@pegge49 Add in the 53 capable flight deck, magazine space and ability to support SMCM with water, fuel and ammo and you have the ultimate MCM mother ship.
@pegge49 The Bay class can operate and support a lot more than 3 drones. It can embark and operate a while US expeditionary MCM team with AuVS and divers. I have personally directed MCM Ops from CRDG where we had detect to neutralse capability 10 NM either side of our position.
@CraigMurrayOrg foreign vessel, even when engaged in innocent passage or transit passage through a UK strait or other territorial waters, is not under UK jurisdiction. The Smyrtos was in fact in international waters south of the UK when seized. It was not a foreign vessel, it was stateless
@scotpatriot7@DailyMail She was flying with an extremely experienced instructor pilot and while we must await the investigation board all initial impressions suggest a catastrophic mechanical failure. A failure they battled through to avoid putting it down over houses.
@BenGrahamUK@MattChorley Like the people attacking the Police have the combined IQ to know that. Farage got exactly what he wanted and has failed to condemn, while using weasel words to get out of incitement.
@thinkdefence Well the Army has pretty much no ops on and we have minimal operational assets so I think we can handle circa 70 or 80 all told playing a bit of rugby :)
@FennellJW Every single maintenance period has different readiness profiles throughout the period. The ship will move move between them depending on the nature of the work ongoing at the time. In 2003 WEST had 2 DGs on the jetty but we put them back in and sailed 4 days later
@TiceRichard Perhaps your brown nosing the peado. President is worse. Remember he is home in 4 years. We will remember those that supported his child sex rings.