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The Royal Navy will test its ability to deal with major events, such as a terrorist attack on the Olympics, in a major exercise next week.
The Joint Warrior exercise involving forces from Europe and North America is aimed at creating a task group that can be deployed to major global incidents.
About 8,000 personnel and 30 warships will take part in the training drill off the west coast of Scotland.
Originally posted by ho chi minh
Don't really see how warships
are going to be effective against
terrorists in an urban area.!
What next ,cluster bombs to prevent
fare dodgers on the underground?
The Joint Warrior exercise involving forces from Europe and North America is aimed at creating a task group that can be deployed to major global incidents.
Originally posted by diddy1234
maybe some [SNIP] head will sail over from Calais with a bomb on a boat.
that's about the only effective way the Navy could do something.
or maybe it is to stop the presenters of top gear doing this again !
Originally posted by ho chi minh
Don't really see how warships
are going to be effective against
terrorists in an urban area.!
What next ,cluster bombs to prevent
fare dodgers on the underground?
Originally posted by Mart0
The Joint Warrior exercise involving forces from Europe and North America is aimed at creating a task group that can be deployed to major global incidents.
Is nobody noticing the fact that they are putting together a real "World Police" that would seem to have jurisdiction everywhere? But no, Let's focus on this non-event and pat each other on the back for noticing it while the real news passes right by.
Originally posted by kamatty
The river thames runs through the heart of london witch would be good cause to have the navy involved, not that anyone would fill a speedboat full of explos.......oh yea iran......hmmmm.... (sorry couldnt resist)