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Originally Posted by u crank (Post 2205240)

http://i.imgur.com/72Uxy9u.jpg

Right on! Sorry guys.

My eyes must have been misty in the channel spray! :salute::timeout:

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2205024)

I'm wondering if our naval personnel were busy playing bowls at the time :)

Nah Mate, but a good game of Uckers is a possibility :arrgh!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uckers

Cheers

gary

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2205024)

I'm wondering if our naval personnel were busy playing bowls at the time :)

Indeed! Sir Francis Drake whilst playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe is informed of the approaching Spanish Armada. " Time enough for another game and still beat the Spaniard!"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...tTavistock.jpg

Would never have guessed.

Meet and Greet? It's the ENGLISH CHANNEL comrade!

HMS DRAGON. vigilance in the channel

HMS Dragon met the taskforce off the coast of Brest as they entered the English Channel.
The Type 45 Destroyer, one of the Royal Navy’s most technically advancedhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png warships, was able to pinpoint and monitor the movement of the seven-strong group led by Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov as it approached the UK.
As the Royal Navy’s Fleet Ready Escort – a designated Royal Navy Frigate or Destroyer that is maintained at high-readiness for UK home waters – HMS Dragon made ready her 200-strong ship’s company and sailed from Portsmouth.
Once the ships spotted each other they briefly sailed close by as a standard ‘meet and greet’.
As well as the Kuznetsov, the task group included the Kirov Class nuclear powered battle cruiser Pyotr Velikiy; three tankers; Segey Osipov, Kama and Dubna; one Ocean-going Tug Altay and the Landing Support Ship Minsk.
Minister for the Armed Forces Mark Francois said: “This routine action by HMS Dragon, in her capacity as the Fleet Ready Escort, once again underlines the professionalism and credibility of the Royal Navy in keeping the whole of the UK secure at and from the sea." No playing bowls this time!:salute:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...D_45153124.jpg https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8f...706700785a.jpg

Those SU33's look deceptively nice :D

As were Tomcats in their last days. Their era is coming to an end. MiG-29 KUB are much smaller but have more air-to-sea and air-to-ground options. Indians like them but they never had Su-33's...

HMS Dragon looks nice too :-) I will certainly build a model of her in 1/350 scale after completing JMSDF ATAGO and our Steregushiy corvette.

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Originally Posted by Dmitry Markov (Post 2205395)

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/i...n-airfix-1350/

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2205566)

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/i...n-airfix-1350/

That's one very nice done!!

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Originally Posted by Dmitry Markov (Post 2206356)

That's one very nice done!!

Yeah, probably the best example I've come across so far :cool: