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Pcar - MoD + Witham
Abandoned and repurposed HUMVEES seem a staple of Iraqi forces at the moment in addition getting the better of headchopper Qatari Hiluxes
Witham have had some notable cake and eat it moments - The Parachute Regiment's Supacats fiasco comes direct to mind - MoD sent them off to be refurbed, got 'em back, sold 'em (via Witham for less than the cost of the refurb (£7k iirc)) - decided they needed them pronto (Paras deployed to Afghanistan on foot...) so sent out man with EIIR battered briefcase of cash and bought 'em back for £13k each.
I recall that in 2003 the MoD sold off most all the stock of ceramic plate personal body armor they'd just bought - and went on to lie about it after that sergeant was killed ... and his widow kicked off.
There have been some very strange items up for sale on with the ever changing MoD disposal agents (not Witham) - dozens of heavy (50T load?) rough terrain earthmoving trucks - brand new and unused (pimples still on the tyres)
Apr 15, 2018 at 12:10 AM | Registered Commenterstewgreen
@Clipe sounds like a Chinook type event as if weather coming from frozen mountains
Nope, polar air mass meets equivalent of late August sun.
Rising temperatures overnight with rain "at times heavy" on top of 10-15cm of ice pellets with a layer of freezing rain on top of that.
Where's the rain to go with the sewer grates covered in packed ice?
https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?on24#211423503610602139201804150503ww1171cwto
@tomo, Apr 16, 2018 at 1:16 AM
Team Head-choppers Disunited:
The alt-left extremist organisation Antifascist Action, or Antifa, has taken credit for the firebombing of a Turkish mosque in the German city of Kassel.
“The action is part of the militant campaign in solidarity with the Kurdish canton of Afrin and the revolution in Rojava,” they said.
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The firebombing is just the latest in a series of attacks by extremists on mosques across Germany. Earlier this month, four Syrian asylum seekers were arrested after attacking another Turkish mosque in Ulm and the Turkish government has blamed the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for a series of other attacks.
Antifa and the PKK are known to be allies in their fight against the Turkish government in Germany having marched alongside each other to protest the conflict in Afrin last month.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lashed out against the German government in the past, claiming that the country harbours sympathisers of the PKK which is designated a terror group by the USA, UK, and others.
In USA antifa attack anti-muslim immigration people; in Germany antifa attack muslim immigrants. Antifa Germany support anti-ISIS Kurds who USA & UK support, but outlaw. And .......
Yet May has dragged us further into this surreal war where everyone is everyone's friend and enemy.
stewgreen
Nice work if you can get it - Jonathan Beale copy 'n pasting RAF press releases - for likely what? - £70k a year?
Don't see any brave BBC reporters based in Syria ... Beirut seems popular though.
I wonder if the different head choppers sponsored by different parts of the US spook effort are still fighting each other?
@stewgreen, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:51 PM
The UK Ministry of Defence has said that the four Typhoon fighters flew "in support" of the four Tornado jets which carried out strikes on Syria
Russia and thus Syria were notified in advance of time & targets, hence low casualties.
Typhoons were eye-candy to justify their existence. Tornados launched Stormshadow from >100 miles outside Syrian airspace. It wasn't an attack, it was a turkey shoot.
It's a game being played by Trump & Putin to put China & DRNK back in their box. SJW May doesn't understand.
Apr 15, 2018 at 11:51 PM | stewgreen
Fighters and missiles may have been launched to defend Syria. It would be logical for the RAF to go equipped to defend themselves, even though their Mission was not to degrade Syria's Air Defence capability.
As this Mission was apparently accomplished, any subsequent Mission would require the destruction of a different Target, and this might involve degradation of Syria's Air Defence capability. Assad knows this, and I expect Russia does too.
BBC 17:52 14 Apr
\\Typhoon fighters deployed 'in support' by UK
The UK Ministry of Defence has said that the four Typhoon fighters flew "in support" of the four Tornado jets which carried out strikes on Syria, according to BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.
The MOD did not confirm the role of the Typhoons, but they can carry air-to-air missiles.//
Syria
Nigel Farage Slams Theresa May over Syria, Strikes ‘Not in National Interest’
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Major General Jonathan Shaw: President Assad did not cause the deadly chemical attack in Douma
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnbLPQOdrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgj7gRvsjMU
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On RAF: BBC reported that Stormshadows (air to ground Tomahawk) were launched by Tornados.
Typhoon? No, can't do that, it's still being adapted - at huge cost - for air to ground.
Tornado to be scrapped later this year/early next year as no money (plenty for DFID to give to dictators).
RAF will then be like RN: equipped for but not with. What's next, scrap SA-80? Army equipped for but not with guns?
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