The Impending Nuclear Apocalypse

[Easy-X]

As I've been chastised that modern day slavery is a trivial topic when it comes to Hollywood mini-celebs maybe, just maybe this subject is a wee bit more serious:

HMS Defender: What will be the fallout from Black Sea incident?

Poor choice of words on the part of BBC News Or is it...

There are as ever a lot of flash points around the world but the major powers casually banding about "use of nuclear weapons" is, AFAIK, something we haven't heard since the Cold War
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[Ste]

We Found 5 Clips With "Nuclear Apocalypse"

How disappointing.

[stinkwheel]

Absolutely nothing will come of it. In the same way nothing ultimately comes of the Russians flying strategic nuclear bombers into UK airspace over Shetland on a regular basis (and have been doing since the 1950's).

Same way nothing ultimately came of Russia sailing their aircraft carrier into the Medeterranian a couple of years back.

Lots of noise and protest, followed by discussions and diplomacy.

Do you think the armaments carried by a couple of soviet warplanes unduly concern a type 45 destroyer after the lessons we learned in the Falklands?

Do you think for one minute the Defender had no backup? I'm sure it's defences ran deeper than you'd imagine... So to speak.

All they are doing is reminding Russia not to get too comfortable about getting away with it.
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[chickenstrip]

This thread was my idea, go get your own!
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[Polarbear]

Dr, Strangelove says 'Nuke the bastards'

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[stinkwheel]

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[Im-a-Ridah]

That's an air defence destroyer, it has loads of ways to zap a plane. Short (~40km) and medium range (~120km) extremely agile very high speed air defence missiles, 2 CIWS which are 20-30mm robotic chainguns "cannons" designed for shooting down anti-shipping missiles, plus other "cannons" and miniguns! Even if there was a war it wouldn't go nuclear, people seem to have this weird idea that wars are all or nothing as per the cold war. Now its all about slicing the salami to get what you want.

[hellkat]

Oooo ... that reminds me!

Whilst I was on the loose up in Norfolkshire this week, I saw something that looked vaguely like this on Wednesday, although I think it was darker, and I couldnt see any markings, it was too high up (and I am too shortsighted ).

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Except it was actually flying, it flew up out of some farmland rolling hills type area, over the top of us, and out towards the air bases further inland, we assumed. But it was a very funky shape. The consort I was with at the time suggested it might be a vertical take off and landing vehicle.
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[RhynoCZ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9D6GNzpmkM

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[Easy-X]

A game of chicken with conventional weapons sounds quite entertaining but when one of the players is sitting on the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the known universe it kinda takes the edge off it
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[chickenstrip]

[chickenstrip]

And what about Biden? Or more particularly, his handlers in the shadows? *shivers*
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[Easy-X]

[Easy-X]

Oh, and this seems rather conveniently timed:

Classified Ministry of Defence documents found at bus stop

"found in a soggy heap behind a bus stop by a member of the public" could you get any more clichéd?!
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[stinkwheel]

[chickenstrip]

[Polarbear]

An observation on the documents found behind the bike sheds or whatever.

If they were dropped accidentally (which I doubt) why would....

1)n The finder take them to the BBC rather than the police?
2) Why would the BBC, a nationally owned channel that is meant to be batting for Britain, read out what the secret documents contained on national TV?
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[chickenstrip]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Did they actually read them out or did they just say what the subject matter was?
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[stinkwheel]

To mis-quote some film or other, "it's not the guys with lots of nuclear weapons you need to worry about, it's the guy with one.".
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