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Phil Perry

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Not 'Silly' as such,. . .but interesting. . . bet one of those would be worth a few bucks today !

 

This is a Studley Toolbox, Henry O. Studley was a piano maker, a carpenter, and a freemason in the 19th century, he made several of these boxes over the years, what do you guys think? Mahogany, Rosewood, Ebony and Mother of Pearl, it holds 300 tools. A truly beautiful creation.

 

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This is the fearsome 'Warship' used a couple of days back by the Royal Navy to 'Scare Off' a Spanish naval vessel in British waters off Gibraltar.

 

Crewed by One Officer and six ratings. It has a twin stern deck mounted 'Utility machine gun and can cruise at 32 Kt. (Wiki for full spec on this type of Patrol vessel )

 

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Not taking the wee wee out of the RN Bex, hope it didn't come across that way. . .

 

That maritime excursion by Spain was a false flag operaton ordered by the EU to muddy the waters during the brexit 'Negotiations'

 

I feel sorry for the poor buggers, we've got type 45 Missile destroyers with no missiles, and they break down if used in warm seas. . . 2 carriers under build with no aircraft to fly from them, until the F-35 debacle sorts itself out, . . .can't use anything other than choppers and Vtols, as they were designed without catapult launch facility. . .A previous Government flogged all the Sea Harriers to the US Marines for a couple of quid a pop. . . I'd bet there's a tear in Lord Nelson's one eye somewhere at the way one of the greatest navies in history has been run down to nearly zilch over the last four decades. . . Jeeze, even the bloody Coastguard hasn't got a single vessel ! The only asset the RN have which puts the willies up any potential enemy is a small bunch of Nuke Subs. . . .but they are a very BIG stick, and it's only the deterrent value with those. . . Gawd help us all if they are ever actually used in anger.

 

 

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Not taking the wee wee out of the RN Bex, hope it didn't come across that way. . .

We're good Phil, always.

 

What gets to me is the downfall of the British Military, which i support as I am reasonably anti-War, but the spending hasn't gone down?

 

You're still doing 2% of GDP with no perceived enemy, well except for Belgium now, that's a lot of education and health..

 

 

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We're good Phil, always.

What gets to me is the downfall of the British Military, which i support as I am reasonably anti-War, but the spending hasn't gone down?

 

You're still doing 2% of GDP with no perceived enemy, well except for Belgium now, that's a lot of education and health..

 

Well it certainly doesn't show,. . .the spending I mean, with major cuts in the Army, Navy and Air force, in both personnel and equipment,. . .maybe it's all going to those 160 odd retired Admirals for their pensions ? ? Plus all of the utterly useless bureaucrats in the Ministry of Defence who, for some reason which I must have missed, always buy the most expensive, and regularly, totally inappropriate equipment for any and every job. . .EG. 'Snatch' Landrovers, having NO armour on them at all, being used in Afghanistan and Iraq 1 and 2; resulting in the deaths of lots of soldiers, as even a a small calibre bulllet penetrated them with ease, and they were not much good at shielding the occupants from roadside IEDs either. . . the radios supplied to troops frequently wouldn't talk to each other, different frequency bands. . and even their bloody BOOTS were made for conflict in Northern Europe, so the soles melted in the desert heat. . .!

 

David Cameron had already sent our only working Tornado bombers - all eight of them,. . .to Malta, to engage with the Syrian conflict BEFORE he lost the Parliamentary vote allowing the UK to join the fracas. . .

 

Back to the Navy, I believe that we now have more serving Admirals in the RN than vessels, by a factor of around four to one ! ! I've already mentioned above, the lack of catapults on the two new Queen Elizabeth class carriers. . . .Our UK M.O.D are really not much good for purpose . . . Forward Thinking ?. . .

 

Ships ordered from foreign shipbuilders, when we have yards lying idle in the UK, along with lots of shipbuilding workers. . .but I think that is more to do with EU regs, but I won't go there in this thread.

 

 

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While I'm not great on naval weaponry, I thought the RAN had graduated to muzzle-loading cannon some time back...

Oh yes, the RAN have Marty, but YOUR political masters understand the need for more advanced technology. . .whereas our MOD. . . .couldn't organise a pi$$up at a certain beer factory near Lygon street Carlton. . .

 

 

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Is that what all the hate mail is about?

Yep. Banned from the Spectator comments ( again ) Along with the Guardian ( again ) The Telegraph,. .. in fact they were so sick of being told home truths about their pi$$poor articles by ne'er do wells like me, that they stopped all BTL comments for six months. . .

 

 

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