the hell are you rambling on about?
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  37. Its not really "2 islands for redundancy" as the prime motive its one for Flying Ops, (Flyco) and the other for Ship control. There is a lot of redundancy built in with a philosophy of being able to "continue to fight" even after taking damage. The CVF`s were not however designed with resisting damage "all round" from all types of weapons imaginable, that would have made them much more expensive.
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  38. I can see problems with what that money is ultimately used for in those countries but we can`t have it all ways. We sell weapons to countries who conduct unsavory things against their own people for example, but it stops that country hiking up our Oil prices, so we turn a blind eye.
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  39. A very experienced American Diplomat who has worked at the State Department for decades recently said;  "If you want to involve us in more wars and let instability drag us into yet more wars, then cut foreign aid". The truth is the vast majority of the public don`t have a clue what foreign aid is used for, there is a good reason why we give foreign aid and its not for altruistic reasons, its for our benefit. Promoting British commerce abroad, creating opportunities for UK firms, fostering intelligence sharing, fighting international crime in places where Scotland Yard would hardly be welcome otherwise, crafting extradition treaties, military basing rights, refueling rights, yes we "buy" these things and more with that aid. This is the real work of foreign aid, it also builds our reputation abroad. People who rubbish foreign aid only see one dimension, "We are giving third world countries money" and are incapable of thinking beyond that. Another good example, the US gives Pakistan 3 billion dollars a year in military aid, and what does the US get in return?? The US gets to oversee the security of Pakistani Nuclear weapons so none of their fissionable material gets sold on the black market which was a real danger. That benefits us all.
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  40. Always makes me chuckle, when right wingers attack the left, take a look at our laws and statutes, the most liberal left wing tenets in western democratic history, the same with the US Constitution. Your ideology is a fallacy basically.
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  41. Oi, whats wrong with being a Crab, they didn't like being afloat but they arent all bad :P
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  42. Don`t shoot the messenger, write to MOD main building they would be happy to explain. You just said TWO CVS, we were talking about 3 CVS , versus 2 CVF, and you've added 10,000 tons to the displacement of the CVS. try "22,000t". The rest of your last post I don`t really know what you are getting at.
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  43. Or, if you want 3 Naval air squadrons instead of 2 you have to pay for 3 squadron bosses instead of 2 along with their salaries, you put additional costs and duplication into supply chains, support , training, certification thru life, etc etc etc. The bean counters did the maths a long ago in the 1990`s, they came up with 2 CVF. It wasn't money alone, with one carrier in position you can bring more firepower to bear if you cant get 2 CVS on station, you get a higher sortie rate and bombs on bums with 1 CVF than you will ever get with one CVS. Don`t assume we would have had all 3 CVS to use and play with as we would, we have NATO commitments we have to stick to and having 2 CVF actually gives us more flexibility in that regard, ie, if we have one hull in deep maintenance we only have one we can use, its much easier to get cover for our NATO commitments for one carrier than it is for 2.
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  44. Unfortunately Fek, "Simple math" doesn't quite cover the thru life costs and cost model for the 2 CVF versus a 3 CVS debate. If you want to look at it in simple terms, lets do it like this. If you want buy fuel for 3 hulls or fuel for 2 hulls over a 20 year period, which is going to cost you more money? Sorry but your model is far too simplistic and misses every nuance.
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  45. "knowing you now have no defence and are now doomed due to some else's idiotic decision not to fit any weapons?" I like what you have said in the rest of your post, however the CVS had their GWS-30 removed for no ill effect for over 30 years but thats because nobody envisaged a peer conflict.
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  46. You could probably stick 60 F-35`s on the flight deck of a QE class but you wouldn't have the servicing/handling/crew/aircrew capacity to use that many on an active deployment among many things.
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  47. "Why do you say 12...i am truly curious" Because 12 will be its peacetime F-35 complement.
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  48. P8, coming to a Scottish aerodrome shortly.
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  49. Thats what the hanger decks are for.
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  50. Anyway lad have a nice evening, signing off. Everything I say is just my opinion, I may be talking a load of bollocks, buy hey :P That`s what we are here for.
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