Sad news....

evangilder · 04-08-2005, 07:41 PM

Nice shots, guys!

trackend · 04-09-2005, 01:09 AM

I really like the Iroquois shot Skim
I think we may have left ourselves open for a few remarks (like "which monkey are you" Track)
PS I Notice in my info Skim that the Iroquois/tribal class destroyers where due for decommissioning last year do you know if it has been done yet
If they have it seems a pity as they where a bloody good vessels.

cheddar cheese · 04-09-2005, 05:35 AM

No, that would be mean to the monkeys

(joke)

trackend · 04-09-2005, 05:41 AM

Bog off cheesy

cheddar cheese · 04-09-2005, 05:54 AM

Tsk tsk

Nonskimmer · 04-09-2005, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by trackend

PS I Notice in my info Skim that the Iroquois/tribal class destroyers where due for decommissioning last year do you know if it has been done yet
If they have it seems a pity as they where a bloody good vessels.

Of the four of them, only one is currently planned for decommissioning. That would be HMCS Huron. They are pretty good ships, but like a lot of Canadian equipment

, they're beginning to show their age. I've sailed on two of them, and I had a pretty good run on them.

trackend · 04-09-2005, 11:50 AM

As always Skim it comes down to money and military kit has always cost a fortune. My old home town had a population of 12,000 odd in 1940 and they had a whip round with the intention of buying a Spitfire but in the end they only raised enough for the engine which was put on display outside the local movie house. But nowadays the technological research and build costs must be phenominal by comparison. So I assume everything ends up going past its sell by date. Even the States has started to feel the pinch so it must be ten times worse for us and yourselves.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 05-16-2005, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Medvedya

http://news.mod.uk/news_headline_story.asp?newsItem_id=3088

About 5 minutes before this happened I flew past this C-130 about 500m out the left side of it. We did not hear about it though until we landed back at out home station. We were all in shock about it. We actually heard it was a SA-7 that shot it down, but we could not get it confirmed because we left Iraq before anything was found out. So we did not know if it was shot down or it crashed because of mechanical failure.