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I reckon they should have a demolition derby! Much cheaper and could only be more entertaining to watch.
HMS Queen Elizabeth, is undergoing a major refit at the moment.
Refit?Already?
The paint's only just dried!
Significant maintenance is being carried out as is the norm with modern, highly sophisticated technical warships. There was also an issue with the coupling on one of its propellor shafts, which also affected her sister carrier HMS Prince of Wales in a different form. Both carriers have broken down in recent years, just as the French carrier did, and the massive USA Gerald Ford had propulsion issues and broke down!
In fact it had been decided that HMS Prince of Wales would replace QE on NATO exercises because of the mechanical issues. Now she appears to be heading for the Eastern Mediterranean.
The propulsion issues are intriguing, as it is now considered by some naval historians that this was the true reason for the sinking of HMS Hood in 1941. It is believed, with evidence given at an enquiry given by some RN engineers and from the three survivors, that a failing prop shaft broke free from her securing bearings due to severe corrosion, apparently also evident across the ship with her urgently requiring a major refit that, twice, had been postponed due to the start of WWII. The experts stated HMS Hood desperately needed this refit, as it was in a very poor engineering condition. It had been noted for some time that there was significant vibration throughout the ship, a clue that there was a prop issue. The heavy steaming, at full speed, to intercept the German battleship is thought to have aggravated the prop fault to the point of destruction.
The theory is that this prop shaft thrashed around and smashed though the bulk head of the aft magazine, igniting the contents and blasting the stern off from the rest of HMS Hood. So the theory goes that it was not the action by Bismark or Prinz Eugen, but this mechanical failure, that sank the pride of the RN. But the enquiry decided on the former German action that sank her, which probably suited their war propaganda / PR better! This can never be proved apparently because the wreck of HMS Hood is in pieces on the seabed, and no evidence to support the old claim is available. So the official conclusion still holds good.
This may be history, but I just wonder if this MAY be in the minds of the RN and are now very sensitive about any prop issues with these big ships. An interesting thought, maybe!!
HMS Queen Elizabeth, is undergoing a major refit at the moment.
Refit?
Poor Kier. Donald has been dissing him again:
Donald Trump has just posted on his Truth Social messaging platform.
He says "the United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East".
"That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer - But we will remember," Trump says.
"We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!" he adds.
Two? Has Britain got two serviceable and all the support ships necessary…………
diplomacy, not war, is the way to conduct foreign policyTo a point. There comes a time when diplomacy either fails, or gets nowhere.
If we were all leftie wets 85 years ago, we'd all be either Ayran or dead.
In part. If the best that our wet fag, I mean rag, of an excuse for a leader can muster is two facelifted Lynx and 4 Typhoons, then we may as well give up.
We shouldn't be involved at all.
Iran is not our concern, same goes for Ukraine. "That wet rag" of which you speak, is a globalist and still thinks–wrongly—that the UK has place on the world stage. We don't and we should just accept that. No way should our armed forces be used to fight foreign wars that the general public do not support.
Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman says diplomacy, not war, is the way to conduct foreign policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS_9Jp0Htg4
We ARE part of the democratic World that TOGETHER must stand up to the regimes of Iran and Russia to ensure their evil, that affects their own people, let alone us, does not spread and bring about a situation that we certainly do not want. We MUST stand united together to rid the human race of the dictators. But I suppose you wont agree with that, and probably believe that we should do what our leaders did in 1938, and let an aggressor get away with invading another country, just like Putin has, to achieve their aspirational empire and eliminate those that get in the way!
In some ways I feel that 2026 could be the new 1938....just waiting for the world to go tits up, like it did in 1939.
Starmer is a nancy boy wet wipe of a PM, just as Chamberlain was in 1938.
In part. If the best that our wet fag, I mean rag, of an excuse for a leader can muster is two facelifted Lynx and 4 Typhoons, then we may as well give up.
We shouldn't be involved at all.
Iran is not our concern, same goes for Ukraine. "That wet rag" of which you speak, is a globalist and still thinks–wrongly—that the UK has place on the world stage. We don't and we should just accept that. No way should our armed forces be used to fight foreign wars that the general public do not support.
Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman says diplomacy, not war, is the way to conduct foreign policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS_9Jp0Htg4
Soham killer Ian Huntley age 52.
It has started.
Fill your cars up!
He must of had a couple of Republican judges appointed by him vote against him.
They did, and that is why he said "I am deeply disappointed by some members"
Great! It is about time this boastful, bombastic, bully of a bastard is brought under control
He must of had a couple of Republican judges appointed by him vote against him.
