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  1. I'm glad for you reminding that Argentina was a eper opponent back then. They had solid jets, good missiles, trained pilots, a friggin airccraft carrier and submarines too. They even used the same destroyer as the UK did. The UK beating them off the islands was basically considered impossible by the world, even the US told them they couldn't do it. The Brits went anyway and proved the entire world wrong.
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  2. "Is that all at once?" Yes. That's why the UK military is special in Europe. There's other nations with comparable sizes of military (France, Poland) but no-one else outside the UK on the continent can support so many different angles, simultaneously, and regularly practices half a dozen major things going on at once to do so with a powerful logistics fleet.
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  3. Worth noting on Saab's site they state it's good up to 800m, with a max of 1km. (Presumably on static).
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  4. I would highly suggest including the name of the weapon in the video titles, it's going to be VERY difficult to look up individual videos of this sort after a while to find specific weapon vids.
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  5. Battleships were obselete a long time ago. They still are.
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  6. You really ought to look up Bad Lads Army on youtube. They took a bunch of minor criminals in the UK and gave them 1950s British Army training under the watch of real veterans. It's absolutely hilarious sometimes.
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  7. And about 18 million quid it wipes out!
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  8. "I wonder how many people they can fit on that thing." 6 troops carried on a Wildcat. They're designed to be very fast, nimble and dropping teams into specific places. The Merlin is the one handles the big offloads, it carries 26.
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  9. British Army uses a Britishised version of the Swiss HG 85 grenade called the L109A1
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  10. MICA manages around 20km from ground launch, so ASRAAM is likely quite similar. MICA, IRIS-T and ASRAAM are quite similar range wise after all.
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  11. Excellent positive video after all the moronic British press coverage, thank you! Couple of little, but important, corrections, though!: - Commissioning will be in 2017, not 2020's. It's 2020's for her first full service deployment. It's 2017 commission, 2018 flight trials, 2020 IOC, 2023 for full operating capability and operational deployment. - It is not a 40 aircraft max, it's actually over 70, as confirmed by Captain Jerry Kyd himself. 40 is only the "standard" air combat wing specification of 36 F-35B and 4 Crowsnest Merlins. However the Royal Navy's primary wing also includes 10 extra Merlins, Wildcats and drones. The maximum capacity of it is around 48 F-35B's and about 14-16 Merlins, or more helos to the 70+ figure if they instead use smaller drones and Wildcats. - The maximum speed is not 25 knots. It's 32 knots, as confirmed by the Assembly Director. If any proof is needed, just go look at her on AIS tracking on approach to the Isle of Wight, where she hit 29.2 knots while AIS is turned on. Royal Navy never have AIS on if they reach their top speed, so she's proven it's well above 29.2 knots. The official line was "25+ knots", which is a deliberately vague statement for OPSEC. - She carries 3 Phalanx CIWS, not 2. And there are no Aster missiles on the ship. If any missiles were to be mounted, it would likely be CAMM due to the cold launch. The current intent is for the directed energy air defence on trial in 2018 to be set for the ship.
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  12. The first craft you mention is an LCVP Mk5, standard Royal Navy infantry and light cargo/vehicle landing ship for a few squads each.
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  13. Fun to play but I kept asking myself "Why don't they just bomb the oil rig? It's right beside the US and has no defences..."
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  14. I'd be very surprised if a bunch of these didn't come from the UK.
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