http://www.military.com/news/article/August-2009/russia-plans-purchase-of-french-warship.html
All you Cold War warriors in shock? I bet Stalins turning in his grave
All you Cold War warriors in shock? I bet Stalins turning in his grave
Russia buys FRENCH Warship
- Thread starter WhizzbangDai
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The Frogs never have a problem with selling military equipment to whosoever has the shekels to pay for it.
When the British government took the moral high ground about arms sales to South Africa in the late sixties/early seventies, the frogs leapt into the sales gap that we had left, supplying whatever the South african defence forces wanted.
I could never understand how submarines and supersonic jet fighters could reinforce the policy of apartheid.
When the British government took the moral high ground about arms sales to South Africa in the late sixties/early seventies, the frogs leapt into the sales gap that we had left, supplying whatever the South african defence forces wanted.
I could never understand how submarines and supersonic jet fighters could reinforce the policy of apartheid.
Yep.
Another of RumRation's myths which can't be fixed by facts; the French were bastards for selling the Argentines Exocet. We'd never do a thing like that.
So the fact that this thread (if the interweb had been around in the early 1980s) could be titled Argentina buys BRITISH warship is particularly ironic.
To be filed with the other cracking RR myth - also Falklands related.
"The Conservatives are the party of the Navy. Margaret Thatcher loved the Service."
Despite the fact that she tried to destroy the Navy in the 1981 Defence Review as part of her ridiculous defence cost-cutting exercise; an event which in itself helped give the Argentinians confidence to invade the islands, and thus indirectly cost the lives of a number of service personnel.
Another of RumRation's myths which can't be fixed by facts; the French were bastards for selling the Argentines Exocet. We'd never do a thing like that.
So the fact that this thread (if the interweb had been around in the early 1980s) could be titled Argentina buys BRITISH warship is particularly ironic.
To be filed with the other cracking RR myth - also Falklands related.
"The Conservatives are the party of the Navy. Margaret Thatcher loved the Service."
Despite the fact that she tried to destroy the Navy in the 1981 Defence Review as part of her ridiculous defence cost-cutting exercise; an event which in itself helped give the Argentinians confidence to invade the islands, and thus indirectly cost the lives of a number of service personnel.
The russkies will have to fumigate the ship first in a big way!been on one and it minged quite a bit.
The French may have stopped selling the Exos after the Falklands started but it was because of Thatcher pressure at that time.
A question of stop it or trade embargos will be put in place,they stopped it, but I remember seeing news clips of the cheering workman in an Exocet factory when it was announced an Exo had hit a UK warship.
I have no time for them nor them for us.Suits me
The French may have stopped selling the Exos after the Falklands started but it was because of Thatcher pressure at that time.
A question of stop it or trade embargos will be put in place,they stopped it, but I remember seeing news clips of the cheering workman in an Exocet factory when it was announced an Exo had hit a UK warship.
I have no time for them nor them for us.Suits me
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