ryzer
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finally the UN has approved the no fly zone idea,
British and French forces are supposedly the first to go in, USS enterprise is in the med.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Navy/Boeing-F-A-18F-Super/1863477/L/
bet Cameron wishes he hadnt scrapped Ark Royal and the Harriers.
still, time for the RAF to flex its muscles.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---Air/Eurofighter-EF-2000-Typhoon/1877253/L/
[Edited on 18-03-2011 by ryzer]
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Tom
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Can someone summarise what this means?
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Ste
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The world police have banned any aircraft movement in Libyan airspace. Members of the UN (UK, France, USA, Germany etc) will enforce this. If Gadaffi tries to bomb his own peoples then use of deadly force is authorised to take out his air force.
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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BarnshaW
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i wish the world police would ban steve out of off day
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ryzer
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they will need to knock out some AA sites though for sure.
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Hammer
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quote: Originally posted by BarnshaW
i wish the world police would ban steve out of off day
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stu_c
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quote: Originally posted by Ste W
The world police have banned any aircraft movement in Libyan airspace. Members of the UN (UK, France, USA, Germany etc) will enforce this. If Gadaffi tries to bomb his own peoples then use of deadly force is authorised to take out his air force.
The world police???
[Edited on 18-03-2011 by stu_c]
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Dan
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Not gonna lie, if the USS enterprise turned up off the coast of my town, id fucking shit bricks!
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Tom
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quote: Originally posted by Ste W
The world police have banned any aircraft movement in Libyan airspace. Members of the UN (UK, France, USA, Germany etc) will enforce this. If Gadaffi tries to bomb his own peoples then use of deadly force is authorised to take out his air force.
Thanks.
P.S. F*ck yeahhhh
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ryzer
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I cannot wait, Steve will need to weather his typhoon a bit more after this.
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stu_c
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gadafi and the durkastans dont stand a chance!!
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quote: Originally posted by Tom
Can someone summarise what this means?
War on Libya
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Nick-S
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Time for some good old fashioned dogfighting
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Ste
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I wonder if the yanks will bring out the F22 to play??
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nick
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Nick-S
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Stu x
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Ste
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I wonder whether we'll operate out of Saudi or maybe cyprus. No good for a dog-fight as time on target would be very low with a 1 hour commute each way. This is why we should still have carriers with Sea Harrier and GR9 on board. The combination of those two would mean total air domination within 1000 miles of the ship. Add in the french carriers and the americans and we'd have a proper chance, but we'll be useless at the kind of ranges to allied soil (or sand) so would have to leave it to countries whose governments didn't fuck up their military power for short term financial gain
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ryzer
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the Saudi's will prob let us use their base, the italians might too, or Cyrpus with tanker support.
wonder where the Navy's new Daring class destroyers are? this is right up their street.
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i hear they are going to operate from Steve glass display cabinet in the room with no carpets
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adiohead
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Saudi's will help because we didn't go after them for doing 9/11.
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Ste
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Taif is probably closest. Still over 1000miles to civilization though. Already geared up for EFA there too. Gioa del Colle in Italy is 1500 miles away. I was there during the Balkans conflict with Harriers so it's a hmoe from home for the raf.
We might have to ask that indian guy for our carrier back
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Looking forward to hearing what the Libyan government have to say about this in the press conference.
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spencer88
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Steve is actually sat on his floor playing with his aircraft, acting out what this will be like!
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ryzer
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Has anyone noticed the so called 'middle east peace envoy' Tony Blair has been a little bit quiet? He should have gone here instead of Iraq the tit.
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ceasefire lol
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