Reports today that the first £350 million of contracts has gone out for preparatory design work for the replacement for the Vanguard ICBM subs, despite there being no official decision to replace them. Apparently, this will ensure that Blighty retains the ability to destroy Moscow, Peking or Paris until at least 2060.
Can't spare one frigate to do anti-piracy patrols but have cash to blow on another irrelevant war-whale. Excellent!
Blighty gets a new big stick
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We have an empire to protect after all!
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And it's not just anti-piracy patrols that we can't afford. One or two public services could do with an injection of that cash.
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If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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Don't mess with the gas supply experts and stop living in the past, history are lessons not templates. Put the subs round 'merica after it goes religious fuckwit.Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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You're right, of course - as in most things. But I've been meaning to ask you for a while - DO you dare to eat a peach?Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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Chel-sa-ay! Chel-sa-ay!Crumple wrote:Don't mess with the gas supply experts and stop living in the past, history are lessons not templates. Put the subs round 'merica after it goes religious fuckwit.Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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Perhaps Clinton just had a lot of time to prepare a face to meet the faces that he meets.John_fi_Skye wrote:You're right, of course - as in most things. But I've been meaning to ask you for a while - DO you dare to eat a peach?Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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Hermit wrote:Perhaps Clinton just had a lot of time to prepare a face to meet the faces that he meets.John_fi_Skye wrote:You're right, of course - as in most things. But I've been meaning to ask you for a while - DO you dare to eat a peach?Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
But has he heard the mermaids singing.....?Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
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Till human voices woke him, and he drowned?
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Point of order! A ballistic missile launched from a submarine is an SLBM (Submarine-launched ballistic missile), not an ICBM.Clinton Huxley wrote:Reports today that the first £350 million of contracts has gone out for preparatory design work for the replacement for the Vanguard ICBM subs, despite there being no official decision to replace them. Apparently, this will ensure that Blighty retains the ability to destroy Moscow, Peking or Paris until at least 2060.
Can't spare one frigate to do anti-piracy patrols but have cash to blow on another irrelevant war-whale. Excellent!
Anyway, couldn't you just save all that money and ask the French nicely if they'll be your nuclear deterrent?
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I take the point of order.klr wrote:Point of order! A ballistic missile launched from a submarine is an SLBM (Submarine-launched ballistic missile), not an ICBM.Clinton Huxley wrote:Reports today that the first £350 million of contracts has gone out for preparatory design work for the replacement for the Vanguard ICBM subs, despite there being no official decision to replace them. Apparently, this will ensure that Blighty retains the ability to destroy Moscow, Peking or Paris until at least 2060.
Can't spare one frigate to do anti-piracy patrols but have cash to blow on another irrelevant war-whale. Excellent!
Anyway, couldn't you just save all that money and ask the French nicely if they'll be your nuclear deterrent?
We only get nukes in the first place because we didn't trust the Yanks. It wasn't supposed to turn into a franchise operation
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Just wait until Scotland becomes independent, and they get to keep one of the subs. Then you'll be targeting your remaining missiles on Edinburgh, Glasgow and John O'Groats.Clinton Huxley wrote:I take the point of order.klr wrote:Point of order! A ballistic missile launched from a submarine is an SLBM (Submarine-launched ballistic missile), not an ICBM.Clinton Huxley wrote:Reports today that the first £350 million of contracts has gone out for preparatory design work for the replacement for the Vanguard ICBM subs, despite there being no official decision to replace them. Apparently, this will ensure that Blighty retains the ability to destroy Moscow, Peking or Paris until at least 2060.
Can't spare one frigate to do anti-piracy patrols but have cash to blow on another irrelevant war-whale. Excellent!
Anyway, couldn't you just save all that money and ask the French nicely if they'll be your nuclear deterrent?
We only get nukes in the first place because we didn't trust the Yanks. It wasn't supposed to turn into a franchise operation
I know Alex Salmond says he wants Scotland to be nuclear-free, but you would be wise not to trust him.
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Very fucked up priorities there. Cant afford to run something useful like an aircraft carrier but can afford new subs to replace perfectly servicable ones. If I was cynical I might think someone was taking bribes
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A aircraft carrier is just a sub in waiting these days.Azathoth wrote:Very fucked up priorities there. Cant afford to run something useful like an aircraft carrier but can afford new subs to replace perfectly servicable ones. If I was cynical I might think someone was taking bribes
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