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Did they resolve the driveline problems yet?

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First episode on youtube of the new BBC documentary on the Queen Elizabeth deployment of 2021. Very good so far, particularly the second episode where the Russians go a bit postal.

 

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Thanks, Stuart!  That was a really good watch.  I subbed on YouTube and hope I can catch later episodes.

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8 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Glad you liked it, keep an eye open for episode 2, quite a bit of the USMC on that one.

Gotta show how silly the Yanks are... ;)

 

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Good series, just saw episode one of this.

Previous one was OK too, with destroyer, but this seems to be better. 

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Hms Daring? That was Channel 5, very good though. This is the BBC follow up to Britain's Biggest Warship, about the workup of Queen Elizabeth II. The filmer  has apparently written a book about it.

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It's interesting how many series on the Navy have been produced on British TV.

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Yep. And not one single one on the ruddy Royal Armoured Corp. :(

There was one I was watching on youtube the other day called Fighter Pilots, that aired long ago in 1981, about a squad of people joining the RAF, learning to fly. Disturbingly I can vividly recall it the first time around...

As always, check out 'Sailor' if you ever happened to miss it.

 

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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/anglo-french-row-erupts-over-breakdown-of-britain-s-3bn-aircraft-carrier/

 

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Yet the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier, which cost taxpayers £3bn, spent most of last year docked after problems were discovered with the vessel. A long-planned visit to the US was cancelled because of propeller issues, leaving its sister ship the HMS Queen Elizabeth II as Britain's operational carrier.

The consortium of the British and European companies that built the 65,000 tonne HMS Prince of Wales are now nervously awaiting a government report into the problem, amid calls for whoever is to blame to foot the bill for the damage.

“There's going to be quite a large amount of finger pointing,” says one industry insider. “It's a little bit embarrassing, let’s be honest.”

 

 

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On 1/31/2023 at 6:24 AM, Stuart Galbraith said:

Hms Daring? That was Channel 5, very good though. This is the BBC follow up to Britain's Biggest Warship, about the workup of Queen Elizabeth II. The filmer  has apparently written a book about it.

The workup series of the QEII was great

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Second episode of The Warship Tour of Duty was pretty good.

It is very amusing to see how different people RN and USMC are. 

I didn't know there is a thing called "Juneteenth", abolition of slavery celebration. 

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It's a shame the RN doesn't celebrate it more, after all, they did the lions share of ending it.

Have you got to the bit with the ruskies yet? Get a bit upset..

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46 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

It's a shame the RN doesn't celebrate it more, after all, they did the lions share of ending it.

Have you got to the bit with the ruskies yet? Get a bit upset..

Yep, Russkies did get upset a lot. :D

Amusing comments "their air force and navy don't seem to communicate a lot between them..." :D

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16 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Yeah, looking at Ukraine, funnily enough.. :D

 

I think next episode is out on Feb 24th, me thinks.

But it's refreshing to see something like that...them with no little self-irony at times.

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And the latest episode had Pride day. I can almost imagine the Tanknet reaction to that. :) Though to be honest, its only getting back to Royal Navy tradition, now all they need to do is reintroduce the lash and the Rum. :D

Oh, good bit with the Chinese Navy being foxed by the QE battlegroup doing EMCON. Despite lots of money they still seemingly have lots to learn.

 

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