@The_Lookout_N It's a pity that the RN's Hunt Class minesweepers have recently had their Deltic engines replaced. Do the ones sold to Lithuania still have the Deltic?
An engine from 1943 seems a suitable comment on today's political state.
@huibmodderkolk By December 2021 the British had built forward logistics bases in Poland designed to supply materiel to Ukraine when Russia invaded.
The position of the Netherlands in JEF and immediate training support post-invasion suggests some Netherlands agencies understood the threat. 2/2
@huibmodderkolk The UK were concerned about the Russian military exercises on the Ukrainian border in April 2021, especially the fact that troops remained in situ. Planning immediately began to supply help in the case of an invasion, especially supplying armaments 1/2
@InsiderGeo@SONARROW_OSINT Transfer is completed in international waters more than 15 miles offshore, UK Sovereign bases are restricted to 3 miles. So transfers can only be monitored.
Where is the mother ship based or is it permanently at sea, is food resupply/crew rotation by the other tankers?
@Glen_Binnie@militaryhistori Superficial research into John Prophet, who'd taken two Bishops to the Papal court over mismanagement, with links to the Bohunes whose property was threatened by the Peasants Revolt, suggests that Tyler had overreached himself.
Prophet prepared the logistics for Agincourt....
@MattCouture5@QueenOfH4rts If New Zealand, South Africa, Samoa or Fiji were to start playing American football then it's doubtful that the United States would rank in the top four.
And that's just part of the Southern Hemisphere and ignores the north.
@militaryhistori@Telegraph The problem with being a dictator is retirement. A nearly impossible dream even if you pass it on to your children and you are as rich as Croesus.
Idi Amin did 'retire' to Jeddah, but is that retirement?
PS One of Putin's private yachts is currently en route to the Arctic....
@HistoryRage@authordlewis 1938 Lions tour of South Africa is a measure of the man. Losing at half time, through discipline, flair and bravery the Lions won 31-16 in the second and final test.
Very few of the Lions tourists of '36 or '38 played post-war, among them Prince Obolensky.
@CallOfTheLife@ScotForUnity The member countries of the Empire were becoming independent from 1867 with Canada. If the Great War hasn't begun in 1914 India would have been independent by about 1930.
The Great War kept the Empire going when Britain was trying to move to a Commonwealth.
@sweetcaralee@afshineemrani Unpasteurised, unhomogenised, full fat Jersey milk; the cream's pretty good too.
Danger of TB, now treatable, which my mother caught in 1944 spending three years in a sanitarium before becoming one of the trialists for streptomycin.
@LenderFeo36531@Sviynfylking@pelagiusreborn Everyone forgets that the Bohunes were descended from Llewellyn the Great, making Henry V more than a little Welsh.
You must be a Freeman of Llantrisant, quite a battle honour.
@Jwsing@AlllTheNonsense@Mylovanov Not quite true about the quickly coordinated NATO coalition.
Biden's first instinct was to offer Zelensky asylum which Johnson changed. Even then NATO was reticent though the JEF nations & Poland immediately supported Ukraine along with Canada & Australia.
Biden was hesitant.
@LenderFeo36531@Sviynfylking@pelagiusreborn Some of my ancestors were Normans who lived between the Bruis & Bohune families in Essex, the Welsh Marches and Scotland. One, John Prophete, was the first person to use English at the British court for the Minutes of Council - slightly younger than Geoffrey Chaucer.
@RobertH1947@chop983@pelagiusreborn And Γthelred the Unready's grandson, was it Eric the Exile, had become king after being sheltered in Sweden and Kyiv where he married a Hungarian.
Saxons, Norse and Celts all closely interrelated and all fighting over green temperate island centre of trade Britain.
@WarlordDilley@NJDevs82 Completely different levels of stamina and type of physique required.
A NFL player wouldn't survive 10 minutes in a Rugby match, two sports requiring muscle mass, because of lack of aerobic fitness. For a rugby player to move to NFL more muscle needed, less aerobic
@LenderFeo36531@Sviynfylking@pelagiusreborn No, the hint is in the name, NorseMan.
Normans from Essex became Queen of Norway, Isabel who was Robert the Bruce's sister, and Sweden (which included Denmark and Sweden), Philippa Henry V's youngest sister. All through common Viking bloodlines.
@chop983@RobertH1947@pelagiusreborn Robert the Bruce's sister Isabel was Queen of Norway. Meanwhile the Bruis's neighbours in Essex, the Bohunes, had Queen Philippa of England of Sweden which also included Denmark & Norway - her elder brother was Henry V.
The world was nearly ruled by Essex...