Russian Aircraft Carrier In The Channel...

[janzman]

...just watched footage of this and noted the ship's number as '063' and thought of this...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uss+missouri&rlz=1C2CAFB_enGB657GB657&biw=1280&bih=628&tbm=isch&imgil=wFn1NnMqbTcqcM%253A%253ByeoXSVsg7-FrYM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fen.wikipedia.org%25252Fwiki%25252FUSS_Missouri_(BB-63)&source=iu&pf=m&fir=wFn1NnMqbTcqcM%253A%252CyeoXSVsg7-FrYM%252C_&usg=__HI8InZClAJ8deOuvaEolVhzG3ac%3D&dpr=1.5&ved=0ahUKEwiK37_21OvPAhVGVxoKHevcC7EQyjcIPQ&ei=huoJWIqEE8auaeu5r4gL#imgrc=wFn1NnMqbTcqcM%3A

[Gromit]

Why?

[anotheoldgit]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Missouri_post_refit.JPG

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3858514/Russia-s-attack-fleet-closes-Dover-Putin-s-warships-prepare-enter-English-Channel-TODAY-way-launch-strikes-Syria.html

Why do the Russians need to send so many ships through to the Mediterranean, when all they need is the aircraft carrier?

Could we have refused them entry into English waters or are they in fact international waters?

And lastly where in all this is the French navy?

[anotheoldgit]

An excerpt from the poem 'Drake's Drum'

"Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore,
Strike et when your powder's runnin' low;
If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven,
An' drum them up the Channel as we drumm'd them long ago."

[jno]

yes, it's international waters.

[youngmafbog]

It's International waters and certainly no danger. No one in their right mind would take an aircraft carrier through the straits of Dover and start up a fight, it would be a sitting duck.

It's just the Ruskies sabre rattling, no doubt we do it too but it does not get published.

[Bazile]

//Defence Secretary Michael Fallon admitted today's show of force by the Russians was intended to test Nato's capabilities //

How ?

[ichkeria]

It's en route from Severomorsk to stoke up tensions in the eastern Med, and the English Channel happens to be the quickest route.
I think the feeling is we can't just let it go without some sort of "we're watching you" response, and of course they will use its proximity to UK shores to try and pick up any useful comms as well as visual obs

[ichkeria]

By "they" I meant "us" :-)

[jno]

da, tovarich