 | Carriers!!| WW2 General Discuss Carriers!! in the World War II - General forums; Originally Posted by plan_D
We owned all of France at one point.
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06-17-2005, 04:24 PM
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#91 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by plan_D We owned all of France at one point.  | Are you sure you want to admit to that? 
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06-18-2005, 02:55 AM
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Country:  | Why isn't it? The time we owned France they were considered a strength in the world, hard to believe, eh? Henry VI - King of England and France.
And Britain owned Sicily for sometime. We also captured a lot of Italian owned land in Africa during World War II like Libya and Abyssinia.
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06-18-2005, 08:10 AM
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#94 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  | And there were British carriers in and out of the Med all the while.
Sorry, just trying to bring a little of the topic matter back to the conversation. 
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06-20-2005, 02:30 PM
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06-23-2005, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by plan_D No you can't but you can know that out of all Britain's children, Canada and New Zealand we loved most. |
So does that make us Aussie's the Black sheep of the family? 
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06-24-2005, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Trakie I think we are reduced too 2 guys in a row boat with a BB gun at the moment MP ,we'd have trouble ruling a duck pond, in fact if Constables Haywain was around it would be commandered for coastal patrol | hey, we still have a strong and powerfull navy
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06-24-2005, 04:15 PM
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| Sorry Lanc but I beg to differ. We have carriers without any fighters to defend them, and more admirals than ships.
The ships we have are as good as the best but so few. The largest ship in the fleet is an assult landing ship and we only have one of those.
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06-24-2005, 04:23 PM
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06-24-2005, 04:42 PM
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Country: | The only thing in our navy lanc that has any clout is our nuclear subs but they are just covert missile launching platforms and separate from the rest of the fleet.
Our requirements are not the same as when the UK had an empire and gunboat diplomacy was an essential part of maintaining our power but there is a need for at least one super carrier like the Nimitz class these give a nation the ability to place a powerful air component anywhere in the world without having to have a land based infrastructure.
The US super carriers operate with impunity where ever it is deemed necessary and I believe we should have one to A. protect our own interests and B. to support our allies when our government commits to such an action. I would say that the modern Super carrier is the single most powerful conventional weapon at any nations disposal.
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06-25-2005, 03:04 AM
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06-25-2005, 04:13 PM
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Country: | They still aint super carriers lanc. and it looks like there gona be French made sacrebleu!!!!
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06-25-2005, 08:04 PM
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| Lanc, I should also remind you that they haven't been ordered yet. Young Blair keeps repeating his anouncements but he hasn't signed any contracts. | |
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06-26-2005, 04:37 AM
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#105 | | Master of Ewes
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