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dkwookie 03-24-2011 10:13 AM

RIP HMS Invincible
 
It seems every other day I look at the news and see another military decommission. Today HMS Invincible leaves the UK for the last time to get scrapped in Turkey.
Another sad day for our armed forces

Gilly 03-24-2011 11:21 AM

Yep I'll second that DK. Another consigned to history, ironically at a time where a carrier would have been the perfect platform. Politicians..... You wouldn't let them have control of your TV remote would you!!!

vdomini 03-25-2011 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dkwookie (Post 238184)
It seems every other day I look at the news and see another military decommission. Today HMS Invincible leaves the UK for the last time to get scrapped in Turkey.
Another sad day for our armed forces

Well, probably your country will replace that ship with a newer more efficient and less expensive one. Hopefully. But modern weapons ( ships, aircrafts, missiles, etc etc etc... ) usually are more expensive than the old one. One Boeing AH-64 Apache costs US$20 million dollar. One AGM-114 Hellfire costs $68,000 USD, One EF2000 eurofighter costs €90 Million Euros... those are just few examples... Sadly, war and defense is very expensive business my friend.

haitch40 03-28-2011 10:26 AM

1 destroyer costs 1bn so thats why the governments scrapping the ships. Acording to them.

I however think cameron is up to something.

bobbysocks 03-28-2011 05:18 PM

the military channel had a show about the falklands war the other night. lots of nice footage of and from the invincible.


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