RFA Largs Bay has recently arrived in Haiti with its cargo of Land Rovers and wriggly tin. Operation PANLAKE involves various teams and resources and RFA Largs Bay will stay in the area supporting the UN. Continuing our obsession with Mexeflotes some pictures from the Royal Navy More information here http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/operations/haiti-diary/ And to really depress anyone with even a passing [...]
Whilst looking at various sources for the last post in the FDR series, one story struck me as very interesting, enough to warrant a further look. This is absolutely not intended as a criticism because the US response to the Haiti earthquake has been nothing less than stunning, even more so when compared to the UK armed forces, despite our [...]
There has been a lot of blog coverage on the Haiti relief effort and from a defence perspective much of this has focussed on the air and sea bridge to Haiti. Bulk transport by air is simply untenable for anything other than time critical supplies and personnel. If you need to move bulk then sea is the only answer. Aid corridors are [...]
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