Dutch military cleans house

TLAM Strike · 04-08-11, 06:40 AM

http://www.nisnews.nl/public/080411_2.htm

You Britons think you got it bad? The Dutch just caned 17 Cougar Helicopters, 4 Mine Sweepers, all 60 of its Leopard tanks, 1/3 of its F-16s and 6,000 troops.

Blood_splat · 04-08-11, 08:05 AM

Don't worry Team America is your military.

Arclight · 04-08-11, 08:31 AM

Yay.

We can do without the Leopards, but sizing down the navy and airforce doesn't seem very sensible at this point.

Oberon · 04-08-11, 08:34 AM

Ouch, unlucky chaps. Pretty soon we'll be relying on France to defend us all.

Herr-Berbunch · 04-08-11, 09:21 AM

What you need to do is store the F16s, increase the price, and then in a couple of years we'll buy them when we realise we do need some aircraft in the air force (but we won't undergo a maintenance contract!). Then a couple of years after that we'll sell them back at a heavily discounted rate.

What? That's the way it works, isn't it?

Matador.es · 04-08-11, 09:53 AM

its horrible

Oberon · 04-08-11, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

What you need to do is store the F16s, increase the price, and then in a couple of years we'll buy them when we realise we do need some aircraft in the air force (but we won't undergo a maintenance contract!). Then a couple of years after that we'll sell them back at a heavily discounted rate.

What? That's the way it works, isn't it?

That sounds about right.

We could do with some F-16s.

04-08-11, 06:40 AM	#1
TLAM Strike Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 8,633 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 6	Dutch military cleans house http://www.nisnews.nl/public/080411_2.htm You Britons think you got it bad? The Dutch just caned 17 Cougar Helicopters, 4 Mine Sweepers, all 60 of its Leopard tanks, 1/3 of its F-16s and 6,000 troops. __________________

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Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	Yay. We can do without the Leopards, but sizing down the navy and airforce doesn't seem very sensible at this point. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

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Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	What you need to do is store the F16s, increase the price, and then in a couple of years we'll buy them when we realise we do need some aircraft in the air force (but we won't undergo a maintenance contract!). Then a couple of years after that we'll sell them back at a heavily discounted rate. What? That's the way it works, isn't it? __________________

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Blood_splat Samurai Navy Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Beneath the waves Posts: 568 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Don't worry Team America is your military.

04-08-11, 08:34 AM	#4
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Ouch, unlucky chaps. Pretty soon we'll be relying on France to defend us all.

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Matador.es Chief Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 327 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	its horrible