Successor submarine shipyard gets £300m investment

More than £300m is to be invested in BAE Systems' submarine shipyard in Barrow, Cumbria, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.

The redevelopment paves the way for the Successor submarine project, which could replace the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent system.

The Successor vessels are due to replace the Vanguard fleet, which currently carry the missiles.

The move is expected to create hundreds of new jobs at the site. Read More HERE



The wishy washy Liberals and the great unwashed and Country hating Lefties think this is a waste of money, I think its great for my home town, long may submarine building continue in Barrow.

ARGENTINA USED WHALES FOR KAMIKAZE ATTACKS DURING FALKLANDS WAR

A British warship fired on and killed three whales during the Falklands War after mistaking them for enemy submarines.
The startling revelation is contained within new eyewitness accounts of the tense days aboard anti-submarine frigate HMS Brilliant during the 1982 conflict in the southern seas.
Radar on the Royal Navy ship was unable to distinguish between attacking 'Wolf Packs' of subs and a pod of whales.
In one instance, two of the mammals were killed by torpedoes and the third was attacked by one of the ship’s helicopters. Engineer Ginge Offord, whose account was written five years ago and only just been published on www.hmsbrilliant.com - a site dedicated to recording the testimony of crew for posterity.
In an extract from his experience of the Falklands War, he wrote: 'During the day we went to Action Stations a number of times as we were receiving reports of enemy aircraft taking off from their bases on the mainland. They were chased off by our CAP (combat air patrol).'Searches and attacks went on until darkness, when we broke off and headed back to the main group.
'Our tally for the day was a pair of whales. Sadly, their signature on sonar is similar to that of a submarine. The torpedo Petty Officer gained the sobriquet "Wolf Pack".' Read More  HERE   

MILITARY PIC OF THE DAY

The war is over and US forces are being demobilized back to peacetime status. Here, 52 submarines and 4 submarine tenders of the US Navy Reserve Fleet rest in Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, circa Jan 1946.

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THE SILENT SERVICE

David Cameron buys six new submarines

Its an old saying but Charity really does begin at home. David Cameron would obviously deny that he has just helped Pakistan buy six new submarines with his very generous £650 million hand out of British tax payers money, but that’s what most rational British people are thinking today.  Like India there is no doubt that there is poverty in Pakistan , but surely their own Governments should be held responsible for some of it. If they can afford Nuclear weapons and an army navy and air force bigger than ours and splash out on six new Chinese submarines then there is something morally and from our point of view economically wrong with their Country. At a time when the UK is facing the most sever cuts since world war two, Cameron not only angers the whole Country with massive payments to dodgy Governments he actually increases the overseas aid budget. Our Royal Navy is little more than a coastal defence force at the moment and we would struggle to say the least if Argentina was to try to invade the Falklands again , luckily Argentina is skint as well. Yes we have Nuclear weapons but we would never use them unless we were actually hit with one first in my opinion. So Trident is useless against most threats we face today including the defence of the Falklands. To simplify things I believe we should run our Country as we would run our own households. Imagine if you were hard up but managed to save for years for a family trip to Disney land and a week before you are about to go, your Father decides that he has donated all of the holiday money to a family down the road who spend most of their time selling and using drugs and committing vandalism including damaging your car and assaulting you sister? Doesn’t make any sense does it, well that’s how angry Cameron is making the ordinary people of great Britain feel. If Gordon Brown was Prime Minister (Remember him) I would not have been surprised at all at these type of decisions, but you would expect better from a so called Conservative Prime Minister. The truth is if their was an election tomorrow he would be toast and Labour would win with a landslide and be in power for the next decade and so the cycle continues. Even if Mickey Mouse himself was in charge of this crumbling Country he would make sure his buddy Pluto and his missus Minnie were living well before splashing the cash on others. Never mind Disney Cloud Cuckoo comes to mind with tweedle dum and tweedle dummer in charge.

You didn't think I meant for the Royal Navy did you?