Wanted

[vic mcclymont]

Required urgently six Destroyers, must be well maintained, ready to sail at moments notice, preferrabely low mileage and one careful owner (lol)
Could be an advert produced by the MOD as 6 D class Destroyers are owned in Portsmouth awaiting repairs.
Vic

[robpage]

What is very sad about this is heat exchanger technology is quite simple you just extract more heat on one side but it's putting on the other . This to sort of thing that I would expect the first year Apprentice / first year undergraduate to be able to work out how on Earth they have something that they cannot use with a 40 degree ambient I do not know . With the county class destroyer of the early 1960s we lead the world in gas turbine marine propulsion now we're buying stuff in from America and not getting it right . The solution that I understand if you had another generator on the deck level you can lessen the load on the generator down below which is great except the fact that you have now put in your heat source right where the missiles can spot it . I expect that nobody will end up even get in your small reprimand over this but duh my mind somebody at the top needs to go

[Bill Cameron]

we are in NATO,,but having said that,uk army is collapsing,tens of thousands are leaving,or getting kicked out,,honestly we are in a bad state,i check all the time

The UK is a member of the NATO alliance, and NATO is only evoked when the UK goes to war. NATO never came to our aid in 1983 when the Argentinians invaded the Falkland islands

[robpage]

Israel was supplying Argentina during the Falklands War , not known to be currently , only to the Junta , information released by UK in 2016

[robpage]

so did the French with Exocet software upgrades , and the US did little to help , the islands are sat on a huge oilfield ,

[vic mcclymont]

The USA gave us their latest misiles in the Falklands war, the gave us fuel at Ascension Islands.
Their is aso a report that they were prepared to loan us the Iwo Jima in the event of us losing our two carriers.
Vic

[John Arton]

Are B.P. not already drilling down there?, think I have seen that somewhere.
Rgds
J.A.

[robpage]

The USA gave us their latest misiles in the Falklands war, the gave us fuel at Ascension Islands.
Their is aso a report that they were prepared to loan us the Iwo Jima in the event of us losing our two carriers.
Vic

The US didn't support the UK because the US didn't entirely support the UK's position. Some in the Reagan administration -- including Secretary of State Haig and Foreign Policy Advisor Kirkpatrick -- actually supported Argentina's position. Some feared the chaos that was expected to follow in Argentina if the ruling junta failed and was thrown out of office.

Eventually, because the UK seemed to be doing pretty well for itself -- and because the junta turned out to be obstinate to the point of pig-headedness -- the US did help with British resupply as well as provide intelligence information. Covert aid was provided, but the official US position was one of neutrality.
I will accept though that took over again was returning one of their satellites so the Intelligence was to our advantage and I agree that's applying for your little pension and the latest sidewinders happened but in the early stages on the diplomatic front I've always felt that they were frightened of breaking up or upsetting the America's partnership which I believe is called oas where they agree that if one is attacked They All Stand Together .

[robpage]

Are B.P. not already drilling down there?, think I have seen that somewhere.
Rgds
J.A.

I believe it's a Consortium called Falklands Oil and Gas not sure who's in it but some of the earlier exploration was done by rock hopper and I haven't got a clue who they are . This oil field has been well known since 1969 the problem is it's in small pockets and the cost of moving a drill rig is phenomenal so it was only after the Invention of the bendy straw drill rig that you could actually get it 't economical cost . The exploration in 1969 with done by an American seismographic survey ship which I think was registered in Liberia and I've absolutely certain it was called the golf oil it was telling about 5 kilometres of sismo behind it

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From memory they were already in the country setting up the extra set missiles for the Argentinian Air Force 1 it all kicked off the agreement with the French government was they wouldn't put the latest software when they would go with the software that was in the missiles at the date that war was declared that didn't happen the technicians in Argentinian upgraded regardless

[vic mcclymont]

Belgium a so called friend refused point blank to sell the UK bullets for our guns.
Rob, initially the US were against our involvement, but as the scene escalated there were signs that the Russians were preparing assist Argentina in return for the supply of cheap wheat.
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