British navy had to rely on US and Canadian warplanes to monitor Russian battleship a

[scooterscot]

Jeepers - guess we could throw stones from the Dover cliffs or something.

Them Tories have gutted the UK defence budget that you wonder what would happen if a real threat to the shores were to occur how would the UK defend itself. Too much coastline. Big mistake delaying the Type 26's... huge.

British navy had to rely on US and Canadian warplanes to monitor Russian battleship as it sailed trough channel

RAF fighters shadowed Admiral Kuznetsov and her escorts but Britain has had no maritime patrol aircraft since the Nimrod fleet was axed in 2010

(Photo: Getty)20:55, 13 FEB 2017Updated20:59, 13 FEB 2017News
Britain had to rely on US and Canadian warplanes to monitor a Russian carrier in the Channel last month.

RAF fighters shadowed the Admiral Kuznetsov and her escorts. But Britain has had no maritime patrol aircraft since the Nimrod fleet was axed in 2010.

An order for nine US Poseidon P8 planes has not been placed yet.

SNP MP Douglas Chapman said: “Having to get the begging bowl out illustrates how short-sighted it was to scrap Nimrod.”

British navy had to rely on US and Canadian warplanes to monitor Russian battleship as it sailed trough channel - Mirror Online

[Paddy]

Jeepers - guess we could throw stones from the Dover cliffs or something.

Them Tories have gutted the UK defence budget that you wonder what would happen if a real threat to the shores were to occur how would the UK defend itself. Too much coastline. Big mistake delaying the Type 26's... huge.

British navy had to rely on US and Canadian warplanes to monitor Russian battleship as it sailed trough channel - Mirror Online

Money wasted on Trident

[SueEllen]

Least it wasn't Komrade Korbyn who thinks we can just talk to people....

[PurpleGorilla]

Good thing we are a member of NATO then eh!

[GB9]

Jeepers - guess we could throw stones from the Dover cliffs or something.

Them Tories have gutted the UK defence budget that you wonder what would happen if a real threat to the shores were to occur how would the UK defend itself. Too much coastline. Big mistake delaying the Type 26's... huge.




British navy had to rely on US and Canadian warplanes to monitor Russian battleship as it sailed trough channel - Mirror Online

Yet we are still the third biggest spender on defence. God knows what the rest are like.

In reality we could fire a nuke at them. There's a 1 in 2 chance it would hit somewhere and a 1 in 6 chance it would hit the place intended.

Who's going to look after Scotland when you gain independence? You'll be OK from the South as we'll reinstate the wall.

[scooterscot]

Who's going to look after Scotland when you gain independence?

Thanks for the offer but I'd worry about yourselves first!

[PurpleGorilla]

We don't need an MRA to spot a huge carrier group driving up the channel. Nimrod was a sub hunter.

[northernladyuk]

Yet we are still the third biggest spender on defence. God knows what the rest are like.

In reality we could fire a nuke at them. There's a 1 in 2 chance it would hit somewhere and a 1 in 6 chance it would hit the place intended.

Who's going to look after Scotland when you gain independence? You'll be OK from the South as we'll reinstate the wall.

They can reinstate their glory days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_S...storation_navy

Although Scottish seamen received protection against arbitrary impressment by English men-of-war under Charles II, a fixed quota of conscripts for the Royal Navy was levied from the sea-coast burghs during the second half of the seventeenth century.[53] Royal Navy patrols were now found in Scottish waters even in peacetime, such as the small ship-of-the-line HMS Kingfisher, which bombarded Carrick Castle during the Earl of Argyll's rebellion in 1685.[54] Scotland went to war against the Dutch and their allies in the Second (1665–67) and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars (1672–74) as an independent kingdom. A very large number of Scottish captains, at least as many as 80 and perhaps 120, took letters of marque, and privateers played a major part in the naval conflict of the wars.[55]

By 1697 the English Royal Navy had 323 warships, while Scotland was still dependent on merchantman and privateers. In the 1690s, two separate schemes for larger naval forces were put in motion. As usual, the larger part was played by the merchant community rather than the government. The first was the Darien Scheme to found a Scottish colony in Spanish controlled America. It was undertaken by the Company of Scotland, who created a fleet of five ships, including the Caledonia and the St. Andrew, all built or chartered in Holland and Hamburg. It sailed to the Isthmus of Darien in 1698, but the venture failed and only one ship returned to Scotland.[56] In the same period it was decided to establish a professional navy for the protection of commerce in home waters during the Nine Years' War (1688–97) with France, with three purpose-built warships bought from English shipbuilders in 1696. These were the Royal William, a 32-gun fifth rate and two smaller ships, the Royal Mary and the Dumbarton Castle, each of 24 guns, generally described as frigates.[57]

After the Act of Union in 1707, the Scottish Navy merged with that of England. The office of Lord High Admiral was subsumed within the office of the Admiral of Great Britain.[14] The three vessels of the small Royal Scottish Navy were transferred to the Royal Navy.[57] A number of Scottish officers eventually left the Royal Navy for service in the fledgling Russian navy of Peter the Great. These included the captain of the Royal Mary Thomas Gordon, who became a commodore in 1717 took service and rose to be Admiral and commander-in-chief of the Baltic Fleet.[58]

[lilelvis2000]

Jeepers - guess we could throw stones from the Dover cliffs or something.

Them Tories have gutted the UK defence budget that you wonder what would happen if a real threat to the shores were to occur how would the UK defend itself. Too much coastline. Big mistake delaying the Type 26's... huge.




British navy had to rely on US and Canadian warplanes to monitor Russian battleship as it sailed trough channel - Mirror Online

I lived in Canada, I didn't know Canada had any warplanes.

[original PM]

do you really think the movements of the UK submarine fleet is common knowledge?