Shipbucket

Excellent drawing, but shouldn't this be posted in the Never-Built section until such time as it is actually built?

Hmmm you wont fit a missile launcher behind a helicopter pad. It is dangerous. Either you made the H-Pad higher or the launcher lower. why would it be dangerous? helicopters come flying in from the side on all ships except carriers......... so where are you basing this on? You don't want a heli ...

Can someone please tell me how to upload this picture correctly as I am obviously doing it wrong. Any help is appeciated. I've never uploaded anything to Photobucket, but apparently it automatically compresses files to specific size parameters unless you tell it to do otherwise. If that is the case ...

Looks pretty nice. A far better investment than that civilian ferry they call the Canterbury.

My concern is that rather than convince women to remove the veil in public, such a law might actually result in them not going out at all. Possibly giving them even less freedom, as a dominant husband could very well not even allow their wife or daughters to leave the house at all without the veil ...

Prime Minister Brown gave President Obama a pen holder made from timbers from HMS Gannet, framed commissioning papers of Gannet's sister ship HMS Resolute , A first edition of the Churchill Biography by Sr. Gilbert, an some very nice clothes and books for the President's daughters. President Obama ...

TimothyC wrote:It's Obama, who's administration gave the British PM dvds that were from the White House Gift Shop - and thus were region 1 DVDs.

10 Downing Street doesn't have a region-free DVD player?

Very impressive!

The VLS cells on the F-100 (and future Hobart) are capable of handling ASROC, yes. However there is no intention of carrying ASROC on either Spanish or Australian ships.

I can be wrong, but I thought patrol work was ...... well.... patrolling. not laying in the harbour until you are needed. Isn't "laying in the harbour until you are needed" kind of a waste of resources? And not just the ship itself, but you have the crews sitting around rather than doing something ...