HMS Warspite went down fighting to the end...

There was a campaign to save the greatest battleship of all time, HMS Warspite, but sadly it failed. She saw more action than the entire Iowa class combined.....even the USS Enterprise compared to Warspite led a fairly peaceful existence.

Here’s how it’s really done....

HMS Warrior still exists as well...

Hasakah is full of kurds. They gave ISIS a beating there recently.

The Express many years ago was a reasonably serious newspaper (even if it was still a scandal sheet). It’s now owned by the utterly dreadful Richard Desmond. He’s cut the journalists to the bone so there is pretty much no news desk anymore, essentially they re-print info from other sources. It’s not considered a…

Errr ok......... Do you not think there would be better ways of doing that than strapping it in the cockpit of an attack aircraft in the pilots line of vision?

Not any more...all of their marine turbines were built in the Ukraine...!!!

It has been a commonly accepted truth for most anaysts for a long time that the Pakistanis didn’t build the bomb on their own. It was financed by the Saudi’s as the first ‘Islamic’ bomb. The generally held understanding is that the Saudi’s financed the Pakistani bomb on the understanding that should Iran develop…

Have a read of the Guardian comments whenever there is an article on Russia, Syria or the Ukraine.

In Realpolitik terms Syria is win-win for the West. At the moment we have two groups fighting it out. On one side Assad’s Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, on the other we have Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and a large number of the worlds Jihadi nutters. Neither side are very friendly to the West, and they’re…

Have a look at the footage of the launch, they’re at sea, at night so a cold background. The missile flare (the booster seems to burn for quite a while) and succession of launches will get picked up, particularly with the contrast. It’s also a region of the world where you can guarantee the US has a lot of coverage.

The BRICS were a made up name by an investment bank touting for business. Of the countries included Brazil and Russia are up the creek without a paddle due to the low oil price amongst many other things, South Africa was always a joke entry, India has massive economic problems at present. China, granted is massive,…

The Russians are only 25 years late to the party....

They’re not going to engage any air targets. The Russians definitely aren’t up for that. They’re just trying to cause the US a headache.

Do you seriously think that a Russian war ship in the Caspian sea, at night, launching 26 cruise missiles isn’t picked up by a DSP or SBIRS satellite you need to get off the drugs.....the US will have known within a matter of seconds.

I’ve always wanted to see video of the T250 cannon on the T249 Vigilante..

Of the current ‘Western’ auto-cannons on aircraft the best for multi purpose use are the Mauser BK-27 27mm revolver cannon (from the Tornado and Eurofighter) and the US GAu 12/22 25mm gatling type. The reason for this is that there has been a tremendous amount of research over the years in order to find the ‘perfect’…

HMS Sheffield did no such thing, there are plenty of photos of her after the strike. The Type 21’s however suffered due to their aluminium superstructures.

I would have thought UK strikes flying from Akrotiri would have transited over Turkey before entering Iraq. Can’t see them overflying Syria.