Blighty gets a new big stick

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Blighty gets a new big stick

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon May 21, 2012 7:08 am

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!
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Post by Rum » Mon May 21, 2012 7:13 am

We have an empire to protect after all!

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Post by John_fi_Skye » Mon May 21, 2012 7:20 am

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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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon May 21, 2012 7:30 am

If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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Re: Blighty gets a new big stick

Post by Atheist-Lite » Mon May 21, 2012 7:36 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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. :smoke:
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Post by John_fi_Skye » Mon May 21, 2012 7:39 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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?
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Post by John_fi_Skye » Mon May 21, 2012 7:40 am

Crumple wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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. :smoke:
Chel-sa-ay! Chel-sa-ay!
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Post by Hermit » Mon May 21, 2012 9:03 am

John_fi_Skye wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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?
Perhaps Clinton just had a lot of time to prepare a face to meet the faces that he meets.
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Post by John_fi_Skye » Mon May 21, 2012 9:05 am

Hermit wrote:
John_fi_Skye wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:If you can't destroy Moscow, what's the point, really?
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?
Perhaps Clinton just had a lot of time to prepare a face to meet the faces that he meets.
:D But has he heard the mermaids singing.....?
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Post by Hermit » Mon May 21, 2012 9:12 am

Till human voices woke him, and he drowned?
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Re: Blighty gets a new big stick

Post by klr » Mon May 21, 2012 9:58 am

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!
Point of order! A ballistic missile launched from a submarine is an SLBM (Submarine-launched ballistic missile), not an ICBM. :prof:

:pardon:

Anyway, couldn't you just save all that money and ask the French nicely if they'll be your nuclear deterrent? :tea:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon May 21, 2012 10:04 am

klr wrote:
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!
Point of order! A ballistic missile launched from a submarine is an SLBM (Submarine-launched ballistic missile), not an ICBM. :prof:

:pardon:

Anyway, couldn't you just save all that money and ask the French nicely if they'll be your nuclear deterrent? :tea:
I take the point of order.

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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Post by klr » Mon May 21, 2012 10:07 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:
klr wrote:
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!
Point of order! A ballistic missile launched from a submarine is an SLBM (Submarine-launched ballistic missile), not an ICBM. :prof:

:pardon:

Anyway, couldn't you just save all that money and ask the French nicely if they'll be your nuclear deterrent? :tea:
I take the point of order.

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
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.

I know Alex Salmond says he wants Scotland to be nuclear-free, but you would be wise not to trust him. :tea:
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Post by Azathoth » Mon May 21, 2012 10:10 am

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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Re: Blighty gets a new big stick

Post by Atheist-Lite » Mon May 21, 2012 10:11 am

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
A aircraft carrier is just a sub in waiting these days. :smoke:
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