There is simply no noise like it!

Has anybody ever taken a Merlin and mounted it in a car (or similer)?

How incompetent of Matthew !! So how much longer do you have to wait ?

I phoned up originally at 1045 Sunday and the breakdown company arrived at 1245 today, Monday.

That’s 26 hours by my reckoning.

The breakdown company that came are based 30 miles from me so that means they ‘rushed’ to my aid at 1.15mph. 😮

For goodness sake!

I thought the whole purpose of airdropped munitions was to cause injury, harm and/or destruction.

How is it different that a person is killed by a 1000lb bomb dropped years ago that has remained unexploded until they came along and tried to move it?

Isn’t that how CBU ‘landmines’ work? Admittedly smaller calibre but they can remain unexploded for as long as larger bombs.

Maybe this is why the government is cutting back on the armed forces, they might hurt somebody.

War hurts, sometimes not always the intended recipiant but that is war.

INDISCRIMINATE

Part of the deal, although everyone will deny it until it is officially made, will most likely be that Argentina will pay for this with not just money but also food, which they have plenty of.

If Argentina is smart they should hold off on any purchase for now and maybe join the Russian/Indian 5th Gen MiG fighter development, which will probably put it more into the right weight class for Argentina. Even if they only buy 20 or so, it would still be better than the 60 (or whatever number they currently have) of old jets.

Maybe Argentina can get ahead of the curve again, like in the 40’s-early 70’s, instead of continually playing catch-up by buying second hand equipment. Back in the days Argentina bought some good equipment, the FAL/MAG rifle & machinegun, the Mirages and Super Etendards when they were new, the TAM tank, the MEKO ships….etc. Better to have a small number of new and modern equipment than a larger number of second rate stuff.

—–JT—–

But would President Blair want to risk British soldiers lives in a conflict with only British interests to recapture British territory that America has no interest in? :confused:

If in some way Bin Laden and Afghanistan could be made responsible for taking the Falklands….. :p

EXCELLENT!

Whilst I love Time Teams olde worled excavations more modern stuff can be equally as interesting when they dig it all up. I can remember several years ago when they dug up the remains of a WW2 B17 bomber that had crashed, easily one of their better digs of the year in my opinion.

Archaeology isn’t always boring!