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Australia's premier scale model boat club

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@JordyVanDemLemb @redsteeze Yes, American can be.

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@redsteeze Idiot, listen and learn.

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@jimgeraghty So what?

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@MmunirZaman @BullTheoryio @KatoHus56872326 The US is a net exporter of oil and gas, and is free from having to buy oil from the Middle East.

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@BerryBigX @DeptofWar @grok 1982 Falklands War, HMS Conqueror sank the Argentinian cruiser Belgrano, before that 1971 when the Pakistani sub Hangor sank the Indian frigate Khukri during the 1971 war.

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@BerisfordRon That looks like Vindeman.

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@BillMelugin_ @jahimes You should get out more then congresscritter.

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Details of these 'issues', rather than vaguely worded innuendo, would be appreciated.

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USS Pinckney (DDG-91) is a @USNavy Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA) Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. Pinckney, named after a WW2 Navy Cross winner, forms part of Destroyer Squadron 23, the @SurfaceWarriors, based in San Diego.

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HMAS Bathurst (ACPB 85), named for the city of Bathurst, New South Wales, is an Armidale class patrol boat of the @Australian_Navy. Commissioned in 2006. Bathurst is based in Darwin and performs border protection and fisheries protection patrols.

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The @TaskForce72Aust display was quite the hit with attendees at Indo-Pacific 2025, with a surprising number of Chiefs of Navy and their equivalents walking past, seeing the models and making a bee line for the display. Boys and their toys, something we completely understand.

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If you are attending this week's Indo-Pacific Maritime Expo at the @ICCSyd, check out the @TaskForce72Aust display opposite the entrance to the exhibition areas, all three days. Drop by and say hi, we'd love to meet you and have a chat.

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HMCS Annapolis was an Annapolis-class destroyer that served in the @RoyalCanNavy and later, the @CanadianForces. Entering service in 1964, and serving through the Cold War, Annapolis was heavily refitted in 1985-87 and finally decommissioned in 1998.

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USCGC Chase (WHEC-718) of the @uscoastguard was a Hamilton class 378 foot high endurance cutter that served from 1968 to 2011, including the Vietnam War, assisting Cuban refugees in 1981's Mariel Boatlift and 1983's Operation Urgent Fury as well as the War on Drugs.

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HMS Savage was an S class destroyer of the @RoyalNavy, serving as the test bed for the 4.5 inch twin mounting intended for the later Battle class destroyers. She saw active service in the Arctic including the Battle of North Cape, where the German battleship Scharnhorst was sunk.

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HMS Kent, the lead ship of the @RoyalNavy's County class cruisers, commissioned in 1928 and saw service in the Atlantic, the Indian and Arctic oceans and the Mediterranean in WW2. She paid off in 1945 and was scrapped in 1948.

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MV Besant, operated by @SercoGroup Asia Pacific, provides submarine rescue services to the @Australian_Navy. Besant has an large work deck for containerised modules, a large capacity crane and is outfitted with a submarine rescue system which van mate with all allied submarines.

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HMS Lincoln was a Salisbury class aircraft direction frigate of the @RoyalNavy, providing radar picket duties for carrier task forces and guiding friendly interceptors to their targets. She served from 1960 to 1981 and was scrapped in 1983 after service in the 'Cod Wars'.

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HMS Laforey was the leader of the @RoyalNavy's WW2 L class of destroyers. Laforey spent much of her career in the Mediterranean, and was eventually lost there, sunk by the German submarine U-223 off Naples, in an action the German submarine did not survive.

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The @NATO Frigate Replacement 90 was a program to supply a baseline frigate hull to all NATO navies, but it fell apart over competing national demands and national industry protection. Here's a partially complete conjectural @ItalianNavy NFR-90, Giuseppe Trevisani.