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Monday, 16 February 2009

Sub Crash

According to The Daily Mail, the nuclear ballistic submarines HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant collided in the Atlantic on the night of February 3rd and Vanguard had to be towed back to Faslane.

If Vanguard had gone down, Britain's nuclear deterrent would have been reduced to a farce. As it is, we're going to be in a hell of a spot until Vanguard comes out of dry dock. Now that two bomber boats managed to ram into one another, maybe someone at the Admiralty MOD will wake up and realise that ships do tend to sink from time to time and that's why the Royal Navy needs at least a one-third surplus in every class of the fleet to absorb casualties.

If New Labour feels that this will cost too much, then maybe a few Jihadist clerics can do without their benefit cheques for a few weeks.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousTuesday, 17 February 2009 at 04:35:00 GMT-8

    no one had to be towed anywhere, so don't worry - we can still join in if someone starts a nuclear holocaust.


    btw do you work for the daily mail? i notice their two comparisons between the vanguard and le triomphant differ in their statistics. seems a bit careless.

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