Brexit, for once some facts.
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The test card gets severely monotonous.
(For those with grey/white hair, if any at all.)
Showing your age there Oyster.The test card gets severely monotonous.
(For those with grey/white hair, if any at all.)
Apparently the Ukranians have removed tweet saying engine fire brought plane down.
Iranians are refusing to release flight box and there are reports fusalage is peppered with holes.
But there were 70 Iranians killed on board??
All sheer madness.
Iranians are refusing to release flight box and there are reports fusalage is peppered with holes.
But there were 70 Iranians killed on board??
All sheer madness.
Highest probability has to be a local air defence error surely?
My god! now this truly shocking headline
"- Boris Johnson due to appear at PMQs from midday today
As if things weren't bad enough already
"- Boris Johnson due to appear at PMQs from midday today
As if things weren't bad enough already
From Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-kuwait-us-idUSKBN1Z71I9?taid=5e15ca59b19b7e000192f39a&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Kuwait receives letter saying all U.S. forces to leave in three days: KUNA
Wow!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-kuwait-us-idUSKBN1Z71I9?taid=5e15ca59b19b7e000192f39a&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Kuwait receives letter saying all U.S. forces to leave in three days: KUNA
Wow!
Boris just said we have helped forge a "European response" to the Iran situation.
I wonder if for just a moment he questions the import of those words?
Nah! not a chance in a million is there?
I wonder if for just a moment he questions the import of those words?
Nah! not a chance in a million is there?
There was one of those very droll deadpan l NI comedians who had a full routine based on this... He would start with. We got a television .It was wonderful ,we would watch it for hours... Sometimes we might switch it on. Then he would move on to what happened to those little grey people who got smaller and smaller when you turned it off, while they were still there. Did they still live in the dot?The test card gets severely monotonous.
(For those with grey/white hair, if any at all.)
Maybe or yet another drone strike or sabotage? The first victim of war is truth.so it seems
that is usually the case but I as the accident happened so close to Tehran, I think the probability of American drones shooting it down is near zero.
Getting back to brexit, Ursula Von der Leyen is now looking to extend the implementation period.
She used to be a student at the LSE:
She may do a lot better than her predecessor, JC Juncker.
General opinion within the EU is that the BJ implementation period is very unrealistic. The EU Trade Commissioner ..or as we call him Big Phil has been saying this for some time. He came back to Ireland fir the Christmas Hols.
Eye witness accounts suggest a fire or flames at one of the engines in the UA aircraft. .. Hence my suggestion of sabotage. A small incendiary set to 8000 ft . Perhaps our resident aviation expert might comment? The Iranians are refusing to send the black boxes back to Boeing, In light of Boeing's current credibility not an unreasonable call. There are presumably plenty of airlines and unaligned countries with the necessary simulators, and analysis .
No, that was Tillson but he's gone away. I don't think we have any aviation experts on this thread any more.
the Trump just appeared on the News
"We suffered no casualties and there was minimal damage, iran appears to be standing down."
As I posted earlier, we now are told four of the 22 missiles launched missed their targets .
So we have 18 missiles with 500lb warheads (allegedly) thats 9000lbs of high explosives
Targetted with such a degree of high precision to do so little damage and to cause no casualties.
On two air bases at that.
This must quality as the most expensive waste of sophisticated ballistic missiles in the entire history of war, or was it?
There's a definite smell of Rodent about the situation
This reader's comments in the Independent are in line with mine
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MichaelWME4 hours ago
The attacks on Erbil and al-Asad were with missiles having no warheads or very small warheads that managed to evade all the US anti-missile defences. The idea was to try to demonstrate to the US (probably without success) that Iran is quite capable of a devastating attack, by sending a warning that caused no harm to any personnel. If Trump lets it go on the grounds that no one got hurt, we’ve just de-escalated. If not, ...
"We suffered no casualties and there was minimal damage, iran appears to be standing down."
As I posted earlier, we now are told four of the 22 missiles launched missed their targets .
So we have 18 missiles with 500lb warheads (allegedly) thats 9000lbs of high explosives
Targetted with such a degree of high precision to do so little damage and to cause no casualties.
On two air bases at that.
This must quality as the most expensive waste of sophisticated ballistic missiles in the entire history of war, or was it?
There's a definite smell of Rodent about the situation
This reader's comments in the Independent are in line with mine
"
MichaelWME4 hours ago
The attacks on Erbil and al-Asad were with missiles having no warheads or very small warheads that managed to evade all the US anti-missile defences. The idea was to try to demonstrate to the US (probably without success) that Iran is quite capable of a devastating attack, by sending a warning that caused no harm to any personnel. If Trump lets it go on the grounds that no one got hurt, we’ve just de-escalated. If not, ...
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He came back as 50hz...Its fashionable to change your ID these days..
it this is true, then it's a good move from the Iranians.