HMS Daring: Royal Navy sends destroyer to fight Isis

[Onkel Neal]

HMS Daring: Royal Navy sends destroyer to fight Isis despite concerns over warship’s reliability

The Royal Navy is sending a destroyer to help in the fight against Isis, despite concerns that the warship’s advanced engine system could break down in the warm waters of the Persian Gulf.

The £1bn HMS Daring will be tasked with protecting American aircraft carriers during bombing raids on militant targets, according to the Defence Secretary, and sets sail from Portsmouth on Friday.

Michael Fallon said the deployment showed all three branches of the Armed Forces were “making a real difference around the world”.

Daring will take over the responsibilities of HMS Defender, another of the UK’s six Type 45 destroyers, which returned to Portsmouth at the start of July following a nine-month operation

[Ashikaga]

And still Europeans are surprised at retaliatory Terrorist attacks.

Well I hope the UK can make a difference.

Dutch F-16's flew about 2200 sorties over the area bombing the **** out of Daesh.

Luckily no attacks here yet. Knocking on wood.



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[Aktungbby]

We need all the help we can get ....now that it's a shooting war We can turn the Persian Gulf into an 'English speaking Lake' as well: https://news.usni.org/2016/08/24/video-destroyer-uss-nitze-harassed-iranian-patrol-boats USS Nitze seems to have a flair for engaging the enemy EDIT: here's the real problem imho. The ragheads may well be using a Marine General's Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document, demanding a response within 24 hours. Thus warned of Blue's approach, Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships. This included one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected

Blue water Navies, since the Spanish Armada for example, do not do well in restricted waters....

[Ashikaga]

I would say.... Bring back the Mandate States and Colonialism.

They have had their chance to prove they could have self determination.
All of them massively failed.





Ashikaga

[Mr Quatro]

I think we just drop a bunch of agent orange on isis and let them complain to the United Nations