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Listed below are comments made by me6677 between Wednesday, 1st July 2009 and Wednesday, 1st July 2009.

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Shipyard closure threat 00:55am on 01 Jul 2009 This is part of a step by step plan to end warship building in the UK all together with eventual disbanding of the Royal Navy. A recent think tank report reommended cutting the Type 45 destroyers , carriers and Astute submarines from future defence plans leaving NO NEW Warships for the UK!
Another bombshell likely to appear is the disbanding of the army units in Germany and cutting troop numbers down to below 48,000 from 98,000 currently.
This leaves the RAF next for the chop. Hints are already flying that the new A400 transport plane will be cancelled along with next generation of air tankers.Ths Joint Strike Foighter also will be cancelled along with cutting the Typhoon Euro Fighter from 232 to 96 and cutting number off training aircraft by 50%.

The projected level of strength for the armed forces would be roughtly as follows;

Army 48,000 manpower with 200 tanks and 600 other armed vehicles.

Royal navy 11,000 manpower 4 type 45 destroyers , 8 Type 23 Frigates and 3 Astute Subs plus 2 ampibious assult ships and 12 smaller vessels.

RAF 11,000 manpower 96 Euro Fighters and some 130 other transport , training and search rescue.

Not much to defend the UK from a re-arming Russia and no voice in the world at large . Those figures are not likely to see the end of the defence cuts but are long term targets to be reached in the next couple of years

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