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HMS Diamond re-arms in Gibraltar ahead of re-deployment to Middle East
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Күн бұрынCommander British Forces has said he is proud to have HMS Diamond at the Naval Base.
Commodore Tom Guy has described it as a great demonstration of the utility of Gibraltar.
HMS Diamond has just returned from the Middle East where she has been part of an operation to secure commercial shipping in the Red Sea, following attacks by Houthi Rebels in Yemen.
The ship was visited by the Chief Minister today, who said the ship's presence was an example of how important Gibraltar can be in such a volatile world.
@Backwardlooking 5 ай бұрын
✌️🇬🇮✌️🏴🇬🇧❤️ My father enjoyed your hospitality many times on precious shore leave from the Royal Navy during the Second World War when serving on Malta convoys and those to South Africa and Britain. Semper Fidelis. 👍🏻🇬🇧
@petermclelland278 5 ай бұрын
The mod are "counting the missiles out & they'll be counting them back in"
@EppingBlogger 5 ай бұрын
It is clearly not cost effective to continue to use Sea Viper to shoot down drones, but to some degree it might be good practice.
@Fester_ 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for that. It looked warm there. Very comfortable weather. I am gritting my teeth with jealousy . Gibraltar - beautiful British name.
@Bimboysize15 5 ай бұрын
The anti air soft ware for the 4.5 gun was not updatesd as the politicians did not see a need.
@davidrobertsemail 5 ай бұрын
There should be at least 15 type 45s instead of 6. Also using million pound missiles to shoot down cheap drones is insane.
@stuka101 5 ай бұрын
Yep its insane, but its better than them getting through. Tech will emerge in no time to counter drones, people aren't ignoring this now.
@jakehayes1998 5 ай бұрын
@@stuka101 they did use guns to be fair for some of them.
@stuka101 5 ай бұрын
@@jakehayes1998 whys this reply at me lmao
@wertrocks123 5 ай бұрын
First time any royal navy ship has fired in anger in 30 years. We simply have not needed a large number of ships for a very long time.
@ivorlewis1739 5 ай бұрын
I why does no one have anything 🎉positive good to say about our armed forces we are still amongst the best !!
@jasonking6892 5 ай бұрын
Where are our so called allies just the 🇬🇧 🇺🇲 thats it Where are the Finnish
@englishdecorator 5 ай бұрын
That's scuppered the treaty then...
@josephhaack5711 5 ай бұрын
Got cruise missiles this time?
@user-xw9if1nu8q 5 ай бұрын
Why not re-arm in Bahrain ...... or Cyprus perhaps? Finding a place to re-load vertical stack missiles is a constraint on the activities of these vessels.
@cease_requiem6034 5 ай бұрын
the royal navy wants to make sure the missiles are stored safely, and they'd rather trust their own territories than elsewhere
@Belisarius1967 5 ай бұрын
Security. Lots of unfriendly and some friendly states would like a chance to get a close up view of her missiles.
@tabyomper4745 5 ай бұрын
Storage.Only The Rock has secure storage facilities dating back to WW2. There bomb proof and are still solid today.
@st1nk1n 5 ай бұрын
So if the RN is gearing up to patrol the South China Sea, not the best system if you can't replenish at sea. Essentially the strike group could only stay ini theatre whilst the escorts have missiles and then any war would be over ahahah
@mattgummerson8370 5 ай бұрын
@@st1nk1n it can be done in Australia and Singapore
@darshanaratnayake6186 5 ай бұрын
48 missiles wore fully inadequate
@andylees2940 5 ай бұрын
Lol sea vipers to knock down drones! Ridiculous! Unaffordable! The UK does not have a proportionate defence mechanism against these sorts of drones, I mean we are not talking reaper type drones here we’re talking about $50k bits of kit.
@kaychanc 5 ай бұрын
They are trying to remedy this with sea ceptor cells. Far cheaper.
@drjojo4624 5 ай бұрын
That’s why there is a type 22 with Sea Ceptor out there now. They’re a fraction of the cost of sea vipers.
@christurton5074 5 ай бұрын
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