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[mantahatch]

If this was not so serious it would be quite funny http://www.edisposals.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/Disposals-Public-Site/en_US/-/GBP/ViewApplication-DisplayWelcomePage

[tunnie]

wonder if North Korea will put a bid in for her 

[skyblue]

what bloody planks these public servants are.... So the taliban can now dress up like our troops and possible cause more mayhem in the towns/camps our troops are based in

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I love the idea of selling an almost 40 year old, obsolete, hulk to the highest bidder.  Wonder if the French will buy her

[aaronjb]

what bloody planks these public servants are.... So the taliban can now dress up like our troops and possible cause more mayhem in the towns/camps our troops are based in

Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you been able to buy the camo gear etc in Army Surplus shops for .. well, longer than I've been alive?

and LOL @ Lizzie.

[mantahatch]

I love the idea of selling an almost 40 year old, obsolete, hulk to the highest bidder.  Wonder if the French will buy her

Do I detect the joke of why do all the French Navy ships have glass bottom boats .......................

[Lizzie_Zoom]

what bloody planks these public servants are.... So the taliban can now dress up like our troops and possible cause more mayhem in the towns/camps our troops are based in

Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you been able to buy the camo gear etc in Army Surplus shops for .. well, longer than I've been alive?

and LOL @ Lizzie.

Exactly right, and so much of the kit is rubbish!  That is why many in the services, especially the Army, but their own kit to get quality!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I love the idea of selling an almost 40 year old, obsolete, hulk to the highest bidder.  Wonder if the French will buy her

Do I detect the joke of why do all the French Navy ships have glass bottom boats .......................

Well the pikey's have had all the copper off of ours!

[aaronjb]

what bloody planks these public servants are.... So the taliban can now dress up like our troops and possible cause more mayhem in the towns/camps our troops are based in

Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you been able to buy the camo gear etc in Army Surplus shops for .. well, longer than I've been alive?

and LOL @ Lizzie.

Exactly right, and so much of the kit is rubbish!  That is why many in the services, especially the Army, but their own kit to get quality!

Fair point, that, too!

Come to that, if you really wanted to impersonate someone .. you could probably just go to the local costume shop and pick up a police/army/navy/fire outfit

(And if you bought all of them, you could start singing.. Whyyy Emm See Ayyy! )

[millwall]

I love the idea of selling an almost 40 year old, obsolete, hulk to the highest bidder.  Wonder if the French will buy her

Do I detect the joke of why do all the French Navy ships have glass bottom boats .......................

Well the pikey's have had all the copper off of ours!

very good lizzie

[PhilRich]

Lizzie, she wasn't obsolete while she still had the capability of launching/landing her aircraft, which she undoubtedly did right up to the time they ripped the heart out of her!
Which Criminally Insane sh*twits in the MOD & Government made the decision to Pay off our existing Carriers before their replacements were even off the slipways? It beggars belief how our Armed Forces have been allowed to stagnate through mismanagement, ineptitude & financial profligacy at every level over so many years! 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Lizzie, she wasn't obsolete while she still had the capability of launching/landing her aircraft, which she undoubtedly did right up to the time they ripped the heart out of her!
Which Criminally Insane sh*twits in the MOD & Government made the decision to Pay off our existing Carriers before their replacements were even off the slipways? It beggars belief how our Armed Forces have been allowed to stagnate through mismanagement, ineptitude & financial profligacy at every level over so many years! 

It was the HMS Ark Royal that needed to be retained Phil, as she was a fully updated warship capable of meeting todays battle conditions.  Her sister HMS Invincible had been decommissioned some time ago due to needing a very expensive refit to meet modern battle conditions, and frankly a 40 year old 'through deck cruiser', as they were originally called, being refitted could not be justified.  The two new full carriers where considered what the Royal Navy really needed in the 21st century, but we know what happened then .

As I understand the third TDC, HMS Illustrious, is still alive and kicking, being in May of this year in Scotland undergouing a £40 million refit.  Anyone have any precise up-to-date news on that?