alpine_saint Posted 6 December, 2014 Posted 6 December, 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11277194/Britain-returns-East-of-Suez-with-permanent-Royal-Navy-base-in-Gulf.html Would be nice to have the ships to actually make it a conspicuous presence, though......
Batman Posted 6 December, 2014 Posted 6 December, 2014 (edited) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11277194/Britain-returns-East-of-Suez-with-permanent-Royal-Navy-base-in-Gulf.html Would be nice to have the ships to actually make it a conspicuous presence, though...... we have had a permanent deployment of surface units for years over there (and UKMCC). Under Op Kipion. We have always used the US base/facilities. Just that we will now have our own corner of the island to use. edit - for that small price, will probably just add a few buildings to the US base and upgrade UKMCC Edited 6 December, 2014 by Batman
hutch Posted 7 December, 2014 Posted 7 December, 2014 A good bit of common sense. Nice place too, as Gulf states go.
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